Automatic Egyptian Hieroglyph Recognition by Retrieving Images As Texts

Authors
Publication date 2013
Book title MM '13
Book subtitle proceedings of the 2013 ACM Multimedia Conference : October 21-25, 2013, Barcelona, Spain
ISBN
  • 9781450324045
Event 2013 ACM Multimedia Conference
Volume | Issue number 2
Pages (from-to) 765-768
Publisher New York: ACM
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract In this paper we propose an approach for automatically recognizing ancient Egyptian hieroglyph from photographs. To this end we first manually annotated and segmented a large collection of nearly 4,000 hieroglyphs. In our automatic approach we localize and segment each individual hieroglyph, determine the reading order and subsequently evaluate 5 visual descriptors in 3 different matching schemes to evaluate visual hieroglyph recognition. In addition to visual-only cues, we use a corpus of Egyptian texts to learn language models that help re-rank the visual output.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1145/2502081.2502199
Other links http://www.science.uva.nl/research/publications/2013/FrankenICM2013
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