📚 Augmenting Public Bookcases to Support Book Sharing

This repository provides our code used for the paper: Augmenting Public Bookcases to Support Book Sharing

Our contribution includes:

• Dataset: Download the dataset
• Application: In folder android_application you find the Android application that was created by Thilo Schulz during his Master's thesis. The app is optimized for use with a Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphone.

The dataset and repository is licensed under MIT licsense

Dataset

Our dataset includes:

Book spine images

.png images of book spines in different sizes and various conditions

Bookcase images

Subfolders B0 to B8 provide images from public bookcases
Subfolder Lab shows 100 different arranged bookcase images from our dataset in a laboratory

After the download, add all images to the corresponding folders. The download is not neccessary for installing the app. The .csv-file located in android_application/app/src/main/assets/book_spine_data.csv already provides precalculated features. The dataset is licsened under MIT licsense.

Adding images to the dataset

• Download the dataset
• Put the downloaded images in the corresponding folders
• Put your book spine .png images into the Spines folder
• Then open the file book_spine_data_no_color.csv
• Add title,subtitle,author,publisher,genre,filename
• The filename is the name of your added book spine image
• You can leave unused fields blank but you should at least enter the book title.
• If you want to recalcuate all features, simply run in a terminal python create_data_set.py
• If you want to add books change the target .csv-filename filename_result in create_data_set.py and run the file

Citation

If you use our app and/or dataset in your projects, please use the following BibTeX citation:

@inproceedings{10.1145/3379503.3403542,
author = {Schrapel, Maximilian and Schulz, Thilo and Rohs, Michael},
title = {Augmenting Public Bookcases to Support Book Sharing},
year = {2020},
isbn = {9781450375160},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3379503.3403542},
doi = {10.1145/3379503.3403542},
booktitle = {22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services},
articleno = {11},
numpages = {11},
keywords = {Sharing Economy, Computer Vision, Sharing Community, Design for Sharing, Augmented Reality, Mobile Interaction},
location = {Oldenburg, Germany},
series = {MobileHCI '20}
}

This repository is provided by the Human-Computer Interaction Group at the University Hannover, Germany. For additional details, see our MobileHCI'20 paper. The dataset and code is licsened under MIT license. For inquiries, please contact maximilian.schrapel@hci.uni-hannover.de
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