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Testing Handsome Dans! ⚛️ ¡Analizando Handsome Dans! Yale Peabody Museum Yale University IPCH at Yale Yale West Campus Handsome Dan XIX

Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage has partnered with scientific instrument giant Bruker to increase access to major tech advances in the art world bit.ly/IPCH-Bruker Yale University Bruker NanoAnalytics

Making International Women's Day our day at Yale's West Campus! #EmbraceEquity IPCH at Yale Yale University

Come to our August symposium, Darkroom to Data! We will discuss the past 6 years of lab research and launch Paperbase, a web platform for exploring the world’s largest collection of photographic paper. And because it’s funded by a Google Arts&Culture grant, it’s free! Link below ⬇️

Our "Darkroom To Data" symposium on August 12 was a smashing success! Videos to be released soon. Here are some photos to tide you over (credit to Jon Atherton). The event was also covered by Yale News! Link below ⬇️

The Lens Media Lab IPCH at Yale has unveiled Paperbase, a visual platform for studying its unrivaled collection of photographic papers. Read more: bit.ly/lens-lab

The Classic has published a story about Paperbase, our new public platform for exploring the world's largest collection of photo paper! 🔗⬇️

New blog post: "Image Captioning in Hostile Conditions". Our lab ranked 10 large VLMs (3 closed, 7 open) by human-judged pairwise contests. GPT-4o won by a large margin. Molmo and Qwen, both open models, shared the next tier with Gemini and Claude. Short 🧵+🔗:

For those who missed this right before the holiday: if you're using vision-language models, check out our blog post!

Our very own Lens Media Lab, and their Paperbase platform, was featured in a new article in Nightingale, the magazine of the Data Visualization Society!

"Find visually similar images." Ok but which feature space?

This (client side!) experiment is now live. Explore 260k public domain objects from The Metropolitan Museum of Art across different visual feature spaces and 2D projections. Multimodal queries using Nomic AI embedders and transformers.js from Xenova. Here I search for saturated coats:

After 10 years in business, the LML is closing up shop. There is a lovely piece on the IPCH at Yale website about the lab's achievements and legacy: ipch.yale.edu/posts/2025-04-…

Harvard folks! The lab's lead scientist, Damon Crockett, is giving a talk at 11a today at the Center for Astrophysics. He'll demonstrate how to use Paperbase to explore our reference collection of photographic paper. The talk is open to the Harvard community. Details in link ⬇️

SoCal folks! The lab's lead scientist, Damon Crockett, will be giving at a lecture, hosted by the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, on Tuesday, May 20. Details and RSVP in the link below.

The talk is Tuesday; still time to RSVP!