Visions for Augmented Cultural Heritage Experience

Computer vision technology has appeared as a powerful artificial sense to complement human vision, by understanding both contextual and situational conditions of visitors and enabling a more complete cultural experience. Camera sensors integrate seamlessly and nonintrusively and can thus exploit existing infrastructures. Deployment is highly scalable, from the personal to very large, covering a room, an entire exhibit, or even multiple networked sites. We expect that blending computer vision technology in museums and cultural heritage settings can help to bridge the affective gap.