Vesuvius Challenge

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Vesuvius Challenge has been quietly making a lot of progress; we read a full scroll, developed a new unwrapping algorithm with a global spiral prior, and we just launched a new $1M grand prize for reading one of the scrolls we've scanned. There are also 10 $50k prizes available for finding text in a scroll we haven't found text in before, plus monthly progress prizes. Join the discord!

A new phase BEGINS! 🚀 🏆 $1M Grand Prize 💰 $2M+ in open prizes 👑 $20K awarded every month to the best submission scrollprize.org Will you read the next scroll? 👀 Spread the word and repost! 🔁

@huggingface we use AI to read ancient scrolls📜 We’re launching a $1M 2027 Grand Prize and need reliable, open storage so contestants can train on ML datasets without rate limits 🌋 Can you help? 🙏

This sounds crazy, BUT this week we READ A FULL SCROLL!! scrollprize.org/firstscroll It’s PHerc. 1667, aka Scroll 4! And that’s not all. We also proved that we can directly see ink in a rescan of PHerc. Paris 4 — Scroll 1 — WITHOUT machine learning… …and we UNROLLED ABOUT 140 COLUMNS FROM IT. This was honestly POETIC. We first saw a glimpse of the results over dinner in Naples, in a restaurant where Caravaggio was stabbed. Federica was so excited — more excited than we had ever seen her — that we abandoned dinner, went back to work, and unrolled the 140 columns until 3 a.m. on a hotel rooftop, with Vesuvius in the background. The unroll is not perfect. But guys… 140 columns, with text visible everywhere. It’s HUGE. This project has been full of ups and downs, but somehow, at some point, something ALWAYS happens. We’re starting to think these scrolls have personalities… …and they want to be read. @natfriedman has announced a $1M Grand Prize to read another full scroll. Official details coming soon!

The Vesuvius Challenge is still a CHALLENGE! 🧠📜 We’re teaming up with @kaggle to launch a $100K Surface Detection competition on 3D CT scans of the Herculaneum scrolls: kaggle.com/competitions/v… . Train topology-aware models, climb the leaderboard, and help us read an ancient library! #VesuviusChallenge #kaggle #computervision #machinelearning

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 - scrollprize.org/prizes Discord - discord.com/invite/uTfNwwe… We've awarded $1.5 million in prizes to date and have $500,000+ in prizes waiting to be claimed! Check out the site and join the discord to get started.

Social links for : Marcel : linkedin.com/in/mvrcelroth/ Micha : linkedin.com/in/mvnowak Congrats again to you both!

We're excited to announce that we are awarding our inaugural $60,000 First Title Prize!!! PHerc. 172 is officially On Vices Congratulations to Marcel Roth and Micha Nowak for the historic achievement of recovering the first title ever found in a still-rolled Herculaneum scroll!! We've written up an extended announcement that goes into some additional details about the title and what we may learn from it here: scrollprize.substack.com/p/60000-first-… We've got a ton more prizes available, join our quest to read the Herculaneum scrolls and you too could win a prize like this one! scrollprize.org/get_started

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 Reconstruction Expert If you know someone brilliant who can help recover the ancient scrolls of Herculaneum, your referral could change history! View Open Roles - scrollprize.org/jobs Check the instructions - (#referral-prize" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">scrollprize.org/prizes#referra… Send referals to : jobs@scrollprize.org

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 our latest substack post! open.substack.com/pub/scrollpriz…

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…

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

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.

We have this fragment which we believe is from P.Herc 1667, which is one of our scanned scrolls and is roughly 75% segmented. If this fragment is indeed from that scroll, we believe that P.Herc 1667 (Our Scroll 4) is in latin. We have yet to find words from the unrolled scan of this scroll to verify

@scrollprize any known segmentations yet that are in Latin instead of Greek?

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!