Project code: MIA
Research group: Database Architectures and Information Access (INS1)

Project coordinator: Arjen de Vries

The MIA-project aims at true multi-media analysis of multimedia documents composed of digital text, picture and/or video. At the confluence of text-, picture- and video-analysis, data visualization, and multimedia data storage, the MIA - project aims to provide the technology for the digital library age. The data repositories of the MIA - project are large company based archives. Furthermore, we aim to provide content-specific services to the World Wide Web, motivated by the new possibilities offered by the Internet-2 capacity. The MIA-project is funded by the Dutch government, the University of Amsterdam, The Center for Mathematics and Computer Science, and leading Dutch industries. The project is located in the WTCW, the foothold of the trans-atlantic Internet connection.

Members
Martin Kersten, Johan List, Stefan Manegold, Niels Nes, Lloyd Rutledge, Arjen de Vries.

Key publications
Publications of Multimedia Information Analysis.

Project report 

• Virtual context - relating media objects to their real world subjects
  L.W. Rutledge, A. Eliëns
  2000, INS-R0022, ISSN 1386-3681
  Virtual Reality (VR) is sometimes used to give the user an immersive, three-dimensional sense of a real-world setting. VR is also sometimes used for information visualization, taking advantage of the perceptual characteristics of VR to convey information. This paper presents the Dam Square Virtual Context, a Web-based VR that is a combination of both these uses. This VR presents mock-ups of both Dam Square in the city of Amsterdam and the city's largest museum, the Rijksmuseum. This VR conveys abstract information that includes the relationships between objects in the museum, such as paintings of Amsterdam cityscapes, and the corresponding objects in Dam Square itself, such as the buildings and neighborhoods shown in these paintings. It is thus a multimedia combining VR wireframes and bitmaps with still images and interface scripts. The principle behind this is that the user learns how to walk through the museum to view objects that together convey a unified view about Amsterdam, which the user can then later walk through.
  Download the pdf-file

Partners

• The University of Amsterdam, in particular the ISIS research group and the Department of Social Science Informatics.
• TNO-TPD
• Océ Technologies
• Elsevier Science Publishers
• Data Distilleries