Nagios World Conference 2025 – Code Of The Ancients (Matthew Custer & Nick Ziebell)
Conferences
Published: August 6, 2026
Duration: 26:03
About This Video
Follow along with Matt and Nick as they explain the COTA (Code of the Ancients) project's mission to detect, decode, and translate Egyptian hieroglyphs using computer vision and machine learning. Discover the challenges of building a comprehensive dataset through manual annotation, overcoming limitations of a dead language with limited training data, and the multi-step pipeline that transforms stone carvings into English translations.