Symposium in Computer Vision and the Humanities

Although digital humanities has largely developed around the analysis of text, the field is increasingly turning to images. This one-day workshop will showcase recent work in computer vision applied to diverse media (such as manuscripts, printed books and inscriptions), furthering research in languages and literary studies, book and art history and political history. It will show how the humanities research goes beyond the application of computer vision, towards also driving methodological developments in the field as a whole. 

Programme

Giles Bergel (Oxford), Computer Vision and the Diplomatics of Printing

Lara Bampfield and Jacob Dahl (Oxford), Reading Images, Seeing Data: Computer Vision in the Study of Mesopotamian Seals

Daniel Stockholm (École Pratique des Hautes Etudes), Exploring Hierarchical Representations of Animals in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

Marie Puren (EPITA), Alexandre Lionnet (École Pratique des Hautes Etudes) and Florian Cafiero (Université Paris-Sciences-et-Lettres & Geneva Graduate Institute), Reading Order and Machine Vision: Digital Workflows for Complex Archival Documents from Parliaments and International Organizations

Florian Cafiero (Université Paris-Sciences-et-Lettres), From Computer Vision to Distant Viewing: a Panorama of New Applications

Simona Stoyanova (Oxford), Palaeographic analysis of inscriptions from Ancient Sicily: annotation, classification, what next?

Sebastian Dows-Miller (University College London), Scribal abbreviation in manuscripts, and its role as a source of data for quantitative palaeography

Chahan Vidal-Gorène (École nationale des chartes), Generative Models in Manuscript Studies: From Simulated Evolution to Digital Restoration

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