Computerized treatment of manuscripts
Group 3
Brian Porterfield, Casey Grisham, and Van Witherspoon
Key Words: Manuscript Documents, Blurred Shaped Model (BSM),
Image Analysis
The researchers at the UAB Computer Centre have
come up with a new system that is more efficient and reliable than the ones
that currently exist. It is the new computerized treatment of manuscripts. It
is called the Blurred Shape Model, or for a shorter term, the BSM. In general
speaking, it has been designed to work with ancient, damaged or difficult to
read manuscripts, handwritten scores and architectural drawings. One of the
advantages of this new system is that you can cut time in
half doing it with a computerized treatment instead of manually. Another
advantage about this system is that it differs from others since it can detect
variations, elastic deformations, and uneven distortions that can appear when
manually reproducing any type of symbol. Instead you don’t have to worry about
that using this new system. The BSM will greatly benefit different businesses
and organizations just because of the saving of time. We all know that in
business, “Time is Money!”
On more technical terms, I will explain what
the BSM system really does. The BSM is not like other existing systems which
follow the same process. When deciphering different types of symbols, a
standard process makes it more difficult to recognize the symbols after they
have been introduced. To explain more, the BSM can be adapted to each of the
areas it is applied to. So this means that when the BSM analyzes and recognizes
symbols, the system divides image regions into other sub-regions, with the help
of a grid, and saves the information it just got into each grid square. The BSM
does this all in real time also detecting even the smallest of differences. In
the end, depending on the shape and any kind of damage or distortion of that
shape, the system undergoes a process to enhance and fix the damage or
distortion of that shape. After that, it stores this information and classifies
it right then and their.
To prove to everyone that this new system was
the real thing and not some joke the researchers ran some tests to see how
efficient it really was. They decided to test the efficiency of the system by
experimenting with two application areas. They created a database of musical
notes and a database of architectural symbols. The first was created from a
collection of modern and ancient musical scores (from the 18th and 19th
centuries) from the archives of the Barcelona Seminary, which included a total
of 2,128 examples of three types of musical notes drawn by 24 different people.
The second database included 2,762 examples of handwritten architectural
symbols belonging to 14 different groups. Each group contained approximately
200 types of symbols drawn by 13 different people. In order to compare the
performance and reliability of the BSM, the same data was introduced into other
similar systems. The BSM was capable of recognizing musical notes with an
exactness of over 98% and architectural symbols with an exactness of 90%.(UAB)
This product will allow businesses and
organizations to almost have a back up plan if
something was to go wrong with important documents. It will impact the business
world by a lot. If I was a president of a company, I would definitely have the
BSM just incase something went wrong with some
important company documents and I had to be able to reproduce and not having
the BSM you would be out of luck, but having the system you could turn a really
bad problem into nothing at all and save everyone a lot of headache.
In conclusion, this new system called the
“Blurred Shaped Model,” is really a good tool to have. It can take any image no
matter how old, damaged, distorted, or ruined and repair it back to new again.
This may not seem like a big deal, but it is. If you had a business that went though a flood and a lot of you documents got wet, before
this system came out you probably would never see them again. Now you can just
run them through the BSM and it will restore all of the messed up words so you
can get all of your important documents back. Not only that it is just more
accurate and time friendly then if you were doing it manually.
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Computerized treatment of manuscripts
Group 3
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1. What is the newest type of
computerized treatment of manuscripts? |
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A. HP
Imager 4000 |
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B. Digital
Image Enhancer (DIE) |
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Blurred Shape Model (BSM) |
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D. None
of the above |
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2. Who developed this new
system? |
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A. U
of A research lab |
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B. Texas computer research lab |
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C. |
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D. UAB
computer vision center |
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3. What can computerized
treatment of manuscripts do? |
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A. repair
damaged documents |
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B. enhance
ancient documents |
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C. interpret
written scrolls |
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D. all
of the above |
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4. |
4. BSM works in a two hour lag
time. |
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A. True |
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B. False
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5. What two tests where
performed to test accuracy? |
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A. English
Alphabet and Pig Latin |
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B. Musical
Notes and Symbols |
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C. Musical
Notes and English Alphabet |
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D. None
of the Above |
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6. |
6. Both tests produced a 90%
exactness or above |
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A. True |
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B. False |
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7. |
7. What piece of common home computer hardware
is related to computerized treatment of manuscripts? |
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A. Mouse |
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B. Scanner |
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C. Keyboard |
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D. None
of the above |
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