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Photogrammetric Reconstruction of the Great Buddha of Bamiyan, Afghanistan |
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| Authors: | Armin Grün Fabio Remondino Li Zhang |
| Institution: | () Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich; () Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich; () Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich |
| Abstract: | In the valley of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, approximately 1700 years ago, two large standing Buddha statues were carved out of the sedimentary rock of the region. They were 53 and 38 m high and the larger one figured as the tallest representation of a standing Buddha in the world. In March 2001 the Taleban government militia demolished the colossal statues. After the destruction a group from ETH Zürich completed the computer reconstruction of the Great Buddha, which can serve as the basis for a physical reconstruction. This paper reports the results of the image-based 3D reconstruction of the statue, performed on three different data-sets in parallel and using different photogrammetric techniques and algorithms. |
| Keywords: | 3D reconstruction Bamiyan Buddhas image matching modelling orientation visualisation |