Vesuvius Challenge

Vesuvius Challenge is a competition focused on employing technology and open source development to read and analyze ancient scrolls, primarily through segmentation, ink detection, and machine learning. It offers significant monetary prizes for advancements in these areas and promotes community collaboration and innovation among developers, researchers, and historians.

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$500,000+ in New Prizes!

21 implied HN points • 27 Feb 24
💼 Business Prizes Challenges Community Tutorials
  1. Over $500,000 in new prizes announced for 2024, including a $100,000 Grand Prize.
  2. Various prizes like the First Automated Segmentation Prize, First Letters Prizes, and Monthly Progress Prizes aim to drive progress towards community goals.
  3. Opportunities for second place prizes add to the total prize pool, providing even more chances for participants to win.

Open Source Prizes awarded

16 implied HN points • 25 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Open Source Prizes
  1. Four open source prizes of $3,000 each were awarded.
  2. Diverse projects were recognized, including a segment maps tool, large segments and colab notebook, and a Crackle Viewer.
  3. More open source and progress prizes are expected in the future.
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Prizes overview & community updates

5 implied HN points • 30 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Prizes Feedback
  1. The newsletter highlights ongoing prizes, including a $100,000 Ink Detection Progress Prize on Kaggle.
  2. There is an invitation for feedback on how to structure the remaining prize money to encourage more participants.
  3. Community updates include shared resources, discussions about the scrolls, and collaborations among participants.

Vesuvius Challenge newsletter

0 implied HN points • 27 Feb 23
📰 News Newsletter
  1. The post is about the Vesuvius Challenge newsletter.
  2. The post encourages sharing and subscribing to stay informed.
  3. The post includes ways to copy the link, share on Facebook, or send via email.

Papyrology Q&A pre-game

0 implied HN points • 24 May 23
💾 History Archaeology Research Expertise
  1. Papyrology Q&A session happening on May 25th at 8am PST.
  2. Experts discussing whether Scroll 1 was folded before being rolled up.
  3. CT scans suggest that the folded portion of Scroll 1 may have been intentionally done to create a more solid middle.

Increasing Kaggle ink detection prizes to $100k, and announcing open source prizes

0 implied HN points • 24 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Open Source Competition Livestream
  1. Ink Detection Progress Prize now has $100,000 in prizes, with 10 winners awarded for finding solutions to the ink detection problem.
  2. Introduction of 'open source prizes' to encourage public contributions in software, documentation, research notes, etc., with 3 prizes of $2,000 each for the best contributions by April 11th.
  3. Judging of open source contributions will be subjective by the Technical Team, and submissions must be publicly accessible and usable by other contestants.