Iron Age Hebrew Ostraca in the Silicon Age - Computerized Paleography
List of Publications
2017
Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Mendel-Geberovich, A., Shaus, A., Sober, B., Cordonsky, M., Levin, D., Moinester, M., Sass, B., Turkel, E.,
Piasetzky, E., & Finkelstein, I. 2017. Multispectral Imaging Reveals Biblical-Period Inscription Unnoticed for Half a Century.
PLOS ONE 12(6): e0178400. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178400.
Shaus A., Faigenbaum-Golovin S., Sober B., Piasetzky, E., Turkel E., 2017, Potential Contrast - A New Image Quality Measure.
Proceedings of the Image Quality and System Performance 2017 Conference.
Shaus, A., Turkel, E., Writer identification in modern and historical documents via binary pixel patterns, Kolmogorov-Smirnov
test and Fisher's method, Proceedings of the 22nd Human Vision and Electronic Imaging Conference (HVEI 2017); Journal of
Imaging Science and Technology, 2017.
2016
Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Shaus, A., Sober, B., Levin, D., Na'aman, N., Sass, B., Turkel, E., Piasetzky, E., & Finkelstein, I. 2016. Algorithmic handwriting analysis of Judah's military correspondence sheds light on composition of Biblical texts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 113(17): 4664-4669.
Shaus, A., Sober, B., Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Mendel-Geberovich, A., Piasetzky, E., Turkel, E., 2016, Facsimile creation: Review of
algorithmic approaches, in: I. Finkelstein, C. Robin, T. Romer eds., Alphabets, Texts and Artefacts in the Ancient Near East, Studies
Presented to Benjamin Sass, 474-488.
Shaus, A., Turkel, E. 2016. Chan-Vese Revisited: Relation to Otsu's Method and a Parameter-Free Non-PDE Solution via
Morphological Framework. In International Symposium on Visual Computing, 203-212. Springer International Publishing.
Shaus, A., Sober, B., Turkel, E., Piasetzky, E., 2016, Beyond the ground truth: Alternative quality measures of
document binarizations, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
(ICFHR 2016): 495-500.
Sober, B., Levin, D. Computer aided restoration of handwritten character strokes. arXiv:1602.07038.
2015
Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Rollston, C.A., Piasetzky, E., Sober, B., & Finkelstein, I. 2015. The Ophel (Jerusalem) ostracon in light of new multispectral images. Semitica 57: 113-137.
Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Shaus, A., Sober, B., Finkelstein, I., Levin, D., Moinester, M., Piasetzky, E., & Turkel, E. 2015. Computerized paleographic investigation of Hebrew Iron Age ostraca. Radiocarbon 57(2): 317-325.
Faigenbaum, S., Sober, B., Moinester, M., & Piasetzky, E. 2015. Multispectral imaging of Tel Malhata ostraca. In: Beit-Arieh, I. ed. Tel Malhata, A Central City in the Biblical Negev (Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Monograph Series 32). Tel Aviv: 510-513.
Nir-El, Y., Goren, Y., Piasetzky, E., Moinester, M., & Sober, B. 2015. X-Ray Fluorescence (XFF) measurements of red ink on a Tel Malhata Ostracon. In: Beit-Arieh, I. (ed.). Tel Malhata A Central City in the Biblical Negev (Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Monograph Series 32). Tel Aviv: 507-509.
2014
Faigenbaum, S., Sober, B., Finkelstein, I., Moinester, M., Piasetzky, E., Shaus, A., & Cordonsky, M. 2014. Multispectral Imaging of
two Hieratic Inscriptions from Qubur el-Walaydah. Agypten und Levante/Egypt and the Levant, 349-353.
Sober, B., Faigenbaum, S., Beit-Arieh, I., Finkelstein, I., Moinester, M., Piasetzky, E., & Shaus, A. 2014. Multispectral imaging as a
tool for enhancing the reading of ostraca. Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 146(3), 185-197
2013
Shaus, A., Sober, B., Turkel, E., & Piasetzky, E. 2013. Improving binarization via sparse methods. In Proceedings of the 16th
International Graphonomics Society Conference (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Press, Tokyo), 163-166.
