This workshop offers a hands-on introduction to computer vision, the goal of which is to extract meaningful data from images. The session will showcase user-friendly tools developed by the University of Oxford's Visual Geometry Group in collaboration with researchers in fields including book and art history, film, music, and photography. Participants will leave with an understanding of the state-of-the-art in computer vision tasks such as visual search, classification and comparison; of how humanists and cultural heritage professionals are now using these methods and how they might be applied to other materials; and of critical and ethical issues such as bias and accreditation of curatorial labour.
Users will need a laptop. No coding experience or prior knowledge of computer vision is required.