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The Digital Humanities Unveiled
On 21, Dec 2015 | In Picturebooks | By Chris Vitale
Spratt, Emily L. “The Digital Humanities Unveiled: Perceptions Held by Art Historians and Computer Scientists about Computer Vision Technology” (Self Published).
Referrer: Scott Dexter
Categories: digital humanities, distant reading, data mining, computer vision, art, art history, computer science, methodology
Annotation:
This paper outlines a survey completed by both art historians and computer scientists in relation to a computers ability to interpret aesthetic and beauty. The value of this work lies in the responses of this survey. Computer vision is rapidly becoming a more accepted and accessible method of examining art. For art historians and computer scientists, the implications are obvious. This digital humanities project used, “twenty-one questions for art historians and sixteen for computer scientists that were intended to shed light on field members’ knowledge of the capabilities and applications of computer vision technology, attitudes and perceptions about the use of it, and reactions to the meaning of this type of digitization in the humanities.” Spratt discusses the positive and negative reactions to computer vision’s ability to detect and automatically recognize aesthetic experiences of beauty. Channeling philosophy, Spratt defines what these variables mean for her survey.
