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  Table of Conents  
  Welcome from the General Chairs and the Program Chairs  
     
  Oral Session 1: Document Image Processing  
  A Tool for Tuning Binarization Techniques Vavilis Sokratis, Ergina Kavallieratou
  A Laplacian Energy for Document Binarization Nicholas R. Howe
  An MRF Model for Binarization of Natural Scene Text Anand Mishra, Karteek Alahari, C.V. Jawahar
  Stroke-Like Pattern Noise Removal in Binary Document Images Mudit Agrawal, David Doermann
  Combination of Document Image Binarization Techniques Bolan Su, Shijian Lu, Chew Lim Tan
  Determining Document Skew Using Inter-line Spaces Boris Epshtein
     
  Oral Session 2: Datasets and Performance Evaluation  
  When is a Problem Solved? Daniel Lopresti, George Nagy
  CASIA Online and Offline Chinese Handwriting Databases Cheng-Lin Liu, Fei Yin, Da-Han Wang, Qiu-Feng Wang
  An Open Architecture for End-to-End Document Analysis Benchmarking Bart Lamiroy, Daniel Lopresti
  Aletheia - An Advanced Document Layout and Text Ground-Truthing System for Production Environments C. Clausner, S. Pletschacher, A. Antonacopoulos
  HMM-Based Alignment of Inaccurate Transcriptions for Historical Documents Andreas Fischer, Emanuel Indermühle, Volkmar Frinken and Horst Bunke
  Transcript Mapping for Handwritten Text Lines Using Conditional Random Fields Xiang-Dong Zhou, Fei Yin, Da-Han Wang, Qiu-Feng Wang, Masaki Nakagawa, Cheng-Lin Liu
     
  Oral Session 3: Document Retrieval (1)    
  Browsing Heterogeneous Document Collections by a Segmentation-Free Word Spotting Method Marçal Rusiñol, David Aldavert, Ricardo Toledo and Josep Llados
  Fast Key-Word Searching via Embedding and Active-DTW Raid Saabni, Alex Bronstein
  Keyword Spotting in Online Handwritten Documents Containing Text and Non-text Using BLSTM Neural Networks Emanuel Indermühle, Volkmar Frinken, Andreas Fischer and Horst Bunke
  Keyword Spotting in Offline Chinese Handwritten Documents Using a Statistical Model Liang Huang, Fei Yin, Qing-Hu Chen, Cheng-Lin Liu
  BLSTM Neural Network Based Word Retrieval for Hindi Documents Raman Jain, Volkmar Frinken, C.V. Jawahar, R. Manmatha
  A Method for Removing Inflectional Suffixes in Word Spotting of Mongolian Kanjur Hongxi Wei, Guanglai Gao, Yulai Bao
     
