<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>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.</p></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.

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

Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University

Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, 1113 Sofia

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

The paper presents a method for representing whole and fragmented ceramic vessels depicted as two dimensional archaeological drawings. The process of...

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

Publié en ligne: 21 mai 2013

Pages: 82 - 96

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2013-0017

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