内容简介：
Digital Silk Roads Project (DSR) aims at building information infrastructure for not only archiving but also connecting and annotating the variety of cultural resources. The project started in the year 2001, and we have made digital archives of Silkroad-related cultural resources such as rare books of Toyo Bunko, the 3D model of the Citadel of Bam (Iran), and photographs taken at various historical places along Silk Roads.
Technical aspects of this project includes image and natural language processing, indexing of various types of data, and making support tools for managing cultural resources, while usability aspects include the design of multiple entry points for various users, such as scholars, the general public, and kids.

报告人简介:
Asanobu KITAMOTO received his Doctor of Engineering in 1997 from the University of Tokyo. Now he is an associate professor of National Institute of Informatics of Japan. He started his research in the areas of image processing and image databases, and is now working on applying image database and image processing techniques to other research areas such as cultural heritage, earth science (especially meteorology), and biology.