  Poster Session 1  
  A Handwritten Character Extraction Algorithm for Multi-language Document Image Yonghong Song, Guilin Xiao, Yuanlin Zhang, Lei Yang, Liuliu Zhao
  Retrieval of Envelope Images Using Graph Matching Li Liu, Yue Lu, Ching Y. Suen
  Automatic Estimation of the Legibility of Binarised Historic Documents for Unsupervised Parameter Tuning M. Stommel, G. Frieder
  Segmentation of Handwritten Textlines in Presence of Touching Components Jayant Kumar, Le Kang, David Doermann, Wael Abd-Almageed
  Ternary Entropy-Based Binarization of Degraded Document Images Using Morphological Operators T. Hoang Ngan Le, Tien D. Bui, Ching Y. Suen
  Large Scale Page-Based Book Similarity Clustering Nemanja Spasojevic, Guillaume Poncin
  A New Gradient Based Character Segmentation Method for Video Text Recognition Palaiahnakote Shivakumara, Souvik Bhowmick, Bolan Su, Chew Lim Tan, Umapada Pal
  Video Character Recognition through Hierarchical Classification Palaiahnakote Shivakumara, Trung Quy Phan, Shijian Lu, Chew Lim Tan
  Robust Vanishing Point Detection for MobileCam-Based Documents Xu-Cheng Yin, Hong-Wei Hao, Jun Sun, Satoshi Naoi
  Composite Script Identification and Orientation Detection for Indian Text Images Shamita Ghosh, Bidyut B. Chaudhuri
  A Digital Ink Recogntion Server for Handwritten Japanese Text Daqing Wang, Bilan Zhu, Masaki Nakagawa
  A Novel Method for Embedded Text Segmentation Based on Stroke and Color Xiufei Wang, Lei Huang, Changping Liu
  Using Ontologies to Reduce the Semantic Gap between Historians and Image Processing Algorithms Mickal Coustaty, Alain Bouju, Karell Bertet, Georges Louis
  Probabilistic Mathematical Formula Recognition Using a 2D Context-Free Graph Grammar Mehmet Celik, Berrin Yanikoglu
  Chromatic / Achromatic Separation in Noisy Document Images Asma Ouji, Yann Leydier, Frank Lebourgeois
  Novel Data Representation for Text Extraction from Multispectral Historical Document Images Rachid Hedjam, Mohamed Cheriet
  Text Detection in Natural Scene Images by Stroke Gabor Words Chucai Yi, Yingli Tian
  A Shape Descriptor Combining Logarithmic-Scale Histogram of Radon Transform and Phase-Only Correlation Function Makoto Hasegawa, Salvatore Tabbone
  Segmentation of Graphical Objects as Maximally Stable Salient Regions Su Yang, Yuanyuan Wang
  An Optimized Multi-stream Decoding Algorithm for Handwritten Word Recognition Yousri Kessentini, Thierry Paquet, Ahmed Guermazi
  Indexing On-line Handwritten Texts Using Word Confusion Networks Sebastian Peña Saldarriaga and Mohamed Cheriet
  Circle Text Expansion as Low-Rank Textures Xin Zhang, Fuchun Sun
  MRG-OHTC Database for Online Handwritten Tibetan Character Recognition Long-long Ma, Hui-dan Liu, Jian Wu
  Using Readers' Highlighting on Monochromatic Documents for Automatic Text Transcription and Summarization Ricardo da Silva Barboza, Rafael Dueire Lins, Victor Matheus de S. Pereira
  Color-Mixing Correction of Overlapped Colors in Scanner Images Misako Suwa
  Enhanced Active Contour Method for Locating Text Yaakov Navon, Vladimir Kluzner, Boaz Ophir
  Updating Knowledge in Feedback-Based Multi-classifier Systems D. Impedovo, G. Pirlo
  A New Feature Optimization Method Based on Two-Directional 2DLDA for Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition Xue Gao, Wenhuan Wen, Lianwen Jin
  Development of Template-Free Form Recognition System Junichi Hirayama, Hiroshi Shinjo, Toshikazu Takahashi, Takeshi Nagasaki
  Data Extraction from Web Tables: The Devil is in the Details George Nagy, Sharad Seth, Dongpu Jin, David W. Embley, Spencer Machado, Mukkai Krishnamoorthy
  A Method of Evaluating Table Segmentation Results Based on a Table Image Ground Truther Yanhui Liang, Yizhou Wang, Eric Saund
  The SCRIBO Module of the Olena Platform: A Free Software Framework for Document Image Analysis Guillaume Lazzara, Roland Levillain, Thierry Géraud, Yann Jacquelet, Julien Marquegnies and Arthur Crépin-Leblond
