Iron Age Hebrew Ostraca in the Silicon Age - Computerized Paleography

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Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Shaus, A., Sober, B., Turkel, E., Piasetzky, E., Finkelstein, I., 

Algorithmic Handwriting Analysis of the Samaria Inscriptions Illuminates Bureaucratic Apparatus in Biblical Israel 
PLOS ONE, 15(1), 2020.

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Shaus, A., Gerber, Y., Faigenbaum-Golovin, S. Sober, B., Piasetzky, E., Finkelstein, I., 

Forensic document examination and algorithmic handwriting analysis of Judahite biblical period inscriptions reveal significant

literacy level 
PLOS ONE, 15(9), 2020.

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Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Levin, D., Piasetzky, E., & Finkelstein, I. 2019.

Writer Characterization and Identification in Short Modern and Historical Documents: Reconsidering Paleographic Tables.

19th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng2019).

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A. Shaus, B. Sober, O. Tzang, Z. Ioffe, O. Cheshnovsky, I. Finkelstein, E. Piasetzky,

Raman binary mapping of Iron Age ostracon in unknown material composition and high fluorescence setting – A proof of concept, 

Archaeometry, 61.2, 459–469, https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12419, 2019.

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Mendel-Geberovich, A., Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Shaus, A., Sober, B., Cordonsky, M., Piasetzky E., Finkelstein, I., Milevski I.,

A Renewed Reading of Hebrew Ostraca from Cave A-2 at Ramat Beit Shemesh (Nahal Yarmut), Based on Multispectral Imaging 
Vetus Testamentum, 69(4-5), 682-701, 2019.

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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.

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Shaus, A., Sober, B., Faigenbaum-Golovin,  S. , Mendel-Geberovich, A., Levin, D., Piasetzky, E., Turkel, E., 2017, Statistical inference

in archaeology: Are we confident?, in: O. Lipschits, Y. Gadot, M. J. Adams eds., Rethinking Israel: Studies in the History and

Archaeology of Ancient Israel in Honor of Israel Finkelstein, Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, pp. 389-401.

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Shaus, A., Turkel, E., 2017. Towards letter shape prior and paleographic tables estimation in Hebrew First Temple period ostraca,

Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP 2017), pp. 13-18.

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Mendel-Geberovich, A., Shaus, A., Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., Sober, B., Cordonsky, M., Piasetzky, E., Finkelstein, I., 2017.

A Brand New Old Inscription: Arad Ostracon 16 Rediscovered Via Multispectral Imaging. 

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR), 378, pp. 31-34.

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Faigenbaum-Golovin,  S. , Shaus, A., Sober, B., Mendel-Geberovich, A.,  Piasetzky, E., Finkelstein, I., 2017. 

Shedding Light on Iron Age Hebrew Ostraca via Modern Imaging and Computational Technologies, TAU Archaeology 3, 12.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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

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 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.

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 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.

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Shaus, A., Finkelstein, I., Piasetzky, E., 2010, Avoiding the Eye of the Beholder: Automated Ostraca Facsimile Evaluation, 

Maarav, Vol. 17.1: 7-20.

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Sober, B. under the supervision of Prof. David Levin, Handwritten Character Stroke Reconstruction and Analysis, 

Tel Aviv University

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