In an attempt to facilitate the reading of ancient handwriting, Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are working on an AI grounded in human perception.
It is the hope that the endeavor will help to preserve millions of manuscripts, some of which have never even been read. While some of these texts are already available to the public through digital captures, this is a minority.
The project is set to make handwritten manuscripts readily available with automated transcription. [Read more…] about Researchers look to visual psychophysics and machine learning in attempt to read ancient text