Next November 5-7, 2021, will be held the International Conference of Postgraduate Students of History and Archaeology: ‘Interpreting Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea’, organized by the International Hellenistic University (Conference Programme).

GIAP PhD researcher Giannis Apostolou will attend the conference with the communication ‘Artificial Intelligence and the archaeology’. Join us!

Summary:

This paper provides a synthesis of current research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in archaeology, with a particular emphasis on Greece. The rise of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) in 2012 has opened many paths in the large-scale, automated detection and classification of archaeological features. Today AI practices target diverse contexts, spanning from the recognition of excavated pottery to satellite-based identification of mounds and earthworks. Near the ground, a drone-based automated survey also complements pedestrian strategies in the discovery and monitoring of new sites. Ongoing survey projects in Greece (Abdera, Grevena, Karditsa) are used to demonstrate not only the potential but also the practical challenges of such methods in the surface archaeology of today, but mainly of tomorrow.

#ArtificialIntelligence, #Machine & #Deep Learning, #ComputationalArchaeology, #RemoteSensing, #UAV (#drones), #LandscapeArchaeology, intensive pedestrian survey in Greece.