The Computer-Aided Die Study (CADS) is a new way to conduct die studies using computer vision techniques. This project is a continuation and re-imagining of previous efforts by the American Numismatic Society to create a computational die study program, with the added intention of producing a user-friendly tool numismatists can use for their research.
The primary goal of CADS is to vastly reduce the time required for numismatists to conduct die studies. Die studies are traditionally conducted by hand, and are one of the most arduous tasks a numismatist can undertake. With CADS, the time required can be reduced from months-to-years to only a few hours of work.
This project has been developed in collaboration with the American Numismatic Society.
You can view a talk on CADS here, or read about it here.
A pre-compiled version of opencv.js is included out-of-the-box, but you can use dev/build_opencvjs_linux.sh to compile it yourself on a linux machine. It will install the necessary toolchain. Be sure to have Python 2.7.x installed before running.
To run the application from source, simply npm install to get the dependencies, then npm start. This will bring up an Electron window.