Image Recognition with Pastec

Beyond the Black Box Workshop: Image Recognition with Pastec

Dr James Baker, University of Sussex

Pastec is an open-source index and search engine for image recognition which can find duplicate and near duplicate images in a corpus of digital images. It can find not only exact replicas but also, for instance, reuses of the same woodblock on a different page, printed at different angles, with different inking, and subtle degradations in the printing block. This workshop will take participants through the process of installing Pastec on a virtual machine, setting it up, and running it over image data.

This workshop will require participants to bring their own laptops.

Room details TBC