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EpiSAM: Character Segmentation in Challenging Stone Inscriptions

Arnav Sharma , Pratyush Jena , Amal Joseph , Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla This is my paper

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keywords character segmentationstone inscriptionsepigraphytransformerneighbor-aware predictionzero-shot generalizationpolygonal annotations
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EpiSAM segments characters in eroded stone inscriptions by also predicting their immediate neighbors.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Stone inscriptions preserve historical knowledge but resist automated reading due to erosion, uneven surfaces, and faint contrast that break ordinary document tools. The paper presents EpiSAM, a prompt-guided transformer that treats segmentation as a contextual task: it generates a mask for a chosen character while simultaneously producing masks for the characters directly beside it. These extra predictions supply boundary cues that reduce errors from surface damage. The authors also release an expanded dataset of Southeast Asian inscriptions that now includes precise polygonal outlines around each character. Experiments report higher accuracy than prior methods on both standard tests and entirely new inscription images.

Core claim

EpiSAM is a prompt-guided transformer framework for character segmentation in stone inscriptions that employs a neighbor-aware strategy by explicitly predicting adjacent characters alongside the target character. These contextual predictions resolve boundary ambiguities caused by surface irregularities and low contrast, resulting in improved mask generation. The work additionally expands an existing stone inscription dataset with dense polygonal annotations to support further epigraphic research, and reports consistent gains over baselines together with strong zero-shot generalization on challenging unseen inscriptions.

What carries the argument

The neighbor-aware strategy that explicitly predicts masks for adjacent characters to supply contextual cues for resolving boundary ambiguities.

If this is right

  • Automated analysis of historical stone inscriptions becomes more reliable for historians and linguists.
  • An expanded dataset with dense polygonal character annotations enables new research on Southeast Asian epigraphy.
  • Zero-shot application works on challenging epigraphic scenarios without retraining the model.
  • Better character masks support downstream tasks such as recognition or transcription of degraded inscriptions.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The neighbor-prediction tactic could extend to segmenting text in other low-contrast or damaged media such as faded manuscripts.
  • The framework might combine with recognition models to produce end-to-end transcription pipelines for inscriptions.
  • Performance on inscriptions from different geographic regions or time periods would test the limits of the reported zero-shot behavior.

Load-bearing premise

Explicitly predicting adjacent characters will reliably resolve boundary ambiguities caused by surface irregularities and low contrast.

What would settle it

Measure segmentation mask accuracy on the same set of inscriptions once with neighbor prediction enabled and once disabled; if the accuracy gain disappears, the neighbor-aware mechanism does not deliver the claimed benefit.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.28859 by Amal Joseph, Arnav Sharma, Pratyush Jena, Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Notice the challenge in character isolation due to compound glyphs and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Sample images and their corresponding character masks from our dataset. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Neighbor Aware Character Segmentation: The inscription image is 1 binarized to generate foreground point and bounding-box prompts, which are then 2 encoded and combined with 3 frozen SAM image features. (b) 4 A neighbor-aware decoder 5 predicts the target character mask along with its left and right neighbor masks. boundary ambiguities, we retain SAM’s original three-token structure for the target characte… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative comparison of character segmentation against the strongest baseline (YOLOv11x-Seg). Under severe degradation and surface erosion, EpiSAM produces tighter and more precise character masks, resulting in improved instance separation in densely packed inscriptions. acters. Incorporating neighbor-aware prediction significantly improves perfor￾mance(+5.99 per-char IoU, +5.63 per-char Dice), supportin… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Zero-shot character segmentation results of EpiSAM on (from top to [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_5.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Stone inscriptions are invaluable sources of historical and linguistic knowledge, yet their automated analysis remains a major challenge due to surface irregularities, erosion, and low visual contrast. Conventional document and handwriting analysis techniques fail to perform well in these scenarios. In this work, we propose character detection as a core strategy for robust inscription analysis. We introduce EpiSAM, a prompt-guided transformer framework for character segmentation in stone inscriptions. Rather than treating characters in isolation, EpiSAM employs a novel neighbor-aware strategy, explicitly predicting adjacent characters alongside the target. These contextual cues resolve boundary ambiguities, improving mask generation and enabling more accurate character segmentation. Furthermore, we expand an existing stone inscription dataset by adding dense polygonal annotations for characters, thereby enabling comprehensive research on Southeast Asian epigraphy. Experimental results show that EpiSAM achieves consistent improvements over existing baselines, while also exhibiting strong zero-shot generalization in challenging epigraphic scenarios.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes EpiSAM, a prompt-guided transformer framework for character segmentation in stone inscriptions. It introduces a novel neighbor-aware strategy that explicitly predicts adjacent characters alongside the target to resolve boundary ambiguities arising from surface irregularities, erosion, and low contrast. The authors expand an existing Southeast Asian stone inscription dataset with dense polygonal annotations and claim that EpiSAM achieves consistent improvements over existing baselines while exhibiting strong zero-shot generalization in challenging epigraphic scenarios.

