THE VESUVIUS CHALLENGE IS A MACHINE LEARNING AND COMPUTER VISION COMPETITION - WIN $250,000 - TO READ THE HERCULANEUM PAPYRI The eruption of Mount Vesuvius carbonised hundreds of ancient scrolls in the library of an enormous luxury villa at Herculaneum. Now, researchers are launching a global contest to read the charred papyri after demonstrating that an artificial intelligence programme can extract letters and symbols from high-resolution X-ray images of the fragile, unrolled documents. Contest launched to decipher Herculaneum scrolls using 3D X-ray software | The Guardian
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