Digital heritage

ABSTRACT

The India Digital Heritage Project is a collaborative initiative between the industry and academia, with the aim of using novel techniques to efficiently capture and present various aspects of India's diverse heritage, while at the same time advancing the state-of-the art in related research areas.

As part of the Digital Heritage Project, we have built a prototype virtual tour of a South Indian temple that, for the first time, integrates technologies such as Photosynth and HDView, opening up new ways to interactively explore visually complex sites. These technologies are combined with audio, video and guided walkthroughs, to provide a compelling end user experience. The accompanying video highlights the key scenarios of our prototype.

REFERENCES

• 1: Gray, J., Szalay, A., (2002) The World-Wide Telescope, an Archetype for Online Science. MSR-TR-2002-75, 2002.
• 2: India Digital Heritage Project. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/india/projects/digitalheritage/
• 3: Johannes Kopf , Matt Uyttendaele , Oliver Deussen , Michael F. Cohen, Capturing and viewing gigapixel images, ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 papers, August 05-09, 2007, San Diego, California
• 4: Microsoft Live Labs, Photosynth. http://photosynth.net
• 5: Microsoft Research, World-Wide Telescope. http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/
• 6: Nicolas Szilas , Jean-Hugues Rety, Minimal structures for stories, Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Story representation, mechanism and context, October 15-15, 2004, New York, NY, USA [doi>10.1145/1026633.1026639]

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.1 Multimedia Information Systems
          Subjects: Animations

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.1 Multimedia Information Systems
          Subjects: Artificial, augmented, and virtual realities; Animations

General Terms:
Design

Keywords:
heritage, prototyping, user experience design, visualization, world wide web and hypermedia