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Vesuvius Challenge – Ink Detection

Resurrect an ancient library from the ashes of a volcano

saadithya by saadithya
April 12, 2023
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Join the $1,000,000+ Vesuvius Challenge to resurrect an ancient library from the ashes of a volcano. In this competition you are tasked with detecting ink from 3D X-ray scans and reading the contents. Thousands of scrolls were part of a library located in a Roman villa in Herculaneum, a town next to Pompeii. This villa was buried by the Vesuvius eruption nearly 2000 years ago. Due to the heat of the volcano, the scrolls were carbonized, and are now impossible to open without breaking them. These scrolls were discovered a few hundred years ago and have been waiting to be read using modern techniques. There is a $700,000 grand prize available to the first team that can read these scrolls from a 3D X-ray scan. This Kaggle competition hosts the Ink Detection Progress Prize ($50,000 in prizes).

This Kaggle competition hosts the Ink Detection Progress Prize ($100,000 in prizes), which is about the sub-problem of detecting ink from 3d x-ray scans of fragments of papyrus which became detached from some of the excavated scrolls. This subcontest is run on Kaggle since it’s a more traditional data science / machine learning problem of building a model that can be verified against known ground truth data.

The ink used in the Herculaneum scrolls does not show up readily in X-ray scans. But we have found that machine learning models can detect it. Luckily, we have ground truth data. Since the discovery of the Herculaneum Papyri almost 300 years ago, people have tried opening them, often with disastrous results. Many scrolls were destroyed in this process, but ink can be seen on some broken-off fragments, especially under infrared light.

The dataset contains 3d x-ray scans of four such fragments at 4µm resolution, made using a particle accelerator, as well as infrared photographs of the surface of the fragments showing visible ink. These photographs have been aligned with the x-ray scans. We also provide hand-labeled binary masks indicating the presence of ink in the photographs.

Awards:-

$700,000 for the complete effort to “unwrap” the ancient scrolls, open source prizes, and more in prizes TBA.

For this Ink Detection progress prize on Kaggle, we’re awarding $100,000 for the top 10 winners on the leaderboard:

  • 1st place: $25,000
  • 2nd place: $20,000
  • 3rd place: $15,000
  • 4th place: $10,000
  • 5th–10th: $5,000

Deadline:- 07-06-2023

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