Publications related to Maya civilization

Multimedia Analysis and Access of Ancient Maya Epigraphy

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Jean-Marc Odobez, Gülcan Can, Rui Hu

This article presents an integrated framework for multimedia access and analysis of ancient Maya epigraphic resources, which is developed as an interdisciplinary effort involving epigraphers (someone who deciphers ancient inscriptions) and computer scienti ...

IEEE2015

Statistical Shape Descriptors for Ancient Maya Hieroglyphs Analysis

Edgar Roman Rangel

The preservation, analysis, and management of valuable and fragile historical and cultural materials with digital technologies is a field of multidisciplinary nature, and significant to the society at large. The benefits of using visual and multimedia anal ...

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne2012

Assessing Sparse Coding Methods for Contextual Shape Indexing of Maya Hieroglyphs

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Jean-Marc Odobez, Edgar Roman Rangel

Bag-of-visual-words or bag-of-visterms (bov) is a common technique used to index Multimedia information with the purposes of retrieval and classification. In this work we address the problem of constructing efficient bov representations of complex shapes a ...

2012

Pre-Columbian deforestation as an amplifier of drought in Mesoamerica

Jed Oliver Kaplan

Droughts in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica caused significant societal disruptions during the Late Classic and Post-Classic Periods. While the primary causes of these droughts are still debated, it has been speculated that they may be linked to extensive defore ...

Amer Geophysical Union2012

Analyzing ancient Maya glyph collections with Contextual Shape Descriptors

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Jean-Marc Odobez, Edgar Roman Rangel

This paper presents an original approach for shape-based analysis of ancient Maya hieroglyphs based on an interdisciplinary collaboration between computer vision and archaeology. Our work is guided by realistic needs of archaeologists and scholars who crit ...

Springer US2010

Retrieving Ancient Maya Glyphs with Shape Context

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Jean-Marc Odobez, Edgar Roman Rangel

We introduce an interdisciplinary project for archaeological and computer vision research teams on the analysis of the ancient Maya writing system. Our first task is the automatic retrieval of Maya syllabic glyphs using the Shape Context descriptor. We inv ...

IEEE2009

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