Visual narrative of Venice through the centuries

Abstract

The work of this thesis is based on the University project Visual narrative of Venice through the centuries. The goal of this project is to study the representation of Venice through the centuries, using a database of textual and photograpic material from Fondo Morassi. Given various visual representations of the city of Venice and its most prominent landmarks, the aim of this thesis is to define and extract the relevant features of the images and classify these images according to said features using topic models. These classifications will be useful in studying the changes of the representation of Venice through the centuries.