End of June we participated in the Visual Language Conference (VisLang) 2024 organized at Tilburg University by Neil Cohn‘s Visual Language Lab. The conference brought together a truly unique blend of cognitive science, linguistics, AI and comics research and much more, which made it an absolute treat to take part in.
The conference program featured a jam-packed two days of presentations and discussions. From our side Zoltan Kacsuk together with Tetsuya Mihara from the University of Tsukuba and representing the MADB presented on The Significance of Comprehensive Metadata for Manga Research: Introducing the Media Arts Database and the Japanese Visual Media Graph (see the slides below).
The closing keynote by Neil Cohn offered the first sneak peek into the TINTIN project data and the results that have already come out of the first round of analysis, and it is really impressive just how granular and robust the findings seem to be. We are very much looking forward to the release of the first publications as well as the dataset and MAST annotation tool to come out of the project.
We would like to once again thank the organizers and all the participants for this amazing event, and we hope that this was only the first in a series of VisLang conferences to come in the future.
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