Cajas National Park (CNP), located in southern Ecuador, comprises an area of high natural, scientific and cultural value with wide recognition worldwide. This national park has a large number elements that, as whole, constitute relevant geological heritage. However, this heritage requires enhancement that complements the important contribution made by Natural terms conservation protection natur...

In this paper, we propose various levels of non-photorealistic rendering(NPR) scheme for virtual heritage. The different levels of rendering are simple feature level, semantic level and imaginative level. At the simple feature level, simple facts or features are represented. Semantics generated from relations between features and/or environmental context are represented at the semantic level of...

This report describes unique surveillance system on a section of I-80 freeway in the city of Emeryville. The system, called the Berkeley Highway Laboratory (BHL), consists of eight dual loop detector stations along the freeway section, and 12 video cameras. Advanced machine vision algorithms were developed to process the video data to generate vehicle trajectories. Efforts are underway to fuse ...

Abstract Geoconservation, geotourism and geodiversity are concepts that should be taught at all educational levels. The entire society preserve the natural resources in a sustainable way. Geological processes quarrying created still creates cultural heritage landscapes, villages cities worldwide. Rock outcrops, historical quarries, forms of extraction buildings built with stones safeguard. This...

This paper presents an interactive, collaborative virtual heritage system that employs tangible interfaces to make learning experience more interesting and effective. The system is designed for a group of users collaboratively play games to learn a Korean cultural heritage site, the ‘Moyang’ castle. While most virtual heritage applications focus on the reconstruction of objects or places, it ai...

Alonzo C. Addison serves as Director of the Center for Design Visualization, University of California, Berkeley. A co-founder of the Virtual Heritage Network, his work ranges from historical visualization to design simulation, information architecture, and collaborative networks. Currently completing a doctorate in design theory from Berkeley, he also holds an MA in architecture from the univer...

The area of virtual heritage has long been concentrated on generating digital reconstructions of historical or archaeological artefacts and sites with enough fidelity to be truly accurate representations of their real-world counterparts. In some cases, the advancement of tools and techniques for achieving greater visual realism has distracted from the development of other directions that enhanc...

In 2013, Portland Stone, a creamy white limestone from the Isle of in Dorset, was named world’s first “Global Heritage Stone Resource” (GSHR) by Task Group, sub-commission International Union Geological Sciences. The criteria for GSHR designation are ambiguous, with Group championing Stone’s “cultural value” and “heritage,” neither which critically interrogated. this paper we undertake detailed...