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The Meeting the Vesuvius Challenge is designed to accelerate progress on the virtual unrolling of carbonised papyrus scrolls and to expand our capacity to interpret the texts recovered by this method, thereby advancing our understanding of a crucial period of Greco-Roman antiquity.
The AI methods developed under this program will yield transferable tools for extracting and analysing complex 3D surfaces using non-invasive imaging, with anticipated applications in medicine as well as in non-destructive testing and manufacturing.
The Humanities will benefit from this project by drawing on the texts so far recovered from the library at Herculaneum, with the medium-term outcome being likely to include a much richer understanding of the history and detail of ancient atomism as developed in the Epicurean school, of Hellenistic discussions of free will and determinism, and of the history of logic.
Project Details:
Meeting the Vesuvius Challenge is hosted by the Faculty of Classics and a collaboration with the Vesuvius Challenge.
The project is funded by the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute of Schmidt Sciences.
