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The Million Dollar Vesuvius Challenge: Breakthroughs and Perspectives

Giorgio Angelotti, project lead of the Vesuvius Challenge, gives an online talk for heidelberg.ai on the machine learning, computer vision and geometry behind reading the carbonized Herculaneum scrolls. He describes the technical architectu

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2026-09-22T15:00:00+00:00

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heidelberg.ai

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Online event

Giorgio Angelotti, project lead of the Vesuvius Challenge, gives an online talk for heidelberg.ai on the machine learning, computer vision and geometry behind reading the carbonized Herculaneum scrolls. He describes the technical architecture and algorithmic breakthroughs that produced the first continuous passages of text from a sealed scroll, and the bottlenecks, model optimizations and scaling challenges that remain before the rest of the buried library can be read. The open-science competition awards prizes to researchers and hobbyists worldwide working on the same problem.