The Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, as partner of IMPULSE Project, conducted various tests on AI workflows applied to Digital Cultural Heritage.
AI workflows can assist in bringing valuable historical objects to life. These workflows has been applied to physically inaccessible objects, such as the original Nibelungen dress from Fritz Lang’s 1924 film Die Nibelungen. The dress was briefly removed from secure storage for preparatory photography and then digitized and visualized by applying a specific AI workflow.
Such workflows can also breathe new life into impenetrable data sets: one recent example used spreadsheet data from KU Leuven to create rich imagery and data visualisations. Future objects to be contributed by the Film Museum will include film-related technologies such as camera cranes and recording equipment, with the goal of making such valuable objects accessible to a wider audience in 3D.
Results of this test have been presented in various occasions such as at the Numix Lab on November 29th, 2024 in Berlin, and at the Hamburg Open on January 16th, 2025 as part of a workshop on AI workflows.
