0. ARTISTE Project Presentation
Gert Presutti Project Manager, NCR SE-Copenhagen
Roberto Vaccaro
R&D Project Manager, Interactive Labs (Giunti Publishing Group)
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1. Vision
A more effective system for classifying, storing, linking, matching and retrieving art images

2. ARTISTE - An EU RTD Project
NCR (Coordinator)
IT Innovation Center
Giunti Interactive Labs
The National Gallery
Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France
Uffizi
Multimedia Research Group
Victoria and Albert Museum
Budget on € 2.77M (EC € 1.8M)
22.5 man years over 30 months

3. ARTISTE Objectives Business Objectives
Identify how the technical systems developed in the project can be deployed and exploited in a number of sectors
Establish business models that give the content owners direct control over the distributed representation, access and exploitation of digital multimedia content and metadata
Ensure that the vision and results of the project become as widely known and understood as possible

4. ARTISTE Objectives Technical Objectives
Meet specified end-user requirements for achieving a system directly useful to professional users in the fine arts.
Develop automatic metadata representations for image categorisation
Develop seamless distributed access to multiple collections
Develop distributed content-based navigation methods for art collections
Develop image analysis algorithms to assist the work of Art Professionals
Build and prove the value of a robust and scalable integrated environment that incorporates the above components using the TeraData Object-Relational database

5. Core Technologies
Distributed links server software, user interfaces, and content-based navigation software
Content based analysis for the automatic extraction of color, shape and texture features
Art collection integration through a web based architecture
Teradata Object Relational database for the effective management and analysis of huge repository of large high resolution images
Dynamic metadata system for image categorization primarily based on XML

6. ARTISTE System Architecture
Common
Metadata
Schema
Object-relational
UDM
Presentation Layer
Art DB
Authored
Links
(Replicated)
Gallery 1
Gallery 2
Meta
data
Distributed Query
and Metadata Layer
reference
information
Web Server
Browser
Third-party
background server

7. ARTISTE Business Model
Researchers,
historians and
conservators
New research,
results and
techniques
Access
control
Images
Support
Services
Images
Educational
course
creators
Images
Images
Educational
material
Gallery
branded
sites
Images
Publishers
Images
Images for
publication
Galleries and
other content
owners
Payment
handling
Payment
Payment

8. ARTISTE System Milestones
1. Prototype: Initial Query-layer and sample algorithms based on initial user requirements
3. Prototype: Metadata incorporated, content-based navigation, and initial recognition algorithms
PM6
PM12
PM18
PM24
PM30
PM0
2. Prototype: Design complete, Distributed linking and initial pigment identification algorithms based on final user requirements
4. Final System
PM = Project Month

9. ARTISTE Documentation Milestones
Prototype evaluation: PM10, PM16, PM22, PM30
Report on Data Capture, PM9
Image content analysis algorithms report, PM24
ARTISTE Metadata Standards Positioning, PM30
Description of Linking and content based navigation technology, PM24
User Interface description, PM24
User Defined Module report, PM12
System Integration report, PM26
ARTISTE Web, PM2
Dissemination and Exploitation plans, PM6
Collection Management systems Migration report, PM24
ORDBMS Requirements analysis, PM12
ORDBMS support evaluation, PM24
ORDBMS enhancements, PM24
ARTISTE TIP, PM30
PM = Project Month

10. User Groups
User Partners: Partners of the project who provide detailed requirements and monitor and test the system (Uffizi, C2RMF, VAM, NG).
User profiles: The project targets a wide range of profiles. More generally, the User profiles profile group, is set by those, who will use the application directly and will have their activities supported. (museums curators, researchers, historians, conservators, publishers and editors, auctioneers, art amateurs).
Other Users: who has an interest in the system or is affected by its functioning without directly using it (education and mass end users, support personnel).

11. User Goals G1: Matching of similar images
G2: Automatic search using synonyms
G3: Search based on the concept of style
G4: Search based on features oriented to the restoration framework
G5: Access information quickly and easily
G6: Search based on colour, pigment features
G7: Query by low quality images (faxes)
G8: Query by sketch
G9: Query refinement
G10: Joint retrieval by content and by text
G11: Use of publishing products built on the Artiste system
G12: Detail finding
G13: Search using multilingual vocabulary

12. Some Examples
Victoria and Albert Museum

13. Some examples (continued) C2RMF
Seneque: Colour image
(Louvre) normal light acquisition, craquelure network
racking light acquisition, crack in the wood

14. Some examples (continued): C2RMF
Seneque: Colour image
(Louvre) UV acquisition, repeints
reverse acquisition, tool marks, crack in the wood

15. ARTISTE AIUG and Advisory Panel
Members of the Artiste Interest User’s Group will:
Receive the AIUG Newsletter giving regular updates on the project's progress, plus news on related subjects and events
Receive invitations to attend workshops where you will see how the project vision is developing and meet other professionals to exchange views (first workshop due to take place towards the end of 2000)
Have other opportunities to provide feedback to the project and influence how it develops to meet the needs of professionals
Members of the ARTISTE Advisory Panel will:
Review selected deliverables or assess ARTISTE prototypes
Provide guidelines on the overall direction of the project.
Occasionally participate in ARTISTE PMT Meetings