AI project to make charred papyrus roles legible
EU finances international research collaboration involving FAU: A unique collection of papyrus scrolls fell victim to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. They were rediscovered in the 18th century, but the carbonized scrolls are badly charred, fused together, and remain largely illegible. An international project involving the Chair of Computer Science 5 (Pattern Recognition) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) now hopes to change that by combining and refining cutting-edge technology to reconstruct the records. They also intend to use AI algorithms. The European Research Council (ERC) will finance the project in the coming six years with over eleven million euros. Read more …