Giles Bergel

Giles Bergel is Senior Researcher in Digital Humanities in the Visual Geometry Group, and a member of the Oxford e-Research Centre. Trained originally in the humanities as a book historian, his research focuses on the computational analysis of books and other cultural heritage collections. At VGG, he serves as a Research Ambassador for the Visual AI project, in which capacity he engages with digital humanities researchers and teaches computer vision. He is a regular instructor at the Digital Humanities as Oxford Summer School.

• Book history
• Digital humanities
• Computer vision
• Textual scholarship

EPSRC-funded Visual AI project, aiming to create next-generation multimodal AI systems and to transfer this knowledge to other academic disciplines and to industry.

AHRC-funded Envisioning Dante (c.1472-c.1630): this project is applying computer vision to over a hundred early printed editions of one of the iconic works of European literature, with the goal of creating an actionable machine-learning model of the illustrated European printed page, encoding its meaning embodied in the spatial relationships of page-elements such as the text, commentary, illustrations and annotations.