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Digital Urban History: Lausanne Time Machine

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This lecture explores the process of digitizing historical documents, focusing on the pipeline structure, document modeling, content extraction, and types of document structures. It delves into the challenges of describing document structure and content, emphasizing the need for standardization. The lecture also covers the Open Annotation Model and Shared Canvas Data Model, highlighting their role in annotating and describing digital resources collaboratively. Furthermore, it discusses the application of neural networks in handwritten text recognition and image segmentation, showcasing the advancements in machine learning techniques for historical document processing.

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Artificial neural network

Artificial neural networks (ANNs, also shortened to neural networks (NNs) or neural nets) are a branch of machine learning models that are built using principles of neuronal organization discovered by connectionism in the biological neural networks constituting animal brains. An ANN is based on a collection of connected units or nodes called artificial neurons, which loosely model the neurons in a biological brain. Each connection, like the synapses in a biological brain, can transmit a signal to other neurons.

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