Abstract
We demonstrate a process and a system for building three-dimensional (3D) digital archives of museum artifacts. Our system allows the targeted audience to observe the digitized 3D objects from any angle and at any distance, while still conveys the textures and the material properties with high fidelity. Our system acquires input images mainly with a handheld digital camera. Therefore it is portable and easy to set up at the museum sites. The results we show include two digitized art pieces from the Yingko Ceramics Museum at Taipei County, Taiwan. Our system can also use a QuickTimeVR object movie as the initial input, which we demonstrate using the Jadeite Cabbage data from the National Palace Museum.