Award details

Visual indexing for taxonomic information systems

Reference	BIO14262
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor David Mann
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Dr Micha Bayer
Institution	Royal Botanic Gardens - Edinburgh
Department	Systematics and Evolution
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	139,556
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	01/05/2001
End date	01/05/2004
Duration	36 months

Abstract

The overall aim of this project is to investigate and develop methods to enable the visual indexing of images of biological specimens held in a biological database. Biological specimens are frequently described in visual form for taxonomic and other purposes. However, to date, very little attention has been paid to effectively using these data as a prime key in information search and retrieval. We propose to develop a system that will take an input a series of image and corresponding drawings of selected specimens and learn the relationship (mapping) between the sets. A new image suitably presented to the system can then be classified according to which drawing (taxonomic type) it matches and ultimately a new drawing produced. (Joint with grant 72/BIO14261.)

Summary

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Committee	Closed Committee - Genes & Developmental Biology (GDB)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	Bioinformatics (Phase 2) (BIO) [1998-2000]
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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BIO14261 Visual indexing for taxonomic information systems

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