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Computer Vision and Historical Scientific Illustrations

Year: 2023

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: The VHS project (computer Vision and Historical analysis of Scientific illustration circulation) proposes a new approach to the historical study of the circulation of scientific knowledge based on new methods of illustration analysis. Our contributions in this paper are twofold. First, we present a semi-automatic interactive pipeline for scientific illustration extraction that allows and incorporates expert feedback from historians. Second, we introduce a new dataset of scientific illustrations from the Middle Ages to the modern era consisting of 8k illustrations validated by historians and a total number of 235k illustrations obtained from 405k corpora pages. We further discuss our current research for identifying a series of related illustrations from this data.

Source: HAL

Authors: Aouinti, Fouad, Baltaci, Zeynep Sonat, Aubry, Mathieu, Guilbaud, Aleksandre, Lazaris, Stavros

Institutions: Sorbonne Université, Institut des Sciences du Calcul et des Données, Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard-Monge, Université Gustave Eiffel, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche, Université Paris Diderot, Orient & Méditerranée

Language: English

Topic: Digital Humanities and Scholarship

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: European Commission, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme, HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council

Awards: Discovering and Analyzing Visual Structures, Computer Vision and Historical Analysis of Scientific Illustration Circulation

OpenAlex ID: W4389325916

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