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Translating Egyptian Hieroglyphs using deep learning

Team and Contact Details

Student Name School Degree Year Email
Waleed Bin UmerInformation TechnologyUndergraduateFourth[email protected]
Mutahir AhmedInformation TechnologyUndergraduateFourth[email protected]
Emad IdreesInformation TechnologyUndergraduateFourth[email protected]

Inter School Idea ? No
Do you need expertises from another area: No
If Yes please provide details of expertises you need:

Idea Details

Idea Name: Translating Egyptian Hieroglyphs using deep learning
Slogan: “Unveil the mysteries of ancient Egypt”
Supervisor Name: Sallar Khan
Supervisor Designation: Senior Lecturer
Supervisor School: Other
Supervisor Department: Computer Science & Information Technology
Contact number: 03323000276
Email ID: [email protected]
Abstract:
    In Egypt, reading ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs is a very challenging task for a normal tourist. Hence we created an app that can translate Egyptian Hieroglyphs on Deep learning. This app is basically designed for tourists who love to visit Egypt. hire guides who help them to read and translate the Egyptian hieroglyphs. These local guides charge a lot of money from these tourists.
What is the unmet need in society that your idea will fulfill ?
    The main purpose of this application is to help tourists by providing them with a platform where they can easily access the application and translate the Egyptian Hieroglyphs through our deep learning algorithm. Since we saw many scams in Egypt when people hired the local guides.
Who needs it ? How many would benefit ?
   The people who will be at the benefit will be the tourists who visit Egypt time after time. We also included the feature of dictionary in it due to which people can learn and understand about the Egyptian hieroglyphs. In short, anyone who is keen to learn about Egypt can gain benefit from it.
How will the solution works
    The solutions work on deep learning. We trained our algorithm on the dataset we created and after training it time by time, our algorithm was able to detect and translate the algorithm. We used the SSD algorithm for the job due to its smaller model size and also it provided more FPS on mobile. The main advantage we had was that it could work on a smaller amount of datasets which was our main problem however we encountered that problem by the solution of augmentation.
Who are your competitors ? How is your solution different
    Right now we don’t see our competitors because our idea is new and unique. We are providing solution to such a problem that can’t be denied and tourists need this very much. Right now our main focus is Egyptian hieroglyphs but in the futur we will add more ancient languages so that people can learn.
Status: new
Entry Date & Time: 2021-12-23 (1843)