Scalable Content-Based Analysis of Images in Web Archives with TensorFlow and the Archives Unleashed Toolkit

Abstract

We demonstrate the integration of the Archives Unleashed Toolkit, a scalable platform for exploring web archives, with Google’s TensorFlow deep learning toolkit to provide scholars with content-based image analysis capabilities. By applying pretrained deep neural networks for object detection, we are able to extract images of common objects from a 4TB web archive of GeoCities, which we then compile into browsable collages. This case study illustrates the types of interesting analyses enabled by combining big data and deep learning capabilities.

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Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE-CS on Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
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