A tool for authoring unambiguous links from printed content to digital media

Authors:
Andreas Girgensohn;Frank Shipman;Lynn Wilcox;Qiong Liu;Chunyuan Liao;Yuichi Oneda
Affiliations:
FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, USA;Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA;FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, USA;FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, USA;FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, USA;Fuji Xerox, Yokohama, Japan
Venue:
MM '11 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Multimedia
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Embedded Media Markers (EMMs) are nearly transparent icons printed on paper documents that link to associated digital media. By using the document content for retrieval, EMMs are less visually intrusive than barcodes and other glyphs while still providing an indication for the presence of links. An initial implementation demonstrated good overall performance but exposed difficulties in guaranteeing the creation of unambiguous EMMs. We developed an EMM authoring tool that supports the interactive authoring of EMMs via visualizations that show the user which areas on a page may cause recognition errors and automatic feedback that moves the authored EMM away from those areas. The authoring tool and the techniques it relies on have been applied to corpora with different visual characteristics to explore the generality of our approach.