Images as Data for Social Science Research: An Introduction to Convolutional Neural Nets for Image Classification

ISBN-13: 9781108816854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 75 str.

Nora Webb Williams; Andreu Casas; John D. Wilkerson

Opis

An introduction to how object and facial recognition, and visual sentiment analysis, can be used to process images as data.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Prerequisites for computer vision methods and tutorials; 3. Introduction to CNNs for social scientists; 4. Overview of fine-tuning a CNN classifier for images; 5. Political science working example: images related to a Black Lives Matter protest; 6. The promise and limits of autotaggers; 7. Application: fine-tuning an open source CNN; 8. Legal and ethical concerns in using images as data; 9. Conclusion; 10. References.