Character Recognition in Byzantine seals

This site is related to the article Théophile Rageau, Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Attilio Fiandrotti, Victoria Eyharabide, Béatrice Caseau, Jean-Claude Cheynet, Character Recognition in Byzantine Seals with Deep Neural Networks, Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Volume 37, June 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.daach.2025.e00403

directory images/ contains 2224 cropped characters (28 classes).

One of these classes is the background class, 'bg'.

The classes are:

• 'C moon-shaped sigma',
• 'CT ligature',
• 'Croisette',
• 'R = βῆτα',
• 'S = καί',
• 'V = Y',
• 'bg',
• 'ligature OU',
• 'sigma',
• 'Α',
• 'Β',
• 'Γ',
• 'Δ',
• 'Ε',
• 'Ζ',
• 'Η',
• 'Θ',
• 'Ι',
• 'Κ',
• 'Λ',
• 'Μ',
• 'Ν',
• 'Ξ',
• 'Ο',
• 'Π',
• 'Ρ = rho',
• 'Τ',
• 'Φ',
• 'Χ',
• 'ω',
• 'И = N'