Holographic Techniques Application in Analysing Cuneiform Inscriptions

Abstract

For the investigation of ancient cuneiform inscriptions, an optoelectronic device with several functions was used and various spatial filtering experiments were performed. By applying twofold amplitude filtering, spatial frequency features of different cuneiform elements have been enhanced, extracted, and analysed. The correlation experiments were performed by applying complex matched filtering. Input data were significantly reduced during the filtering procedures. The results presented demonstrate the possibility of obtaining information such as similarity measures between different objects in the cluttered scene analysis problem.