DIGITAL HERITAGE OF ASIAN BUDDHIST CAVES USING CULTURAL COMPUTING AND AI: SPECIAL REFERENCE TO AJANTA CAVES

Digital heritage refers to the collection of cultural, historical, and artistic resources that are preserved in digital form. It encompasses a wide range of materials such as images, videos, audio recordings, documents, and even virtual reality experiences. The digitization of heritage objects allows for wider accessibility and enables people from all around the world to explore and engage with these artifacts without physically visiting museums or archives. Cultural Computing is emerging field for translation of culture. It uses scientific methods to represent essential aspects of culture. It includes computation of emotion, story, and culture. It is more than integrating cultural aspects into the interaction. Artificial Intelligence is another useful tool for preventing cultural heritage. Ajanta caves are universally regarded as masterpieces of Buddhist religious art. In this proposed research work author is trying to help to preserve, use and experience Ajanta Caves vast heritage in digital form. In this paper author presented the 3D reconstructed model of Cave 1 and restoration of damaged image of Bodhisattva Padmapani from cave 1 at Ajanta monastery.