Revealing 'invisible' poetry by W. H. Auden through computer vision: Using photometric stereo to visualize indented impressions.

This article explores the use of computer-vision technologies in the context of digitally editing and researching letters and literary papers by the British-American poet W. H. Auden. Two documents in the previously inaccessible 'Auden Musulin Papers' contain colourless indented typewriter impressio...

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Publicado en:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 1404 - 1418
Autores principales: Brenner, Simon, Frühwirth, Timo, Mayer, Sandra
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Dec2023
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          Computer Vision Lab, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
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        Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973
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