Explaining the Shape, Size, Texture and Composition of Archaeological Artifacts
Juan A. Barcelo
Departament de Prehistòria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
jbarcelo\@seneca.uab.es
There are lots of papers and materials on Barceló's web pages.
Lecture #1
- Association
- Categorization
- Intervention
- Conscience
Lecture #2
Shape analysis. Shape is any connected set of points:
- localist representation is based on descriptive shape parameters
- distributed representation is pixel-based
There are different methods for describing shape: circularity, quadrature, irregularity, elongation, size measurements. Like morphometric measurements in anthropology, we can also use curvature changes' points.
Surfaces are characterized by texture.
Sigmoid axon.
It is important to find a balance between globalisation and localisation when describing shape.
C. Reeler: settlement classification using neural networks.