Cédric Despierre Corporon 🌍

I won the September $20,000 Gold Medal award in the Vesuvius Challenge Progress Prize for my work on automatically detecting and tracing papyrus fibers in 3D CT scans ! 🥇🏛️ I could never have made sense of the scale and complexity of the available data so quickly without frontier models like Astra. Unwrapping ancient scrolls is about as “out of distribution” as it gets. So much still has to be figured out or invented, AI helps us explore unfamiliar territory, turn ideas into working experiments, and accomplish things that would have felt out of reach just a few years ago. A huge thank you to the Vesuvius Challenge community for all the incredible work they've done, and for the help and support along the way! I created a website where you can see pretty cool pictures the community shared on discord: the-art-of-vesuvius-challeng…