46 research outputs found
Digital lifecycles and file types: final report
The Rights and Rewards in Blended Institutional Repositories Project is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) under the Digital Repositories Programme. This represents a cooperative venture between the Department of Information Science (DIS), the Engineering Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (engCETL) and the University Library. The two year project aims to establish a single Blended repository to meet the teaching and research needs of this institution. It will address the motivational issues facing depositors of teaching materials with a focus on the associated Rights and Rewards.
This digital lifecycles study will identify the most appropriate materials for submission to the project’s demonstrator repository. This takes into account factors like: granularity, persistence and multimedia types that can be supported for both teaching and research materials. It also documents the existing lifecycles of these items and the tools and specifications needed within a repository frameworks to support these lifecycles. For example, it will identify appropriate granularity of teaching resources and appropriate methods for content packaging.
The results of the study will help to identify which types of files are currently in use, which formats should be supported by the repository system ultimately selected for the demonstrator repository. This information is likely to be of benefit to other projects and institutions in the process of setting up an Institutional Repository (IR)
AXMEDIS 2008
The AXMEDIS International Conference series aims to explore all subjects and topics related to cross-media and digital-media content production, processing, management, standards, representation, sharing, protection and rights management, to address the latest developments and future trends of the technologies and their applications, impacts and exploitation. The AXMEDIS events offer venues for exchanging concepts, requirements, prototypes, research ideas, and findings which could contribute to academic research and also benefit business and industrial communities. In the Internet as well as in the digital era, cross-media production and distribution represent key developments and innovations that are fostered by emergent technologies to ensure better value for money while optimising productivity and market coverage
ECLAP 2012 Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment
It has been a long history of Information Technology innovations within the Cultural Heritage areas. The Performing arts has also been enforced with a number of new innovations which unveil a range of synergies and possibilities. Most of the technologies and innovations produced for digital libraries, media entertainment and education can be exploited in the field of performing arts, with adaptation and repurposing. Performing arts offer many interesting challenges and opportunities for research and innovations and exploitation of cutting edge research results from interdisciplinary areas. For these reasons, the ECLAP 2012 can be regarded as a continuation of past conferences such as AXMEDIS and WEDELMUSIC (both pressed by IEEE and FUP). ECLAP is an European Commission project to create a social network and media access service for performing arts institutions in Europe, to create the e-library of performing arts, exploiting innovative solutions coming from the ICT
Content-based indexing of low resolution documents
In any multimedia presentation, the trend for attendees taking pictures of slides that
interest them during the presentation using capturing devices is gaining popularity.
To enhance the image usefulness, the images captured could be linked to image or
video database. The database can be used for the purpose of file archiving, teaching
and learning, research and knowledge management, which concern image search.
However, the above-mentioned devices include cameras or mobiles phones have low
resolution resulted from poor lighting and noise. Content-Based Image Retrieval
(CBIR) is considered among the most interesting and promising fields as far as
image search is concerned. Image search is related with finding images that are
similar for the known query image found in a given image database. This thesis
concerns with the methods used for the purpose of identifying documents that are
captured using image capturing devices. In addition, the thesis also concerns with a
technique that can be used to retrieve images from an indexed image database. Both
concerns above apply digital image processing technique. To build an indexed
structure for fast and high quality content-based retrieval of an image, some existing
representative signatures and the key indexes used have been revised. The retrieval
performance is very much relying on how the indexing is done. The retrieval
approaches that are currently in existence including making use of shape, colour and
texture features. Putting into consideration these features relative to individual
databases, the majority of retrievals approaches have poor results on low resolution
documents, consuming a lot of time and in the some cases, for the given query image,
irrelevant images are obtained. The proposed identification and indexing method in
the thesis uses a Visual Signature (VS). VS consists of the captures slides textual
layout’s graphical information, shape’s moment and spatial distribution of colour.
This approach, which is signature-based are considered for fast and efficient
matching to fulfil the needs of real-time applications. The approach also has the
capability to overcome the problem low resolution document such as noisy image,
the environment’s varying lighting conditions and complex backgrounds. We present
hierarchy indexing techniques, whose foundation are tree and clustering. K-means
clustering are used for visual features like colour since their spatial distribution give a good image’s global information. Tree indexing for extracted layout and shape
features are structured hierarchically and Euclidean distance is used to get similarity
image for CBIR. The assessment of the proposed indexing scheme is conducted
based on recall and precision, a standard CBIR retrieval performance evaluation. We
develop CBIR system and conduct various retrieval experiments with the
fundamental aim of comparing the accuracy during image retrieval. A new algorithm
that can be used with integrated visual signatures, especially in late fusion query was
introduced. The algorithm has the capability of reducing any shortcoming associated
with normalisation in initial fusion technique. Slides from conferences, lectures and
meetings presentation are used for comparing the proposed technique’s performances
with that of the existing approaches with the help of real data. This finding of the
thesis presents exciting possibilities as the CBIR systems is able to produce high
quality result even for a query, which uses low resolution documents. In the future,
the utilization of multimodal signatures, relevance feedback and artificial intelligence
technique are recommended to be used in CBIR system to further enhance the
performance
Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts. EVA 2012 Florence
The key aim of this Event is to provide a forum for the user, supplier and scientific research communities to meet and exchange experiences, ideas and plans in the wide area of Culture & Technology. Participants receive up to date news on new EC and international arts computing & telecommunications initiatives as well as on Projects in the visual arts field, in archaeology and history. Working Groups and new Projects are promoted. Scientific and technical demonstrations are presented
Axmedis 2005
The AXMEDIS conference aims to promote discussions and interactions among researchers, practitioners, developers and users of tools, technology transfer experts, and project managers, to bring together a variety of participants. The conference focuses on the challenges in the cross-media domain (which include production, protection, management, representation, formats, aggregation, workflow, distribution, business and transaction models), and the integration of content management systems and distribution chains, with particular emphasis on cost reduction and effective solutions for complex cross-domain problems