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CHORUS Deliverable 2.1: State of the Art on Multimedia Search Engines
Based on the information provided by European projects and national initiatives related to multimedia search as well as domains experts that participated in the CHORUS Think-thanks and workshops, this document reports on the state of the art related to multimedia content search from, a technical, and socio-economic perspective.
The technical perspective includes an up to date view on content based indexing and retrieval technologies, multimedia search in the context of mobile devices and peer-to-peer networks, and an overview of current evaluation and benchmark inititiatives to measure the performance of multimedia search engines.
From a socio-economic perspective we inventorize the impact and legal consequences of these technical advances and point out future directions of research
View subspaces for indexing and retrieval of 3D models
View-based indexing schemes for 3D object retrieval are gaining popularity
since they provide good retrieval results. These schemes are coherent with the
theory that humans recognize objects based on their 2D appearances. The
viewbased techniques also allow users to search with various queries such as
binary images, range images and even 2D sketches. The previous view-based
techniques use classical 2D shape descriptors such as Fourier invariants,
Zernike moments, Scale Invariant Feature Transform-based local features and 2D
Digital Fourier Transform coefficients. These methods describe each object
independent of others. In this work, we explore data driven subspace models,
such as Principal Component Analysis, Independent Component Analysis and
Nonnegative Matrix Factorization to describe the shape information of the
views. We treat the depth images obtained from various points of the view
sphere as 2D intensity images and train a subspace to extract the inherent
structure of the views within a database. We also show the benefit of
categorizing shapes according to their eigenvalue spread. Both the shape
categorization and data-driven feature set conjectures are tested on the PSB
database and compared with the competitor view-based 3D shape retrieval
algorithmsComment: Three-Dimensional Image Processing (3DIP) and Applications
(Proceedings Volume) Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 7526 Editor(s): Atilla M.
Baskurt ISBN: 9780819479198 Date: 2 February 201
Digital Image Access & Retrieval
The 33th Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in March of 1996, addressed the theme of "Digital Image Access & Retrieval." The papers from this conference cover a wide range of topics concerning digital imaging technology for visual resource collections. Papers covered three general areas: (1) systems, planning, and implementation; (2) automatic and semi-automatic indexing; and (3) preservation with the bulk of the conference focusing on indexing and retrieval.published or submitted for publicatio
CHORUS Deliverable 2.2: Second report - identification of multi-disciplinary key issues for gap analysis toward EU multimedia search engines roadmap
After addressing the state-of-the-art during the first year of Chorus and establishing the existing landscape in
multimedia search engines, we have identified and analyzed gaps within European research effort during our second year.
In this period we focused on three directions, notably technological issues, user-centred issues and use-cases and socio-
economic and legal aspects. These were assessed by two central studies: firstly, a concerted vision of functional breakdown
of generic multimedia search engine, and secondly, a representative use-cases descriptions with the related discussion on
requirement for technological challenges. Both studies have been carried out in cooperation and consultation with the
community at large through EC concertation meetings (multimedia search engines cluster), several meetings with our
Think-Tank, presentations in international conferences, and surveys addressed to EU projects coordinators as well as
National initiatives coordinators. Based on the obtained feedback we identified two types of gaps, namely core
technological gaps that involve research challenges, and “enablers”, which are not necessarily technical research
challenges, but have impact on innovation progress. New socio-economic trends are presented as well as emerging legal
challenges
Creation of virtual worlds from 3D models retrieved from content aware networks based on sketch and image queries
The recent emergence of user generated content requires new content creation tools that will be both easy to learn and easy to use. These new tools should enable the user to construct new high-quality content with minimum effort; it is essential to allow existing multimedia content to be reused as building blocks when creating new content. In this work we present a new tool for automatically constructing virtual worlds with minimum user intervention. Users can create these worlds by drawing a simple sketch, or by using interactively segmented 2D objects from larger images. The system receives as a query the sketch or the segmented image, and uses it to find similar 3D models that are stored in a Content Centric Network. The user selects a suitable model from the retrieved models, and the system uses it to automatically construct a virtual 3D world
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