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Maya Codical Glyph Segmentation: A Crowdsourcing Approach

Jean-Marc Odobez, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Gülcan Can

This paper focuses on the crowd-annotation of an ancient Maya glyph dataset derived from the three ancient codices that survived up to date. More precisely, non-expert annotators are asked to segment glyph-blocks into their constituent glyph entities. As a ...

2018

How to Tell Ancient Signs Apart? Recognizing and Visualizing Maya Glyphs with CNNs

Jean-Marc Odobez, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Gülcan Can

Thanks to the digital preservation of cultural heritage materials, multimedia tools (e.g., based on automatic visual processing) considerably ease the work of scholars in the humanities and help them to perform quantitative analysis of their data. In this ...

2018

Visual Analysis of Maya Glyphs via Crowdsourcing and Deep Learning

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In this dissertation, we study visual analysis methods for complex ancient Maya writings. The unit sign of a Maya text is called glyph, and may have either semantic or syllabic significance. There are over 800 identified glyph categories, and over 1400 var ...

EPFL2017

Analyzing and Visualizing Ancient Maya Hieroglyphics Using Shape: from Computer Vision to Digital Humanities

Jean-Marc Odobez, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Rui Hu

Maya hieroglyphic analysis requires epigraphers to spend a significant amount of time browsing existing catalogs to identify individual glyphs. Automatic Maya glyph analysis provides an efficient way to assist scholars’ daily work. We introduce the Histogr ...

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Evaluating Shape Representations for Maya Glyph Classification

Jean-Marc Odobez, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Gülcan Can

Shape representations are critical for visual analysis of cultural heritage materials. This article studies two types of shape representations in a bag-of-words-based pipeline to recognize Maya glyphs. The first is a knowledge-driven Histogram of Orientati ...

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Assessing Sparse Coding Methods for Contextual Shape Indexing of Maya Hieroglyphs

Jean-Marc Odobez, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Edgar Roman Rangel

Bag-of-visual-words or bag-of-visterms (bov) is a common technique used to index Multimedia information with the purposes of retrieval and classification. In this work we address the problem of constructing efficient bov representations of complex shapes a ...

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