Computer Vision for Digital Heritage (CVDH), The Alan Turing Institute
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Computer Vision for Digital Heritage (CVDH) was an interest group hosted by The Alan Turing Institute that brought together researchers and heritage professionals applying computer vision to digitised image collections such as maps, photographs, newspapers and books. It framed this work around the distinct provenance, bias and processing challenges of historical images compared with born-digital ones, and set out to offer a centre of gravity for a dispersed and growing interdisciplinary community. Its monthly meetings showcased inter- and multidisciplinary work from Turing-affiliated and external researchers, deliberately connecting humanities scholars, data scientists and professionals from the galleries, libraries, archives and museums sector. Themes included historical map processing and georeferencing, handwriting and text recognition, digital art history, and urban analytics, and its flagship showcased project, Deep Discoveries, developed visual search across national heritage collections. The group was organised by the Living with Machines project team and is maintained here as an inactive, historical living-archive entry.
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96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB
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The Alan Turing Institute, headquartered in the British Library, London, was created as the national institute for data science in 2015. In 2017, as a result of a government recommendation, artificial… read more about Alan Turing Institute
British Library
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB
United Kingdom
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Research is central to the British Library's role as the national library of the United Kingdom. It helps the British Library to share their collections and intellectual heritage with people across th… read more about British Library
London
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Cardiff University
University College London (UCL)
University of Glasgow
University of Liverpool
University of Oxford
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National Library of Scotland; University of Southern California; University of Washington; University of Amsterdam; University of Colorado Boulder; Koç University
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2026-07-13 06:15:13