Reading Legends on Ancient Coins: An Object Detection Approach for Character Recognition on a Novel Roman Republican Dataset
When it comes to the proper classification of ancient coins with respect to their time and issuer, the textual inscriptions on these coins, also known as legends, are of paramount importance. These legends consist of alphabets or characters still used in English. This paper addresses image based character recognition on ancient Roman Republican coins via a deep learning based object detection strategy. However, legends on these coins pose high variation due to non-uniform placement, primitive inscription techniques, and wear and tear. Additional challenges include inconsistent imaging conditions such as illumination, orientation, and scale. To accommodate these, we gathered a novel large-...
| Authors | Hafeez Anwar |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 28 July 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 28 July 2026 |
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