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Main Authors: Brown-deVost, Bronson, Kurar-Barakat, Berat, Dershowitz, Nachum
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15692
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author Brown-deVost, Bronson
Kurar-Barakat, Berat
Dershowitz, Nachum
author_facet Brown-deVost, Bronson
Kurar-Barakat, Berat
Dershowitz, Nachum
contents This paper presents a customized pipeline for segmenting manuscript fragments from images curated by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). The images present challenges for standard segmentation methods due to the presence of the ruler, color, and plate number bars, as well as a black background that resembles the ink and varying backing substrates. The proposed pipeline, consisting of four steps, addresses these challenges by isolating and solving each difficulty using custom tailored methods. Further, the usage of a multi-step pipeline will surely be helpful from a conceptual standpoint for other image segmentation projects that encounter problems that have proven intractable when applying any of the more commonly used segmentation techniques. In addition, we create a dataset with bar detection and fragment segmentation ground truth and evaluate the pipeline steps qualitatively and quantitatively on it. This dataset is publicly available to support the development of the field. It aims to address the lack of standard sets of fragment images and evaluation metrics and enable researchers to evaluate their methods in a reliable and reproducible manner.
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spellingShingle Segmenting Dead Sea Scroll Fragments for a Scientific Image Set
Brown-deVost, Bronson
Kurar-Barakat, Berat
Dershowitz, Nachum
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
This paper presents a customized pipeline for segmenting manuscript fragments from images curated by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). The images present challenges for standard segmentation methods due to the presence of the ruler, color, and plate number bars, as well as a black background that resembles the ink and varying backing substrates. The proposed pipeline, consisting of four steps, addresses these challenges by isolating and solving each difficulty using custom tailored methods. Further, the usage of a multi-step pipeline will surely be helpful from a conceptual standpoint for other image segmentation projects that encounter problems that have proven intractable when applying any of the more commonly used segmentation techniques. In addition, we create a dataset with bar detection and fragment segmentation ground truth and evaluate the pipeline steps qualitatively and quantitatively on it. This dataset is publicly available to support the development of the field. It aims to address the lack of standard sets of fragment images and evaluation metrics and enable researchers to evaluate their methods in a reliable and reproducible manner.
title Segmenting Dead Sea Scroll Fragments for a Scientific Image Set
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15692