Maya Codex

The Maya Codex Dataset contains high-quality representation of Maya hieroglyph data, extracted from the three surviving ancient Maya codices (the Dresden, Madrid and Paris codices). A statistical glyph co-occurrence model, which is extracted from the Thompson catalog (J. E. S. Thompson. A catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs. University of Oklahoma Press, 1962.), is also included.

The dataset is generated by epigraphers in our team. The current dataset contains 174 reconstructed high-quality glyphs segmented from 72 blocks, together with the corresponding annotation for each individual glyph.

In order to encode the context information, glyphs segmented from each block are arranged in the form of a string according to the reading order.

This dataset can not only be used as a shape analysis benchmark, but also to study the ancient Maya writing system.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the following publication:

@inproceedings{Hu2014,
   author = {Hu, Rui and Gayol, Carlos Pallan and Krempel, Guido and Odobez, Jean-Marc and Gatica-Perez, Daniel},
   title = {Automatic Maya Hieroglyph Retrieval Using Shape and Context Information},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia},
   series = {MM '14},
   year = {2014},
   isbn = {978-1-4503-3063-3},
   location = {Orlando, Florida, USA},
   pages = {1037--1040},
   numpages = {4},
   url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2647868.2655044},
   doi = {10.1145/2647868.2655044},
   acmid = {2655044},
   publisher = {ACM},
   address = {New York, NY, USA},
   keywords = {glyph co-occurrence, image retrieval, markov model, maya hieroglyph, shape descriptors},
}