Comparative Study on Temple Structural Element Segmentation using Different Segmentation Techniques

• Published in: International Journal of Engineering and Manufacturing Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 32 - 39
• Main Authors: Kumar S, Narendra, C. L., Shrinivasa Naika, S. Hiremath, Gurudev
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hong Kong Modern Education and Computer Science Press 08.04.2023
• Subjects: Archaeology; Comparative studies; Historic artifacts; Historical buildings; Historical structures; Segmentation; Statuary; Stone Age; Structural members; Temples
• ISSN: 2305-3631; 2306-5982
• DOI: 10.5815/ijem.2023.02.04

India's Karnataka state is home to a vast treasure trove of artefacts, antiquities, and historic and archaeologically significant monuments. Its culture and tradition are linked. In Karnataka, there are numerous Neolithic and Megalithic structures; these historic buildings from illustrious ruling dynasties have endured for thousands of years. They have miracles of their own in their own style, innate sculpture, architecture, technique, immensity, and enormity. However, modern generation is not ready for mining archaeological knowledge regarding empires or ruling dynasties of these ancient Karnataka temples through the archaeological guidance. Hence, a new approach required to bring this valuable information to the modern generation by a proper platform. In this paper both threshold and regional based segmentation methods are applied in order to segment the structural elements of temple. The analysis of segmented structural elements by applying both methods is done in order to provide comparative study. Comparative study on temple structural element shows that regional segmentation is more accurate than threshold method based on VOE and DSC metrics which are used for evaluating the performance of segmentation methods. Further, more efficient segmentation approaches may be applied to improve the efficiency of segmentation and it may be used for classification of viman styles.