THE ILAC-PROJECT: SUPPORTING ANCIENT COIN CLASSIFICATION BY MEANS OF IMAGE ANALYSIS
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 work...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2013-07-01
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| Series: | The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences |
| Online Access: | https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XL-5-W2/373/2013/isprsarchives-XL-5-W2-373-2013.pdf |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1750 2194-9034 |