Currently, I am a PostDoc at ScaDS.AI (Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence) Dresden/Leipzig and the Image & Signal Processing Group at Leipzig University. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Leipzig University, Germany in 2023 under the supervision of Prof. Stefan Jänicke and Prof. Gerik Scheuermann, the topic was “Visual Analytics for the Exploratory Analysis and Labeling of Cultural Data”.
From 2019 to 2023, I worked as a research assistant and Ph.D. Student in the Image & Signal Processing Group at Leipzig University, where I was involved in the projects “Data Mining and Value Creation” and “Smart Regional Development Infrastructure”. The first experience working on interdisciplinary Digital Humanities projects I gained during my Master’s Degree in the TASTEN-Project at the Musical Instrument Museum Leipzig.
Further, I engaged in several interdisciplinary research collaborations with humanities scholars and people working in the GLAM sector. My research interests include Information Visualization, Digital Humanities, Visual Analytics, and Machine Learning for Cultural (Heritage) Data. Including NLP and Computer Vision methods with a strong focus on human-in-the-loop processes and participatory design.
🔥 News
- 2024.04: 🎉🎉 Joined the ScaDS.AI (Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence) Dresden/Leipzig
- 2024.03: 🎉🎉 The paper “Is Medieval Distant Viewing Possible? : Extending and Enriching Annotation of Legacy Image Collections using Visual Analytics” got accepted at DSH.
- 2023.10: 🎉🎉 Received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Leipzig University.
📝 Publications
Towards Enhancing Virtual Museums by Contextualizing Art through Interactive Visualizations
Christofer Meinecke, Chris Hall and Stefan Jänicke
- A Virtual Museum that combines interactive visualizations and computer vision in order to explore a collection of artworks.
Explaining Semi-Supervised Text Alignment through Visualization
Christofer Meinecke, David Joseph Wrisley and Stefan Jänicke
- A Human-in-the-loop process applying word embeddings and visualization to perform textual alignments on low-resource and under-resourced languages.
🏛️ Cultural (Heritage) Data
🖼️ Visual Data
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Image Classification of Paris Bible Data, Yasmin Hawar Abo Bakir Shuan, Christofer Meinecke and Stefan Jänicke, Digital Humanities 2023 “Collaboration as Opportunity”
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Towards Enhancing Virtual Museums by Contextualizing Art through Interactive Visualizations, Christofer Meinecke, Chris Hall and Stefan Jänicke, ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage
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From Modern to Medieval: Detecting and Visualizing Entities in Manuscripts of Marco Polo’s Devisement du Monde, Christofer Meinecke, David Joseph Wrisley and Stefan Jänicke, DH 2022: “Responding to Asian Diversity”
📚 Textual Data
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Explaining Semi-Supervised Text Alignment through Visualization, Christofer Meinecke, David Joseph Wrisley and Stefan Jänicke, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
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Visualizing Similarities between American Rap-Artists, Christofer Meinecke, Jeremias Schebera, Jakob Eschrich and Daniel Wiegreffe, EuroVis 2022 Poster
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Visualizing Similarities between American Rap-Artists based on Text Reuse, Christofer Meinecke, Jeremias Schebera, Jakob Eschrich and Daniel Wiegreffe, LEVIA 2022: Leipzig Symposium on Visualization in Applications
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Explorative Visual Analysis of Rap Music, Christofer Meinecke, Ahmad Dawar Hakimi and Stefan Jänicke, MDPI Information Special Issue “Visual Text Analysis in Digital Humanities, 2021”
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Detecting Text Reuse and Similarities between Artists in Rap Music through Visualization, Christofer Meinecke and Stefan Jänicke, LEVIA 2020: Leipzig Symposium on Visualization in Applications
- Automated Alignment of Medieval Text Versions based on Word Embeddings, Christofer Meinecke, David Joseph Wrisley and Stefan Jänicke , LEVIA 2019: Leipzig Symposium on Visualization in Applications
- Visual Analysis of Engineers’ Biographies and Engineering Branches, Christofer Meinecke and Stefan Jänicke, LEVIA 2018: Leipzig Symposium on Visualization in Applications
- Interactive Visual Exploration of Engineers’ Biographies, Christofer Meinecke and Stefan Jänicke, EADH 2018: “Data in Digital Humanities”
📊 Other Visualization Research
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n Walks in the Fictional Woods, Victor Schetinger, Sara Di Bartolomeo, Edirlei Soares de Lima, Christofer Meinecke, Rudolf Rosa, altVis 2023
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An Interactive Decision Support System for Analyzing Time Related Restrictions in Renaturation and Redevelopment Planning Projects, Yves Annanias, Christofer Meinecke, Daniel Wiegreffe, EnvirVis 2023
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A Survey on Visualizations for Musical Data, Richard Khulusi, Jakob Kusnick, Christofer Meinecke, Christina Gillmann, Josef Focht and Stefan Jänicke, Computer Graphics Forum, 2020
Other Research
- Authorless AI-Assisted Productions: Recent Developments Impacting Their Protection in the European Union, Marta Duque Lizarralde, Christofer Meinecke, Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law
📖 Education
- 2019 - 2023, PhD in Computer Science, Image & Signal Processing Group at Leipzig University, Germany.
- 2017 - 2019, Master Degree in Computer Science, Leipzig University, Germany.
- 2014 - 2017, Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Leipzig University, Germany.
💬 Invited Talks & Seminars
- 2022.05, Dagstuhl-Seminar 22191 Visual Text Analytics
- 2021.12, Digital Tech Summit Copenhagen, Towards Enhancing Virtual Art Museums