Rasik Bhattarai

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

Automated recognition of ancient cuneiform script poses a compound signal-degradation problem: the three-dimensional relief of clay tablets creates spatially varying illumination and cast shadows, surface erosion introduces structured noise that overlaps with genuine sign impressions, and severe class imbalance across...