Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing in Archaeometry

A classicist and an archaeologist are included, but the rest of the contributors are from computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, and other fields concerned with the technology rather than the applications. They cover applying computational and model-based statistical methodologies in archaeology; identifying the writer of old handwritten music scores; a digital investigation manifesting the use of geometric stencils; machine vision schemes towards detecting and estimating the state of corrosion; functional form, elasticity, and lexical richness: estimates and implications; automatically classifying decorative patterns in the Minoan pottery of Kamares style; using methods of computer engineering and mathematics in the automatic identification of the writer of ancient Greek inscriptions; and methods for automatically reassembling fragmented objects. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)