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Illustrated Image Analytics How Computers See Illustrated Victorian Periodicals Paul Fyfe, Associate Professor, Dept of English Qian Ge, PhD Candidate, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering Joe Aguayo, Research Scientist, LAS


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Illustrated Image Analytics How Computers See Illustrated Victorian Periodicals

Paul Fyfe, Associate Professor, Dept of English Qian Ge, PhD Candidate, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering Joe Aguayo, Research Scientist, LAS

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nineteenth-century “big data”

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victorian information networks

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end-grain woodblock engraving

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halftone photoengraving

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  • Mass media did not start with

photography.

  • When combined with the scale of

nineteenth-century newspaper printing, wood-engraving made possible the mass image.

  • “The new inexpensive printed image

thus became the first medium of regular, ongoing, mass communication.”

  • Anderson, Patricia. The Printed Image and

the Transformation of Popular Culture, 1790-

  • 1860. Oxford: Clarendon Press ; Oxford

University Press, 1994. 3.

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computer vision and the digital humanities

  • Image processing is an emerging technique

in “digital humanities” research

  • Techniques applied in art history, cultural

heritage orgs, museums, and history

  • Developments in how to visualize and

understand large media collections

  • big data and “cultural analytics”
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computer vision and the printed image 1830-1900

  • Materials include thousands of pages from three

titles

  • The Graphic
  • Illustrated Police News
  • Penny Illustrated Paper
  • Methods from ECE and LAS
  • Research goals
  • exploratory data analysis
  • new applications for existing image processing

techniques

  • create workflows and publishable updates for

computer vision algorithms

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QIAN

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interpretive possibilities

Information science, digital humanities, analytics

  • How to extract images from collections of illustrated newspapers (info

science, DH, libraries)

  • Processes for sorting halftones, lithographs, photographs, and line-

engravings in a large media collection

Cultural analytics and history

  • Distant Seeing: Computational Approaches to Victorian Illustrated

Periodicals

  • Detecting Information: The Illustrated Police News at Night (pixel

ratio)

  • The World According to The Graphic (maps)
  • A Nineteenth-Century Ad Blocker (image sorting)
  • Graphic Whiteness (halftone portraits)
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interpretive challenges

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historical data has a history

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semantic vs. pixel-level analytics

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the “hybrid image”

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hybrid analytics