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Painting by Numbers: Computational Methods and the History of Art

Leonardo Laurence Impett

This thesis presents a new methodology for computational art history, in the tradition of Distant Reading from literary criticism. This method is based on operationalisation, the transcription of a concept or theory from cultural history into an algorithm. ...

EPFL2020

EPFL Library Publishing Support Fastguides

Alain Borel, Marjorie Platon, Anthony Hunziker, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger, Manon Velasco

This is a set of 6 1-sheet guides, providing abridged notions, basic and advanced information about Open Access, scientific publishing, copyright, citation, etc.: #01 Open Access: the basics #02 Make your research Open #03 Creative Commons Licenses #04 Pub ...

2020

Multimodal person recognition in audio-visual streams

Do Hoang Nam Le

Multimedia databases are growing rapidly in size in the digital age. To increase the value of these data and to enhance the user experience, there is a need to make these videos searchable through automatic indexing. Because people appearing and talking in ...

EPFL2019

Can Venice be saved?

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo

Will Venice be inhabitable in 2100? What kinds of policies can we develop to navigate the best scenarios for this floating city? In 2012, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the University Ca’Foscari launched a programme called the Veni ...

2019

Index-Driven Digitization and Indexation of Historical Archives

Maud Ehrmann, Giovanni Colavizza

The promise of digitization of historical archives lies in their indexation at the level of contents. Unfortunately, this kind of indexation does not scale, if done manually. In this article we present a method to bootstrap the deployment of a content-base ...

2019

Linked Books: un indice citazionale per la storia di Venezia

Matteo Romanello, Giovanni Colavizza

We present the outcomes of the Linked Books project, resulting in a prototype citation index interlinking the Italian national library catalog (Opac SBN) with the information system of the State Archive of Venice and international authority records or “met ...

2019

Named Entity Processing for Historical Texts

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

Recognition and identification of real-world entities is at the core of virtually any text mining application. As a matter of fact, referential units such as names of persons, locations and organizations underlie the semantics of texts and guide their inte ...

2019

Historical Newspaper User Interfaces: A Review

Maud Ehrmann

After decades of large-scale digitization, many historical newspaper collections are just one click away via online portals developed and supported by various public or private stakeholders. Initially offering access to full text search and facsimiles visu ...

IFLA Library2019

Self-Recognition in Data Visualization: How Individuals See Themselves in Visual Representations

Dario Rodighiero, Loup Cellard

This article explores how readers recognize their personal identities represented through data visualizations. The recognition is investigated starting from three definitions captured by the philosopher Paul Ricoeur: the identification with the visualizati ...

2019

A deep learning approach to Cadastral Computing

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo, Sofia Ares Oliveira, Bastien Solal Emile Tourenc

This article presents a fully automatic pipeline to transform the Napoleonic Cadastres into an information system. The cadastres established during the first years of the 19th century cover a large part of Europe. For many cities they give one of the first ...

2019