Faigenbaum, S., Shaus, A., Sober, B., Turkel, E., & Piasetzky, E., 2013. Evaluating glyph binarizations based on their properties.
In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM symposium on Document engineering, 127-130.
2012
Shaus, A., Turkel, E., Piasetzky, E., 2012, Binarization of First Temple Period inscriptions - performance of existing algorithms and
a new registration based scheme. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition,
Bari, Italy (ICFHR2012).
Shaus, A., Turkel, E., Piasetzky, E., 2012, Quality evaluation of facsimiles of Hebrew First Temple Period inscriptions,
Proceedings of the 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Gold Coast, Australia (DAS 2012):
170 - 174
Faigenbaum, S., Sober, B., Shaus, A., Moinester, M., Piasetzky, E., Bearman, G., Cordonsky, M., Finkelstein, I. 2012,
Multispectral Images of Ostraca: Acquisition and Analysis, Journal of Archaeological Science, Vol. 39, Issue 12: 3581-3590.
Finkelstein, I., Boaretto, E., Ben Dor Evian, S., Cabanes, D., Cabanes, M., Eliyahu, A., Faigenbaum, S., Gadot, Y., Langgut, D.,
Martin, M., Meiri, M., Namdar, D., Sapir-Hen, L., Shahack-Gross, R., Shaus, A., Sober, B., Tofollo, M., Yahalom-Mack, N.,
Zapassky, L., Weiner, S., 2012, Reconstructing Ancient Israel: Integrating Macro- and Micro-archaeology, Hebrew Bible
and Ancient Israel, Vol 1, 133-150.
2010
Shaus, A., Finkelstein, I., Piasetzky, E., 2010, Avoiding the Eye of the Beholder: Automated Ostraca Facsimile Evaluation,
Maarav, Vol. 17.1: 7-20.
Theses
Sober, B. under the supervision of Prof. David Levin, Handwritten Character Stroke Reconstruction and Analysis,
Tel Aviv University
Shaus, A., Writer identification in Modern and Historical Documents via Binary Pixel Patterns, Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test and Fisher's Method, IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2017, 22nd Human Vision and Electronic Imaging Conference (HVEI 2017), Burlingame, USA, 2017.
Shaus, A., Potential Contrast - A New Image Quality Measure, IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2017, Image Quality and System Performance XIV Conference (IQSP 2017), Burlingame, USA, 2017.
Shaus, A., First Temple Period Inscriptions: Imaging, Enhancement and Analysis, 2nd International Conference on Art and Archaeology, Jerusalem, Israel. Keynote lecture, 2016.
Shaus, A., Chan-Vese Revisited: Relation to Otsu's Method and a Parameter-free Non-PDE Solution via Morphological Framework, 12th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2016), Las Vegas, USA, 2016.
Shaus, A., Beyond the Ground Truth: Alternative Quality Measures of Document Binarizations, 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Shenzhen, China, 2016.
Shaus, A., Requested: Vice-quartermaster in Arad; Job Requirements: Knowledge of Reading and Writing, The 42nd Archaeological Conference in Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2016.
Shaus, A., Artificial Intelligence and Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions Dated to the First Temple Period, Avshalom Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2016.
Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., First Temple Period Hebrew Ostraca in the Silicon Age, The Twelfth Annual Jerusalem Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, November, 2015.
Shaus, A., Mendel, A., New Methods to Image Ancient Ostraca, RIAB Minerva Center Workshop, Bar Ilan, November, 2015.
Shaus, A., What did the scribe have in mind? Automatic comparison of scribes' hands and character proto-type derivation, ASOR 2014, San-Diego, 2014.
Faigenbaum, S., First Temple Period Hebrew Ostraca in the Silicon Age, SBL 2013, Baltimore, 2013.
