
Note: This is not the 2023 award, which was already claimed.
Background: The Vesuvius Challenge is a machine learning and computer vision competition to read the Herculaneum Papyri. In the first stage of the competition, a grand prize was awarded to a team who managed to make 5% of the scrolls readable, mostly through advances in ink detection. Stage 2 of the Challenge requires advances in autosegmentation, the process of digitally unfolding the scrolls, that would allow 90% of the scrolls to be read. Details TBD.
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To close out the 2024 year-end prize series, we were thrilled to receive two fantastic submissions for the First Automated Segmentation Prize (FASP). Though they did not meet the full prize criteria - we’ll discuss below! - we’re incredibly excited about them, not only as standalone contributions but for the way they complement each other and illuminate the path forward.
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There’s still work to be done! Ink detection is not solved yet for all scrolls: despite multiple legitimate submissions for the First Letters and First Title prizes, we still have not been able to conclusively recover text from Scrolls 2, 3, or 4 - those prizes went unclaimed in 2024.
As a natural extension of that result combined with the FASP results, the 2024 Grand Prize also went unclaimed. We’ll work to re-baseline the community and define a new set of objectives for the next stage of Vesuvius Challenge. We can’t overstate how excited we are about the current momentum!
https://scrollprize.substack.com/p/awarding-the-amazing-autosegmentation