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The availability of extensive digital media creates important new challenges. The World Wide Web offers huge amounts of image material, that opens up new avenues for innovative investigation, including in the field of post-colonial and global studies. However, between repositories, big data, Wikipedia or Flickr, the connections between materials are getting lost. Metadata have to be added painstakingly and manually into the system - otherwise numerous sources will remain unexplored and closed to research. This is where the Dutch-German project starts: In cooperation between historians of architecture and urban form and computer scientists the project aims to develop new tools for automatic building recognition of architectures and their parts as available in inherently diverse digital media (plans, photos, models, etc.) and on the web. The computer side includes image recognition, deep learning, computer vision research, actual 3d datasets. Three interconnected pilot studies will be carried out: Global Ports and Waterfronts; Colonial Architecture; Japanese Architecture.

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carola Hein

  Delft University of Technology
  Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment
  Dept. of Architecture-History of Architecture and
  Urban Planning
  DELFT
  Niederlande
  

• Dr. Jan van Gemert

  Delft University of Technology
  Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and
  Computer Vision Lab
  Delft
  Niederlande
  

• Dr. Victor de Boer

  VU University Amsterdam
  Department of Computer Science
  Business, Web and Media group
  Amsterdam
  Niederlande
  

• Dr. Beate Löffler

  Universität Duisburg-Essen
  IN EAST School of Advanced Studies
  Duisburg
  

• Prof. Dr. Dirk Schubert

  HafenCity Universität Hamburg
  Fachbereich Stadtplanung
  Hamburg