May 22, 2024
Ptolemaic Astronomy through Computer Vision: A Building Platform for Research on Astronomical Diagrams
- 11:00 to 12:00
- Lecture
- Dept. III
- Jade Norindr
By creating digital humanities tools for research in the history of science, the EIDA project—started in February 2023—incorporates artificial intelligence into the study and analysis of a corpus of manuscripts of Ptolemaic tradition and early prints of mathematical astronomy. With the help of computer vision algorithms to accelerate specific steps (such as visual elements extraction, clustering, and vectorization) of the processing of the sources, EIDA opens new perspectives for the study of astral diagrams. The information system created for the project, based on a data model enabling the detailed description of the sources, will provide a diversity of tools dedicated to the exploration, analysis, and edition of diagrams in historical sources.
This presentation synthesizes how computer vision algorithms can be integrated into the work of historians and automate multiple steps of the processing of their source material. The presentation will also include an exploration of the tools developed by the EIDA project to support the work of researchers and lay the groundwork for a public platform featuring reusable resources.
Jade Norindr is an engineer at the Paris Observatory. After completing a master’s degree in art history, she studied engineering and digital humanities at the École des Chartes. She oversees the digital team of the EIDA project, supervising the development of pipelines using AI for the processing of historical sources, and the creation of digital tools to assist humanities researchers.
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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.