Department of Pattern Recognition

Current advances in computed tomography scanning make it possible to virtually reconstruct Greek parchment scrolls burned 2,000 years ago after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The existing 280 scrolls found represent an enormous historical value. Their reading is a real revolution in modern methods of archeology. The individual layers of the scroll must first be virtually unfolded, and the individual fragments connected to each other. Finding individual Greek letters on burnt scrolls is very difficult from CT scans, a possible solution is to use texture analysis methods. So far, only a few isolated words have been successfully read. The topic of the work is the improvement of the current state of reading burnt scrolls.