Significance. If the quantitative results hold after the addition of required evidence, the work would offer a practical advance for automated analysis of historical inscriptions where standard document and handwriting methods fail. The dataset expansion with dense annotations is a clear, reusable contribution that supports further epigraphic research. The zero-shot generalization claim, if substantiated with cross-dataset testing, would increase the method's applicability to varied real-world inscriptions.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The claims of 'consistent improvements over existing baselines' and 'strong zero-shot generalization' are stated without any quantitative numbers, dataset sizes, ablation studies, or error analysis. This absence prevents verification of the magnitude or reliability of the reported gains and is load-bearing for the central empirical claims.
  2. [Methods (neighbor-aware strategy)] Description of the neighbor-aware strategy (Methods section): The paper states that explicitly predicting adjacent characters resolves boundary ambiguities and improves mask generation, but provides no mechanism details (prompt construction, loss terms, or changes to the prompt-guided transformer), no boundary-specific metrics, and no ablation isolating the strategy's effect versus the base SAM-like model. Without these, improvements cannot be attributed to the stated innovation rather than dataset expansion or other factors.
  3. [Experiments] Experiments section: No error analysis on boundary cases (e.g., low-contrast or eroded regions) or ablation tables comparing variants with and without the neighbor-aware component are reported, despite the strategy being presented as the key to resolving the core challenges of surface irregularities.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract and introduction could more explicitly reference the expanded dataset (name, size, annotation protocol) to allow readers to assess its scope.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive comments, which help improve the clarity and rigor of our work. We address each major comment below and will make the necessary revisions to the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The claims of 'consistent improvements over existing baselines' and 'strong zero-shot generalization' are stated without any quantitative numbers, dataset sizes, ablation studies, or error analysis. This absence prevents verification of the magnitude or reliability of the reported gains and is load-bearing for the central empirical claims.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the abstract currently lacks specific quantitative details. In the revised version, we will include key performance metrics (e.g., mean IoU scores and improvements over baselines), dataset sizes, and references to ablations and error analyses from the experiments section to substantiate the claims. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Methods (neighbor-aware strategy)] Description of the neighbor-aware strategy (Methods section): The paper states that explicitly predicting adjacent characters resolves boundary ambiguities and improves mask generation, but provides no mechanism details (prompt construction, loss terms, or changes to the prompt-guided transformer), no boundary-specific metrics, and no ablation isolating the strategy's effect versus the base SAM-like model. Without these, improvements cannot be attributed to the stated innovation rather than dataset expansion or other factors.

    Authors: The Methods section describes the neighbor-aware prediction as part of the prompt-guided transformer, but we agree that additional details on prompt construction, specific loss terms, and architectural changes would strengthen the presentation. We will expand this section accordingly and include an ablation study comparing variants with and without the neighbor-aware component, along with boundary-specific metrics. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section: No error analysis on boundary cases (e.g., low-contrast or eroded regions) or ablation tables comparing variants with and without the neighbor-aware component are reported, despite the strategy being presented as the key to resolving the core challenges of surface irregularities.

    Authors: We will add a dedicated error analysis subsection focusing on challenging cases such as low-contrast and eroded regions. Additionally, we will include ablation tables to isolate the contribution of the neighbor-aware strategy. These revisions will help attribute the improvements to the proposed method. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper describes an empirical application of a prompt-guided transformer (EpiSAM) for character segmentation, introducing a neighbor-aware strategy at a conceptual level without any equations, derivations, fitted parameters presented as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations. Claims of improvement and zero-shot generalization rest on experimental results against baselines on an expanded dataset, not on any chain that reduces outputs to inputs by construction. No patterns from the enumerated circularity types apply, as there are no mathematical steps or uniqueness theorems invoked.

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  • domain assumption Prompt-guided transformer architectures (e.g., SAM-style) can be adapted to character-level segmentation on irregular surfaces
    The framework is presented as building on prompt-guided transformers without further justification in the abstract.

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