Call for applicants: PhD research project on machine learning in bookbinding history

Call for PhD applications on machine learning in bookbinding history

Ligatus, a research centre of the University of the Arts London, in
collaboration with Oxford University are inviting applications for a
PhD research project in the subject of machine learning in
bookbinding history.  Ligatus is the leading centre in the study of
bookbinding history with a strong interest in documentation methods.
Recent projects include a survey of 4,000 books (including
photographs) from the medieval library of the Monastery of St.
Catherine in Sinai, Egypt and a thesaurus of bookbinding concepts
(Language of Bindings Thesaurus) which can be used for classifying
content.  This PhD project will look at image recognition and the
automatic extraction of bookbinding features from photographs of
books.

The ideal candidate will have a computer science degree with
relevant projects and a strong interest in cultural heritage or a
relevant humanities degree with proven knowledge of machine learning
and image analysis techniques.

For more information please contact Dr Athanasios Velios
<a.velios<-at->arts<.>ac<.>uk>.  Funding for this position may be available
if applications are received by the deadline of 30 November 2015.

Dr. Athanasios Velios
Ligatus
University of the Arts London
+44 2075146432


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