Biography
Giles Bergel is Senior Researcher in Digital Humanities in the Visual Geometry Group, and a member of the Oxford e-Research Centre. Trained originally in the humanities as a book historian, his research focuses on the computational analysis of books and other cultural heritage collections. At VGG, he serves as a Research Ambassador for the Visual AI project, in which capacity he engages with digital humanities researchers and teaches computer vision. He is a regular instructor at the Digital Humanities as Oxford Summer School.
Most Recent Publications
Visual analysis of chapbooks printed in Scotland
Dutta A, Bergel G & Zisserman A (2021), 6th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP ’21), 67-72
Lines of succession in an English ballad tradition: The publishing history and textual descent of The Wandering Jew's Chronicle
Bergel G, Howe CJ & Windram HF (2016), DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES, 31(3), 540-562
Re-presentations of art collections
Chung JS, Arandjelović R, Bergel G, Franklin A & Zisserman A (2015), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 8925, 85-100
Re-presentations of Art Collections
Chung JS, Arandjelovic R, Bergel G, Franklin A & Zisserman A (2015), COMPUTER VISION - ECCV 2014 WORKSHOPS, PT I, 8925, 85-100
Research Interests
- Book history
- Digital humanities
- Computer vision
- Textual scholarship
Current Projects
EPSRC-funded Visual AI project, aiming to create next-generation multimodal AI systems and to transfer this knowledge to other academic disciplines and to industry.
AHRC-funded Envisioning Dante (c.1472-c.1630): this project is applying computer vision to over a hundred early printed editions of one of the iconic works of European literature, with the goal of creating an actionable machine-learning model of the illustrated European printed page, encoding its meaning embodied in the spatial relationships of page-elements such as the text, commentary, illustrations and annotations.
Research Groups
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Most Recent Publications
Visual analysis of chapbooks printed in Scotland
Dutta A, Bergel G & Zisserman A (2021), 6th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP ’21), 67-72
Lines of succession in an English ballad tradition: The publishing history and textual descent of The Wandering Jew's Chronicle
Bergel G, Howe CJ & Windram HF (2016), DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES, 31(3), 540-562
Re-presentations of art collections
Chung JS, Arandjelović R, Bergel G, Franklin A & Zisserman A (2015), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 8925, 85-100
Re-presentations of Art Collections
Chung JS, Arandjelovic R, Bergel G, Franklin A & Zisserman A (2015), COMPUTER VISION - ECCV 2014 WORKSHOPS, PT I, 8925, 85-100
