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Key research themes
1. How can multimedia and perceptual models improve digital image editing for artistic and interactive applications?
This research area explores methods to digitally edit images by integrating depth information and human visual perception to enable non-photorealistic, artistic, and interactive image stylizations. It emphasizes approaches that leverage perceptually plausible depth maps and real-time rendering for user-driven creative control over image appearance.
Key finding: This work demonstrates that approximate depth estimation from a single input image, combined with knowledge of human visual perception, enables the generation of diverse non-photorealistic renderings (e.g., chiaroscuro and... Read more
Key finding: This paper introduces a fast intrinsic video decomposition algorithm that separates reflectance and illumination components, facilitating interactive editing of video attributes such as recoloring and relighting. By enforcing... Read more
2. What are effective computational and collaborative methodologies for producing, managing, and disseminating digital scholarly editions?
This theme investigates digital strategies for scholarly textual editing emphasizing interoperability, sustainability, community-based workflows, and enhanced accessibility through digital infrastructures. It covers encoding standards such as TEI, template-based modular edition frameworks, crowd-sourced transcription models accelerated by digital platforms, and mobile-friendly publication formats designed for wider dissemination and interactive scholarly engagement.
Key finding: This paper presents LeggoManzoni, a TEI-encoded multilingual critical edition aligning forty commented Italian editions and fourteen translations of Alessandro Manzoni's I promessi sposi using stand-off markup and automated... Read more
Key finding: The project eDITem introduces a templates-based digital infrastructure that modularizes XML/TEI digital edition production, enabling reusability of encoding patterns and editorial workflows across similar document types. By... Read more
Key finding: This article reports on a rapid, relay-style crowdsourcing event for transcription and edition of a medieval manuscript during a three-day virtual conference. By dividing participants into transcription, revision, and... Read more
Key finding: The CantApp project illustrates the creation and distribution of an interactive digital edition of Chaucer's General Prologue designed explicitly for mobile devices. Combining TEI-based scholarly editing with multimedia... Read more
Key finding: Describing the ‘School of Salamanca’ project, this paper outlines a sustainable editorial workflow combining Waterfall and Agile principles for managing large-scale TEI XML editions of Early Modern texts. Emphasizing... Read more
3. How can structured encoding and ontological models advance the precision and interoperability of digital scholarly editions, especially for complex textual phenomena?
This research area emphasizes the development and application of formal data models, ontologies, and encoding standards (notably TEI) to represent complex philological phenomena such as glosses, variant readings, multilingual alignments, and palaeographic details in digital editions. The goal is to enhance both machine processability and scholarly rigor, thus facilitating deeper philological analysis and interoperability across editions.
Key finding: The paper presents an edition of 54 manuscripts containing over 4,280 glosses to the first book of Isidore’s Etymologiae encoded to handle complex overlaps and variability via network analysis rather than traditional textual... Read more
Key finding: This digital edition methodically encodes over 6,500 glosses on Isidore's text, employing a stand-off markup approach and network analysis to tackle the glosses’ transmission and variation. It showcases how TEI-compliant... Read more
Key finding: The paper proposes a TEI XML encoding model for Priscian’s Ars grammatica that systematically links glosses to specific manuscript readings, encodes Greek passages on dual transcription levels (palaeographic and normalized),... Read more
Key finding: This work advocates for defining a shared ontology for digital graphematics to overcome the interoperability limitations of purely TEI-based transcriptions, emphasizing distinctions between grapheme, alphabeme, glyph, and... Read more