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Workshop: Computer Vision in Book History
27 March 2019
The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands
Computer vision is making rapid progress in its ability to extract information from documents. Libraries, academic digital humanists and publishers are now moving from experimenting with computer vision to considering how to implement it in their search platforms or research methods, or support it for their users. This one-day symposium will combine presentations on current research using computer vision with hands-on training in computer vision tools. It will both showcase the state-of-the-art in the field and discuss how it can be made more accessible to users of libraries and digital repositories.
Organising committee
Giles Bergel of the Visual Geometry Group, University of Oxford,
Etienne Postumus of Brill Publishers, Leiden Amsterdam,
Lotte Wilms of the KBLab at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague and
Marian Lefferts of CERL, The Hague
Programme
10am Welcome
10.10 Introduction: Giles Bergel (Visual Geometry Group, Oxford)
10.30-13.00 Hands on workshop on tools developed by the VGG Oxford : Giles Bergel and Etienne Posthumus (Brill)
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Lightning talks (e.g. CV at the Plantin Moretus, the 15cBOOKTRADE project, in the KB Lab, in the CERL Provenance Digital Archive etc.)
15.00-16.00 Keynote: Cornelis van Lit (Utrecht University), the Digital Orientalist
16.00- 16.30 Break
16.30-17.00 Discussion
Registration
This event is free, but we ask that you register at https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-computer-vision-in-print-studies-54862161201?aff=ebdssbdestsearch before 1 March 2019.
You can register for the whole day, only the morning workshop (maximum number of participants is 30), or the afternoon programme with lightening talks, key note presentation and discussion.
If you wish to attend the workshop we ask you to explain in one or two sentences why it would be important for you and your research to attend. If we receive more than 30 registrations, we will select participants on the basis of the reasons you gave.
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