Mo Músaem Fíorúil: A Web-Based Search and Information Service for Museum Visitors

Blighe, Michael; Sav, Sorin; Lee, Hyowon; O’Connor, Noel E.

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-69812-8_48

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“…A new keyframe is matched by individually comparing each feature from the new keyframe to this previous database and finding candidate matching features based on Euclidean distance of their feature vectors. In order to match features between keyframes, the distance ratio test was used [5,3]. To examine whether a point from the 1 st keyframe has a match in the 2 nd , it's two most similar descriptors in the 2 nd keyframe are found.…”

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Combining image descriptors to effectively retrieve events from visual lifelogs

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et al. 2008

Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval

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The SenseCam is a wearable camera that passively captures approximately 3,000 images per day, which equates to almost one million images per year. It is used to create a personal visual recording of the wearer's life and generates information which can be helpful as a human memory aid. For such a large amount of visual information to be of any use, it is accepted that it should be structured into "events", of which there are about 8,000 in a wearer's average year. In automatically segmenting SenseCam images into events, it will then be useful for users to locate other events similar to a given event e.g. "what other times was I walking in the park?", "show me other events when I was in a restaurant". On two datasets of 240k and 1.8M images containing topics with a variety of information needs, we evaluate the fusion of MPEG-7, SIFT, and SURF content-based retrieval techniques to address the event search issue. We have found that our proposed fusion approach of MPEG-7 and SURF offers an improvement on using either of those sources or SIFT individually, and we have also shown how a lifelog event is modeled has a large effect on the retrieval performance.

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Combining image descriptors to effectively retrieve events from visual lifelogs

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“…Selecting one candidate of the matched artefacts will then present detailed information about that particular artefact (right side of Figure 2). Blighe et al [4] present more details on this application.…”

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Designing Interactive Applications to Support Novel Activities

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Ali

Hardman

2013

Advances in Human-Computer Interaction

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R&D in media-related technologies including multimedia, information retrieval, computer vision, and the semantic web is experimenting on a variety of computational tools that, if sufficiently matured, could support many novel activities that are not practiced today. Interactive technology demonstration systems produced typically at the end of their projects show great potential for taking advantage of technological possibilities. These demo systems or "demonstrators" are, even if crude or farfetched, a significant manifestation of the technologists' visions in transforming emerging technologies into novel usage scenarios and applications. In this paper, we reflect on design processes and crucial design decisions made while designing some successful, web-based interactive demonstrators developed by the authors. We identify methodological issues in applying today's requirementdriven usability engineering method to designing this type of novel applications and solicit a clearer distinction between designing mainstream applications and designing novel applications. More solution-oriented approaches leveraging design thinking are required, and more pragmatic evaluation criteria is needed that assess the role of the system in exploiting the technological possibilities to provoke further brainstorming and discussion. Such an approach will support a more efficient channelling of the technology-to-application transformation which are becoming increasingly crucial in today's context of rich technological possibilities.

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“…Other representative novel applications we developed include a mobile news update service that automatically indexes daily broadcast TV news and provides its users with a personalised highlights of TV news stories on their mobile devices (Gurrin et al (2004)); an interactive TV where a TV viewer can use a conventional remote control to interact with other remote viewers, search and browse the contents of TV shows with advanced video analysis tools while watching the current channel (Lee et al (2008b)); a collaborative search tabletop where two users sitting around a table can together search for video clips with their finger touch ); an object search application where a user draws a contour of an object in a picture and the system retrieves other objects similar to it using our object matching algorithm (Sav et al (2006)); an online museum explorer where the photos of exhibited artifacts at the museum taken by the visitor are uploaded and automatically grouped by individual artifacts using our edge-matching technique (Blighe et al (2008)), and many more.…”

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Designing Novel Applications Inspired by Emerging Media Technologies

Lee

Smeaton

2011

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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The field of Human-Computer Interaction provides a number of useful tools and methods for obtaining information on end-users and their usage context to inform the design of computer systems, yet relatively little is known on how to go about designing for a completely novel application where there is no user base, no existing practice of use available at the start. The success of the currently available HCI methodology that focuses on understanding users' needs and establishing requirements is well-deserved in making computing applications usable in terms of fitting them to end-users' usage contexts. However, too much emphasis on identifying user needs tends to stifle other more exploratory design activities where new types of applications are invented in order to discover or create new activities currently not practiced. In this paper, we argue that a great starting point of novel application design is not the problem space (trying to rigorously define the user requirements) but the solution space (trying to leverage emerging computational technologies and growing design knowledge for various interaction platforms), and we build a foundation for a pragmatic design methodology supported by the authors' extensive experience in designing novel applications inspired by emerging media technologies.

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Mo Músaem Fíorúil: A Web-Based Search and Information Service for Museum Visitors

Cited by 5 publications

References 14 publications

Combining image descriptors to effectively retrieve events from visual lifelogs

Combining image descriptors to effectively retrieve events from visual lifelogs

Designing Interactive Applications to Support Novel Activities

Designing Novel Applications Inspired by Emerging Media Technologies

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