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CultureCam: VISUAL EXPLORATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE CONTENT BY PROFESSIONAL DESIGNERS
Sergiu Gordea, Michela Vignoli
MMC@ICME, Torino. June 29th 2015
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Motivation: Use Europeana Content to inspire Creative Design
Content Selection Problem
CultureCam Tool
Image Similarity: through the eyes of Designers
User Experience Evaluation
Demo / Examples
Conclusions
Motivation
Europeana: 40 million+ cultural heritage objects
EuropeanaCreative: content reuse by Creative Industry
81 Featured collections >1 million of the best, openly licensed, directly accessible media objects
See: http://labs.europeana.eu/data/#
Motivation
Features Collections contain:
books, photos, art, artefacts, architecture, buildings, monuments, etc.
Motivation
Beautiful images with potential to inspire creative desing but:
How to find nice and inspiring images for the task at hand?
How can I describe my content needs?
Interested only in high (visual) quality content
Other Technical Requirements:
Free Reuse (i.e. PD, CC0)
Directly accessible on the web
Available with large resolution?
CultureCam Tool
„Image Search with the eyes of Designers“
Online tool that offers designers, artists and all creative people the possibility of exploring Europeana in a playful, interactive and engaging way
Text Free Search / Tactile / Simple / Intuitive
Technically: a similarity search tool + an „engaging GUI“
CultureCam Tool
Related Work:
Inverted Index: Giuseppe Amato et al. “Combining local and global visual feature similarity using a text search engine,” in CBMI, 2011
Evaluation: Sergiu Gordea, “An image similarity search for the european digital library and beyond”, SUEDL@TPDL2013
Search with the eyes of Designers
What are the artifacts used by designers?
Nice shapes, colors, patterns
Search with the eyes of Designers
Another kind of
image similarity!
Nice shapes, colors, patterns
Requirements: example
CultureCam: sample search results
CultureCam Tool
Index creation process / Backend tasks:
Manual preselection of content using existing metadata
Image processing including accessing, resizing, analysis, filtering
Image indexing including feature extraction, pivot selection, distance computation, retrieval
CultureCam Tool
Not a conventional image search tool
Trading of similarity for serendipity
Mobile Version
User Experience Evaluation
11 Designers in 2 countries
User Experience Evaluation
Conclusions
Image search tool for Creative Designers
Similarity vs. Serendipity
Positive feedback from domain experts
Simple / engaging / funny / available for mobile
Results depend on ligth/camera/distance to camera
Try it out: http://culturecam.eu/ Twitter: #CultureCam
Try it out!
Culture cam website:• http://culturecam.eu/
Twitter: #CultureCam
