Italy, United Kingdom, Spain, Israel, Switzerland
Where?: Italy, United Kingdom, Spain, Israel, Switzerland.
Who?: Project managed by Dr. Francesca Anichini, along with Professor Letizia Gualandi, PI of ArchAIDE and Dr. Gabriele Gattiglia, project coordinator. The project is an H2020 funded project lead by the University of Pisa and a consortium of universities, private companies, and the Italian CNR.
What? A digital tool that will allow archaeologists to photograph a piece of pottery in the field and have it identified by convolutional neural networks. A first network learned to recognise different types of vessels. A second network was trained to recognise the profiles of shards. The capacities of ArchAIDE will increase with its use by researchers.
Why?: This AI will save archaeologists time on long, repetitive and time-consuming tasks so they can focus on their mission.
Innovation spotted by Marcus Goddard from the Netexplo Observatory.