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Archaeoscape: Bringing Aerial Laser Scanning Archaeology to the Deep Learning Era
Yohann PERRON · Vladyslav Sydorov · Adam P. Wijker · Damian Evans · Christophe Pottier · Loic Landrieu
Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) technology has transformed modern archaeology by unveiling hidden landscapes beneath dense vegetation. However, the lack of expert-annotated, open-access resources has hindered the analysis of ALS data using advanced deep learning techniques. We address this limitation with Archaeoscape, a novel large-scale archaeological ALS dataset spanning 888 kmĀ² in Cambodia with 31,141 annotated archaeological features from the Angkorian period. Archaeoscape is over four times larger than comparable datasets, and the first ALS archaeology resource with open-access data, annotations, and models.We benchmark several recent segmentation models to demonstrate the benefits of modern vision techniques for this problem and highlight the unique challenges of discovering subtle human-made structures under dense jungle canopies. By making Archaeoscape available in open-access, we hope to bridge the gap between traditional archaeology and modern computer vision methods.
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