  A Semi-supervised Ensemble Learning Approach for Character Labeling with Minimal Human Effort Szilard Vajda, Akmal Junaidi and Gernot A. Fink
  Character Recognition Based on DTW-Radon K.C. Santosh
  A Mixed Approach for Handwritten Documents Structural Analysis Vincent Malleron and Véronique Eglin
  Binarization of Color Character Strings in Scene Images Using K-Means Clustering and Support Vector Machines Toru Wakahara, Kohei Kita
  Efficient Cut-Off Threshold Estimation for Word Spotting Applications A. L. Kesidis, B. Gatos
  Improvement of On-line Recognition Systems Using a RBF-Neural Network Based Writer Adaptation Module Lobna Haddad, Tarek M. Hamdani, Monji Kherallah, Adel M. Alimi
  Distortion Measurement for Automatic Document Verification Joost van Beusekom, Faisal Shafait
  A Benchmark Kannada Handwritten Document Dataset and Its Segmentation Alireza Alaei, P. Nagabhushan, Umapada Pal
  A Painting Based Technique for Skew Estimation of Scanned Documents Alireza Alaei, Umapada Pal, P. Nagabhushan, Fumitaka Kimura
  A New Text-Line Alignment Approach Based on Piece-Wise Painting Algorithm for Handwritten Documents Alireza Alaei, P. Nagabhushan, Umapada Pal
  Sample-Dependent Feature Selection for Faster Document Image Categorization Jérôme Louradour and Christopher Kermorvant
  Co-training for Handwritten Word Recognition Volkmar Frinken, Andreas Fischer, Alicia Fornes and Horst Bunke
  Web Multimedia Object Clustering via Information Fusion Wenting Lu, Lei Li, Tao Li, Honggang Zhang, Jun Guo
  Database Development and Recognition of Handwritten Devanagari Legal Amount Words R. Jayadevan, S. R. Kolhe, P. M. Patil, Umapada Pal
  Baseline Dependent Percentile Features for Offline Arabic Handwriting Recognition Pradeep Natarajan, David Belanger, Rohit Prasad, Matin Kamali, Krishna Subramanian, Prem Natarajan
  Stroke-Based Performance Metrics for Handwritten Mathematical Expressions Richard Zanibbi, Amit Pillay, Harold Mouchere, Christian Viard-Gaudin and Dorothea Blostein
  An Application of the 2D Gaussian Filter for Enhancing Feature Extraction in Off-line Signature Verification Vu Nguyen, Michael Blumenstein
  alpha-Shape Based Classification with Applications to Optical Character Recognition Eli Packer, Asaf Tzadok, Vladimir Kluzner
  Bags of Strokes Based Approach for Classification and Indexing of Drop Caps Thi Thuong Huyen Nguyen, Jean-Marc Ogier and Mickael Coustaty
  Robust Cell Extraction Method for Form Documents Based on Intersection Searching and Global Optimization Hiroshi Tanaka, Hiroaki Takebe, Yoshinobu Hotta
  Hypothesis Preservation Approach to Scene Text Recognition with Weighted Finite-State Transducer Takafumi Yamazoe, Minoru Etoh, Takeshi Yoshimura, Kousuke Tsujino
  Statistical Grouping for Segmenting Symbols Parts from Line Drawings, with Application to Symbol Spotting Nibal Nayef, Thomas M. Breuel
  Overlapped Handwriting Input on Mobile Phones Yanming Zou, Yingfei Liu, Ying Liu, Kongqiao Wang
  A Robust Color-Independent Text Detection Method from Complex Videos Yan Zhao, Tong Lu, Wujun Liao
  Handwritten and Audio Information Fusion for Mathematical Symbol Recognition Sofiane Medjkoune, Harold Mouchère, Simon Petitrenaud and Christian Viard-Gaudin
  A Novel Skew Detection Technique Based on Vertical Projections A. Papandreou, B. Gatos
  Discrimination of Old Document Images Using Their Style Mickael Coustaty, Jean-Marc Ogier
  Performance Evaluation of Algorithms for Newspaper Article Identification Roberto Beretta, Luigi Laura
  Table Detection in Noisy Off-line Handwritten Documents Jin Chen, Daniel Lopresti
  A Model-Based Ruling Line Detection Algorithm for Noisy Handwritten Documents Jin Chen, Daniel Lopresti
  An On-line Arabic Handwriting Recognition System: Based on a New On-line Graphemes Segmentation Technique Hesham M. Eraqi, Sherif Abdel Azeem
     
