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Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images
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Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images
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Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images
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presents a new theory and methodology for the computational analysis of digital images, offering a lively, constructive critique of computer vision that you can actually use. What does it mean to say that computer vision “understands” visual inputs? Annotations never capture a whole image. The way digital images convey information requires what researchers Taylor Arnold and Lauren Tilton call “distant viewing”—a play on the well-known term “distant reading” from computational literary analysis.
Recognizing computer vision’s limitations, Arnold and Tilton’s spirited examination makes the technical exciting by applying distant viewing to the sitcoms
and
, movie posters and other popular forms of advertising, and Dorothea Lange’s photography. In the tradition of visual culture studies and computer vision,
’s interdisciplinary perspective encompasses film and media studies, visual semiotics, and the sciences
to create a playful, accessible guide for
an international audience
working in digital humanities, data science, media studies, and visual culture studies.