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Une approche computationnelle du cadastre napoléonien de Venise

Federica Pardini, Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo, Raphaël Barman

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Napoleonic administration introduced a new standardised description system to give an objective account of the form and functions of the city of Venice. The cadastre, deployed on a European scale, was offering for ...

2021

The references of references: a method to enrich humanities library catalogs with citation data

Frédéric Kaplan, Matteo Romanello, Giovanni Colavizza

The advent of large-scale citation indexes has greatly impacted the retrieval of scientific information in several domains of research. The humanities have largely remained outside of this shift, despite their increasing reliance on digital means for infor ...

Springer Verlag2017

Virtual X-ray Reading (VXR) of Ancient Administrative Handwritten Documents

Giorgio Margaritondo, Frédéric Kaplan, Fauzia Albertin

The study of ancient documents is too often confined to specimens of high artistic value or to official writings. Yet, a wealth of information is often stored in administrative records such as ship records, notary papers, work contract, tax declaration, co ...

2014

Method and system for generating a three-dimensional model based on spherical photogrammetry

Frédéric Kaplan, Pierre-André Mudry, Nils Hamel, Albane Bénédicte Descombes

A computer-implemented method is proposed for creating a three-dimensional model of the environment. The method comprises the steps of planning (105) a trajectory for a moving system carrying an omnidirectional camera comprising a first image sensor facing ...

2021

Virtual reading of a large ancient handwritten science book

Giorgio Margaritondo, Frédéric Kaplan, Alessandra Patera, Fauzia Albertin

We present a fundamental development step of a new technique to read and digitize ancient handwritten documents. Chemical analysis by x-ray fluorescence and x-ray tomography enabled us to decipher words and drawings from inside a closed, 200-pages 18 th ce ...

Elsevier2016

Generation of LOD4 models for buildings towards the automated 3D modeling of BIMs and digital twins

Katrin Beyer, Frédéric Kaplan, Bryan German Pantoja Rosero, Alexander Michael Rusnak

An image-based methodology is presented for the automatic generation of geometric building models at LOD4, incorporating both interior and exterior geometrical information. Existing approaches often focus on simplified geometries for either exteriors or in ...

Elsevier BV2024

A digital reconstruction of the 1630–1631 large plague outbreak in Venice

Frédéric Kaplan, Marcel Salathé, Giovanni Colavizza, Gianrocco Lazzari

The plague, an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, is widely considered to be responsible for the most devastating and deadly pandemics in human history. Starting with the infamous Black Death, plague outbreaks are estimated to have ...

Nature Research2020

Multi-Finger Interactions with Papers on Augmented Tabletops

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan

Although many augmented tabletop systems have shown the potential and usability of finger-based interactions and paper-based interfaces, they have mainly dealt with each of them separately. In this paper, we introduce a novel method aimed to improve human ...

ACM Press2009

From Archival Sources to Structured Historical Information: Annotating and Exploring the "Accordi dei Garzoni"

Orlin Biserov Topalov, Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann

If automatic document processing techniques have achieved a certain maturity for present time documents, the transformation of hand-written documents into well-represented, structured and connected data which can satisfactorily be used for historical study ...

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group2023

Post-correction of Historical Text Transcripts with Large Language Models: An Exploratory Study

Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello, Sven Nicolas Yoann Najem-Meyer, Emanuela Boros

The quality of automatic transcription of heritage documents, whether from printed, manuscripts or audio sources, has a decisive impact on the ability to search and process historical texts. Although significant progress has been made in text recognition ( ...

Association for Computational Linguistics2024

Venice Time Machine : Recreating the density of the past

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo

This article discusses the methodology used in the Venice Time Machine project (http://vtm.epfl.ch) to reconstruct a historical geographical information system covering the social and urban evolution of Venice over a period of 1,000 years. Given the time s ...

2015

Navigating through 200 years of historical newspapers

Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Yannick Rochat, Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet, Vincent Christian Buntinx

This paper aims to describe and explain the processes behind the creation of a digital library composed of two Swiss newspapers, namely Gazette de Lausanne (1798-1998) and Journal de Genève (1826-1998), covering an almost two-century period. We developed a ...

2016

The References of References: Enriching Library Catalogs via Domain-Specific Reference Mining

Frédéric Kaplan, Matteo Romanello, Giovanni Colavizza

The advent of large-scale citation services has greatly impacted the retrieval of scientific information for several domains of research. The Humanities have largely remained outside of this shift despite their increasing reliance on digital means for info ...

2016

Intrinsic Motivation Systems for Autonomous Mental Development

Frédéric Kaplan

Exploratory activities seem to be intrinsicallyrewarding for children and crucial for their cognitive development. Can a machine be endowed with such an intrinsic motivation system? This is the question we study in this paper, presenting a number of comput ...

2007

A Network Analysis Approach of the Venetian Incanto System

Frédéric Kaplan, Yannick Rochat, Andrea Mazzei

The objective of this paper was to perform new analyses about the structure and evolution of the Incanto system. The hypothesis was to go beyond the textual narrative or even cartographic representation thanks to network analysis, which could potentially o ...

2014

New Techniques for the Digitization of Art Historical Photographic Archives - the Case of the Cini Foundation in Venice

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo, Benoît Laurent Auguste Seguin

Numerous libraries and museums hold large art historical photographic collections, numbering millions of images. Because of their non-standard format, these collections pose special challenges for digitization. This paper address these difficulties by prop ...

2018

Layout Analysis on Newspaper Archives

Frédéric Kaplan, Vincent Christian Buntinx

The study of newspaper layout evolution through historical corpora has been addressed by diverse qualitative and quantitative methods in the past few years. The recent availability of large corpora of newspapers is now making the quantitative analysis of l ...

2017

Studying Linguistic Changes over 200 Years of Newspapers through Resilient Words Analysis

Frédéric Kaplan, Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet, Vincent Christian Buntinx

This paper presents a methodology to analyze linguistic changes in a given textual corpus allowing to overcome two common problems related to corpus linguistics studies. One of these issues is the monotonic increase of the corpus size with time, and the ot ...

2017

A deep learning approach to Cadastral Computing

Bastien Solal Emile Tourenc, Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo, Sofia Ares Oliveira

This article presents a fully automatic pipeline to transform the Napoleonic Cadastres into an information system. The cadastres established during the first years of the 19th century cover a large part of Europe. For many cities they give one of the first ...

2019

Rhythmanalysis of Switzerland, Rethinking territorial typologies

Vincent Kaufmann, Frédéric Kaplan, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Yann Francis Eric Dubois, Patrick Rerat

Rhythmanalysis is a valuable analytical approach for charting daily rhythms, both for individuals and at the collective level, in order to feel the pulse of a territory and understand the way in which it is inhabited in terms of both space and time. Concep ...

Informa UK Limited2024