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

Information

  • NSF Award
  • 0333036
Owner
  • Award Id
    0333036
  • Award Effective Date
    9/1/2004 - 20 years ago
  • Award Expiration Date
    8/31/2010 - 14 years ago
  • Award Amount
    $ 584,006.00
  • Award Instrument
    Continuing grant

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

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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.

  • Program Officer
    Maria Zemankova
  • Min Amd Letter Date
    8/4/2004 - 20 years ago
  • Max Amd Letter Date
    9/10/2009 - 15 years ago
  • ARRA Amount

Institutions

  • Name
    Simmons College
  • City
    Boston
  • State
    MA
  • Country
    United States
  • Address
    300 The Fenway
  • Postal Code
    021155898
  • Phone Number
    6175212000

Investigators

  • First Name
    Ching-chih
  • Last Name
    Chen
  • Email Address
    chen@simmons.edu
  • Start Date
    8/4/2004 12:00:00 AM
  • First Name
    Jianbo
  • Last Name
    Shi
  • Email Address
    jshi@cis.upenn.edu
  • Start Date
    8/4/2004 12:00:00 AM
  • First Name
    James
  • Last Name
    Wang
  • Email Address
    jwang@ist.psu.edu
  • Start Date
    8/4/2004 12:00:00 AM

FOA Information

  • Name
    Information Systems
  • Code
    104000

Program Element

  • Text
    DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES
  • Code
    6857
  • Text
    INFO INTEGRATION & INFORMATICS
  • Code
    7364
  • Text
    GRAPHICS & VISUALIZATION
  • Code
    7453

Program Reference

  • Text
    INFO INTEGRATION & INFORMATICS
  • Code
    7364
  • Text
    WOMEN, MINORITY, DISABLED, NEC
  • Code
    9102
  • Text
    UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION
  • Code
    9178
  • Text
    HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS
  • Code
    9215
  • Text
    ADVANCED SOFTWARE TECH & ALGOR
  • Code
    9216
  • Text
    RES EXPER FOR UNDERGRAD-SUPPLT
  • Code
    9251
  • Text
    HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING & COMM
  • Text
    SCIENCE, MATH, ENG & TECH EDUCATION