Mobile computer vision system for document image rendering, manipulation, and management on collaborative e-writing devices

用于协作电子书写设备上的文档图像渲染、操作和管理的移动计算机视觉系统

• 批准号: 525586-2018
• 负责人: BranzanAlbu, Alexandra
• 金额: $ 4.18万
• 依托单位: University of Victoria
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Development Grants
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=696774
• 关键词: Mobile; computer; vision; system; document

The next generation of business productivity tools focuses on supporting creative processes underlying innovation. Recent studies show that while creativity is perceived as a key asset in business performance, many companies do not consider themselves as being creative. There is a clear need for enabling the manifestation of creative potential with novel business productivity tools. Our partner company, QuirkLogic Inc., aims at supporting the ideation process, an essential outcome of brainstorming. They enable organizations to work more efficiently and creatively in modern workspaces. Their flagship product, Quilla, is the world's largest e-writer, consisting of a portable electronic whiteboard. Being always "on" and ready to use, it displays a background document (which is imported by the user) and saves user-created annotations automatically as they are written. The purpose is to share user-created annotations for real-time, collaborative ideation. Currently, Quilla e-writers are unaware of the background document and allow only for saving and sharing the users' annotations. This proposal aims to create a new, dynamic, and flexible paradigm for enabling e-writers to process and understand user-imported documents. Computer vision methods will be explored for creating a content-aware framework that enables interactive acquisition, display, and manipulation of document, flipchart, and whiteboard images. The development of such a framework would significantly enhance the user experience and broaden Quilla's scope and functionalities. Many benefits from the proposed research will accrue to our industrial partner, and the Canadian industry, to the University of Victoria, and to the computer vision research community. While the developed algorithms will broaden the scope of business productivity tools, this project will also contribute to the strengthening of UVic's leadership role in document image analysis research, and to the training of highly qualified personnel in state of the art computer vision, machine learning, and human-computer interaction technologies.

下一代业务生产力工具侧重于支持创新背后的创造性流程。最近的研究表明，虽然创造力被认为是企业绩效的关键资产，但许多公司并不认为自己具有创造力。显然需要通过新的业务生产力工具来实现创造潜力的表现。 我们的合作伙伴公司QuirkLogic Inc.旨在支持构思过程，这是头脑风暴的重要成果。它们使组织能够在现代企业中更有效地和创造性地工作。他们的旗舰产品Quilla是世界上最大的电子书写器，由便携式电子白板组成。它始终处于“开”状态，随时可以使用，它显示一个后台文档（由用户导入），并在编写时自动保存用户创建的注释。其目的是共享用户创建的注释，以实现实时协作构思。目前，Quilla电子作家不知道后台文档，只允许保存和共享用户的注释。 该提案旨在创建一个新的、动态的和灵活的范例，使电子作者能够处理和理解用户导入的文档。计算机视觉方法将探索创建一个内容感知框架，使交互式采集，显示和文档，挂图和白板图像的操纵。开发这样一个框架将大大增强用户体验，并扩大Quilla的范围和功能。 这项研究将为我们的工业合作伙伴、加拿大工业、维多利亚大学和计算机视觉研究界带来许多好处。虽然开发的算法将扩大业务生产力工具的范围，但该项目也将有助于加强UVic在文档图像分析研究中的领导作用，并有助于培养最先进的计算机视觉，机器学习和人机交互技术的高素质人才。