First Progress Prize Deadline: 9 days!
The first round of 2024 monthly progress prizes is nearly behind us! There are 9 more days before the March 31 deadline. Read more (including our wish list!) on our website. Remember that we strongly encourage submissions that are shared early and that are used by the community!
Grand Prize Celebration
THANK YOU to everyone who joined us at the Getty Villa in Los Angeles this weekend to celebrate the Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize results! It was an honor to meet many of you in person and to be reminded of the impact this community is having.
If you were not able to join us in person or missed the livestream, stay tuned for a link to the recorded talks. This was a great session! And if you have any photos from the weekend, please feel free to share them with us!
Other Ongoing Prizes
More details about the 2024 Grand Prize evaluation criteria will be available soon. In the meantime:
We still don’t have much (if any) text from Scrolls 2, 3, or 4. Does ink present differently in these scrolls? Will detecting it seem trivial in hindsight? Open questions! What we do know is you could be the first to find it! Read more about these three separate first letters prizes on our website.
Feeling speedy? There’s $50,000 on the line for the first entry that automates the 2023 Grand Prize segmentations.
Resources
Not ready to share your segmentation progress quite yet, but could use some feedback? Reach out to our segmentation team! @Hari_Seldon and @djosey on Discord are here to help!
Are you collaborating with a team and held up by a lack of easy shared storage? Let us know!
More Updates
A more in depth review of the First Letters results is now available in an open access paper from our papyrologists!
And as usual, a stream of technical contributions continues:
Easier data downloads! (@james_darby)
Autosegmentation discussion about ThaumatoAnakalyptor and other ideas! (@RICHI and others)
Segment-to-segment label mapping! (@O_D)
Segment viewer updates! (@Yao_Hsiao)
And more - Join us!
What if scrolls 2, 3, and 4 are blank? Or only partially written on?