Preventing Illicit Coin Trade through Unsupervised Retrieval E-services

01.02.2007 - 31.01.2009
Research funding project
The COINS project aims at providing a substantial contribution to the fight against illegal trade and theft of coins which appears to be a major part of the illegal antiques market. For this goal, state-of-art Information Technology will be used. The project will develop standardized inventories by defining a domain ontology based on CIDOC-CRM, the standard ontology for Cultural Heritage, and a multilingual thesaurus. Data management tools will be created as well, and a specialized web search tool. The recognition of coins will be based on new algorithms of pattern recognition and image processing, in a field (classification and identification of ancient coins) as yet unexplored. The project will disseminate its results also by means of a demonstrator freely accessible on the Internet. Substantial contribution to the project will come from stakeholders, some of which are present in the partnership, which includes the Italian law enforcement organisation Carabinieri and three major national museums with important coin collections.

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Grant funds

  • European Commission (EU) 6.FP: IST - Information society technologies 6.Rahmenprogramm für Forschung European Commission - Framework Programme European Commission Call identifier FP6-2005-SSP-5-A

Research focus

  • Media Informatics and Visual Computing: 100%

Keywords

GermanEnglish
MünzerkennungCoin Recognition
KlassifizierungClassification
BildverarbeitungImage Processing

External partner

  • Fitzwilliam ¿ The Fitzwilliam Museum
  • Muzeul National de Istorie a României
  • PIN scrl ¿ Servizi Didattici e Scientifici per l¿Università di Firenze ¿ VAST Lab
  • Arma dei Carabinieri ¿ Comando Tutela Patrimonio Culturale
  • Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma
  • VARTEC
  • Seibersdorf Labor GmbH

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