Digital Humanities: Image processing

Image processing involves taking an image and performing operations on it in order to either:

• Obtain information from the image
• Enhance the image

Tools:

• CulturalAnalytics
  • R package containing functions for statistical analysis and plotting of image properties for use in digital humanities.
  • Used by creator Rob Myers to explore art data.
• GIMP
  • The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) has tools for tasks such as photo retouching and image composition.
  • Used when digitising a Spanish 18th century account book: Keating, J., Teehan, A., Gallagher, D., & O'Connor, T. (2010). A digital edition of a Spanish 18th century account book: user driven digitisation. Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie, 10, 169-18.
• Inkscape
  • Professional quality cross-platform vector graphics software for creating and editing a wide variety of graphics such as illustrations, icons, logos, diagrams, maps, and web graphics.
  • Used by Oxford Archaeology for processing archaeology data: Hodgkinson, A., Bianconi, L. & Costa, S. (2013.) Open source GIS for archaeological data: two case studies from British and Egyptian Archaeology. In G. Earl, T. Sly, A. Chrysanthi, P. Murrieta-Flores, C. Papadopoulos, I. Romanowska & D. Wheatley (Eds.), Archaeology in the digital era: e-papers from the 40th conference on computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology (CAA), Southampton, 26-30 March 2012 (Volume II, pp. 742-751). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
• JuxtaposeJS
  • Helps tell stories by comparing two image frames, including photos and gifs. By dragging a pane, you can see the changes and visually analyse the differences between the two images.
  • Used in the Visualizing Venice project.

• International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF)
  • A set of shared application programming interface (API) specifications for interoperable functionality in digital image repositories.

• Averaging covers in Vogue
  • A "decennial sampling" of Vogue covers — that is, all the covers in one year, every ten years.
• Redacted
  • Images of redacted text extracted from ASIO files held by the National Archives of Australia.