Image segmentation

tool: FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager

Purpose: 

Open source Digital Asset Management solution designed for medium size preservation, cataloguing, media archiving and batch transcoding.

Creator: 
Daydream Interactive Limited
Specifications: 
Embedded metadata formats
XML
Image Documents (.jpg) (.gif) (.png) (.tiff) (.bmp) Open Office
Macromedia Flash
MPEG-4
Software/programming languages used: 
ImageMagick
Microsoft SQL Server
.NET
FFMPEG
T-SQL
lifecycleStage: 
publishing
Licence: 
GNU General Public License
Communication and collaboration: 
Resource sharing
Graphical interaction (synchronous)
Textual interaction (asynchronous)
Textual interaction (synchronous)
Video-based interaction (asynchronous)
Data analysis: 
Collating
Indexing
Content analysis
Data mining
Image feature measurement
Image segmentation
Overlaying
Statistical analysis
Text mining
Data capture: 
Manual input and transcription
Text recognition
Use of existing digital data
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Cataloguing and indexing
Graphical rendering
Text encoding - presentational
Text encoding - referential
Record linkages
Video and moving image compression
Practice-led research: 
Animation
Photography
Image manipulation
Video editing
Video post production
Tags: 
digital asset management
Digital Preservation
archival software
Data publishing and dissemination: 
Server scripting
Streaming media
Collaborative publishing
User contributed content
Strategy and project management: 
General project management
Preservation
Curation
Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
.net
By daydream at Wed, 10/11/2010 - 10:03

project: British Newspapers 1620-1900

Grant Holder:
The goal of the British Newspapers 1620-1900 project was to make available on the web a digitised collection of British newspapers that spans all regions of the British Isles and is representative of newspapers published between 1620 and 1900. The intention was to deliver at least a further one million pages of digitised texts and load them to the Gale Cengage Learning website, and increase the content to four million pages of searchable text for pre 1900 newspapers. [read more]

tool: Mercury Amira

Purpose: 

Mercury Amira is a multifaceted tool that allows for integration, manipulation, and visualisation of large sets of data. Automatic and interactive segmentation tools support processing of 3D image data.

Features: 

• One platform for visualizing, analyzing and presenting
• Very large data sets are easily accessible with specific readers
• C++ coding wizard for technical extension and customization

A&H use case 1 description: 
Amira was used on the North Sea Palaeolandscapes project to visualise and analyse the vast amounts of data that were collected.
Publisher: 
Visage Imaging GmbH
Creator: 
Mercury Software Systems
Data publishing and dissemination: 
Desktop publishing and pre-press
Specifications: 
C++
Communication and collaboration: 
Graphical interaction (asynchronous)
Data analysis: 
Content analysis
Image segmentation
Visualisation
Spatial data analysis
lifecycleStage: 
structuring
analysis
publishing
Discipline: 
Archaeology
History
Visual Arts
Data capture: 
2d scanning and photography
3d scanning
Geophysical survey
GPS and total station surveys
Data structuring and enhancement: 
2d modelling - raster
2d modelling - vector
3d modelling - interactive
3d modelling - vector
Geo-referencing and projection
Virtual world modelling
Tags: 
Visualisation
3d data capture
2d imaging
3d imaging
Strategy and project management: 
Documentation
Alternate tool(s): 

Avizo

Practice-led research: 
2d graphic design
2d illustration
3d graphic design
3d modelling - vector
Image manipulation
Platform: 
All major operating systems
Software/programming languages used: 
Mercury Amira
Licence: 
commercial
By natalie.hutchinson at Fri, 19/03/2010 - 12:21

tool: Adobe Photoshop

Purpose: 

Adobe Photoshop is an editor for still images. It is equipped with a diverse range of processing tools, enabling users to create or modify content through the use of drawing tools, filters, or other plug-ins.

Features: 

• Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software
• Photoshop functionality can be extended by add-on programs called Photoshop plugins which act like mini-editors that modify the image.
• Can utilise the colour models RGB, lab, CMKY, Greyscale, binary bitmap and duotone.
• Reads and writes raster and vector image formats

A&H use case 1 description: 
“The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland” project has used Adobe Photoshop to edit digital images in both TIFF and high JPG formats of Romanesque sculpture in Britain.
Publisher: 
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Creator: 
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Specifications: 
JPEG
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
Bitmap (BMP)
Adobe Illustrator (AI)
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Fireworks
Data analysis: 
Image feature measurement
Image segmentation
Visualisation
Data capture: 
2d scanning and photography
Communication and collaboration: 
Graphical interaction (asynchronous)
Software/programming languages used: 
Adobe Photoshop LE
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe photoshop Elements
Suite: 
Adobe
Data structuring and enhancement: 
2d modelling - raster
2d modelling - vector
3d modelling - interactive
3d modelling - vector
Graphical rendering
Image enhancement
Image restoration
Photogrammetry
Alternate tool(s): 

GraphicConverter, 36-image converter

Tags: 
Image enhancement
Image manipulation
Photoshop
Photo editing
Practice-led research: 
2d graphic design
2d illustration
3d graphic design
3d modelling - vector
3d scanning
Photography
Image manipulation
Photomontage
Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Mac OS X
Licence: 
commercial
lifecycleStage: 
creation
By Valentina Asciutti at Tue, 02/02/2010 - 17:32

tool: Adobe Illustrator

Purpose: 

Adobe Illustrator is a comprehensive vector graphics environment that is ideal for all creative professionals, including web and interactive designers and developers, multimedia producers, motion graphics and visual effects designers, animators, and video professionals. The latest version, Illustrator CS4, is the fourteenth generation in the product line.

