BACHELOR Assignment
Detection of Roman Emperors
Type: Bachelor EE/CS
Period: TBD
Student: (Unassigned)
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Introduction:
Together with the University of Nijmegen, we recently started investigation of application of computer vision and face recognition techniques to analyse and recognise 2D and 3D images of roman emperors. There is a huge collection of photographs of roman emperors and other important subjects in the Roman empire available on line, in photo collections and in books. In addition, a growing collection of 3D scans of the faces (or complete statues) is becoming available. A small set of high quality 3D scans and photographs was collected by ourselves.
Figure 1: From left to right: 3D recording of Brutus, 2 photographs of roman emperors
Assignment:
Apart from many statues and sculptures of Roman emperors, also statues and sculptures of other persons high in the hierarchy of the Roman Empire were created. However, to set the emperors apart from the more ”common” people, certain features were used, like e.g. a very typical hair style. Also statues/images of emperors were usually larger than that of common people. In this assignment we want to investigate if there are also certain facial features that distinguish sculptures of emperors from non-emperors. To this end, a classifier must be realised that can determine from a photograph of the face of a sculpture if this is an emperor or not, based on features that are normally used in automated face recognition.