Event

Jul 18, 2024
Computer Vision Approaches for Greek Vase Paintings

Current developments in the field of artificial intelligence have made the question of how this technology can and will change the world of scientific method even more urgent. Thousands of clay vessels with their characteristic black and red color have been handed down over centuries from ancient Greece and provide an insight into everyday life in antiquity. One way to understand them was and still is through comparison of different images as new images with familiar compositional schemes and figure types were created again and again. But how does a computer "see" these ancient images, how does it compare them, how does it evaluate individual images, and according to which parameters? This lecture sheds light on both computer vision approaches to these questions and the challenges that archaeological imagery pose for such approaches.

Prof. Dr. Corinna Reinhardt has been a Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Zurich with a focus on Greek and Roman antiquity since August 2023. Previously, she was a Junior Professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, where she started a project on the application of computer vision approaches to historical works of art together with colleagues from art history, Christian archaeology, and the Pattern Recognition Lab.

Address
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Room
Zoom/Online Meeting Platform
Contact and Registration

This lecture series is open to the public. We welcome both internal and external guests. To register, please click here and choose which event you would like to attend. You can register for multiple events but must do so separately. 

For questions on registration please contact event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de and for further information about the series please contact rbrentjes@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

About This Series

The VoH Working Group in cooperation with Research IT presents a series of lectures titled "Overcoming Obstacles, Learning from Experiences: A Transdisciplinary Conversation about Computer Vision, 3D Models, Preservation, and Outreach in Digital Humanities projects,” running from May–July 2024. The series features speakers from multiple disciplines in the Humanities – History of Science, History, Art History, and Archaeology – who will focus on methods that can be utilized in the systematic DH-related analysis of objects. Topics covered include databases, their development, preservation, and dissemination, computer vision and its components, such as classification, annotation, and vectorization, as well as 3-D modeling.

For a full description of the series, please click here.

2024-07-18T12:00:00SAVE IN I-CAL 2024-07-18 12:00:00 2024-07-18 13:00:00 Computer Vision Approaches for Greek Vase Paintings Current developments in the field of artificial intelligence have made the question of how this technology can and will change the world of scientific method even more urgent. Thousands of clay vessels with their characteristic black and red color have been handed down over centuries from ancient Greece and provide an insight into everyday life in antiquity. One way to understand them was and still is through comparison of different images as new images with familiar compositional schemes and figure types were created again and again. But how does a computer "see" these ancient images, how does it compare them, how does it evaluate individual images, and according to which parameters? This lecture sheds light on both computer vision approaches to these questions and the challenges that archaeological imagery pose for such approaches. Prof. Dr. Corinna Reinhardt has been a Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Zurich with a focus on Greek and Roman antiquity since August 2023. Previously, she was a Junior Professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, where she started a project on the application of computer vision approaches to historical works of art together with colleagues from art history, Christian archaeology, and the Pattern Recognition Lab. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany Zoom/Online Meeting Platform Rana BrentjesKim Pham Rana BrentjesKim Pham Europe/Berlin public