Zero-Shot SAM2 Segmentation and Vision Transformer-Based Recognition of Elamite Cuneiform Symbols from Degraded Tablet Images

Utsav Poudel, Rasik Bhattarai, Siddhartha Pathak +2

Automated recognition of ancient cuneiform script poses a compound signal-degradation problem: the three-dimensional relief of clay tablets creates spatially varying illumination a…