Development of Multimedia Information CD-ROM for Researchin Oriental Studies

人文学科的研究通常是在个人基础上进行的，而不是作为一个研究小组。因此，开发数据库的费用应尽可能低。用于检索的信息应该自动提供，因为文本或图像数据的数量有时是巨大的，实际上不可能手动准备这些信息。该系统的开发主要集中在图像数据的输入和有效的检索上，适合于人文学科的研究人员。在本研究中，8mm录像带用于图像存储。我们使用磁带时遇到的一个大问题是，我们通常需要很长的时间从磁带中搜索所需的图像。为了克服这个障碍，我们将摄像机和其他传感器（如GPS）与个人计算机（PC）连接起来，并自动收集传感器输出到PC软盘。稍后将使用该信息自动将磁带指向适当的磁带位置。 ...更多信息 记录所获取图像的位置。如果记录地点的地理位置未知，则GPS传感器非常有用。传感器检测摄像机拍摄方向也是有效的，并设计制作了必要的接口。因此，对于含有大量手写文字的卷轴式经典文献，需要进行局部放大和分割记录。本文提出了一种通过识别同一文献局部图像中相同文字位置来自动拼接记录图像的技术。在经典文本处理方面，本文利用日本国本集数据库，对日本国本集数据进行了处理，并对日本国本集数据进行了分析。（日本古代历史中的历史书）和泰国的经典法律文件在京都大学数据处理中心开放供检索使用。这些书也可以从出版商那里以书的形式获得。每年二、三月间，在京都大学数据处理中心举行亚洲研究中的计算机应用研讨会，但仍有一些问题有待于今后的发展。其中包括多媒体数据库的设计与开发，实现了文字数据与图像数据的有效连接，并对视频图像中字幕的提取和摄像机方向变化的检测进行了尝试。少

The research in humanity studies is normally carried out on personal bases not as a research group. Therfore, the cost for the development of databases should be as low as possible. The information used for retrieval should be given automatically, it possible, because the amount of text or image data is sometimes enormous, and it is virtually impossible to prepare this information manually. The development was mainly centered on image data input and their effective retrieval, which is suitable for researchers in humanity studies. In this research, the 8mm video tape is used for image storage. One of the large problems which we encounter for the use of tapes is that we ordinarily need long time to search required image from a tape.To overcome this obstacle, we connected a video camera and other sensors like GPS with a personnal computer(PC), and automatically collected sensor output to a PC floppy disc. The information is used later to point the tape automatically at the adequate tape p … More osition where the acquired image is recorded.The GPS sensor is useful if geographical position of recorded place is unknown. The sensor detecting the direction of camera recording is also effective, and the necessary interface has been designed and produced.As the economical and handy camera has relatively low image resolation. Therefore the classic documents in scroll with many hand-written characters should be recorded magnifying and separating in parts.We developed a technique to automatically joint recorded images, by recognizing the same character positions in partial images of the same document.As for classic text processing, the database of the Shokunihongui (a historical book in ancient Japanese history), and a classic law document in Thailand were open for retrieval use at the Data Processing Center, Kyoto University. These are also available in book forms form publishers. These are now effectively used for research.Annually, in February or March, a symposium was held for computer applications in Asian Studies at the Data Processing Center in Kyoto University.Some problems are still left for future development. The problems include the design and development of the multimedia database, in which the character and image data are linked effectively.The extraction of captions from video images, and the detection of chang in camera direction have been tried. Less