Coding Dürer

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  • Project Groups (2) – Albot

    Project Groups (2) – Albot

    Photo from Wikimedia

    You’re at a museum and want to find out more about an artwork you like? Then just ask Albot, the art history chatbot. He will access the museum’s metadata for you and answer simple questions about the artwork, like: Who’s the artist? What’s the title? Which people are depicted? At least that’s the vision of one of the project groups at Coding Dürer. They start with Albrecht Dürer’s “Allerheiligenbild” and try to formulate questions. By extracting keywords, Albot can understand questions and find answers. The team still tries to figure out which chatbot to use. Dexter or the Microsoft bot framework seem to offer great solutions.

  • Project Groups (1) – Visualizing Vietnam War Memorial

    Project Groups (1) – Visualizing Vietnam War Memorial

    Victoria Szabo, Justin Underhill and Benjamin Zweig want to visualize the interactions at the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington. As the memorial is not “monumental”, there are no stereotypic, but rather a great variety of photos. Using different tools, they intend to visualize in which ways people experience the object. By looking at photos of the War Memorial they want to find out where people take photos and what kind of photos they take. For that, they use images from flickr as well as the flickr API. Microsoft Cognitive Services can be used for further analysis of the images.