China News Service, Haikou, November 14 (Reporter Wang Xiaobin) The 11th China Museum and Related Products and Technology Expo is being held in Haikou, with more than 600 museums and more than 200 cultural and museum-related companies participating in the exhibition. Reporters saw at the exhibition site that technology empowers the digitization of cultural museum scenes, which not only makes the cultural relics look more real, but also makes the audience's visiting experience more participatory.
To achieve a more sophisticated digital presentation of cultural relics, we first need to obtain sufficiently complete and accurate data. At a booth at the expo, a set of equipment consisting of a robotic arm, a rotating tray and a data collection module was demonstrating the digital collection of cultural relics.
According to the staff, this set of equipment is mainly used for diffuse reflection objects such as pottery and cultural relics with complex curved surfaces. Compared with traditional manual scanning around objects, automated collection can help reduce jitter, missed scans, and angle differences caused by manual operations, and obtain relatively continuous and complete data without the need for additional complex lighting.
In the Sanxingdui exhibition area, "Searching for Sanxingdui - A new full-sensory archaeological experience" integrates technologies such as multi-person large space XR (extended reality), real-time interaction and 3D printing restoration, and integrates archaeological greenhouses, sacrificial pits, cultural conservation laboratories and other scenes into an immersive experience space. Audiences can enter the virtual archaeological scene and experience the process of archaeological excavation and cultural relic protection.
Digital technologies are also changing the way museums provide information and services to their audiences.
Wearable devices such as VR headsets and AR glasses have become "old characters" in many museums, and new devices such as AI glasses have begun to enter this field. Audiences wearing AI glasses can obtain relevant information based on their location and tour needs, and can also ask questions through voice; some applications also overlay and present three-dimensional models and structural information of exhibits to provide more information for viewing physical cultural relics.
The application of artificial intelligence is further extended to the digital restoration of historical figures, allowing the audience to interact with historical figures in real time. At the exhibition site, images of historical figures such as Yan Fu with a Fujian accent and Zuo Zongtang with a Hunan accent appeared on the big screen to interact with the audience.
Yang Lin, a staff member of Shanghai Yuanyi Technology Group Co., Ltd., introduced that AI clones of historical figures do not simply restore the appearance and voice of the characters, but need to establish a five-dimensional model including image restoration, voice customization, exclusive knowledge base, personality model and value model. Among them, the exclusive knowledge base is based on historical documents, and the images and sounds are restored and customized based on historical data. The model also attempts to present the character's personality traits and expressions.
Yang Lin believes that with the development of digital technology, the experiences, thoughts and personalities of characters are also expected to be preserved digitally. He said that the team hopes to gradually build a "human memory network" in the future so that people from different eras can communicate across time and space.
