digital epigraphy toolbox
DESCRIPTION
A web-based application that facilitates the preservation, study, and dissemination of ancient inscriptions. DIGITAL EPIGRAPHY TOOLBOX. Funded by: NEH . UF. UNIVERSITY of FLORIDA. Angelos Barmpoutis , Eleni Bozia , Robert Wagman. Outline. Motivation Computer Methods in Epigraphy - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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DIGITAL EPIGRAPHY TOOLBOXA web-based application that facilitates the preservation, study, and
dissemination of ancient inscriptions.Funded by: NEH
UNIVERSITY of
FLORIDAUF
Angelos Barmpoutis, Eleni Bozia, Robert Wagman
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Outline
Motivation Computer Methods in Epigraphy Digitizing squeezes Automated epigraphic analysis DEMO – Experimental Results Conclusions
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Motivation
There are several collections of squeezes in various institutions around the world
Possible damage of squeezes Distribution difficulties Difficulties to read with naked eye … Challenges: How can we efficiently digitize
squeezes? Computer assisted study?
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Computer Methods
Take pictures of squeezes. Easy and
inexpensive 3D information is
not depicted Problems
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Computer Methods
Take several pictures of an inscription using a device with different light sources. HP labs, Tom
Malzbender, 2001 Good relighting
results.
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Computer Methods
Take several pictures of an inscription using different light sources.
An expensive device is needed.
Must be carried to the site.
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Computer Methods
Petroglyph digitization using laser scanners
George Landon et al., Machine Vision and Applications 2006
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Computer Methods
Petroglyph digitization using laser scanners
George Landon et al., Machine Vision and Applications 2006 Accurate results
Very expensive. Must be carried
to the site.
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Computer Methods
Reconstruct 3D scene from video. Kurt Cornelis et al. 2000
Needs only a camera!
Good for large objects
Inaccurate for details
Cannot recover inscribed details
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Digitize Squeezes
Our proposed method: Makes use of squeezes Needs only a conventional scanner Inexpensive No need to transfer equipment in
site.
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An efficient method for digitizing squeezes and performing automated epigraphic analysis Eleni Bozia, Angelos Barmpoutis, Robert S.
Wagman
Digital Worlds InstituteDepartment of Classics
UNIVERSITY of
FLORIDAUF
MVA 21(6), 2010, pp. 989-998
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Digitizing Squeezes
Use a regular scanner Grayscale option Scan squeezes twice
1. 2.
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Digitizing Squeezes
This will produce a set of images like that:Light from the
topLight from the left
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Digitizing Squeezes
These images contain all the shading information needed to understand the local curvature of the paper.
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Digitizing Squeezes
By combining: Knowledge about the reflectance model
of a paper The shading provided from the two scans
A computer can recover the 3D anaglyph of the squeeze This is known as “shape from shading”
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Visualization 1 There are several ways to visualize
the reconstructed 3D surfaces 1) Plot the 3D surface (can be rotated and zoomed by
the user)
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Visualization 2 There are several ways to visualize
the reconstructed 3D surfaces 2) Plot the height-map (dark intensities=deeper
locations)
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Visualization 3 There are several ways to visualize
the reconstructed 3D surfaces 3) Change the material properties
etc.
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Digitizing Squeezes
So far, the steps of our method:
Then we can perform post-processing steps for automated analysis
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Segmenting letters
For each reconstructed inscription, we can automatically segment each letter or symbol
The process is fully automated.
A box is placed around each symbol.
There may be few errors which can be discarded by the user.
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Grouping letters
The segmented symbols can be automatically clustered into groups.
Example: all ‘alpha’ characters are grouped together This process can
be first done partly by the user.
Then the computer can continue automatically by finding letters similar to those chosen by the user.
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Registration of the symbols The symbols from each group are
rotated and scaled automatically in order to overlap each other as much as possible.
This process is fully automated and it is known as ‘group-wise registration’.
The average character is also computed during this process.
The average depicts useful information about the letterforms.
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Statistical analysis
Finally, the registered characters can be compared to each other by measuring the affinity between them. The computed affinities can be
further used to construct a dendrogram.
The method is known as:Agglomerative hierarchical clustering
The computed dendrogram shows groups of letters with similar characteristics.
Useful for automated analysis.
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Automated Epigraphic Analysis The post-processing steps of our
method:
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Experimental Results
We applied the proposed framework to:
5 squeezes from five inscribed fragments (archaeological site of Epidauros)
contain religious hymns for Asclepius and other deities
IG IV I 2, 129-135; SEG 30, 390 in R. S.Wagman. Inni di Epidauro. Biblioteca di Studi Antichi,Pisa, 1995
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Experimental Results
Example of the two scanned images:
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Experimental Results
Example of the two scanned images:
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Experimental Results
Example of the two scanned images:
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Experimental Results
Example of the two scanned images:
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Experimental Results
Example of the 3D reconstruction
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Experimental Results
Example of the 3D reconstruction
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Experimental Results
Example of the 3D reconstruction
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Experimental Results
Example of the 3D reconstruction
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Experimental Results
Example of the 3D reconstruction
Details from the reconstructed surfaces
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Experimental Results
Examples of letter segmentation
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Experimental Results
Examples of letter grouping
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Experimental Results
Dendrogram of ‘epsilon’Notice line extensions in the average image.
Notice a small group in the dendrogram with two ‘epsilons’ whose middle line is not touching the vertical one.
No other significant sub-groups were formed.
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Experimental Results
Dendrogram of ‘alpha’
Look at the shape of the computed average.
No significant sub-groups were formed.
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Experimental Results
Dendrogram of ‘sigma’
Look at the shape of the computed average.
No significant sub-groups were formed.
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Experimental Results
Dendrogram of ‘ypsilon’
Look at the shape of the computed average.
No significant sub-groups were formed.
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Conclusions
To conclude, here is a diagram of our method.
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Conclusions
Advantages: Convert paper squeezes into a digital format Easy copy and distribution of the squeezes Create libraries of 3D squeezes Use different viewing angles and shadings Compare letters and compute statisticsDrawbacks: Some details of the inscriptions are not
captured by the squeezes, such as depth. Very large squeezes are hard to be scanned.
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Conclusions
Future uses: Build an on-line library of 3D
squeezes Other uses e.g. Create fonts from
inscriptions
Other challenges: Automated dating Automated classification of
inscriptions made from the same workshop
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3D digitization tool
3D data search Sharing options
Web-based interface
Funded by: NEH
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On-line Demo http://plaza.ufl.edu/bozia/epigraphy
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Thank you