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

 

13:00

Opening

 

Machine learning, AI

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

Questions

 

14:45

Break

 

 

Remote sensing and geophysics

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

Questions

December 4

13:00

Opening

 

Gaming, AR and VR

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

Questions

 

14:45

Break

 

 

Tools, statistics and little Minions

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

Questions

 

16:45

End

Registration: Please register through the link on the website of the event.