Seeing is Believing: Computer vision and machine learning for image collections

Giles Bergel gives a talk on using new technologies to understand
the history of books and printing. The first point of access for
image collections has traditionally been the catalogue. Recent
advances in computer vision and machine learning have opened up new
ways of describing, searching and researching the visual record.
This talk will outline the state of the art in the field,
demonstrate some recent applications, and provide pathways for
participants who wish to apply these techniques to their own
materials. Giles Bergel is Digital Humanities Research Fellow for
the Seebibyte project in the Department of Engineering Sciences at
the University of Oxford.