Dr. Tillmann Ohm
Dr. Tillmann Ohm
Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS)
W3-Professur für Digital Humanities mit Schwerpunkt Digital Images and Objects
91052 Erlangen
Research Focus
- Research software and method development
- Embedding spaces and visual similarity
- Cultural heritage collections
- Machine vision in cultural analysis
- Artistic research practices
Since 02/2026
Postdoctoral Researcher
Digital Humanities: Images and Objects
FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg, Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS)
09/2020 – 07/2025
Ph.D. in Information Society Technologies
Thesis: “Designing Processes and Tools to Research Similarity Spaces of Visual Collections”
Tallinn University, Schools of Digital Technologies (DTI)
09/2020 – 12/2024
Junior Research Fellow
Cultural Data Analytics Open Lab (CUDAN)
Tallinn University, The Baltic Film Media and Art School (BFM)
10/2012 – 05/2018
Diplom (Master’s equivalent) in Free Art
Thesis: “The Artist’s Machine Is Present”
Bauhaus University Weimar, Faculty of Art and Design
Visiting Researcher:
02/2025 – 07/2025
Cultural History
University of Turku, Department of History and Archaeology
04/2024 – 06/2024
Interactive Visual Intelligence Lab
University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science
Peer-reviewed scientific articles
- Ohm, T., Karjus, A., Tamm, M., & Schich, M. (2025). fruit-SALAD: A Style Aligned Artwork Dataset to reveal similarity perception in image embeddings. Scientific Data (Nature), 12, 254. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04529-4
- Oiva, M., Ohm, T., Mukhina, K., Canet Solà, M., & Schich, M. (2024). Soviet View of the World. Exploring Long-Term Visual Patterns in “Novosti Dnia” newsreel journal (1945–1992). Journal of Cultural Analytics, 9(4). https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.118495
- Oiva, M., Mukhina, K., Zemaityte, V., Ohm, T., Tamm, M., Karjus, A., Mets, M., Chavez Heras, D., Canet Solà, M., Juht, H. H., & Schich, M. (2024). A framework for the analysis of historical newsreels. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02886-w
- Ohm, T., Canet Solà, M., Karjus, A., & Schich, M. (2023). Collection space navigator: An interactive visualization interface for multidimensional datasets. In Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Visual Information (VINCI ’23). https://doi.org/10.1145/3615522.3615546
- Karjus, A., Canet Solà, M., Ohm, T., Ahnert, S. E., & Schich, M. (2023). Compression ensembles quantify aesthetic complexity and the evolution of visual art. EPJ Data Science, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00397-3
Other Publications
- Ohm, T. (2025). Designing processes and tools to research similarity spaces of visual collections. Dissertations on Natural Sciences. Tallinn University. https://doi.org/10.60518/etera/48
- Ohm, T. (2023). Algorithmic exhibition-making: Curating with networks and word embeddings. In S. Thiel & J. Bernhardt (Eds.), AI in museums: Reflections, perspectives and applications. Transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839467107-019
- Ohm, T. (2024). fruit-SALAD [Dataset repository]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11158522
- Ohm, T., & ARCU. (2018). The artist’s machine. ARCU&OHM. https://doi.org/10.31237/osf.io/tj6yf