Technology Review: Microsoft's Emissary in Japan
Ikeuchi's Computer Vision Lab which includes the Great Buddha video among others in the gallery and movie sections.The exquisitely wrought Buddha at Nara, the most important Buddhist statue in Japan, fills the field of view. Next comes a 13th-century temple at Bayon, Cambodia, with its 50 stone towers, each adorned with four carved faces. The pictures appear in startling detail on the 150-degree parabolic screen, bringing viewers up close and personal with the real sites. But there's a twist: the scenes don't show the way things are; they show the way they were hundreds of years ago, when these masterpieces were built...Yokoso ("welcome" in Japanese) to Katsushi Ikeuchi's Digital Archive Project... This summer, Microsoft tapped Ikeuchi to direct its new Institute for Japanese Academic Research Collaboration...more...
