Application of image processing technology to digital archiving and study of rare books

Author

Ozawa, Shinji ; Kashimura, Masaaki

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Keio Univ., Japan

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

272

Lastpage

279

Abstract

The authors discuss the effects of applying image processing technology to the digital archiving and study of rare books, introducing our research activity in the HUMI Project, which was established by Keio University as an inter-faculty project, envisioning a research oriented digital library. Then, some methods of image processing application developed in the HUMI Project are outlined: adjustment method for curved page image, connection method for partial images of page, image representation method for illustration

Keywords

digital libraries; history; image representation; information retrieval systems; literature; HUMI Project; adjustment method; connection method; curved page image; digital archiving; image processing technology; image representation method; inter-faculty project; partial images; rare books; research activity; research oriented digital library; Application software; Books; Computer performance; Computer science; Costs; Digital images; Image processing; Image representation; Materials science and technology; Software libraries;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Libraries: Research and Practice, 2000 Kyoto, International Conference on.

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1022-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DLRP.2000.942184

Filename

942184