Archive - Vesuvius Challenge

Exciting news from Scroll 5!

For the past several months, our team and community have been working hard on ink detection and segmentation of P.Herc.

Feb 5 •

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January 2025

Awarding the amazing autosegmentation work from 2024

Automated scroll segmentation is coming

Jan 24 •

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Vesuvius Challenge Progress Prizes: December Edition

Ending 2024 with more great advancements

Jan 24 •

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Vesuvius Challenge Progress Prizes: November Edition

$29,000 in community contributions

Jan 23 •

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Vesuvius Challenge is hiring!

Join our team to help recover the hidden texts of the Herculaneum scrolls

Jan 21 •

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December 2024

Three weeks to go in Vesuvius Challenge 2024!

And: we're hiring!

Dec 10, 2024 •

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November 2024

New tools to use with new scroll

$18,500 in community contributions

Nov 27, 2024 •

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First letters found in new scroll

PHerc. 172 (Scroll 5) is here.

Nov 27, 2024 •

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October 2024

Exciting acceleration in community activity

New approach to auto-segmentation revealed

Oct 30, 2024 •

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September 2024

$41,000 in Progress Prizes awarded for August contributions

The Vesuvius Challenge community is the gift that keeps on giving

Sep 4, 2024 •

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August 2024

It has never been easier to look inside ancient scrolls

Also: more prizes awarded!

Aug 29, 2024 •

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July 2024

Office hours 10am Pacific, July 31

And submit July projects for progress prizes!

Jul 30, 2024 •

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