Features: 

• Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software
• Raster and type-in vector format support

A&H use case 1 description: 
The Inscriptions of Aphrodisias project used Adobe Illustrator to manipulate resources associated with Greek inscriptions from Aphrodisias in Caria.
A&H use case 2 description: 
The North Sea Palaeolandscapes project used Adobe Illustrator during the production of visual data for use by the geological and archaeological community.
A&H use case 3 description: 
The British Town maps project used Adobe Illustrator to manipulate graphical data produced between 1470 and 1895.
Publisher: 
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Creator: 
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Practice-led research: 
2d graphic design
2d illustration
Photomontage
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Graphical rendering
Image enhancement
Image restoration
Suite: 
Adobe
Specifications: 
JPEG
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
Portable Document Format (PDF)
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
Bitmap (BMP)
Rich Text Format (RTF)
Unicode
Adobe Freehand
CorelDraw image (CDR)
Windows MetaFile (WMF)
PhotoShop Document (PSD)
Autodesk Drawing eXchange Format (DXF)
TrueType
Plug-in support
Microsoft Word document
Data analysis: 
Image feature measurement
Image segmentation
Visualisation
Tags: 
design
graphics
raster
vector
Alternate tool(s): 

Corel Draw

Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Mac OS X
Licence: 
commercial
lifecycleStage: 
creation
publishing
Software/programming languages used: 
Adobe Illustrator
By Valentina Asciutti at Wed, 20/01/2010 - 15:29

tool: Zoomify

Purpose: 

A suite of products developed for web designers that may be used to convert large images into a form that can be zoomed and panned. Zoomify enables large images to be viewed and manipulated, without an increase in server load or download time. It convert large images stored in raster formats (e.g. TIFF, JPEG) into a set of pieces or 'tiles' The individual pieces contain sub-sections of the image at different resolutions or levels of zoom, which are combined to create a type of mosaic.

Features: 
  • Enables access to high quality still images without an increase in server load
A&H use case 1 description: 
The Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) project use Zoomify to deliver high-quality images of medieval stained glass.
A&H use case 2 description: 
The 'In Transition' project use Zoomify to deliver scanned images of the poetry of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.
Publisher: 
Zoomify, Inc
Creator: 
Zoomify, Inc
Data analysis: 
Image segmentation
Data publishing and dissemination: 
General website development
lifecycleStage: 
structuring
publishing
Tags: 
pan
zoom
still image
mosaic
Platform: 
All major operating systems
Licence: 
commercial
Software/programming languages used: 
Zoomify
Specifications: 
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
JPEG
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
Macromedia Flash Video (FLV)
By garethknight at Tue, 19/01/2010 - 15:39

project: Online Chopin Variorum Edition (OCVE)

Grant Holder:
OCVE began as an eighteen-month pilot study, from May 2003 to October 2004. Its aim was to explore the potential of technology to trascend the limitations of a traditional printed variorum edition. The research exploited emerging technical capacities for text/image comparison as well as recent musicological advances in cognate projects such as Chopin's First Editions Online and the Annotated catalogue of Chopin's First Editions (Cambridge University Press, 2007). [read more]

project: The Thomas Gray Archive

Grant Holder:
The Thomas Gray Archive is a long-term research effort dedicated to studying the life and work of eighteenth-century poet and letter-writer Thomas Gray (1716-1771). The Archive strives to preserve and to make accessible a comprehensive corpus of high-quality, electronic primary sources and secondary materials. [read more]

project: Nineteenth Century Serials Edition

Grant Holder: Prof Laurel Brake
A three year Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project, ncse seeks to achieve two key objectives: First the ncse project responds to the pressing need to republish these fragile printed items in ways which maintain their integrity. As physical collections are often incomplete, and deteriorating quality hampers access, electronic editions offer new opportunities to re-present such material in a way that is, for the first time online, comprehensive and freely available meaning that the material can be used in entirely novel ways. [read more]

project: Siobhan Davies Dance Online

Grant Holder: Professor Sarah Whatley
Siobhan Davies Dance Online is a project that created a fully searchable, online, digital archive of the work of the choreographer Siobhan Davies. In addition to extensive film footage of performances and rehearsals, photographs, programmes etc. [read more]

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