The FIND Seminar is a bi-weekly seminar series that hosts cutting-edge research talks on topics related to the broad themes of Foundations of Information, Networks and Decision Systems. Talks are about 50 minutes long with time for questions and discussion.
Location: Rhodes Hall 310 and Zoom
Time: 4:10PM ET, bi-weekly on (alternating) Thursdays
Delivery format: All talks will have a live audience in Rhodes Hall 310. Until circumstances allow otherwise, external speakers will give the talk remotely via Zoom (broadcasted in RH310). Remote audience is also welcome, but in-person participation is encouraged.
Mailing list: To subscribe to the FIND seminar mailing list, email find-seminar-l-request@cornell.edu, with “join” in the subject line and a blank email body. All talks info and reminders will be sent via the mailing list.
Upcoming Talk
Title: Matching manufactured patterns in art supports: a path into computational art history
Speaker: Rick Johnson
Date and Time: 06/13/2024 4:10PM ET
Location: Rhodes Hall 310 and Zoom
Abstract:
This talk provides an accessible introduction to a 17-year effort to apply basic digital image processing and optimization algorithms to assist in the art historical analysis of Old Master paintings on canvas and drawings on paper. Paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Johannes Vermeer and drawings by a variety of seventeenth-century Dutch artists will be used as examples. The tasks were selected following embedment among museum conservators and curators and academic art historians interested in technical and digital art history. Those chosen are automating thread counting of canvas supports of oil paintings and watermark matching of handmade paper supports of ink and charcoal drawings. The solutions devised are shown to lead to significant insights beyond their original target. Advice is provided to image processing engineers- based on guidelines developed early in the search for suitable tasks- on the challenge of collaborating with researchers who do not “speak” mathematics in describing, solving, or interpreting their research.
Schedule for Spring 2024:
A list of previous talks can be found here.