Saint George on a Bike : Time Machine Europe

Overview

Project duration: 2019 - 2022 Date coverage: 1400 - 1800 Website Contact

Digital Cultural Heritage Drawings, prints, and other pictorial sources Machine Learning Knowledge Graph

Saint George on a Bike (SGoaB) aims to improve the quality and quantity of open metadata associated with European Cultural Heritage (CH) imagery. To achieve that goal SGoaB addresses two challenges: (i) to transcribe insights about culture, symbols and centuries of evolving iconographic traditions in a knowledge representation accessible to machine learning and artificial intelligence, (ii) to expand conventional machine learning approaches, centered on image recognition, with the ability to decipher the complex pictorial language that characterizes iconographic symbols and sacred imagery.

Watch the video of the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbUEs0SULKQ

Project partners

Lead partners

With financial support by

European Commission - European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)

Project news

How Artificial Intelligence can benefit the Cultural Heritage sector? Watch the new video of the Saint George on a Bike project

2022-02-24

The project has launched an engaging and inspiring video that aims to show how AI can help the cultural heritage sector and its potential to soon recognize the context of artwork and generate accurate annotations automatically. The audience of this video are professionals working in the GLAM sector and also the general public. Watch it now!

Collecting data to train caption generators for paintings

2021-06-16

AI systems are able to describe what is going on in an image. They generate what are called captions that describe the content of images. For example, a boy skating wearing a helmet: This could be a simple caption extracted from a picture. The Saint George on a Bike project is highly concerned in obtaining the data necessary for AI to understand cultural heritage images. There is still some way to go in providing image-captions pairs but we will continue working to finally attain this goal.

Saint George on a Bike and the European Data Portal

2021-03-17

Saint George on a Bike (SGoaB) aims to improve the quality and quantity of metadata associated with imagery from European cultural heritage, using Artificial Intelligence technology, with an emphasis on the collections held by Europeana. While the AI-focused activities in the project work hard on enriching cultural images, SGoaB's activity 4, "Adoption of DSI interoperability standards for Linked Open Data deployment", focuses on ensuring the interoperability of SGoaB's results after they are produced. In particular, it looks at the requirements of existing Digital Service Infrastructures of the European Commission.

Meet Saint George on a Bike coordinator Maria-Cristina Marinescu

2021-02-11

To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February 2021, we talked to Saint George on a Bike (SGoaB) project coordinator Maria-Cristina Marinescu, who also works as a senior researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). In this interview she talks about the importance of SGoaB research and her fondness for wolves.