HistKI: AI-based support of image source research and criticism

Overview

HistKI models the process of image research and criticism from the perspective of computer support and extends from a historical-scientific-methodological perspective the explanation models that have so far mostly been problem-related or infrastructural.

In all historical sciences, source criticism serves the purpose of classifying and analyzing a source from which interpretation and theory-building start. Beyond the specifics of the research question, some fundamental subproblems can be identified with regard to the subtype of visual source: Which objects are depicted in the images? How were image arrangements chosen? How do arrangements connote specific representational intentions? What are motif- or arrangement-like images (“visual quotations”)? To when do pictures date? What are the specific characteristics of an artist’s oeuvre as a producer of images?

Digital Humanities Programme

Funding

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
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Team

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Florian NieblingProf. Dr.-Ing. Florian Niebling Jonas BruschkeJonas Bruschke
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Publications

  • Jonas Bruschke, Cindy Kröber, Ronja Utescher and Florian Niebling:
    "Towards Querying Multimodal Annotations Using Graphs"
    in
    Workshop on research and education in urban history in the age of digital libraries
    ,
    pp. 65-87
    ,
    2023
    .
    doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-38871-2_5
  • Ferdinand Maiwald, Jonas Bruschke, Danilo Schneider, Markus Wacker and Florian Niebling:
    "Giving Historical Photographs a New Perspective: Introducing Camera Orientation Parameters as New Metadata in a Large-Scale 4D Application"
    in
    Remote Sensing
    ,
    vol. 15
    ,
    no. 7
    ,
    pp. 1879
    ,
    2023
    .
    doi: 10.3390/rs15071879
  • Jonas Bruschke, Cindy Kröber and Florian Niebling:
    "Ein 4D-Browser für historische Fotografien-Forschungspotenziale für die Kunstgeschichte. Das Projekt HistStadt4D"
    in
    Landes- und Regionalgeschichte digital
    ,
    pp. 106-114
    ,
    2022
    .
    doi: 10.25366/2021.32
  • Sander Münster, Jonas Bruschke, Cindy Kröber, Stephan Hoppe, Ferdinand Maiwald, Florian Niebling, Aaron Pattee, Ronja Utescher and Sina Zarriess:
    "Multimodale KI zur unterstützung geschichtswissenschaftlicher quellenkritik-ein forschungsaufriss."
    in
    DHd
    ,
    2022
    .
    doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6328109
  • Ronja Utescher, Aaron Patee, Ferdinand Maiwald, Jonas Bruschke, Stephan Hoppe, Sander Münster, Florian Niebling and Sina Zarrieß:
    "Exploring naming inventories for architectural elements for use in multi-modal machine learning applications"
    in
    Workshop on computational methods in the humanities 2022
    ,
    2022
    .