The Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België (KBR) invites you to attend a scholarly series on digital cultural heritage: the KBR Digital Heritage Seminar, in cooperation with ULB-UGent-VUB-UCL. In this series from February to June 2022, they will virtually host three academic scholars in presenting their work on cultural heritage and specifically on image processing.
“The devil is in the details!” When it comes to digital cultural heritage, this is as true as “The devil is in the images!” Great efforts have been devoted to the digitization of original collections in the cultural heritage. On the one hand, this helps greatly in promoting the collections and in allowing the general public to have much easier access to the collections (e.g. by publishing the images on websites like our digital library Belgica). On the other hand, technologies still need to be advanced in order to fully exploit the information (e.g. texts) that are still locked behind the digitized images.
In this series, the KBR are very honored to have three researchers who have rich experiences in image analysis and especially for extracting information from digitized collections.
- 22 February 2022, 2:00 – 3:30 PM (CET) / 5:00 – 6:30 AM (PST): The Visual Digital Turn: Computer Vision and the humanities
- 15 March 2022, 2:00 – 3:30 PM (CET) / 5:00 – 6:30 AM (PDT): Understanding information-rich documents: experiences with historical England & Wales censuses
- 11 April 2022, 2:00 – 3:30 PM (CET) / 5:00 – 6:30 AM (PDT): New Tools for Old Documents – Layout Analysis and OCR with Deep Learning and Heuristics
The May and June seminar topics have not been announced.