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We present an overview of the CODICES project, an interdisciplinary approach for analysis of pre-Columbian collections of pictorial materials – more specifically, of Maya hieroglyphics. We discuss some of the main scientific and technical challenges that we have found in our work, and present a summary of our current technical achievements. This overview stresses the importance of thinking globally and acting both locally and globally with respect to developing approaches for cultural heritage preservation, research, and education.
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- Computer Vision Technique
- Average Pairwise Distance
- Late Classic Period
- Terminal Classic Period
- Cultural Heritage Preservation
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Gatica-Perez, D., Roman-Rangel, E., Odobez, JM., Pallan, C. (2012). New World, New Worlds: Visual Analysis of Pre-columbian Pictorial Collections. In: Grana, C., Cucchiara, R. (eds) Multimedia for Cultural Heritage. MM4CH 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 247. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27978-2_8
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