  Keynote Speech 1  
  Document Recognition without Strong Models Henry S. Baird
     
  Oral Session 4: Text Extraction (1)  
  Detection and Segmentation of Antialiased Text in Screen Images Sivan Gleichman, Boaz Ophir, Amir Geva, Mattias Marder, Ella Barkan, Eli Packer
  AdaBoost for Text Detection in Natural Scene Jung-Jin Lee, Pyoung-Hean Lee, Seong-Whan Lee, Alan Yuille, Christof Koch
  Dot Text Detection Based on FAST Points Yuning Du, Haizhou Ai, Shihong Lao
  Text Detection and Character Recognition in Scene Images with Unsupervised Feature Learning Adam Coates, Blake Carpenter, Carl Case, Sanjeev Satheesh, Bipin Suresh, Tao Wang, David J. Wu, Andrew Y. Ng
     
  Oral Session 5: Mathematics Recognition  
  Math Spotting: Retrieving Math in Technical Documents Using Handwritten Query Images Richard Zanibbi, Li Yu
  HAMEX - A Handwritten and Audio Dataset of Mathematical Expressions Solen Quiniou, Harold Mouchere, Sebastian Pena Saldarriaga, Christian Viard-Gaudin, Emmanuel Morin, Simon Petitrenaud and Sofiane MedjkounePetitrenaud, Sofiane Medjkoune
  HMM-Based Recognition of Online Handwritten Mathematical Symbols Using Segmental K-Means Initialization and a Modified Pen-Up/Down Feature Lei Hu, Richard Zanibbi
  Comparing Approaches to Mathematical Document Analysis from PDF Josef B. Baker, Alan P. Sexton, Volker Sorge, Masakazu Suzuki
     
  Oral Session 6: Applications (1)  
  Preservative License Plate De-identification for Privacy Protection Liang Du, Haibin Ling
  Evaluation of Voting with Form Dropout Techniques for Ballot Vote Counting Elisa H. Barney Smith, Shatakshi Goyal, Robbie Scott, Daniel Lopresti
  Conversion of PDF Books in ePub Format Simone Marinai, Emanuele Marino, Giovanni Soda
  Handwritten Street Name Recognition for Indian Postal Automation Umapada Pal, Ramit Kumar Roy, Fumitaka Kimura
     
  Oral Session 7: Layout Analysis  
  Table Content Understanding in SmartFIX Florian Deckert, Benjamin Seidler, Markus Ebbecke, Michael Gillmann
  Continuous CRF with Multi-scale Quantization Feature Functions Application to Structure Extraction in Old Newspaper David Hebert, Thierry Paquet, Stephane Nicolas
  Classifying Textual Components of Bilingual Documents with Decision-Tree Support Vector Machines Xiao-Rong Lin, Chien-Yang Guo, Fu Chang
  Iterative Analysis of Pages in Document Collections for Efficient User Interaction Joseph Chazalon, Aurélie Lemaitre and Bertrand Coüasnon
  Layout Analysis for Historical Manuscripts Using Sift Features Angelika Garz, Robert Sablatnig, Markus Diem
     
  Oral Session 8: Handwritten Text Recognition  
  Joint Optimization of Hidden Conditional Random Fields and Non Linear Feature Extraction Antoine Vinel, Trinh Minh Tri Do and Thierry Artieres
  Improving Handwritten Chinese Text Recognition by Confidence Transformation Qiu-Feng Wang, Fei Yin, Cheng-Lin Liu
  Concurrent Optimization of Context Clustering and GMM for Offline Handwritten Word Recognition Using HMM Tomoyuki Hamamura, Bunpei Irie, Takuya Nishimoto, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama
  Dempster-Shafer Based Rejection Strategy for Handwritten Word Recognition Thomas Burger, Yousri Kessentini, Thierry Paquet
  Handwritten Text Recognition for Marriage Register Books Verónica Romero, Joan Andreu Sánchez, Nicolás Serrano and Enrique Vidal
     
  Oral Session 9: Character Recognition (1)  
  Limits on the Application of Frequency-Based Language Models to OCR Ray Smith
  An Impact of OCR Errors on Automated Classification of OCR Japanese Texts with Parts-of-Speech Analysis Akihiro Kokawa, Lazaro S.P. Busagala, Wataru Ohyama, Tetsushi Wakabayashi, Fumitaka Kimura
  Recognizing Characters with Severe Perspective Distortion Using Hash Tables and Perspective Invariants Pan Pan, Yuanping Zhu, Jun Sun, Satoshi Naoi
  An Automatic Method for Enhancing Character Recognition in Degraded Historical Documents Gabriel Pereira e Silva, Rafael Dueire Lins
  Discriminative Bernoulli Mixture Models for Handwritten Digit Recognition Adrià Giménez Pastor, Jesús Andrés Ferrer, Alfons Juan Císcar and Nicolás Serrano Martínez-Santos
     
  Oral Session 10: Document Segmentation  
  Language-Independent Text Lines Extraction Using Seam Carving Raid Saabni, Jihad El-Sana
  Template Based Segmentation of Touching Components in Handwritten Text Lines Le Kang, David Doermann
  Graph Clustering-Based Ensemble Method for Handwritten Text Line Segmentation Vasant Manohar, Shiv N. Vitaladevuni, Huaigu Cao, Rohit Prasad, Prem Natarajan
  Text-Line Extraction Using a Convolution of Isotropic Gaussian Filter with a Set of Line Filters Syed Saqib Bukhari, Faisal Shafait, Thomas M. Breuel
  Fast Rule-Line Removal Using Integral Images and Support Vector Machines Jayant Kumar, David Doermann
     
