Vesuvius Challenge

Over $320,000 in new prizes, and tens of meters of fresh ancient scroll. There's never been a better time to start the challenge! Details here: scrollprize.org/prizes Join the Discord! We'd love to help you get started. discord.gg/uTfNwwecCQ

We found some words in Scroll 5, which is from the Bodleian Library collection of Herculaneum papyri. Still work to do to prevent our segmentation algorithm from jumping between adjacent sheets so we can get whole sentences and paragraphs out of this scroll, but this is very…

Awarding the fantastic contributions from our community in April! Congratulations to the winners of this month's progress prizes! Sestertius - Lachlan Parker, Will Stevens Papyrus - Stephane Gouttebrouze , Yao Hsao Newsletter - open.substack.com/pub/scrollpriz… Open Prizes -…

We’re looking for exceptional people to join our mission to read the Herculaneum Scrolls. Refer a successful hire — earn a $5,000 prize. We're hiring for the following roles: Geometry & Computer Vision Applied Researchers Platform Engineers Synchrotron Tomography…

This month, we more than quadrupled the "virtual library" of Herculaneum scrolls, going from 5 to 23 total scans. This required an immense effort from our team and partners (some might even say Herculean!). If you've ever wondered what the process looks like, take a look at…

We've awarded our first set of progress prizes for the new year! Congrats to the winners! Included as well are some updates from the past month, including a sneak peek at some information regarding our upcoming scans! scrollprize.substack.com/p/february-pro…

The @bodleianlibs and the Vesuvius Challenge have announced a historic breakthrough in the endeavour to decipher text preserved on papyrus scrolls from the ancient site of Herculaneum.

Want to be the first person in 2,000 years to read a word in an ancient scroll? Good news! We just released a ton more segmentations from Scroll 3! Head to scrollprize.org or join the Discord discord.gg/uTfNwwecCQ to get started!

Herculaneum scrolls breakthrough: Scientists digitally "unroll" 2,000-year-old scroll scorched by Mount Vesuvius. cbsn.ws/3Q27rGu

In 2023, several tech executives sponsored the “Vesuvius Challenge” competition, offering cash rewards for efforts to decipher the scrolls with machine learning, computer vision and geometry. trib.al/DDmwvue

First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years bbc.in/40NJzv2

We recently partnered with @bodleianlibs and @UniofOxford and are thrilled to share some exciting news! Tons of new text, huge segmentations, and updates on the state of ink detection and segmentation: scrollprize.substack.com/p/exciting-new… More to come soon!

More exciting results from our collaboration with @scrollprize and @natfriedman

We're awarding $30k and an awesome custom lego set to two of our year-end submissions. Congrats to @.waldkauz, @.Paul , and @.Bruniss! From hundreds of hours of human input down to less than 4. Incredible progress this year! Newsletter: scrollprize.substack.com/p/awarding-the…