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Day-colloquium on Image Corpora and AI (CRIHN x Consortium-HN pictorIA) – 7-8 October 2024

Monday 7 October (CRIHN, Université de Montréal) – Closed event

1.30pm-2pm – Welcome

Introduction – Michael Sinatra, Emmanuel Chateau-Dutier, Julien Schuh

2pm-5pm – Collective workshop: “Working with vast collections of digital images today”

This session will provide an opportunity for participants to explore AI tools such as digitization pipelines, annotation tools, and automated processing. Through group discussions and collaboration, participants can present their own research challenges, methodologies, or conservation issues related to their corpora. The session aims to foster dialogue around the transformation of research practices through the integration of AI tools.

Each participant will deliver a brief presentation (5-10 minutes) on a specific corpus, research problem, or question related to these tools, with the goal of identifying common challenges and shared concerns.

Participants: Clarisse Bardiot, Emmanuel Chateau-Dutier, Thierry Gervais, Léa Maronet, Robert Sanderson, Julien Schuh, Anne-Violaine Szabados, Michael Sinatra, Alice Truc, Chantal Wilson

8pm-10pm Dinner

Tuesday 8 October: The visual cultural heritage through the lens of AI (Carrefour des arts et des sciences, Université de Montréal)

Salle C-2059, Carrefour des arts et des sciences, Université de Montréal et en ligne

Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, 3150, rue Jean-Brillant, Montréal (Québec)  H3T 1N8

Under the leadership of Emmanuel Château-Dutier and Julien Schuh, the CRIHN and the pictorIA consortium organize a day-colloquium on Image Corpora and IA, which brings together various French research stakeholders around the challenges of automatic image processing.

This event gathers experts and scholars from various fields to explore the intersection of image collections, data structuring, and artificial intelligence. Through a series of presentations, experience-sharing sessions, and practical workshops, we aim to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and dialogue (discussions will be in English).

9.30am-9.45am – Welcome

9.45-12pm – Press photography archives 

9.45am-10.15am 

  • Thierry Gervais (The Image Centre, Toronto Metropolitan University), “Facing Black Star and Beyond”

In 2023, I co-edited with Vincent Lavoie the last IMC Books volume Facing Black Star. In this book, 18 scholars—established academics, recent graduates, curators— discussed their encounter with the photo agency collection of black and white prints preserved at the Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University. Made of almost 300,000 prints, this collection has generated many research expectations but also some frustrations due to its volume, its materiality, its accessibility. The book was the opportunity to propose a snapshot of the state of research with this collection after more than a decade in a public institution. In this talk, I will discuss the outputs of this book, the difficulties encountered when working with a large press photography collection and how AI could be an efficient tool. 

10.15am-10.30am Discussion

10.30am-11am 

  • Chantal Wilson (The Image Centre, Toronto Metropolitan University), “AI Driven Cataloguing: A Case Study for The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection”

In 2023, The Image Centre (IMC) digitized more than 21,000 items that comprise the Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection of press photographs drawn from the New York Times Photo Archive. The IMC worked collaboratively with Edward Burtynsky and Arkiv360 to automate the digitization process and effectively capture the collection, along with their folded captions, tear sheets and attached ephemera in a matter of weeks. Post-digitization, Arkiv360 developed AI software was leveraged to apply keywords and subject information in English and French prior to IMC cataloguing revisions. This case study will review workflows and metadata results, as well as propose new questions that have arose from developing this project’s AI driven cataloguing approach. 

11am-11.15am Discussion

11.15am-11.45am 

  • Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (Université de Genève), “A Corpus for the Study of Globalization through Images: Challenges and Perspectives”

The “Visual Contagions” project employs automated image analysis to track the global circulation of images (patterns, subjects, styles, individual images) in illustrated periodicals, before moving on to studies using other sources, at different scales, and more traditional historical and critical methods. One of the main challenges in this endeavor is the preparation of a global corpus that is not only as representative and comprehensive as possible, but also allows for accurate dating and localization of the images being analyzed, while minimizing the loss of images during the segmentation and matching stages. Although there are numerous strategies to address this challenge, perhaps the biggest hurdle is moving away from the desire for perfect corpora and, above all, understanding what algorithmic manipulation does to the corpusóand thus, what can truly be made of the results it yields.

11.45am-12pm Discussion

12pm-1pm Lunch

1pm-3pm – Methodologies

1pm-1.30pm

  • Robert Sanderson (Yale University), “IIIF and Linked Art: Putting the AI in FAIR”

With the content being about how linked open usable data can make it easier to both build baseline corpora, to have human or machine annotators, and then to use (Generative or other) AI to enrich the knowledge graph for discovery and research.

1.30pm-1.45pm Discussion

1.45pm-2.15pm 

  • Julien Schuh (Université Paris Nanterre), “Complexifying image annotation”

Annotation formats for training visual AI models (such as COCO) excessively simplify image content. How can we produce annotations that reflect the complexity of interpretive processes generated by the reception of images? We will propose reflections to operationalize various models of image reading and to produce annotations based on different objectives, approaches, levels of precision, and depth.

2.15pm-2.30pm Discussion

2.30-3pm Coffee break

3pm-4pm Panel Discussion 

  • “Enriching Metadata with AI” – moderated by Emmanuel Château-Dutier (Université de Montréal)

Panelists: Clarisse Bardiot, Emmanuel Château-Dutier, Robert Sanderson, Julien Schuh, Anne-Violaine Szabados (CNRS), Alice Truc (Université de Montréal)

4pm-5pm Perspectives

4pm-4.30pm 

  • Clarisse Bardiot (Université de Rennes 2), “Exploring the Visual Digital Traces of Performing Arts”

4.30pm-4.45pm Discussion

4.45-5pm

Closing remarks


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Julien Schuh (30 septembre 2024). Day-colloquium on Image Corpora and AI (CRIHN x Consortium-HN pictorIA) – 7-8 October 2024. Consortium-HN pictorIA. Consulté le 10 novembre 2024 à l’adresse https://pictoria.hypotheses.org/3119


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