ITR: Advancing Digital Imagery Technologies for Asian Art and Cultural Heritages

点击翻译按钮获取中文摘要

This collaborative research project aims at advancing informationtechnologies related to the preservation, retrieval, and disseminationof digital imagery for Asian art and cultural heritages. Researchersin the US, China, and South Korea will collectively investigate anddevelop technologies for acquiring, browsing, managing, and searchinglarge collections of high quality art images. This project willcontribute to the fundamental knowledge and technologies required tocreate and maintain information systems that can operate in multiplelanguages, formats, media, and social and organizational contexts.The US research team will focus on (1) multimodal media management,(2) distributed data mining, and (3) image storage and display. The teamwill develop theoretical foundations to associate linguistic termswith image features. The testbed databases of art images for thisresearch project consist of high quality scans, with metadatainformation and detailed keyword information, as well as comprehensivetextual descriptions. The research work will show that (1) modernmachine learning and statistical data mining tools are capable oflearning from non-structured or semi-structured input data such ashuman annotations, (2) statistical image modeling techniques can beused in automatic linguistic indexing and concept dictionary building.------