Image systems and urban spatio-temporal navigation. Frédéric Kaplan

Presentation

Abstract

Bio

Presentation

As part of the Winterschool “Datathink 2023. The City as Collection” Prof. Frédéric Kaplan will give a keynote lecture at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome on Feb 27th at 18hrs.

The event is open to the public and will be streamed via Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/event/2871740

Place: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, RM 00187 Rome

Abstract

Title : Image systems and urban spatio-temporal navigation

Over the past decade, significant progress has been made in developing semi-automatic information extraction pipelines for large collections of cultural heritage digital images. This presentation will center around Image Systems, a novel formalism that allows for the conversion of digital image collections into structured datasets that are optimised for computational processing. An Image System comprises a graph of interconnected digital images, guided by a set of rules that determine when two images in this graph ought to be linked. Unlike conventional approaches based on metadata, Image Systems prioritize the nature of the relationship between images, as well as the types of computations that can be carried out to extract relevant information from these connections. The presentation will showcase the fruitful results of this approach in the areas of urban spatiotemporal navigation and automated discovery techniques for the digital humanities.

Bio

Frédéric Kaplan, professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), directs the Institute of Digital Humanities and the College of Humanities, which brings together research and teaching in the humanities and social sciences at EPFL. He is also president of the Time Machine Organization, a non-profit entity of more than 600 institutions. His work, at the crossroads of information science and humanities, has led to more than a hundred scientific publications, exhibitions in several major museums (the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Grand Palais, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York) and a dozen books, translated into several languages.