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CultureCam: An Interactive Search Tool for Small Image Galleries

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Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection (EuroMed 2016)

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As a result of digitization initiatives in recent years, most galleries hold digital copies of their masterpieces. In order to attract more visitors, public galleries are interested in advertising their content on websites and tourist-centric applications deployed in public spaces. The online version of CultureCam has the goal of stimulating the reuse of cultural heritage content by creative designers. In this paper, we present the Interactive Installation version of CultureCam tool, which has the goal of attracting the interest of public users when exploring public galleries. It concentrates on enhancing the user experience, by offering access to the images in an immersive environment, using an intuitive, easy-to-use tool that supports touch free interaction with the gallery content. A novel image similarity search algorithm was developed in order to adapt to user expectations when searching in small image datasets. The user feedback collected from exhibitions in different European cities indicates a very high acceptance of the CultureCam tool by the public. The intuitive and seamless interaction with the tool, as well as the automation and enhancement of the search algorithm are the main improvements over the previous version of CultureCam.

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    http://pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana-creative.

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    http://culturecam.eu.

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    http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/accessories/kinect-for-xbox-one.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV#HSV.

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    http://www.shazam.com.

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    https://twitter.com/hashtag/culturecam.

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This work was partially funded by the EuropeanaCreative project, co-funded by the Commission of the European Communities under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP). This publication reflects only the author’s/authors’ views and the European Union is not liable for any use that might be made of information contained therein.

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  1. AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, 1220, Vienna, Austria

    Sergiu Gordea & Michela Vignoli

  2. Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

    Sanna Marttila

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  3. School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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  4. Institut für Museumsforschung, Berlin, Germany

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  7. Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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Gordea, S., Vignoli, M., Marttila, S. (2016). CultureCam: An Interactive Search Tool for Small Image Galleries. In: Ioannides, M., et al. Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection. EuroMed 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10058. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48496-9_25

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