Archaeologists train a neural network to sort pottery fragments for them

Re:Archaeologists train a neural network to sort pottery fra... by teruakohatu on Monday May 24, 2021 @04:53AM (#27262287)

Tldr (the original paper); Fine tuned ResNet-50 and VGG-16 classifiers are pretty good at identifying ancient pottery fragments found in the South Western USA while human expert seem quite poor at it.

Also, archeology papers have nice maps and photos. Open access paper here:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030544032...

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Re:Archaeologists train a neural network to sort pottery fra... by halsom on Monday May 24, 2021 @08:06AM (#27263378)

Thanks for sharing! Beautiful pottery!!!

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