VASC Seminar Announcement
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Date: Monday, 8/14/00
Time: 3:45-4:40
Place: NSH 3002

Speaker: Katsu Ikeuchi, University of Tokyo
Title:   How to make a digital great Buddha?

We have been developing modeling-from-reality (MFR) 
techniques which generate geometric,
photometric and environmental models for
virtual reality through observation of real 
objects/scenes. By using these MRF component
techniques, we have completed a digital Kamakura
great buddha. I will explain these component
techniques as well as the Kamakura Great Buddha
project. I  will also describe  how the Japanese built
the great Buddha in the 13th century.