On ancient coin classification

  • Authors:
  • M. Zaharieva;R. Huber-Moerk;M. Noelle;M. Kampel

  • Affiliations:
  • TU Vienna, Institute for Computer Aided Automation, Pattern Recognition & Image Processing Group, Vienna, Austria;ARC Seibersdorf Research GmbH, Smart Systems Division, High Performance Image Processing, Austria;ARC Seibersdorf Research GmbH, Smart Systems Division, Quantum Technologies, Seibersdorf, Austria;TU Vienna, Institute for Computer Aided Automation, Pattern Recognition & Image Processing Group, Vienna, Austria

  • Venue:
  • VAST'07 Proceedings of the 8th International conference on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Illegal trade and theft of coins appears to be a major part of the illegal antiques market. Image based recognition of coins could substantially contribute to fight against it. Central component in the permanent identification and traceability of coins is the underlying classification and identification technology. The first step of a computer aided system is the segmentation of the coin in the image. Next, a feature extraction process measures the coin in order to describe the coin unambiguously. In this paper, we focus on the segmentation task, followed by a comparison of features relevant for coin classification. Results of the algorithms implemented are presented for an image database of ancient coins.