Interactive companion to the lecture — explore the methods hands-on
Welcome. This site lets you experiment with the same concepts covered in the lecture. No coding required — everything runs in your browser.
Try it yourself before the model does. Paint the terrain where you see ancient structures, then see how your precision and recall compare to the ML model.
InteractiveDrag a confidence slider and watch detections appear and disappear. See how the threshold controls the tradeoff between missing sites and wasting field days.
InteractiveSee what a trained U-Net predicts on real LiDAR tiles. Compare input, prediction heatmap, and ground truth side by side. Adjust the confidence threshold and watch precision/recall change.
ReferencePublic LiDAR data, open-source ML tools, key papers, and how to get started in archaeological machine learning.
What these metrics actually mean for deciding where to send a field team.
Your brain already does what the model does — you'll see how they compare.
Termite mounds fooling models, survey bias baked into training data.
Why ML augments archaeologists instead of replacing them.