[versteegen]

Can't speak for the video, but this is a bit misleading actually. What cracked this was actually visual inspection looking for patterns which could then be used as better training data, which so far apparently hasn't found very many letters that were too hard to see. Read the OP describing the iterative process of hand-annotation guided by output of a model, then retraining the model with the additional data, it's a fascinating technique! Simply using deep learning on the initially available ground truths without knowing what features the models should be looking for actually pretty much didn't work!

Also, so far the process of virtually unrolling the scrolls is mostly manual and extremely labour intensive.

[kelsey9876543]

Thank you for adding the deeper insight! The competition and the methods used are very fascinating indeed.