Image classification for historical documents: a study on Chinese local gazetteers.

We present a novel approach for automatically classifying illustrations from historical Chinese local gazetteers using modern deep learning techniques. Our goal is to facilitate the digital organization and study of a large quantity of digitized local gazetteers. We evaluate the performance of eight...

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Publicado en:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 61 - 74
Autores principales: Chen, Jhe-An, Hou, Jen-Chien, Tsai, Richard Tzong-Han, Liao, Hsiung-Ming, Chen, Shih-Pei, Chang, Ming-Ching
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Apr2024
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          Hou, Jen-Chien
          Tsai, Richard Tzong-Han
          Liao, Hsiung-Ming
          Chen, Shih-Pei
          Chang, Ming-Ching
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          Center for Geographic Information Science, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica , Taipei 115201, Taiwan
          Computer Science and Information Engineering Department, National Central University , Taoyuan 320317, Taiwan
          Max Planck Institute for the History of Science , Berlin 14195, Germany
          Computer Science Department, University at Albany, State University of New York , Albany, NY 12222, USA
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        Image recognition (Computer vision)
        Artificial neural networks
        Historical source material
        Deep learning
        Art materials
        Digital humanities
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          Artificial neural networks
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          Deep learning
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        Convoluational Neural Network
        DaViT
        digital humanities
        historical document
        image classification
        Vision Transformer
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