ITR/SY+AP: Acquisition, Representation, and Remote Visualization of Digital Artifacts

ITR/SY AP：数字文物的获取、表示和远程可视化

• 批准号: 0121438
• 负责人: William Seales
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-01-01 至 2005-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0121438&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ITR; SY+AP; Acquisition; Representation; Remote

The goal of this project is to research and develop high-quality, scalable, and reconfigurable acquisitionand display systems for digital library collections accessed via the Internet. We will acquire new digitalcollections at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico and provide access to them through end-user displaysthat are scalable and reconfigurable. These displays will cooperate with a remote model server toprovide the highest possible display fidelity under the current network conditions. In order to allowthe widespread acquisition and dissemination of digital collections, revolutionary advances in 3D modelacquistion, content delivery, and display are required. To thisend,we will focus on the following researchchallenges: Acquisition: we willprovide new acquisition strategies designed to produce high-quality layered,image-based representations, 3-D shape descriptions, and multi-layerd data. These new strategieswill enable efficient access and high-resolution end-user display. hybrid representation of texture,shape, and metadata. Representation: we will encode the acquired collection in a way that moves toward the featuresprovided in the MPEG-4 multimedia standard. This encoding will preserve the richness andfidelity of the data while achieving standardization for access, manipulation, and evolution ofcollections over time. Remote Access: we will develop new techniques supporting distributed access to digital col-lections in a heterogeneous networked environment. These techniques will be designed to satisfyaccess requirements across a spectrum that varies from very high quality local display and low-latency interactive manipulation, to remote access over wide-area, potentially low bitrate links. Display: we will develop new techniques for deploying scalable tiled projection displays forinstitutions and users who do not have access to sophisticated and dedicated technical support andhigh-cost hardware. These scalable display systems can be assembled from commodity hardwareand provide automatic, continuous calibration, and rapid reconfigurability.The motivation for this work stems from the need for high-quality preservation, access, and displaytechniques for digitized collections. Libraries, museums, and research scholars who want to acquire,manipulate, and provide remote access to (and high-definition display of)digitized artifacts need costeffective, non-intrusive, easily configurable methods for creating and viewing high-quality collections.New techniques will be evaluated on real-world library collections with particular focus on the preser-vation and dissemination of artifacts at our partner institution for this work, the Museo de Arte dePuerto Rico . With the aid of expert consultants who will contribute significant effort towards thisproject at our partner institution (see attached letter), we willdevelop and deploy a prototype systemfor acqusition and display using the techniques developed as part of this project. The resulting digitalarchive will be made accessible to patrons of the museum as well as a much larger audience around theworld via the Internet.We believe that this research will have significant immediate, medium-term and long-term impact.The immediate impact of the project will be the development of new acquisition, access, and displaymethods that will be deployed and tested at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, making parts of theircollections available in forms not previously possible. In the medium term, our new technical approacheswill be valuable not only to the digital library community, but also to other research, instructional, andcommercial areas where configurable large-scale display systems are needed (e.g., classroom, researchvisualization centers, conference venues, etc). In the long term, we believe this proposed work hasthe potential to substantially impact the way people view and interact with data, whether the data isa collection of historical artifacts, a visual representation of a complex simulation, data/illustrationspresenting in the classroom, etc. Moreover, the cost effectiveness of our approach means that it will beaffordable to a wide range of users.

该项目的目的是研究和开发可通过Internet访问的数字图书馆藏品的高质量，可扩展和可重新配置的获取和显示系统。我们将在波多黎各博物馆获得新的数字收获，并通过最终用户显示可扩展和重新配置。这些显示器将与远程模型服务器TopRovide合作，在当前网络条件下可能是最高的显示保真度。为了使数字收藏的广泛获取和传播，需要3D ModelAcquistion，内容交付和显示的革命进步。为此，我们将重点介绍以下研究促进：采集：我们将提供新的采集策略，旨在生成高质量的分层，基于图像的表示，3-D形状描述和多层数据。这些新策略将实现有效的访问和高分辨率的最终用户显示。质地，形状和元数据的混合表示。 表示：我们将以朝向MPEG-4多媒体标准中提供的功能的方式编码所采集的集合。这种编码将保留数据的丰富性和缩写，同时实现访问，操纵和演变的标准化，随着时间的流逝。 远程访问：我们将开发新的技术，以支持在异质网络环境中分布式访问数字COL的分布式访问。这些技术将旨在满足从高质量的本地显示和低延迟交互式操纵到远程访问广阔区域（潜在的低比特率链接）的范围内的范围。 显示：我们将开发新技术，用于部署无法访问精致和专用的技术支持和高成本硬件的可扩展瓷砖投影显示和用户。这些可扩展的显示系统可以从商品硬化中组装出来，提供自动，连续的校准和快速的可重新配置性。这项工作的动机源于需要进行高质量的保存，访问和显示技术集合来进行数字化集合。想要获取，操纵和提供远程访问（和高清显示）数字化工件的图书馆，博物馆和研究学者需要具有成本效益，非侵入性，易于配置的方法来创建和观看高质量收藏。将在现实世界中的图书馆藏书中进行评估，特别关注我们合作伙伴机构的文物的预设和传播，以供该作品，即Arte Depuerto Rico博物馆。在专家顾问的帮助下，他们将在我们的合作伙伴机构为此做出巨大的努力（请参阅附件），我们将使用作为该项目的一部分开发的技术来开发和部署原型系统的原型系统。最终的数字制度将使博物馆的顾客以及通过互联网在世界各地更大的受众访问。我们相信这项研究将对项目产生重大，中期和长期影响。将开发将在波多黎各博物馆部署和测试的新的收购，访问和显示器，使其部分汇编以以前无法形式可用。在中期，我们的新技术方法将不仅对数字图书馆社区非常有价值，而且对需要可配置的大型显示系统的其他研究，教学和商业区（例如，教室，研究室，研究中心，会议场所等）有价值）。从长远来看，我们认为这项提出的工作具有重大影响人们查看和与数据相互作用的方式，无论数据ISA收集历史文物是否收集了复杂模拟的视觉表现，教室中的数据/插图表明等等。此外，我们方法的成本效益意味着它将对广泛的用户产生影响。