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EduceLab-Scrolls: Verifiable Recovery of Text from Herculaneum Papyri using X-ray CT
Stephen Parsons, C. Seth Parker, Christy Chapman et al., 2023. arXiv.
Introduces the EduceLab-Scrolls dataset (over 11 TB of CT scans of Herculaneum scrolls and fragments with aligned infrared photographs) and a supervised ink-detection method trained on fragments, evaluated by cross-validation and papyrological transcription.
What it's used for here
Source for the ink-contrast problem and the first measured recall and false-positive rates.
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Parsons, S., Parker, C. S., Chapman, C., Hayashida, M., & Seales, W. B. (2023). EduceLab-Scrolls: Verifiable Recovery of Text from Herculaneum Papyri using X-ray CT. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02084
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title = {EduceLab-Scrolls: Verifiable Recovery of Text from Herculaneum Papyri using X-ray CT},
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Parsons, Stephen et al.. “EduceLab-Scrolls: Verifiable Recovery of Text from Herculaneum Papyri using X-ray CT.” arXiv (2023).