De la guerre civile du 16e siècle à la "guerre idéologique" du 19e siècle. La réception de la Révolte des Pays-Bas en Belgique

E-print/Working paper (2021)

Virtual Masterpieces: Innovation through Public Co-creation for Digital Museum Collections

in International Journal of the Inclusive Museum (2021), 15(1), 65-83

In this study, we describe the results of a series of co-creation workshops in museums with the goal of designing future digital cultural collections. Ranging from exhibition teasers to comprehensive ... [more ▼]

In this study, we describe the results of a series of co-creation workshops in museums with the goal of designing future digital cultural collections. Ranging from exhibition teasers to comprehensive virtual galleries, digital collections are an increasingly prominent feature of many museum websites but remain a largely unexplored facet of the visitor experience. Building on research in museum experience design, which suggests that involving the public in the development of on-site museum spaces and technologies supports better engagement, we investigated how this translates into digital-only contexts. We invited members of the public (N = 12) to the Luxembourg National Museum of History and Art for a series of design jams to investigate how non-experts envision the future of digital interactivity with museums through a series of ideation and rapid prototyping activities. Our analysis of the workshops and resulting prototypes reveals the design space of digital collections across three continuums of experience: individual/social, creation/consumption, and complementary/standalone. We conclude with design implications, namely how museum professionals can apply these dimensions to the design and implementation of digital collections. [less ▲]

Les reliques des "martyrs de Gorcum" à Bruxelles

E-print/Working paper (2021)

Low-Light Image Enhancement of Permanently Shadowed Lunar Regions with Physics-Based Machine Learning

Poster (2021)

We show that it is possible to significantly enhance the quality of extremely low-light images of permanently-shaded regions (PSRs) on the moon by using two physics-based deep neural networks, which we ... [more ▼]

We show that it is possible to significantly enhance the quality of extremely low-light images of permanently-shaded regions (PSRs) on the moon by using two physics-based deep neural networks, which we called HORUS, to remove CCD sensor-related noise and photon noise. To inform our distribution of training data, we perform ray tracing over a digital elevation model of the moon and derive the distributions of secondary illumination angles in PSRs. Our network provides high-resolution, low-noise images that will help enable future ground missions to plan and execute safe and effective traverses into, around, and out of lunar PSRs — a critical step in our endeavor to explore the moon and beyond. [less ▲]

Extreme Low-Light Environment-Driven Image Denoising over Permanently Shadowed Lunar Regions with a Physical Noise Model

in Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (2021)

Recently, learning-based approaches have achieved impressive results in the field of low-light image denoising. Some state of the art approaches employ a rich physical model to generate realistic training ... [more ▼]

Recently, learning-based approaches have achieved impressive results in the field of low-light image denoising. Some state of the art approaches employ a rich physical model to generate realistic training data. However, the performance of these approaches ultimately depends on the realism of the physical model, and many works only concentrate on everyday photography. In this work we present a denoising approach for extremely low-light images of permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) on the lunar surface, taken by the Narrow Angle Camera on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite. Our approach extends existing learning-based approaches by combining a physical noise model of the camera with real noise samples and training image scene selection based on 3D ray tracing to generate realistic training data. We also condition our denoising model on the camera’s environmental metadata at the time of image capture (such as the camera’s temperature and age), showing that this improves performance. Our quantitative and qualitative results show that our method strongly outperforms the existing calibration routine for the camera and other baselines. Our results could significantly impact lunar science and exploration, for example by aiding the identification of surface water-ice and reducing uncertainty in rover and human traverse planning into PSRs. [less ▲]

La résolution collaborative de problèmes au Luxembourg : Résultats et implications de l’enquête PISA 2015

in LUCET; SCRIPT (Eds.) Rapport national sur l’éducation au Luxembourg 2021 (2021)

Compte-rendu de: Faire société au Moyen Âge. Histoire urbaine des anciens Pays-Bas (1100-1600), sous la direction de Claire Billen, Bruno Blondé, Marc Boone et Anne-Laure Van Bruaene (Bibliothèque d’histoire médiévale, 25), Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2021), 73(4), 474-476

History for/with/by the Publics

Presentation (2021)

The future of historiography seems to belong to Public History Thomas Cauvin author of the path breaking book Public History A Textbook of Practice, even argues that we should all become public historians ... [more ▼]

The future of historiography seems to belong to Public History Thomas Cauvin author of the path breaking book Public History A Textbook of Practice, even argues that we should all become public historians. In his book and as a public historian he explored fields as different as brewing and food history digital public history controversies over monuments public history as empowerment and the possibility of an international public history. Not only in these fields Public History seems to be on the rise Yet Public History also faces serious challenges such as the political fragmentation of societies and the idea of „alternative facts”. In his talk Thomas Cauvin will provide us with insights into the conceptual frame of Public History and use various examples to illustrate the practice of Public History. We will particularly discuss the role of Public History as a source of empowerment for underrepresented groups. This talk is part of the seminar History and Youtube organized by Anna Rosa Haumann and Florian Wagner at the University of Erfurt [less ▲]

Discussion on History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s by Malgorzata J Rymsza-Pawlowska

Speeches/Talks (2021)

BelElect Dataset

Textual, factual or bibliographical database (2021)