  Oral Session 11: Online Handwriting Recognition  
  A Generative Model for Handwritings Based on Enhanced Feature Desynchronization Seiichi Uchida, Toru Sasaki, Feng Yaokai
  Objective Function Design for MCE-Based Combination of On-line and Off-line Character Recognizers for On-line Handwritten Japanese Text Recognition Bilan Zhu, JinFeng Gao, Masaki Nakagawa
  A Weighted Finite-State Transducer (WFST)-Based Language Model for Online Indic Script Handwriting Recognition Suhan Chowdhury, Utpal Garain, Tanushyam Chattopadhyay
  On-line Handwritten Japanese Characters Recognition Using a MRF Model with Parameter Optimization by CRF Bilan Zhu, Masaki Nakagawa
  Symbol Knowledge Extraction from a Simple Graphical Language Jinpeng Li, Harold Mouchere, Christian Viard-Gaudin
     
  Oral Session 12: Forensic Document Analysis  
  Segmentation and Normalisation in Grapheme Codebooks Tara Gilliam, Richard C. Wilson, John A. Clark
  Evaluating the Rarity of Handwriting Formations Sargur N. Srihari
  Multi-fractal Modeling for On-line Text-Independent Writer Identification Aymen Chaabouni, Houcine Boubaker, Monji Kherallah, Adel M. Alimi, Haikal El Abed
  Writer Retrieval - Exploration of a Novel Biometric Scenario Using Perceptual Features Derived from Script Orientation Vlad Atanasiu, Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Nicole Vincent
  Quality Analysis of Dynamic Signature Based on the Sigma-Lognormal Model Javier Galbally, Julian Fierrez, Marcos Martinez-Diaz and Réjean Plamondon
     
