News

Maya glyph analysis on Horizons Magazine
The work by R. Hu, J.-M. Odobez, and D. Gatica-Perez on extraction of Maya hieroglyph strokes was covered by Horizons Magazine, the scientific magazine of the SNSF and the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences.

MAAYA project at EPFL Open Days 2016
Idiap researchers presented tools for analysis and visualization of ancient Maya hieroglyphs at the EPFL Open Days 2016 in Lausanne.

MAAYA work presented at Workshop on Signal and Image Processing for Art and Patrimony
Prof. Stephane Marchand-Maillet (University of Geneva) gave a keynote talk on May 13 2016 at the Workshop "Traitement du signal et des images pour l'art et le patrimoine" organised at Telecom ParisTech by the Interest Group ISIS from CNRS, France.

MAAYA featured on European Association for Digital Humanities Website
The MAAYA project is listed on the project page of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH).

MAAYA at the European Maya Conference 2015
Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez (Social Computing Group @ Idiap) presented work done as part of the MAAYA project at the 20th European Maya Conference (EMC) in Bonn, Germany

Coverage of MAAYA project in local media
The MAAYA project was featured in local Swiss radio and TV news.

Towards a Google Translate for Maya writing
Algorithms for recognition of Maya glyphs ease the job of deciphering these complex symbols.

Revealing the mysteries of the Maya script
Rui Hu, researcher at the Idiap Research Institute has been highlighted on EPFL MEDIA NEWS for her work on Maya script

Session on Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition for Archaeological Research at CAA 2015
Daniel Gatica-Perez (PI of the MAAYA project) co-organized a Session on Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition for Archaeological Research at the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Annual Conference (CAA) in Siena, Apr. 2015.