GIGAPIXEL PHOTOGRAPHY FOR HIGH-ACCURACY FACADE DOCUMENTATION: MAPPING THE ORIGINAL LOCATION OF THE FORMA URBIS ROMAE
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract. The Forma Urbis Romae was a monumental marble map of ancient Rome from the Severan Dynasty. It was originally attached to the interior wall of the Temple of Peace, but through the course of the Middle Ages the marble panels of the map fell off or were deliberately removed. They have been found mainly in the vicinity of the Forum, but only about 10% of the original surface have been discovered. The wall on which the map was mounted is currently an exterior wall of the Church of SS. Cosma e Damiano, and the original holes from the iron nails used to attach the marble panels of the map are still visible on unrestored areas. In order to attempt a full reconstruction of the map from the fragments, detailed measurements of the positions of the mounting holes are required. Access to the wall itself is difficult because of its height, and surrounding construction and excavation. A method was needed to map the surface of the wall without the expense and complication of erecting scaffolding for direct hand-measurement. To this end, digital photogrammetry and gigapixel photography with a telephoto lens were combined to produce stereo-models from the street level 50 m away. From these stereo-models of merged panoramic images in excess of 200 megapixels and a Ground Sample Distance of 1 mm it was possible to use stereo-plotting to create a map of archaeologically relevant features that will serve as the foundation for determining the positions of the surviving marble pieces.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".