Digital Archive and Exhibiting Methods of a Buddhist Ceremonial Procession

Our research group has been archiving a Buddhist ceremonial procession called Nerikuyo. Nerikuyo has special features in its walking movements and actions. It is difficult to display these features using traditional panels in a museum. Our purpose is to create videos and interactive content that vividly describe this ceremony. We have archived the ceremony with super-high-detail videos and then created video contents for a special exhibition on Nerikuyo. We have also proposed a virtual fitting system that recognizes poses or gestures of users and then displays the corresponding images and sounds over the captured images of the users. All of the gestures are related to the poses or motions of Nerikuyo, and they are assigned to masks and tools. The created videos were shown at a special exhibition of the Ryukoku Museum, and the proposed system was demonstrated for three days as one of the related events of the special exhibition.