IDLP: International Collaboration to Advance User-oriented Technologies for Managing and Distributing Images in Digital Libraries

IDLP：国际合作推进面向用户的数字图书馆图像管理和分发技术

• 批准号: 0333036
• 负责人: Ching-chih Chen
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Simmons University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0333036&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IDLP; International; Collaboration; Advance; User

This project will develop user-oriented image management of distribution technologies for digital libraries. An interdisciplinary team of computer and information scientists from US, China, and Taiwan will investigate efficient ways to search digital collections of images using an integrated approach. The US team of researchers consists of faculty members and students of Simmons College, University of Pennsylvania, and The Pennsylvania State University. Several technology areas will be studied: (1) ontology-based image retrieval, (2) machine learning based image retrieval including object-based partial image search, (3) automatic image annotation, and (4) intellectual property (IP) protection techniques. The team will use real-world digital library datasets to develop user-oriented technologies suitable for practical deployment. Notably, the research will utilize an existing collection consisting of a large quantity of images associated with the first Emperor of China of all types of resolution and with enormous cultural significance as well as the existing rich descriptive information.This project will advance understanding of digital imagery management and distribution technologies. It is likely to result in more efficient and effective methods for retrieving images from large collections. It will provide means to decrease labor-intensive activities by providing automatic image annotations. It will enable more willing networking of quality image collections in distributed locations with the access model and IP techniques to be developed by the project. The project has significance for addressing the issue of user-oriented image-related technologies in a general way. The resulting techniques can be applied to other subject contents as well as technology-driven domains, such as computer vision.Among the positive broader impacts will be enhancement of the international infrastructure for digital library research, providing larger-scale universal access to culture and heritages than what is possible now, and expanding the participation of the global digital library research community. This project will also address the national need for scientists by training interdisciplinary graduate students and by offering new interdisciplinary courses for undergraduate students. This international partnership will promote the involvement of small college and minority students in this type of advanced multidisciplinary research.

该项目将为数字图书馆开发面向用户的图像管理分发技术。一个由来自美国、中国大陆和台湾的计算机和信息科学家组成的跨学科团队将研究使用集成方法搜索数字图像集合的有效方法。美国研究团队由西蒙斯学院、宾夕法尼亚大学和宾夕法尼亚州立大学的教职员工和学生组成。将研究几个技术领域：(1)基于本体的图像检索；(2)基于机器学习的图像检索，包括基于对象的部分图像搜索；(3)自动图像注释；(4)知识产权（IP）保护技术。该团队将使用真实世界的数字图书馆数据集来开发适合实际部署的面向用户的技术。值得注意的是，本研究将利用现有的大量与中国第一位皇帝有关的各种分辨率的图像，具有巨大的文化意义，以及现有的丰富的描述性信息。该项目将促进对数字图像管理和分发技术的理解。这可能会导致从大型集合中检索图像的更高效和有效的方法。它将通过提供自动图像注释来减少劳动密集型活动。该项目将开发访问模型和IP技术，使分布地点的高质量图像集更愿意联网。该项目对于从总体上解决面向用户的图像相关技术问题具有重要意义。由此产生的技术可以应用于其他主题内容以及技术驱动的领域，例如计算机视觉。更广泛的积极影响将包括加强数字图书馆研究的国际基础设施，提供比现在更大规模的文化和遗产的普遍访问，以及扩大全球数字图书馆研究社区的参与。该项目还将通过培养跨学科研究生和为本科生提供新的跨学科课程来满足国家对科学家的需求。这种国际伙伴关系将促进小型学院和少数民族学生参与这种先进的多学科研究。