AI and Artworks: Object Detection, Image Classification and Iconographic Analysis

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16 Apr 2026, 14:00

Seminar room 1&2 (Postsparkasse)

35. Computational Analysis of Medieval Pen Flourishing

Markus Seidl (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten), Florian Kibler (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten), Martin Haltrich (Research Center Stift Klosterneuburg), Max Theisen (Research Center Stift Klosterneuburg), Victor-Adriel De-Jesus-Oliveira (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten)

16/04/2026, 14:00

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A particular form of medieval book decoration is so-called pen flourishing, used to describe delicate penwork with floral and geometric motifs. Pen flourishing typically appears in decorated initials inserted, usually in red and blue, after the main text had been copied. As book production became increasingly specialized in the later Middle Ages, this task was performed by rubricators,...

20. AI and Automatic Visual Recognition: Some Thoughts on the New Digital Methodologies for Image Retrieval

Barbara Tramelli (Freie Universität Bozen)

16/04/2026, 14:20

Talk

AI-driven methodologies can transform the study of digital images. Focusing on the Lyon16ci project, which catalogs over 10,000 printed illustrations from Lyon (1480–1600), the paper explores the potential of utilizing automatic image recognition softwares, such as the Imagematching (VGG, Oxford), to detect varying degrees of visual similarity across large iconographic corpora.
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30. Large-scale Study of Text-Image Layout in 20th-Century Periodicals – As a Reaction to the Absence of Archival Documents

Marta Pizzagalli (Università della Svizzera italiana / Cambridge University), Mr Rocco Felici (Università della Svizzera italiana / Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana)

16/04/2026, 14:40

Talk

ABSTRACT
The literary, philological and historical study of illustrated magazines encounters numerous problems, especially when it comes to nineteenth-century or early twentieth-century periodicals. The main problem is due to the scarcity of preserved editorial archives and correspondence between publishers and writers/illustrators, documents that could record the production processes and...