Vesuvius Challenge
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~70% of PHerc. 172 is now digitally unwrapped
Over the past weeks, the Vesuvius Challenge team has digitally unwrapped the lower ~70% of PHerc. 172—also known online as Scroll 5—focusing on the ink-bearing region (excluding the blank margins).
Compared with earlier work, this is a maj...
Finally—letters in Scroll 4!
After almost two years of staring at 8 µm renders of PHerc. 1667 (Scroll 4) with zero evidence of letters, we decided to apply what we’ve learned over the past months about optimizing the scanning protocol.
In early December we brought PHe...
Back to the Challenge: $100K Kaggle Surface Detection
Vesuvius Challenge exists to read the carbonized Herculaneum scrolls. We’re returning to our roots with a new Kaggle competition and a $100,000 prize pool.
This is what a sample from the dataset looks like: binary labels (in red) are overl...
Multiple scrolls now show Greek letters
TL;DR: Our generalist ink‑detection model and ~2 µm CT scans now reveal Greek letters across multiple scrolls. Early, noisy—but real signal. VC3D gets major usability upgrades. New $200K Unwrapping at Scale prize. Get involved.
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Column of text from PHerc. 172 (Scroll 5)
A recurring question concerns the limited release of additional text from Scroll 1 (PHerc. Paris 4) or Scroll 5 (PHerc. 172). The objective is not to isolate excerpts from one or two items, but to establish a pipeline capable of reading the...
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