The state of the art of image recognition
Room G37, ground floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU: 09:00-12:00
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This workshop will explore why the use of images for research purposes has not yet received as much attention from librarians as full text searching. This may be to do with copyright issues and/or the limitations that exist in indexing and searching visual data, or indeed the difficulties with images in applying tools for classification and recognition.
In this workshop we will explore the state of the art in image recognition, especially in terms of searching data, comparing and classifying images, and we will make an excursion to physical document structure visualization, which is quite a new field.
Please contact Claudia Fabian (BSB and Chairman of the DCH Forum, Claudia.fabian@bsbmuenchen.de) or Marian Lefferts (CERL and Secretary of the DCH Forum, marian.lefferts@cerl.org
) if want to join the Forum Digital Cultural Heritage.
8:00 Registration
9:00 Giuseppe Amato (IST-CNR)
Using image recognition for cultural heritage. The EAGLE project experience
9:20 Thomas Wolf (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München)
Image recognition and image similarity: A different approach for accessing large scale digital collections
9:40 Giles Bergel (University of Oxford)
Tracking woodcuts with Bodleian Ballads ImageMatch and ImageBrowse
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 The original Bodleian Ballad ImageMatch tool: http://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]
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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/facultymembers/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
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
11:30 Vlad Atanasiu (PhD at Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg)
Document and library visualization
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Opening ceremony LIBER 44th Annual Conference