Fig. 3: Evolution of OBI information processing methods from the last century to 2025 includes four paradigm shifts, i.e., the traditional expert-led methodologies, computer-aided digital image processing, data-driven deep representation enabling higher-level learning, and the latest cross-modality perception and interpretation marked by knowledge integration in large multimodal models.
From: Oracle bone inscriptions information processing: a comprehensive survey

We show some representative research directions in each stage.