Publications associées à Écriture maya

A Comparison of Social Robot to Tablet and Teacher in a New Script Learning Context

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn

This research occurred in a special context where Kazakhstan's recent decision to switch from Cyrillic to the Latin-based alphabet has resulted in challenges connected to teaching literacy, addressing a rare combination of research hypotheses and technical ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2020

Maya Codical Glyph Segmentation: A Crowdsourcing Approach

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Jean-Marc Odobez, 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

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Jean-Marc Odobez, 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 ...

Association for Computing Machinery2018

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

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Jean-Marc Odobez, 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 ...

2017

Visual Analysis of Maya Glyphs via Crowdsourcing and Deep Learning

Gülcan Can

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

Evaluating Shape Representations for Maya Glyph Classification

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Jean-Marc Odobez, 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 ...

Association for Computing Machinery2016

Assessing Sparse Coding Methods for Contextual Shape Indexing of Maya Hieroglyphs

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Jean-Marc Odobez, 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 ...

2012

Analyzing ancient Maya glyph collections with Contextual Shape Descriptors

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

This paper presents an original approach for shape-based analysis of ancient Maya hieroglyphs based on an interdisciplinary collaboration between computer vision and archaeology. Our work is guided by realistic needs of archaeologists and scholars who crit ...

Springer US2011