Aegyptos: Mobile Application for Hieroglyphs Detection, Translation and Pronunciation
Shehab ElDin Mohsen, Reem Mansour, Ahmed Bassem, Basma Dessouky, Samira Refaat, Taraggy M. Ghanim · 2023
Hieroglyphs have always been fascinating with their stories and the ability to be read in several ways rather than one, which is a challenge in itself to be translated to modern languages. However, the full experience of getting familiar with these captivating historical stories will not be fulfilled if this translation was not on spot, and hence the tough challenge is met. The idea of Aegyptos was brought up to help learn how to read Hieroglyphs with respect to how the same symbol can have two different meanings according to the context, and also help to pronounce them by using a tool at the palm of users' hands with just their phones' live cameras. Performing segmentation on the symbols using different segmentation techniques like Otsu Thresholding, while a lightweight CNN known as SqueezeNet is used for classification with the help of an API to translate the script into a language understood by the user.