Event
  • 8 June 2023

Lunch Lecture: Image recognition techniques for early modern prints

Digital image recognition techniques are developing rapidly. With this lecture, Jeroen Salman (associate professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Utrecht) will expand on searching and analyzing collections of pre-modern print materials and illustrated books.

Date and time

Thursday 8 June, 12:00 - 13:00

Location

Online through Zoom: https://knaw-nl.zoom.us/j/83969222469

Meeting ID: 839 6922 2469

Passcode: 208024

Digital image recognition techniques are developing rapidly. In this lunch lecture, Jeroen Salman will discuss some of the tools available to book scholars to systematically search and analyze collections of pre-modern print materials and illustrated books (engravings, woodcuts). He will also share his experiences gained during his CLARIAH fellowship, in which he trained an algorithm with penny prints. To what extent can we use these techniques to answer fundamental questions about iconographic traditions, material characteristics, and transmediality?

This lunch lecture will be presented by:

Jeroen Salman

Jeroen Salman

Associate Professor