A Software System for Classification of Archaeological Artefacts Represented by 2D Plans

Hristov, Valentin; Agre, Gennady

doi:10.2478/cait-2013-0017

Abstract

The paper presents a method for representing whole and fragmented ceramic vessels depicted as two dimensional archaeological drawings. The process of construction of such a representation is described. It includes contour extraction from a vessel cross-section, splitting the contour into inner and outer profiles and converting them to tangent representation, is described. Some initial results of experiments, using the proposed representation for solving the task of identification of ancient Greek amphorae are discussed.

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A Software System for Classification of Archaeological Artefacts Represented by 2D Plans

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