September 2017 – Digital NK

Gender Distribution in North Korean Posters with Convolutional Neural Networks

A brief analysis of gender distribution in visual representations of everyday life in North Korea using facial recognition algorithms and transfer learning applied to convolutional neural networks. 1. The DataA […]

BenSeptember 30, 2017Computer Vision, Data Visualization, Deep Learning, Face detection, Gender, Keras, Leiden University, Natural Language Processing, Neural Network, OpenCV, Posters, Python, Text mining, Transfer Learning, Visual Arts

Building an OCR Tool For North Korean Archival Data (Part 2)

Designing a pre-processing method to improve OCR results using Python and OpenCV for old North Korean print material. Creating a simple character segmentation algorithm using contouring and simple heuristics. 2. […]

BenSeptember 15, 2017Computer Vision, OCR, OpenCV, Python, RG-242, Tesseract, US National Archives