Lecture: Distant Viewing and the Multimodal Turn
Wednesday 21 May 2025, 3:15pm to 5:00pm
Venue
Lancaster University Management School Lecture Theatre 3, Bailrigg, United Kingdom, LA1 4YXOpen to
All Lancaster University (non-partner) students, Postgraduates, Public, Staff, UndergraduatesRegistration
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Event Details
How do computers view? How can we harness AI to view images at scale?
Distant viewing offers a theory and method for the large-scale analysis of images using computer vision. This talk will introduce the concept and then turn to specific AI methods for the analysis of images. We will then turn to how distant viewing can support multimodal analysis, specifically looking at multimodal large language models.
Learn more about Tilton and Arnold’s work:
- Distant Viewing Lab: https://distantviewing.org/
- Taylor Arnold and Lauren Tilton, Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images. MIT Press, 2023, https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546133/distant-viewing/
Organised by Lancaster University Data Science Institute & Centre for Digital Humanities
Contact Details
| Name | Julia Carradus |