Abstract
Abstract. This paper presents the ILAC project, which aims at the development of an automated image-based classification system for ancient Roman Republican coins. The benefits of such a system are manifold: operating at the suture between computer vision and numismatics, ILAC can reduce the day-to-day workload of numismatists by assisting them in classification tasks and providing a preselection of suitable coin classes. This is especially helpful for large coin hoard findings comprising several thousands of coins. Furthermore, this system could be implemented in an online platform for hobby numismatists, allowing them to access background information about their coin collection by simply uploading a photo of obverse and reverse for the coin of interest. ILAC explores different computer vision techniques and their combinations for the use of image-based coin recognition. Some of these methods, such as image matching, use the entire coin image in the classification process, while symbol or legend recognition exploit certain characteristics of the coin imagery. An overview of the methods explored so far and the respective experiments is given as well as an outlook on the next steps of the project.
Highlights
ILAC stands for Image-based cLassification of Ancient Coins and is an interdisciplinary project that links the field of Computer Vision with Numismatics and aims at generating a selection of image-based classification methods for ancient Roman Republican coins
This paper presents the ILAC project, which aims at the development of an automated image-based classification system for ancient Roman Republican coins
The goal for the final year is to enrich the method-mix by researching a coin image recognition technique, to further improve and evaluate the methods researched so far and to combine all methods to a fully-fledged coin recognition framework, which allows to perform an image-based classification of ancient Roman Republican coins
Summary
ILAC stands for Image-based cLassification of Ancient Coins and is an interdisciplinary project that links the field of Computer Vision with Numismatics and aims at generating a selection of image-based classification methods for ancient Roman Republican coins. The goal for the final year is to enrich the method-mix by researching a coin image recognition technique, to further improve and evaluate the methods researched so far and to combine all methods to a fully-fledged coin recognition framework, which allows to perform an image-based classification of ancient Roman Republican coins.
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