Automatic Generation of Personal Virtual Museum

We have developed a Virtual Museum with realtime 3DCG capable of exhibiting arbitrary planar artifacts such as paintings which have been specified by a user. The pictures are collected from the Internet sites such as Wikimedia Commons by giving bookmarks by the user. The artifact images are displayed in its life size automatically aligned on the wall of the museum with picture frames and generated captions. This process is done based on metadata extracted using a technique called Web scraping to extract necessary information from the target Web sites. The museum space is realistically modeled with high resolution and sophisticated illumination where the user can walk through in the space. The system enables the users to create their own personalized museums with their favorite pictures exhibited in the realistic way.