A picture says more than a thousand words
Digital photos are everywhere. Everyone takes them, posts them online and looks at them. They are a translation of reality into coloured pixels. This form allows a computer to learn to see what is in a picture, but does it look at it like we do?
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Ann Dooms' Recommendations
- website van de Digital Mathematics Research Group aan VUB
- ‘Herken jij een schilderij dat door een robot is gemaakt?‘, lezing voor de Universiteit van Vlaanderen
- ‘A Picture is Worth a 1.000 Words… but which Language Does It?‘, TEDx Talk van 8 December 2014 (in English)
- Over lay-outanalyse
- VUB Ontwikkelt Software die Oude Documenten beter kan Scannen, artikel in VRT NWS
- Lezing over AI voor EWI (Vlaams Departement voor Wetenschap en Innovatie)
- Over kunstanalyse:
- Multispectrale analyse van digitale afbeeldingen
- Lam Gods in 100 miljard pixels
- Boek Vision & Material. Interaction between Art and Science in Jan van Eyck’s Time (deze link heeft een http-adres. Het kan nodig zijn om je cache leeg te maken, om van browser te wisselen of om via een gastaccount in je browser naar de website te surfen.)
- Closer to Van Eyck (Ann Dooms en haar team deden de beeldverwerking)
- Podcasts:
- voor EOS: Wiskundige Ann Dooms over heldin Ada Lovelace, de eerste… on YouTube
- Kant en Klaar (Klara-podcast over filosofische onderwerpen)
- Columns & artikels:
- Boek: Wiskunde, een wandeling in de wondere wereld van de mathematica
Teacher / speaker
Ann Dooms
Prof. Dr. Ann Dooms is in charge of the Digital Mathematics Research Group at VUB. She specializes in cybercriminality, focusing on the detection of falsified pictures and art. She was elected member of the IEEE Technical Committee in Information Forensics and Security and won several prizes for education, research and science communication. Discover her articles for EOS.
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