Shaus, A., Automatic Ostraca Facsimile Creation, ASOR 2013, Baltimore, 2013.
Sober, B., Computerized Character Reconstruction and Comparison Techniques, ASOR 2013, Baltimore, 2013.
Faigenbaum, S., Multispectral Imaging as a Tool to Enhance Reading of Ostraca, ASOR 2013, Baltimore, 2013.
Shaus, A., Evaluating Glyph Binarizations Based on Their Properties, 13th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, Florence, Italy, 2013.
Shaus, A., Improving Binarization via Sparse Methods, 16th International Graphonomics Society Conference (IGS), Nara, Japan, 2013.
Faigenbaum, S., Computerized Paleography of Hebrew Writing from the First Temple Period. Perspectives Workshop: Computation and Palaeography: Potentials and Limits, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2012.
Sober, B., Binarization of First Temple Period inscriptions - performance of existing algorithms and a new registration based scheme.The 13th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), Bari, Italy, 2012.
Shaus, A., Quality evaluation of facsimiles of Hebrew First Temple Period inscriptions, Proceedings of the 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Gold Coast, Australia (DAS 2012), 2012, pp. 170-174.
Faigenbaum, S., Iron Age Hebrew Ostraca in the Silicon Age, ICANNE 8, Warsaw, 29 April - 4 May, 2012.
Sober, B., Multispectral Imaging as a Tool to Enhance Reading of Ostraca, SOMA 16, Florence, Italy, 1-3 March, 2012.
Piasetzky, E., Hebrew First Temple Period (Iron Age II ) Ostraca, Imaging and Analysis, IMEC 15, Israel, 29 February, 2012.
Shaus, A., Facsimile Evaluation, The Naked Eye vs.Automatic Quality Assessment, ASOR 2010, Atlanta, 2010.
Invited Lectures
Seminar and Colloquium
Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Mendel-Geberovich, A., Shaus, A., Sober, B., Piasetzky, E., Mathematics and Epigraphy: Arad as a Case Study, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 2017.
Shaus, A., Mathematics and Epigraphy: Arad as a Case Study, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 2016.
Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Shaus, A., Sober, B., Algorithmic Handwriting Analysis of Judah's Military Correspondence, Math Seminar, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 2016.
Shaus, A., Analysis of Hebrew Inscriptions Dated to the First Temple Period, Engineering Department, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2016.
Shaus, A., Writers Separation within Tel Arad Corpus, Israeli Police Headquarters, Forensics Department, Jerusalem, Israel, 2016.
Piasetzky, E., Imaging and Analysis of Hebrew First Temple Period Ostraca, Physics colloquium, 2014 , Technion Haifa.
Sober, B., First Temple Period Hebrew Ostraca in the Silicon Age, Avshalom Institute, February, 2014 (Hebrew).
Faigenbaum, S., Sober, B., Enhancing the Reading of Ostraca: Several Test Cases using Multispectral Imaging, Hebrew University, 24 April, 2013.
Faigenbaum, S., Sober, B., Iron Age Ostraca in the Silicon Age,People of the Ancient Near East Seminar, University of Tel-Aviv, 30 April, 2012.
Sober, B., Multispectral Imaging as a Tool to Enhance Reading of Ostraca, University of Haifa, 30 April, 2012.
Moinester, M., Spectral Imaging of Manuscripts & Ostraca, Cyprus Institute, 23 March 2012.
Piasetzky, E., Hebrew First Temple Period Ostraca, Imaging and Analysis, Physics Colloquium - FIU, Florida, February 2012.
Shaus, A., Ostraca Binarization Methods, Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science, Israel, 23 December 2010.
Key words: First Temple Period Hebrew writing, Multispectral imaging, First Temple Hebrew Inscriptions, Hebrew Epigraphy, Computer Vision, Computerized Paleography, Biblical Exegesis , Literacy Level , Arad Ostraca , Document Analysis , Machine Learning.