Crossing between Reality and Virtuality – On Virtual Touring of Dunhuang Art

With the rapid advance of new technologies, human will soon be able to cross the boundary between the reality and virtuality easily. In this talk, I shall introduce an interactive multimedia system, called iM-cave, for virtually touring the famous Dunhuang Grotto, also known as “Mogao Caves” or “Caves of the Thousand Buddhas”, which is a treasure of Chinese Buddhist culture and art, recorded in historical sources existing over 1,700 years. In the iM-cave system, we have developed a tangible figurine for exploring every corner of the caves in an intuitive way. Also, we have designed two methods for interactively browsing 2D restoration of mural paintings and 3D restoration of damaged statues. Currently, we are working on a wearable version of the iM-cave system using some head mounted displays. In addition to virtual touring, I’ll introduce some of our other related works, such as “see-through car” and “giraffe view” that are used for displaying information collected from the Internet of Vehicles (IoV).

Speaker Details

Yi-Ping Hung received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1982, and his Ph.D. degree from Brown University in 1990. He is currently a professor in the Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia, and in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, both at the National Taiwan University. From 1990 to 2002, he was with the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, where he received the Young Researcher Publication Award from Academia Sinica, and became a tenured research fellow in 1997. He has served as the deputy director of the Institute of Information Science at Academia Sinica (1997-1998), and the director of the Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia at the National Taiwan University

(2007-2013). Professor Hung was the program co-chairs of ACCV’00, ICAT’00, ACPR’13, and the workshop co-chair for ICCV’03, and is the general co-chair of ACCV’16 in Taipei. He was the keynote speaker for PSIVT’07, DeSForM’09, and ACE’10, and was the curator of the NPM LOHAS Exhibit (April 2010 – April 2011) at the Future Museum of National Palace Museum. His current research interests include computer vision, augmented reality, virtual reality, interactive multimedia and human-computer interaction.

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