Modernizing the Documentation of Historical Weapons Collections

werecow · 19th December 2024, 09:47 PM

Interesting! I have a background in AI and for a while I've been thinking about doing a data science project involving sword collecting. A friend from the forums has also indicated that he's interested in joining in.

I'd be particularly interested in seeing if we can create a system for automated recognition of either images of swords, or even better, images of marks and decorations, or at least an image search for similar images that could be of help in identifying the markings in question. But right now I'm not sure where to get good training data (it would require a pretty extensive annotated database of images and metadata).

Anyway, it's not well thought out at the moment but when it takes a more concrete form I might contact you.

19th December 2024, 09:47 PM	#2
werecow Member Join Date: Sep 2021 Location: Leiden, NL Posts: 553	Interesting! I have a background in AI and for a while I've been thinking about doing a data science project involving sword collecting. A friend from the forums has also indicated that he's interested in joining in. I'd be particularly interested in seeing if we can create a system for automated recognition of either images of swords, or even better, images of marks and decorations, or at least an image search for similar images that could be of help in identifying the markings in question. But right now I'm not sure where to get good training data (it would require a pretty extensive annotated database of images and metadata). Anyway, it's not well thought out at the moment but when it takes a more concrete form I might contact you.