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Automatic Classification of Archaeological Potsherds

@inproceedings{Maiza2005AutomaticCO,
  title={Automatic Classification of Archaeological Potsherds},
  author={Chaouki Maiza and V{\'e}ronique Gaildrat},
  year={2005}
}
During archaeological excavations, one of the most time consuming stages is the treatment of the great number of pottery sherds found on the site (labelling, drawing, measuring and classifying as related to the known object models). This step is also the most difficult one because it requires an extended knowledge of the characteristics of the already identified object models that can be found on a given archaeological site. As digitalization techniques have become financially reachable, new… 
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