A new EU-funded project will use AI to investigate and recreate the scents that have molded Europe‘s cultural heritage. The “Odeuropa” team will develop machine learning and computer vision techniques to scour documents and images for references to smells such as tobacco and the stench of industrialization. A selection of the scents will then be “reconstructed” using heritage science techniques. “Smells shape our experience of the world, yet we have very little sensory information about the past,” said project lead Inger Leemans, a professor of cultural history at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. “Odeuropa will dive into digital heritage collections to discover the key scents of Europe and the…
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