Nicolò Marchetti

Università di Bologna, Department of History and Cultures, Faculty Member

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Full Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna
Director of the joint Turco-Italian Archaeological Expedition of the Universities of Bologna, Istanbul and Gaziantep to Karkemish (Turkey), 2011-
Director of the joint Iraqi-Italian Archaeological Expedition of the University of Bologna and the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage to East Nineveh (Iraq), 2019-
Director of the joint Iraqi-Italian Archaeological Expedition of the University of Bologna and the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage for the surface survey of the eastern Qadisiyah region (QADIS), 2016-2018
Director of the joint Turco-Italian Archaeological Expedition of the University of Bologna, the University of Istanbul and the Museum of Gaziantep to Tilmen Höyük (Turkey), 2003-2008 and to Tasli Geçit Höyük (Turkey), 2009-2010
Co-director, together with L. Nigro and H. Taha, of the joint expedition of «La Sapienza» University of Rome and the Palestinian Department of Antiquities to Tell es-Sultan, ancient Jericho, 1997-2000
Coordinator of the European project BANUU (Erasmus+ CBHE in in partnership with the universities of Turin, Koç Istanbul and, in Iraq, Baghdad, Qadisiyah, Mosul, Kufa and the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education), 2020-2022 [www.banuu.unibo.it]
Coordinator of the European projects WALADU (Erasmus+ CBHE in partnership with the universities of LMU Munich, Koç Istanbul and, in Iraq, Baghdad, Qadisiyah and Kufa) and EDUU (EuropeAid in partnership with the universities of Turin, Baghdad, Qadisiyah and Kufa), 2017-2019 [www.waladu.unibo.it, www.eduu.unibo.it]
Beneficiary of the research project EBLA CHORA of the ERC programme, Advanced Grant, 2010-2014 [www.orientlab.net/eblachora]
Chair of the Organizing Committee of the 12th ICAANE, 2021 [www.12icaane.unibo.it]
Scientific editor of the research website www.orientlab.net and associated projects

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Università degli Studi di Milano - State University of Milan (Italy)

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Università degli Studi di Milano - State University of Milan (Italy)

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Università degli Studi di Milano - State University of Milan (Italy)

Valentina Oselini

Università degli Studi di Milano - State University of Milan (Italy)

Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart

Universiteit Leiden

Benito Vilas-Estévez

Gideon Shelach-Lavi

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ian Lindsay

Purdue University

Piotr Kociuba

Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski

Arnau Garcia

Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica

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A human–AI collaboration workflow for archaeological sites detection

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This paper illustrates the results obtained by using pre-trained semantic segmentation deep learn... more This paper illustrates the results obtained by using pre-trained semantic segmentation deep learning models for the detection of archaeological sites within the Mesopotamian floodplains environment. The models were fine-tuned using openly available satellite imagery and vector shapes coming from a large corpus of annotations (i.e., surveyed sites). A randomized test showed that the best model reaches a detection accuracy in the neighborhood of 80%. Integrating domain expertise was crucial to define how to build the dataset and how to evaluate the predictions, since defining if a proposed mask counts as a prediction is very subjective. Furthermore, even an inaccurate prediction can be useful when put into context and interpreted by a trained archaeologist. Coming from these considerations we close the paper with a vision for a Human–AI collaboration workflow. Starting with an annotated dataset that is refined by the human expert we obtain a model whose predictions can either be combi...

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