U.S.-Turkey Cooperative Research: Museum Audio-Visual Information Management Systems

美国-土耳其合作研究：博物馆视听信息管理系统

• 批准号: 9406954
• 负责人: Ahmed Tewfik
• 金额: $ 3.39万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-08-01 至 1998-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9406954&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Turkey; Cooperative; Research; Museum

9406954 Tewfik Technical Narrative: This is a cooperative research project between the University of Minnesota and Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. The investigators are electrical engineers who propose to address the signal processing issues that arise in the design of an Audio-Visual Information Management System (AVIMS). Specifically, the project will advance the technology so that users in the United States will have interactive access to the database of the Topkapi Palace Museum, one of the finest archaeological museums in the world. The database of this museum contains images of Ottoman calligraphic documents and illuminated manuscripts, images of objects, speech signals, and some video signals. A major challenge in building an AVIMS for such a collection of data is to provide users with the capability of querying documents based on a keyword, audio or visual feature or subject. To render the database more accessible to a wider audience in static and mobile settings, the investigators (Drs. A. Tewfik from the University of Minnesota and E. Cetin from Bilkent University) will provide tools to deliver Ottoman manuscripts in a spoken format. Ottoman documents will be recorded in spoken form by experts familiar with the archaic Ottoman script. Users will be provided with the capability of playing the recorded and compressed signals at various speeds with minimal distortion. Time-scale modification will also be used to mask most of the random delays that occur during the transmission of audio data over computer networks. Project funding will enable the two teams to work together in both Minneapolis and Ankara. ***

小行星9406954 技术叙述： 这是明尼苏达大学和土耳其安卡拉的Bilkent大学之间的合作研究项目。 调查人员是电气工程师，他们提出解决视听信息管理系统（AVIMS）设计中出现的信号处理问题。 具体而言，该项目将推进技术，使美国用户能够以互动方式访问世界上最好的考古博物馆之一托普卡帕宫博物馆的数据库。 该博物馆的数据库包含奥斯曼书法文件和插图手稿的图像、物体图像、语音信号和一些视频信号。 为这种数据集建立AVIMS的一个主要挑战是使用户能够根据关键词、视听特征或主题查询文件。 为了使数据库在静态和移动的环境中更容易被更广泛的受众访问，研究人员（A。明尼苏达大学的Tewfik和E. 来自Bilkent大学的Cetin）将提供工具，以口头形式提供奥斯曼手稿。 奥斯曼文件将由熟悉古代奥斯曼文字的专家以口述形式记录下来。 用户将能够以各种速度播放录制和压缩的信号，失真最小。 时间尺度的修改也将被用来掩盖大多数的随机延迟，发生在传输音频数据通过计算机网络。 项目资金将使两个小组能够在明尼阿波利斯和安卡拉共同工作。 ***