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Fukunaga Lab (Non-Destructive Sensing Lab)
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The lab uses electromagnetic waves to examine the interior and condition of cultural properties and other objects without damaging them.
AboutAbout the lab
Seeing inside objects with electromagnetic waves, without damaging them.
The Non-Destructive Sensing Lab studies how to use electromagnetic waves to examine, without damaging them, the condition and internal structure of objects that cannot be known from their appearance alone.
The lab applies electromagnetic waves of various frequency bands, detects the reflected and transmitted signals, turns them into images, and analyzes the data to diagnose the soundness of objects non-destructively and without contact.
Cultural heritage science is the discipline of scientifically investigating and diagnosing cultural properties. The main purposes of investigation are “to learn about the work” and “to inspect its condition before restoration.”
On the lab's introduction site, it is presented under the name “Non-Destructive Sensing Lab.”
Key terms
- Cultural heritage science
- The discipline of scientifically investigating and diagnosing cultural properties, the common heritage of humankind
- Non-destructive, non-contact
- A method of examining the internal structure and materials of an object without breaking or touching it
- Frequency band
- A range of electromagnetic waves divided by frequency. This lab uses electromagnetic waves of various bands
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The lab irradiates objects with electromagnetic waves of various frequency bands, detects and images the reflected and transmitted signals, and observes the condition and internal structure of objects that cannot be known from their appearance alone. It analyzes the resulting data to extract information for diagnosing the soundness of objects non-destructively and without contact.
*Illustrative imageAdvancing Measurement Instruments and Data Analysis
Because cultural properties cannot be broken, the lab examines their internal structure and materials non-destructively and without contact. It improves measurement instruments and advances the comparative analysis of non-destructive testing data from multiple frequencies.
*Illustrative imageMachine Learning Analysis of Excavated Artifact Data
The lab analyzes data on archaeological finds with machine learning and rearranges them across time and space, making it possible to survey the history of humankind. It states that analyzing the data without preconceptions will bring a new picture of history into view.
*Illustrative imageFrom Cultural Heritage Science to Global Cultural Heritage Studies
The lab aims to integrate diverse sensing data to improve diagnostic techniques for cultural properties and make them less labor-intensive. It explains that a spatiotemporal overview of cultural properties is expected to contribute greatly to the humanities as well.
MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of faculty, master's students, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKaori Fukunaga
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “X-ray scan of a forest painting” IEAP-CTU in Prague and Centre of Excellence č, Czech Republic / Public domain (cropped)
- Advancing Measurement Instruments and Data Analysis: “Liberty NDI- Keeping Fighters in the Sky (7936992)” U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Renee Nicole Finona / Public domain (cropped)
- Machine Learning Analysis of Excavated Artifact Data: “Fruitstand, Neolithic pottery, Franchthi Cave, AM of Nafplio, 202057” Zde / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- From Cultural Heritage Science to Global Cultural Heritage Studies: “Clavo de fundación” Santabiblia / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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