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ICONOGRAPHICS: Computational Understanding of Iconography and Narration in Visual Cultural Heritage (ICONOGRAPHICS)

FAU own research funding: EFI / IZKF / EAM ...

Acronym: ICONOGRAPHICS

Start date : 01.04.2019

End date : 31.03.2021

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Short description

The project deals with an important aspect of art, archeology and cultural heritage: iconography and narrative 
imagery. After using Computer Vision to largely recognize objects and styles, the next challenging step is to understand the semantic level of the images. The goal is the interaction between scientists and machine, not only in the form of applied science, but as a transdisciplinary exchange of methods and image theories.

Scientific Abstract

The interdisciplinary research project Iconographics is dedicated to innovative possibilities of digital image recognition for the arts and humanities. While computer vision is already often able to identify individual objects or specific artistic styles in images, the project is confronted with the open problem of also opening up the more complex image structures and contexts digitally. On the basis of a close interdisciplinary collaboration between Classical Archaeology, Christian Archaeology, Art History and the Computer Sciences, as well as joint theoretical and methodological reflection, a large number of multi-layered visual works will be analyzed, compared and contextualized. The aim is to make the complex compositional, narrative and semantic structures of these images tangible for computer vision.

Iconography and Narratology are identified as a challenging research questions for all subjects of the project. The iconography will be interpreted in its plot, temporality, and narrative logic. Due to its complex cultural structure; we selected four important scenes:

1. The Annunciation of the Lord
2. The Adoration of the Magi
3. The Baptism of Christ
4. Noli me tangere (Do not touch me)

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