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Unveiling the secrets of an ancient library buried by Mount Vesuvius, this Kaggle competition, supported by the Vesuvius Challenge organization, tasked participants with detecting ink from 3D X-ray scans of charred scrolls preserved in a Roman villa in Herculaneum.

  • Updated Feb 18, 2024
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Machine learning pipeline for the Vesuvius Challenge an open research effort to read carbonised Herculaneum scrolls without unrolling them. Uses PyTorch convolutional models on 3D X-ray micro-CT data to segment ink signatures from charred papyrus, contributing to the recovery of ancient texts

  • Updated Jul 1, 2026
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Model-free physical ground truth for Vesuvius Challenge surface models: registers the two scroll pairs with a second higher-resolution public scan (PHerc0139 held-out 4.1um, Grand-Prize PHerc1203 2.4um), ships truth labels for both plus a standalone evaluator with shifted-null controls

  • Updated Aug 13, 2026
  • Python

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