$42,500 in Progress Prizes Awarded
10 winners; April efforts underway
This was a huge month for progress - we’re getting closer daily to reading more of the scrolls! Remember that the submission window for April progress prizes has already opened. And with no further ado, here are the March prize winners! Thank you for so many great contributions!!!
1 x $20,000 (Gold Aureus)
Giorgio Angelotti (@Jordi) has been busy! We know that in order to successfully process more and larger scroll segments, significant performance and efficiency improvements are needed across the pipeline. Giorgio has risen to the challenge, with contributions across multiple stages:
Fast rendering - allows surface volumes to be rendered quickly and with lower memory constraints - hugely helpful!!
slim-flatboi (Discord discussion) - another flattening method, with analysis showing improvements in L2 and Linf stretch metrics
Signal-specialized fine-tuning for flattening - further flattening experiments
Segmentation tutorial - no-code introduction to segmentation with ThaumatoAnakalyptor
1 x $10,000 (Denarius)
Chuck (@khartes_chuck) has continued adding features to Khartes - including the major improvement of supporting multiresolution chunked volumes in the OME-Zarr format! Along with scripts to convert volumes to this format, this work is already informing how we process and store scroll data going forward.
3 x $2,500 (Sestertius)
Three additional contributors have made significant strides in tooling or new approaches:
Jorge Villaescusa (@mojonero) shared code to map 2D ink labels to 3D, allowing for volumetric ink detection, as well as other ideas that were tried along the way!
Volumetric ink detection experiments. Tim Skinner (@Tim S) contributed models/weights for scroll/air segmentation, as well as some densely annotated volumetric instance segmentation labels for sheets!
Volumetric segmentation labels. James Darby (@james darby) has made a number of contributions to data processing, organization, and download, including additions to VesuviusDataDownload, OME-Zarr versions of some volumes, and scroll masks to reduce data sizes.
Vesuvius Data Download.
5 x $1,000 (Papyrus)
But wait, there’s more!! Many of you continue pushing new ideas that we are excited to follow:
Oliver Daubney (@O_D) contributed a segment-to-segment label map, allowing ink labels to be mapped to newer versions of their respective segments.
Segment-to-segment label mapping. Yao Hsiao (@Yao Hsiao) created a scroll cell viewer as well as a script to compare segmentations.
Scroll cell viewer. Santiago Pelufo (@spelufo) made a list of scroll cells intersecting the 2023 Grand Prize banner (for smaller required downloads), and a 3D superpixel implementation to coarsen the data for autosegmentation.
Scroll superpixels. Sean Johnson (@Bruniss) made a notebook for segmenting in axes other than Z, contributed some 3D ink labels, and is helping update our segmentation tutorials.
Using axes other than Z. Nicola Bodill (@polytrope) made an introductory notebook to help people get the 2023 Grand Prize submission up and running, and has also been hard at work updating ink labels with the goal of improving ink detection!
Colab notebook for 2023 Grand Prize results.
Thank you to everyone who contributed in March, and congratulations to the prize winners!! For April prizes (submission form), remember to check the updated wish list on our website!