Teaching a CNN to read hieroglyphs: 96.9% on 59 signs, and why my first model failed

Every Egyptian hieroglyph has a catalogue number. Egyptologists use Alan Gardiner's sign list, so the owl is G17, the reed leaf is M17, the water ripple is N35. I wanted to see how far a small convolutional network could get at the first step of reading a wall: look at one carved sign and say which…

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1. 2026-10-30 05:30 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
   Teaching a CNN to read hieroglyphs: 96.9% on 59 signs, and why my first model failed