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Dr. Tillmann Ohm

W3-Professur für Digital Humanities mit Schwerpunkt Images and Objects

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeitende

Kontakt

Research Focus

  • Research software and method development
  • Embedding spaces and visual similarity
  • Cultural heritage collections
  • Machine vision in cultural analysis
  • Artistic research practices

Curriculum Vitae

  1. Since 02/2026

    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Digital Humanities: Images and Objects
    FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg, Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS)

  2. 09/2020 – 07/2025

    Ph.D. in Information Society Technologies
    Thesis: “Designing Processes and Tools to Research Similarity Spaces of Visual Collections”
    Tallinn University, Schools of Digital Technologies (DTI)

  3. 09/2020 – 12/2024

    Junior Research Fellow
    Cultural Data Analytics Open Lab (CUDAN)
    Tallinn University, The Baltic Film Media and Art School (BFM)

  4. 10/2012 – 05/2018

    Diplom (Master’s equivalent) in Free Art
    Thesis: “The Artist’s Machine Is Present”
    Bauhaus University Weimar, Faculty of Art and Design

  5. 02/2025 - 07/2025

    Visiting Researcher: Cultural History
    University of Turku, Department of History and Archaeology

  6. 04/2024 - 06/2024

    Visiting Researcher: Interactive Visual Intelligence Lab
    University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science

Publications

  • Ohm, T., Karjus, A., Tamm, M., & Schich, M. (2025). fruit-SALAD: A Style Aligned Artwork Dataset to reveal similarity perception in image embeddings. Scientific Data (Nature), 12, 254. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04529-4
  • Oiva, M., Ohm, T., Mukhina, K., Canet Solà, M., & Schich, M. (2024). Soviet View of the World. Exploring Long-Term Visual Patterns in “Novosti Dnia” newsreel journal (1945–1992). Journal of Cultural Analytics, 9(4). https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.118495
  • Oiva, M., Mukhina, K., Zemaityte, V., Ohm, T., Tamm, M., Karjus, A., Mets, M., Chavez Heras, D., Canet Solà, M., Juht, H. H., & Schich, M. (2024). A framework for the analysis of historical newsreels. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02886-w
  • Ohm, T., Canet Solà, M., Karjus, A., & Schich, M. (2023). Collection space navigator: An interactive visualization interface for multidimensional datasets. In Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Visual Information (VINCI ’23). https://doi.org/10.1145/3615522.3615546
  • Karjus, A., Canet Solà, M., Ohm, T., Ahnert, S. E., & Schich, M. (2023). Compression ensembles quantify aesthetic complexity and the evolution of visual art. EPJ Data Science, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00397-3