ALEGORIA: Joint Multimodal Search and Spatial Navigation into the Geographic Iconographic Heritage

Florent Geniet, Valérie Gouet-Brunet, Mathieu Brédif

Abstract: In this article, we present two online platforms developed for the structuring and valorization of old geographical iconographic collections: a multimodal search engine for their indexing, retrieval and interlinking, and a 3D navigation platform for their visualization in spatial context. In particular, we show how the joint use of these functionalities, guided by geolocation, brings structure and knowledge to the manipulated collections. In the demonstrator, they consist of 54,000 oblique aerial photographs from several French providers (national archives, a museum and a mapping agency).