High-Tech and Low-Tech Imaging Technologies: Pinholes & AI Wednesday 20th October, 8-10 pm
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the Imaging Science Group were unable to organise Good Picture symposia for 2020 and 2021. The group’s committee recognise this is as disappointing for would be attendees as it is for the committee and have made available some past presentations in their archive. However, there is no substitute for the real thing! To address this the Imaging Science Group is holding a series of mini e-symposia, where guest speakers from previous Good Picture symposia will reprise, via Zoom webinars, some of their previous presentations, updated where appropriate. The second of these mini e-symposia is High-Tech and Low-Tech imaging technologies: Pinholes and artificial intelligence. The earliest known descriptions of pin hole images (camera obscura) are found in the Chinese Mozi writings (circa 500 BCE) and the Aristotelian Problems (circa 300 BCE – 600 CE). The field of artificial intelligence (AI) research was born at a workshop at Dartmouth College in the US in 1956, where the term "Artificial Intelligence" was coined by one of the attendees, John McCarthy a computer scientist and cognitive scientist. In this symposium we will have two lectures by committee members of the Imaging Science Group sharing with us, how in today’s digital world, we can utilise pinholes in a different way, and bring AI to bear on our everyday photography. During each lecture you will be able to use the Zoom Q&A facility to pose questions to the speakers, who will address your questions following the completion of their lecture. The lectures are:Lecture 1 - Dr Tony Kaye ASIS FRPS: Artificial Intelligence in Photography for Photo Enthusiasts (Independent Imaging Consultant)