Workshop: Computing the Page in Early-Modern Europe, Oxford

Last March, the Rey Ornaments Image investigation (ROIi) project team was invited to participate in a one-day academic workshop by the Visual Geometry Group (VGG), a distinguished research group specialising in computer vision and machine learning at the Department of Engineering Science of the University of Oxford.

VGG was organising this event as part of its EPSRC - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council grant "Visual AI", a project that seeks to develop a Visual Transformer capable of visual analysis with the flexibility and interpretability of a human visual system, aided by audio and text.

Doctoral student Sayan Chaki and Thierry Fournel presented our Image Science & Computer Vision and Data Intelligence teams' collaborative work on the ANR ROIi project (ANR-20-CE38-0005), focusing on the unsupervised decomposition of hand press compound ornaments, through one of their latest published paper: "Vignettes discovery in historical ornaments: Rey database and practices, limits and advances", co-authored with Christelle Bahier-Porte and Fabienne Vial-Bonacci from the Laboratoire Ihrim, as well as Remi Emonet and Amaury Habrard from our Data Intelligence team.

More info on the project's dedicated website:  https://ro2i.hypotheses.org/