CAA Conference – 3 & 4 December 2020
CAA – Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference
Date: 3 & 4 December 2020
Location: online
Credits: 1 ECT
CAA Netherlands/Flanders and CAA Germany are organising the 2020 joint chapter meeting on December 3-4 2020.
The conference will be fully online, allowing everyone to be able to attend. The conference consists of two afternoon sessions that both start at 13:00. Please find the program below. Abstracts can be found here.
December 3
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13:00 |
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Machine learning, AI |
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13:10 |
AI in times of COVID Creating quality pottery shape simulations for pre-training Machine Learning Pottery Image Classifiers: processes in the Arch-I-Scan project | Santos Nuñez Jareño (University of Leicester); Daniël P van Helden (University of Leicester)*; Penelope Allison (University of Leicester); Ivan Tyukin (University of Leicester) |
13:30 |
Gaze and Body Orientation in Ancient Images. New Approaches for Estimating Relationships via Computer Vision | Torsten S. Bendschus (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)*; Ute Verstegen (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg); Corinna Reinhardt (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg); Lara Mührenberg (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg); Prathmesh Madhu (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg); Ronak Kosti (Pattern Recognition Lab, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) |
13:50 |
Patterns of Trauma – Employing AI and ML in bioarchaeological trauma research | Chiara G. M. Girotto (Independent Researcher / Ludwigs-Maximilians-University Munich)*; Henry C. W. Price (Imperial College London ); Martin Trautmann (A&O Praxis für Bioarchäologie, München) |
14:10 |
Using CarcassonNet to automatically detect and trace hollow roads in LiDAR data | Wouter B Verschoof-van der Vaart (Leiden University)*; Jürgen Landauer (Porsche) |
14:30 |
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14:45 |
Break |
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Remote sensing and geophysics |
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15:00 |
Searching for the Dutch castle landscape | Nancy de Jong-Lambregts (PhD)*; Ferry van den Oever (Saricon BV) |
15:20 |
The tumultuous Marriage between Mrs. Archaeology and Mr. Geophysics | Joep Orbons (ArcheoPro)* |
15:40 |
Drone thermography for archaeological applications | Jitte Waagen (Universiteit van Amsterdam)* |
16:00 |
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December 4
13:00 |
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Gaming, AR and VR |
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13:10 |
Augmented Blended Learning: providing immersive content to augment the museum environment | Markus H Stoffer (University of Amsterdam)* |
13:30 |
Making historical VRs, lessons learned from two case-studies: the commanders house at Westerbork and the former Jewish neighbourhood Vlooienburg, Amsterdam. | Tijm Lanjouw (UvA)*; Jitte Waagen (Universiteit van Amsterdam) |
13:50 |
Archaeogaming – Reflections on Code and the Playability of the Past | Sophie C. Schmidt (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut)*; Tine Rassalle (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
14:10 |
Ship Shapes: Digitising 17th and 18th century Dutch ships | John McCarthy (Flinders University)* |
14:30 |
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14:45 |
Break |
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Tools, statistics and little Minions |
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15:00 |
Linked Open Samian Ware – Unveiling the hidden Data Dragons and uncovering temporal vagueness with the help of Little Minions | Florian Thiery (RGZM)*; Allard Mees (RGZM); Dennis Gottwald (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) |
15:15 |
geoCore – QGIS plugin to construct a graphical representation of petrographic drilling profiles | Moritz Mennenga (Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research)*; Gerrit Bette (T-Systems on site services GmbH) |
15:30 |
The track graph: a heuristic tool for reconstructing past movement systems | Philip Verhagen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)*; Laure Nuninger (UMR 6249 Laboratoire Chrono-Environnement, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté) |
15:50 |
Handmade pottery and the mystery of volume: how to calculate capacity in an accurate way | Vasiliki – Lagari (Leiden University)* |
16:10 |
The Fractal Dimension of Stone Tools | Florian Linsel (University of Cologne)* |
16:30 |
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16:45 |
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Credits: ARCHON members can receive 1 ECT by attending the conference and handing in a reflection report afterwards.
Registration: Please register through the link on the website of the event.
