Computer Vision for the Humanities : An Introduction to Deep Learning for Image Classification (Part 1)

Strien, Daniel and Beelen, Kaspar and Wevers, Melvin and Smits, Thomas and McDonough, Katherine (2022) Computer Vision for the Humanities : An Introduction to Deep Learning for Image Classification (Part 1). Programming Historian.

Abstract

This is the first of a two-part lesson introducing deep learning based computer vision methods for humanities research. Using a dataset of historical newspaper advertisements and the fastai Python library, the lesson walks through the pipeline of training a computer vision model to perform image classification.