Qumran Letter Restoration by Rotation and Reflection Modified PixelCNN

Lior Uzan, Nachum Dershowitz, Lior Wolf

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Abstract

The task of restoring fragmentary letters is fundamental to the reading of ancient manuscripts. We present a method to complete broken letters in the Dead Sea Scrolls, which is based on PixelCNN++. Since the generation of the broken letters is conditioned on the extant scroll, we modify the original method to allow reconstructions in multiple directions. Results on both simulated data and real scrolls demonstrate the advantage of our method over the baseline. The implementation may be found at https://github.com/ghostcow/pixel-cnn-qumran.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2017
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages23-29
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781538635865
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Jul 2017
Event14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2017 - Kyoto, Japan
Duration: 9 Nov 201715 Nov 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR
Volume1

Conference

Conference14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2017
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKyoto
Period9/11/1715/11/17

Keywords

  • Dead-sea
  • Deep-learning
  • Pixelcnn
  • Qumran
  • Scrolls

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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