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This work exploits style transfer in combination with transfer learning to recognize characters in art historical images. Our approach focuses on recognizing two central characters in the “Annunciation of the Lord” scene from Art history, Mary and Gabriel across varied art-works from different artists, times and styles. 

To the best of our knowledge, it is the first paper that synthesizes realistic Western cursive handwriting by mimicking the actual temporal writing process. Our method works nearly fully automatic, e.g. no manual cutting out of characters, and is able to render full lines instead of glyphs/words as in other works.

The 7th annual conference of the Digital Humanities Association in the German-speaking world took place at the University of Paderborn. Under the motto "Digital Humanities between Modelling and Interpretation" the broad spectrum of the subject was presented during the conference days. Modelling Al...

The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and the resulting infectious disease ("Corona virus induced disease", COVID-19) continue to spread. The FAU has set up a crisis committee. It meets regularly, monitors and evaluates the situation and prepares all relevant decisions at FAU. On this website you w...

+++ The Italy Forum is postponed because of the progressive spread of the corona virus. The alternative date will be announced shortly. +++   In March the Institute of Art History will host the Forum Art History of Italy: Under the theme of "Mobility: People, Objects, Ideas" scholars o...

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