WAIC 2025: Pocket-Sized 'Kunyu Quantu' and All-Powerful AI Scanning Tech Debut}
At WAIC 2025, AI scanning technology showcased its ability to digitize massive artworks like 'Kunyu Quantu,' making cultural relics accessible and interactive through high-definition, seamless digital reproduction.
Since ancient times, the question of "what the world looks like" has fascinated humanity. At WAIC 2025, a nearly 4-meter-long painting, Kunyu Quantu, drew widespread attention. Supported by AI scanning technology, this giant map was instantly "packed" into a smartphone in high definition, enabling viewers to interact with it at their fingertips. This innovative digital approach bridges the gap between cultural relics and the public. However, digitizing large artifacts faces significant challenges from the outset.
Due to device limitations, environment, and distance, operators often encounter issues like "single shot incomplete," "full image blurry," and "multi-shot misalignment" when photographing large artifacts. Even with stitching tools, problems like distortion and color distortion in local images can affect the overall quality. During WAIC, HEHE Information’s Scan All-Powerful King launched the "Infinite Scanning" technology, demonstrating how AI can achieve high-definition scanning and seamless stitching of large artworks like Kunyu Quantu and Han Palace Spring Dawn, making everyone a guardian of culture.
Infinite Scanning "Black Tech": Instantly Pack 400-Year-Old World Map into Your Phone
Kunyu Quantu is one of Nanjing Museum’s treasures. The original version displayed at the scene was created in 1608, measuring 3.85 meters long and 1.71 meters wide. It is the earliest, most complete, and richly detailed Chinese world map, containing extensive astronomical, geographical, and cultural information, with significant historical value. Scan All-Powerful King applied its "Black Tech" to digitize this priceless artifact, aiding cultural preservation and digitalization efforts.
At the event, visitors could swipe up, down, left, and right to shoot videos. AI, after "viewing" these videos, understood the images and text features, selected suitable local images, optimized quality, and stitched them into a high-resolution, aesthetically pleasing "collector’s edition" map. Based on AI’s understanding, the system could also recognize elements like mountains, rivers, and mythical animals in Kunyu Quantu. When viewers clicked on specific areas, they could learn about the world as perceived over 400 years ago, realizing a digital experience of "letting relics speak and history resonate."
To address past issues like "wide-angle distortion," "difficulty in achieving clarity and completeness simultaneously," and "misaligned stitching," Scan All-Powerful King innovatively proposed a "multi-row, multi-column video shooting" method. Even if slight shakes or tilts occurred during shooting, the "Infinite Scanning" system could accurately realign each piece after understanding the overall context. To ensure image quality, it also employed AI-based high-definition algorithms for partitioned optimization and light-shadow balancing, ensuring sharpness and natural transitions across the entire image.
Caption: Comparison of stitching effects—panoramic camera (left) vs. Scan All-Powerful King "Infinite Scanning" (right), showing local clarity enhancement.
Beyond cultural relics, the application scenarios of "Black Tech" are expanding into daily life. Engineers, designers, urban planners, and surveyors often need to preserve large drawings, sketches, and maps, which are difficult to carry and prone to damage. The "Infinite Scanning" tech can record these documents in high definition, preserving them digitally and safeguarding cultural assets.
High-Definition AI Scanning: Bringing Details to Your Fingertips
As carriers of civilization, various artifacts are protected through continuous innovation. According to the Scan All-Powerful King team, "Black Tech" is based on intelligent HD and AIGC image enhancement algorithms, combined with innovative AI stitching techniques that improve content understanding and scene processing, unlocking new scanning experiences in extreme scenarios. Whether it’s seamless stitching of 4-meter-wide images or detailed restoration of 4-centimeter miniatures, the technology excels.
In the "Smart HD Filters" zone, miniature oil paintings like Starry Sky and Sunflower are displayed. After AI processing, the once indistinguishable patterns become vividly detailed. When AI scanning can freely switch between large and small scales, humans can appreciate the grandeur of civilization in vast scrolls and examine minute historical details—this is the "Extreme Detail Restoration and Cultural Heritage" showcased by "Black Tech." The filters can also automatically remove shadows, creases, water stains, and dirt from documents, restoring intricate details of culture and art with a single click.
Protecting civilization is a collective effort. Scan All-Powerful King continues to explore new forms of digital cultural preservation, breaking physical limitations to make safeguarding heritage a simple act for everyone, from sprawling scrolls to fragile paper and carvings.