The state of the art in Image recognition

Organized by: Liber, CERL

Speaker(s): Matilde Malaspina,Matthieu Bonicel,Thomas Wolf,Vlad Atanasiu

The LIBER Forum for Digital Cultural Heritage, co-chaired with CERL, organised a seminar on The State of the Art in Image Recognition, London, Senate House, LIBER 2015, 24 June 2015.

Programme

– 9:00: Giuseppe Amato (ISTI-CNR): Using image recognition for cultural heritage. The EAGLE project experience.

In this talk the use of image recognition techniques in the EAGLE project was introduced. EAGLE (European network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy) is a CIP-Best Practice Network (partially) funded by the European Commission. The EAGLE comprehensive collection of inscriptions (about 80% of the surviving material) is accessible through a user-friendly portal, which supports searching and browsing of the epigraphic material.

In order to increase the usefulness and visibility of its content, EAGLE has also developed a mobile application that enables tourists and scholars to obtain detailed information about the inscriptions they are looking at by simply pointing their smartphone camera at them. Image recognition techniques are used to identify the inscriptions seen through the smartphone and provide users with related information. The slides may be downloaded here, and there is a video of the demo.

– 9:20: Thomas Wolf (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München): Image recognition and image similarity: A different approach for accessing large scale digital collections: presentation
– 9:40: Giles Bergel (University of Oxford): Tracking woodcuts with Bodleian Ballads

The original Bodleian Ballad ImageMatch tool: ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/blog/570 [includes tutorial, video and link to technical specifications]
The Bodleian Ballads website, with ImageMatch embedded on a subset of the holdings: http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
The Bodleian Ballads ImageBrowse tool: ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/blog/1069 [note links to publications at the bottom]
The Visual Geometry Group: http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/
Another method of comparing woodcuts: http://wjc.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/HTML/illustrations.html
Giles Begel Faculty homepage http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/about-faculty/faculty-members/18th-century/bergel-dr-giles
Bodleian Ballads on Twitter – @BodleianBallads
Giles Bergel on Twitter – @GilesBergel

– 9.55: Cristina Dondi (Oakeshott Senior Research Fellow in the Humanities, Lincoln College, University of Oxford and Secretary of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL)): Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database and images
– 10:00: Matilde Malaspina (University of Oxford): Image recognition in the 15cBOOKTRADE project: presentation
– 10:20: Questions
– 10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
– 11:00: Matthieu Bonicel (Conservateur responsable de l’informatisation et de la numérisation,Bibliothèque nationale de France): Using images in Digital humanities: current projects at BnF and in Biblissima: presentation
– 11:30: Vlad Atanasiu (PhD at Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg): Document and library visualization: summary
– 12:00: Lunch
– 13:00: Opening ceremony LIBER 44th Annual Conference