life on the other side of the pond: vr activity in europe, interacting with images – adding...
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Eric Decker, “Cluster of Excellence: Asia and Europe in a Global Context - Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows” at Heidelberg University, Germany, presentation for VRA 28 Atlanta Presented as part of 'Life on the other side of the pond: VR Activity in Europe' sessionTRANSCRIPT
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Interacting with images – adding functionality to images
databases
Eric Decker
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Outline
1. What are our requirements? Where do they
come from?
2. What software do we use to meet these
requirements?
3. Live demo: HyperImage Editor/Reader
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Requirements
Pilot project (< one year) with members from:
• Anthropology (South Asia)
• Chinese Studies
• European History
Technical Questions:
• Art History
• Political Science of South Asia
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Requirements
Three regional corpora with images from South
Asia, China and Europe depicting „Mothers and
Fathers of the Nation“
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Requirements
Rather unsystematic personal collections that
needed to be organized.
• Unicode capability for metadata in Chinese,
Devanagari and Western script
• restricted access and user rights management
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Generating requirements
High workload of group members generated the
need for software that is:
• easy to learn and use
OR
• already know to the user
AND
• usable in other projects as well
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Requirements
Our group wanted to:
• annotate, discuss and compare
• images, groups of images and image details
• in an asynchronous manner
• present results that stimulate further discussion
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Requirements
Cluster is supposed to conduct research in the
humanities not IT.
• use the existing IT infrastructure and contribute
to it
• use readymade software
• cost efficiency
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HyperImage
Main development by teams at Uni Lüneburg (inventors)
and HU Berlin
Project webpage: http://hyperimage.eu
The software
• allows to define and annotate parts of images
• allows to link between parts of images
• offers on-/offline publication of the result
• and much more
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HyperImage
Three main components:
• Server (Web-Service on GlassFish)
• Editor = Authoring Environment (Web-based, Java)
import objects; add/edit metadata; define image-parts (layers);
export project (PeTAL/XML)
• Reader = on-/offline Publication (Flash)
interactive publication of the project; search; light-tables
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Hyperimage Image Processing Architecture
File Server
Hyperimage Server
Web Server
Hyperimage Editor User Interface Hyperimage Reader
Edit
ViewExport
Read/Write
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HyperImgae Client (editor)Window for manual defining parts of an image („layers“)
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HyperImage
Extensions added by HRA:
• Active Directory authentication
• WSDL interface to HeidICON
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Problems with HyperImage
• It is a lot of fun to use -> time consuming
• HyperImage Reader not fully accepted as
publication
• Server installation needs qualified personal
• HyperImage Reader is designed as standalone
product