Images and Objects Lab

Research at FAU

Images and Objects Research Group

The Images and Objects Lab at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg (FAU), led by Prof. Mila Oiva, is an interdisciplinary research group within DHSS.

Images and Objects Research Group

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Recent Posts

One of the defining strengths of Digital Humanities lies in its ability to bring together diverse disciplines to explore cultural and societal questions through computational approaches. While DH has long adapted methods from computer science, other STEM fields—including mathematics and physics—also offer powerful analytical and modeling tools that open new perspectives for humanities research. DHSS…

The AVinDH Special Interest Group is launching the AVinDH Online Workshop Series 2026, a year-round programme dedicated to current developments in Audiovisual and Digital Humanities. The series brings together scholars, researchers, and practitioners interested in innovative approaches to audiovisual media. Through online workshops, it highlights new tools for analysing audio and visual data, emerging methodologies,…

We are delighted to congratulate Dr. Tillmann Ohm, postdoctoral fellow of the Images and Objects Group in Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, on receiving two awards at Tallinn University. His doctoral thesis, “Designing Processes and Tools to Research Similarity Spaces of Visual Collections,” supervised by Prof. Maximilian Schich, was awarded Best Doctoral Thesis in the…

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Prof. Dr. Mila Oiva

Professorship of Digital Images and Objects

Dr. Tillmann Ohm

Research Associate (Postdoc)


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Publications

Our research group publishes work across digital humanities, computational linguistics, and related fields. Explore our latest publications and browse our complete publication record.