This is an R package for the extraction, analysis and classification of (not only) archaeological objects derived from scanned images. Especially it aims at the analysis of the shapes/profiles of eg. ceramic vessels or arrow heads.
Currently the extraction is implemented using active contour to identify and extract the shape informations. You can get an idea about its abilities in a vignette.
shapAAR is released under the GNU General Public Licence, version 3. Comments and feedback are welcome, as are code contributions.
shapAAR is currently not on CRAN, but you can use devtools to install the development version. To do so:
if(!require('devtools')) install.packages('devtools')
library(devtools)
install_github('ISAAKiel/shapAAR')