Publications related to Digitization

Digital manufacturing of personalised footwear with embedded sensors

Danick Briand, Rubaiyet Iftekharul Haque, Jaemin Kim, Ryan Mitchell van Dommelen

The strong clinical demand for more accurate and personalized health monitoring technologies has called for the development of additively manufactured wearable devices. While the materials palette for additive manufacturing continues to expand, the integra ...

Nature Research2023

Lausanne Historical Censuses Dataset HTR 35k

Lucas Arnaud André Rappo, Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre, Marion Kramer

This training dataset includes a total of 34,913 manually transcribed text segments. It is dedicated to the handwritten text recognition (HTR) of historical sources, typically tabular records, such as censuses. This dataset is based on a sample of 83 pages ...

Zenodo2023

A Stand-Alone Augmented Reality Intervention for Chronic Pain using Embodied Systolic Stimulation

Sylvain Cardin, Andrea Serino, Robert Leeb, Oliver Alan Kannape, Skander Mensi, Fabien Bourban, Alexis Dorier

Chronic pain presents a tremendous personal, societal, and financial burden. Treatment options are often limited to managing symptoms as opposed to treating the causes, and the consequences of pharmacological treatments can be immensely harmful as evidence ...

IEEE2023

Redefining Access to Large Audiovisual Archives through Embodied Experiences in Immersive Environments: Creativity & Cognition 2022 - Graduate Student Symposium

Giacomo Alliata

Audiovisual archives are the mnemonic archives of the 21st century, with important cultural institutions increasingly digitizing their video collections. However, these remain mostly inaccessible, due to the sheer amount of content combined with the lack o ...

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)2022

Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians? Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology

Maud Ehrmann, Frédéric Clavert

The application of digital technologies to historical newspapers has changed the research landscape historians were used to. An Eldorado? Despite undeniable advantages, the new digital affordance of historical newspapers also transforms research practices ...

De Gruyter2022

Digitised Historical Newspapers: A Changing Research Landscape (Introduction)

Maud Ehrmann, Frédéric Clavert

The application of digital technologies to newspaper archives is transforming the way historians engage with these sources. The digital evolution not only affects how scholars access historical newspapers, but also, increasingly, how they search, explore a ...

De Gruyter Oldenbourg2022

The impresso system architecture in a nutshell

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

This post describes the impresso application architecture and processing in a nutshell. The text was published in October 2020 in issue number 16 of the EuropeanaTech Insights dedicated to digitized newspapers and edited by Gregory Markus and Clemens Neude ...

EuropeanaTech Insights2020

Welcome to the post analogical condition: Il Conversation Pit

Filippo Fanciotti, Boris Hamzeian, Giovanni Glorialanza

Welcome to the post-analog condition* è un archivio digitale che il Circolo del Design costruisce in tempo reale per innescare e stimolare una riflessione condivisa in relazione alla pandemia causata dal Covid-19 in tutto il mondo. I protagonisti del mondo ...

2020

Index-Driven Digitization and Indexation of Historical Archives

Maud Ehrmann, Giovanni Colavizza

The promise of digitization of historical archives lies in their indexation at the level of contents. Unfortunately, this kind of indexation does not scale, if done manually. In this article we present a method to bootstrap the deployment of a content-base ...

2019

Comic Digitization through the Extraction of Semantic Content and Style Analysis

Kalpani Anuradha Welivita

Comic book digitization would play a pivotal role in exploring new avenues on how digital comics can be consumed. As of present, the systems capable of doing such a task are limited in capability to achieve complete digitization. This task of digitization ...

IEEE2019

Design of an Energy-Efficient Current-to-Frequency Converter for a Wearable Sensor Platform

Maher Kayal, Evgenia Voulgari, François Krummenacher

This paper presents the design of the ANTIGONE ASIC in AMS 0.35 mu m technology that interfaces with ion-sensitive field effect transistors (ISFETs) to detect biomarkers like pH, Na+ and K+ in human sweat. The ISFET sensors generate a low current dc signal ...

IEEE2019

Extracting And Aligning Artist Names in Digitized Art Historical Archives

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo, Benoît Laurent Auguste Seguin

The largest collections of art historical images are not found online but are safeguarded by museums and other cultural institutions in photographic libraries. These collections can encompass millions of reproductions of paintings, drawings, engravings and ...

Red de Humanidades Digitales A. C.2018

Digital Heritage: Bringing New Life to the Montreux Jazz Festival's Audio-Visual Archives with Immersive Installations

Nicolas Henchoz

To revive the Montreux Jazz Festival's archival live-concert footage, three immersive installations were designed using three different principles of augmentation, physicality and interaction. The primary aim was to engage the user in a new relationship wi ...

MIT PRESS2018

Negentropic linguistic evolution: A comparison of seven languages

Frédéric Kaplan, Vincent Christian Buntinx

The relationship between the entropy of language and its complexity has been the subject of much speculation – some seeing the increase of linguistic entropy as a sign of linguistic complexification or interpreting entropy drop as a marker of greater regul ...

Red de Humanidades Digitales A. C.2018

From closed testaments to books: Virtual X-ray Reading as an alternate digitization technology for fragile documents

Giorgio Margaritondo, Demetri Psaltis, Fauzia Albertin

In recent years, research and technology made considerable progress in increasing the speed and the safety of the entire digitization process of ancient collections. Despite this, imaging ancient, fragile or un-opened documents remains a formidable challen ...

Soc Imaging Science & Technology2017

Diachronic Evaluation of NER Systems on Old Newspapers

Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Yannick Rochat, Giovanni Colavizza

In recent years, many cultural institutions have engaged in large-scale newspaper digitization projects and large amounts of historical texts are being acquired (via transcription or OCRization). Beyond document preservation, the next step consists in prov ...

Bochumer Linguistische Arbeitsberichte2016

Assignment Techniques for Crowdsourcing Sensitive Tasks

Laura Elisa Celis

Protecting the privacy of crowd workers has been an important topic in crowdsourcing, however, task privacy has largely been ignored despite the fact that many tasks, e.g., form digitization, live audio transcription or image tagging often contain sensitiv ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

A Method for Record Linkage with Sparse Historical Data

Maud Ehrmann, Yannick Rochat, Giovanni Colavizza

Massive digitization of archival material, coupled with automatic document processing techniques and data visualisation tools offers great opportunities for reconstructing and exploring the past. Unprecedented wealth of historical data (e.g. names of perso ...

2016

Virtual reading of a large ancient handwritten science book

Giorgio Margaritondo, Frédéric Kaplan, Alessandra Patera, Fauzia Albertin, Marco Stampanoni

We present a fundamental development step of a new technique to read and digitize ancient handwritten documents. Chemical analysis by x-ray fluorescence and x-ray tomography enabled us to decipher words and drawings from inside a closed, 200-pages 18 th ce ...

Elsevier2016

A Spectral Method for Generating Surrogate Graph Signals

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Elvira Pirondini, Martina Coscia, Anna Vybornova

The increasing availability of network data is leading to a growing interest in processing of signals on graphs. One notable tool for extending conventional signal-processing operations to networks is the graph Fourier transform that can be obtained as the ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016