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Call for Papers, Call for Participation We are happy to announce our workshop “New tools for old problems” which will take place online via Zoom on 09.01.2021. Participation is free. We especially invite contributions from early career researchers. The topic of the workshop reflects how recent d...

Article by Prof. Dr. Peter Bell und Dr. Fabian Offert In many critical investigations of machine vision, the focus lies almost exclusively on dataset bias and on fixing datasets by introducing more and more diverse sets of images. We propose that machine vision systems are inherently biased not onl...

Background Deep learning has enabled reliable image classification and object detection. In our reseach, we focus on the transferability of deep learning techniques to the art domain. However, deep learning technologies are based on deep neural networks consisting of millions of parameters that nee...

IZdigital congratulates Sibylle Kunz on passing her doctorate in Digital Humanities! The topic of the thesis is: Usability of digital reading media - conception and empirical evaluation of a reference model using the example of digital journals This makes Ms. Kunz the first graduate in the new doc...

Starting your studies can be a challenge for first-year students during the Corona Pandemic. Especially with online modules it is difficult to exchange information with fellow students and to establish contacts. The Buddy Program was developed to help you. Goal of the Buddy Program The goal of the...

FAU is in the second application book of the city of Nuremberg with many offers Nuremberg is applying for the title "European Capital of Culture 2025" - and FAU is right in the middle of it. The FAU creates a whole series of innovative and interdisciplinary projects, the most prominent is the Nürnb...

Digitization of six FAU collections. What does the digital age mean for scientific collections? FAU and the Germanisches Nationalmuseum addressed this question in their joint research and digitization project "Objekte im Netz". Antique coins, medieval musical instruments, prepared body parts, zo...

Museum visit in the times of Covid 19 - nothing is impossible! Students of the UFG-FAU created 3D models of various objects from our collection in a course. Now they are presented, together with explanatory texts, maps and videos in the first virtual, interactive room of the Prehistoric Collectio...

Conference "Information - digitally packaged" Library work means to provide information services against the background of new technical possibilities and increasing information abundance. Digitization is creating new tasks and fields of activity in scientific libraries. The Zurich Central Library ...

Inspired from the pioneer work of Max Imdahl [1], our work focuses on generating image composition canvas (ICC) diagrams based on two central themes: (a) detection of action regions and action lines of an artwork (b) pose-based segmentation of foreground and background.