Web Services for Image Conversion and Document Database Search

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Web Services for Image Conversion and Document
Database Search

• Dr. Vladimir Misic, James M. Kang, Jordan
  SisselCS Department, Rochester Institute of
  Technology, Rochester NY 14623

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Motivation

• Dissemination of the JPEG 2000 has been slow.
• There are few commercial plug-ins that enable
  users to create JPEG 2000 documents
• sporadic use
• not readily available to the average user.
• Users should be enabled to easily test the
  benefits of the new file format, and compare it
  to the well known ones (TIFF, JPEG, GIF, etc.)

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Projects at the RIT

• On-line image conversion service
• Improve dissemination
• Annotation of J2K images
• Demonstrate archival advantages of JP2 family

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On-line image conversion service

• Idea
• Enable on-line image conversion to JPEG 2000
• No JPEG 2000 plug-in or application needed to
  convert image
• Free plug-ins for browsers are available

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On-line image conversion service
browser
server
image database
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Annotation of J2K images

• Idea
• Any region within the image can be annotated in
  XML format (using asoc, roid, and lbl boxes)
• Create complete set of tools to
• Annotate JP2 images
• Upload JP2 images to server, automatically
  extract annotations from the image, parse that
  information, and transfer them to an Oracle
  database
• Tool to search JP2 Metadata information stored in
  database and return not only the info, but also
  the image (thumbnail and full version)

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Annotation phase
browser
server
extractor app.
image database
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Search phase
browser
server
image database
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Principle Region Selection

• Any region of the image can be selected for
  annotation

gray sky
green bushes
Porche car
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Principle Annotation Creation

• Currently the following data is stored for each
  region
• User Name
• Description
• Current Date
• Coordinates (x, y, width, height)
• Any additional form of metadata can be added

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Annotation Creation Example
Coordinate Information
New Box jimk
Current Date
Image Region Description
Author
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XML Format

• Annotations are stored in a new box called jimk
  in XML Format

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Client Interface

• Client interface supports
• Ability to upload JP2 images using a web
  interface and automatically extract XML
  information into an Oracle Database
• As a result
• JP2 Images are searchable based on their embedded
  metadata information

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Demo

• Annotation Creation
• Upload and Search Features

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Issues

• Plug in
• Server
• Annotation standardization (tags)
• JPX vs. JP2

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Publications

• Vladimir Misic, James M. Kang, Jordan Sissel,
  JPEG 2000 Web Services for Image Conversion and
  Document Database Search, JPEG 2000 Symposium,
  University of Connecticut, Storrs CT, 2004
• Vladimir Misic, James M. Kang, Jordan Sissel,
  Ankur Teredesai, JPEG 2000 New Paradigm In
  Image Archiving, 1st CCIS, Rochester Institute
  of Technology, Rochester NY, 2005
• Vladimir Misic, Ankur Teredesai, James M. Kang,
  Jordan Sissel, Portable Image Archiving
  Annotation, Search and Data Retrieval , IST
  Archiving Conference 2005, Washington, D.C. 2005