Pith Number

pith:VAW2LC66

pith:2018:VAW2LC66NUG2B7OHSZUXLA6MOC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Anil K. Jain, Joshua J. Engelsma, Kai Cao

arxiv:1804.08659 v1 · 2018-04-23 · cs.CV

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VAW2LC66NUG2B7OHSZUXLA6MOC}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:17:47.096182Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a82da58bde6d0da0fdc796697583cc7083c9f8629f6e23d6528d5a0a1552df6c

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.08659 · arxiv_version: 1804.08659v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.08659 · pith_short_12: VAW2LC66NUG2 · pith_short_16: VAW2LC66NUG2B7OH · pith_short_8: VAW2LC66

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VAW2LC66NUG2B7OHSZUXLA6MOC \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: a82da58bde6d0da0fdc796697583cc7083c9f8629f6e23d6528d5a0a1552df6c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cf88360617c496cb0e303cfd93e44fb535d80f461f3ed293f837bfb8ca472b0e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-23T18:38:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "210398bff80375c7f424d82e72181ac92ab58205e08fa380e4ddbc15b3944236"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.08659",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}