National-Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Cultural Heritage Digitization was approved by the National Development and Reform Commission in October 2013. Relying on the disciplinary resources and characteristic research strength of Northwest University, the center is based on the cross-advantageous platform of computer science and technology and archaeology disciplines of Northwest University, facing the rich cultural heritage resources of Shaanxi Province, and has long been cooperating with the Qin Shihuang Imperial Tombs Museum, Shaanxi Archaeological Research Institute, and Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics Protection and other famous cultural heritage protection units to carry out cooperative research on the digital protection technology and application of cultural heritage, has formed a high-level scientific research team led by Professor Zhou Mingquan and Professor Geng Guohua, achieved a number of scientific research results with international influence, and basically formed a cultural heritage digital protection engineering application platform.
