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

9406954图菲克技术叙述：这是明尼苏达大学和土耳其安卡拉比尔肯特大学的合作研究项目。调查人员是电气工程师，他们建议解决在设计视听信息管理系统(AVIMS)时出现的信号处理问题。具体地说，该项目将推进技术进步，使美国用户能够以交互方式访问世界上最好的考古博物馆之一托普卡皮故宫博物院的数据库。这个博物馆的数据库包括奥斯曼帝国书法文献和插图手稿的图像、物品的图像、语音信号和一些视频信号。为这种数据集合建立AVIMS的主要挑战是向用户提供基于关键字、音频或视觉特征或主题来查询文档的能力。为了使更广泛的受众能够在静态和移动环境中访问数据库，调查人员(明尼苏达大学的A.Tewfik博士和比尔肯特大学的E.Cetin博士)将提供工具，以口头形式提供奥斯曼帝国手稿。奥斯曼帝国的文件将由熟悉古老的奥斯曼帝国文字的专家以口头形式记录下来。用户将能够以不同的速度播放记录和压缩的信号，失真最小。时间尺度的修改也将被用来掩盖在计算机网络上传输音频数据期间发生的大部分随机延迟。项目资金将使两个团队能够在明尼阿波利斯和安卡拉共同工作。***

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. ***