Community Projects

Since launching the Vesuvius Challenge, our community has generated an incredible set of tools to help with various parts of the pipeline.

Efforts can generally be grouped into two categories:

• Segmentation: the mapping of sheets of papyrus (“segments”) in a 3D X-ray volume. See Tutorial 3, Data -> Segments and Tutorial 4.

• Ink Detection: detecting ink in segments. See Tutorial 5.

Segmentation​

Some segments from Scroll 1

Segmentation is the mapping of sheets of papyrus (“segments”) in a 3D X-ray volume. See Tutorial 3. The community has built various tools to do this.

We also have a hired segmentation team using these tools to generate segments. These are available for anyone to download. See Data -> Segments for more information.

What are people working on?​

Next milestone: segmenting all papyrus sheets of all scrolls. For this we will need tools like:

• Segmenting the latest scans

  • Better tooling for dealing with the higher resolutions and multiple volumes

  • Current state of the art: Philip’s Volume Cartographer fork

• Better tools for high-accuracy segmentation or correcting

  • Current state of the art: Khartes

• Autosegmentation (minimal human input)

• Merging of segments

• Visualizing segments both in 3D and in flattened form

  • Current state of the art: Segment Viewer

Volume Cartographer​

Original Github repo / Faster version by Julian (@RICHI) / Even more features by Philip (@spacegaier)

The main tool that the segmentation team currently uses is Volume Cartographer.

This tool was originally created by EduceLab (in particular Seth Parker), and is now being improved both by EduceLab and the Vesuvius Challenge community. The tool has been improved greatly, with more accurate and faster segmentation algorithms and UI improvements.