  Poster Session 2  
  An Improved Method Based on Weighted Grid Micro-structure Feature for Text-Independent Writer Recognition Lu Xu, Xiaoqing Ding, Liangrui Peng, Xin Li
  A Multi-scale Text Line Segmentation Method in Freestyle Handwritten Documents Yangdong Gao, Xiaoqing Ding, Changsong Liu
  Digit/Symbol Pruning and Verification for Arabic Handwritten Digit/Symbol Spotting Nicola Nobile, Chun Lei He, Malik Waqas Sagheer, Louisa Lam, Ching Y. Suen
  Modified Two-Class LDA Based Compound Distance for Similar Handwritten Chinese Characters Discrimination Yunxue Shao, Chunheng Wang, Baihua Xiao, Rongguo Zhang, Linbo Zhang
  Error Correction with In-domain Training across Multiple OCR System Outputs William B. Lund, Eric K. Ringger
  Progressive Alignment and Discriminative Error Correction for Multiple OCR Engines William B. Lund, Daniel D. Walker, Eric K. Ringger
  A Novel Short Merged Off-line Handwritten Chinese Character String Segmentation Algorithm Using Hidden Markov Model Zhiwei Jiang, Xiaoqing Ding, Changsong Liu, Yanwei Wang
  Binarization of Textual Content in Video Frames Konstantinos Ntirogiannis, Basilis Gatos, Ioannis Pratikakis
  Word Retrieval in Historical Document Using Character-Primitives Partha Pratim Roy, Jean-Yves Ramel, Nicolas Ragot
  An On-line Handwritten Text Search Method Based on Directional Feature Matching Pasitthideth Luangvilay, Bilan Zhu, Masaki Nakagawa
  Text Localization in Real-World Images Using Efficiently Pruned Exhaustive Search Lukas Neumann and Jiri Matas
  Classical Mongolian Words Recognition in Historical Document Guanglai Gao, Xiangdong Su, Hongxi Wei, Yeyun Gong
  A Novel Italic Detection and Rectification Method for Chinese Advertising Images Jie Liu, Heping Li, Shuwu Zhang, Wei Liang
  Minimizing User Annotations in the Generation of Layout Ground-Truthed Data Karim Hadjar, Rolf Ingold
  An Improved Scene Text Extraction Method Using Conditional Random Field and Optical Character Recognition Hongwei Zhang, Changsong Liu, Cheng Yang, Xiaoqing Ding, KongQiao Wang
  Identification of Indic Scripts on Torn-Documents Sukalpa Chanda, Katrin Franke, Umapada Pal
  A Contour-Based Method for Logo Detection The Anh Pham, Mathieu Delalandre, Sabine Barrat
  A Contour-Based Progressive Technique for Shape Recognition Stefano Ferilli, Teresa M.A. Basile, Floriana Esposito, Marenglen Biba
  Localization of Digit Strings in Farsi/Arabic Document Images Using Structural Features and Syntactical Analysis Ali Abedi, Karim Faez
  Touching Character Separation in Chinese Handwriting Using Visibility-Based Foreground Analysis Liang Xu, Fei Yin, Qiu-Feng Wang, Cheng-Lin Liu
  OCR-Driven Writer Identification and Adaptation in an HMM Handwriting Recognition System Huaigu Cao, Rohit Prasad, Prem Natarajan
  Handwritten and Typewritten Text Identification and Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models Huaigu Cao, Rohit Prasad, Prem Natarajan
  Metadata Extraction System for Chinese Books Liangcai Gao, Yuan Zhong, Yingmin Tang, Zhi Tang, Xiaofan Lin, Xuan Hu
  A Fast Alignment Scheme for Automatic OCR Evaluation of Books Ismet Zeki Yalniz, R. Manmatha
  Improving Scene Text Detection by Scale-Adaptive Segmentation and Weighted CRF Verification Yi-Feng Pan, Yuanping Zhu, Jun Sun, Satoshi Naoi
  Effects of Generating a Large Amount of Artificial Patterns for On-line Handwritten Japanese Character Recognition Bin Chen, Bilan Zhu, Masaki Nakagawa
  Offline Writer Identification Using K-Adjacent Segments Rajiv Jain, David Doermann
  Binarizing the Courtesy Amount Field on Color Chinese Bank Check Images Dong Liu, Youbin Chen
  A Table Detection Method for Multipage PDF Documents via Visual Seperators and Tabular Structures Jing Fang, Liangcai Gao, Kun Bai, Ruiheng Qiu, Xin Tao, Zhi Tang
  Snap and Translate Using Windows Phone Jun Du, Qiang Huo, Lei Sun, Jian Sun
  Chinese Keyword Spotting Using Knowledge-Based Clustering Yong Xia, Kuanquan Wang, Mingwei Li
  Text Segmentation of Consumer Magazines in PDF Format Jian Fan
  On-line Chinese Character Recognition System for Overlapping Samples Xiang Wan, Changsong Liu, Yanming Zou
  On-line Signature Verification Using Segment-to-Segment Graph Matching Kaiyue Wang, Yunhong Wang, Zhaoxiang Zhang
  Look Inside the World of Parts of Handwritten Characters Wang Song, Seiichi Uchida, Marcus Liwicki
  Comparative Study of Part-Based Handwritten Character Recognition Methods Wang Song, Seiichi Uchida, Marcus Liwicki
  A Keypoint-Based Approach toward Scenery Character Detection Seiichi Uchida, Yuki Shigeyoshi, Yasuhiro Kunishige, Feng Yaokai
  Three Dimensional Rotation-Free Recognition of Characters Ryo Narita, Wataru Ohyama, Tetsushi Wakabayashi, Fumitaka Kimura
  A Novel Approach for Graphics Recognition Based on Galois Lattice and Bag of Words Representation Amani Boumaiza, Salvatore Tabbone
  Effects of Line Densities on Nonlinear Normalization for Online Handwritten Japanese Character Recognition Truyen Van Phan, JinFeng Gao, Bilan Zhu, Masaki Nakagawa
  Super-Resolved Binarization of Text Based on the FAIR Algorithm Thibault Lelore and Frédéric Bouchara
  Writer Identification Using TF-IDF for Cursive Handwritten Word Recognition Quang Anh Bui, Muriel Visani, Sophea Prum, Jean-Marc Ogier
  Creation and Analysis of a Corpus of Text Rich Indian TV Videos T. Chattopadhyay, Soumik Sengupta, Aniruddha Sinha, Nisha Rampuria
  Text Classification and Document Layout Analysis of Paper Fragments Markus Diem, Florian Kleber, Robert Sablatnig
  Text/Graphics Segmentation in Architectural Floor Plans Sheraz Ahmed, Markus Weber, Marcus Liwicki, Andreas Dengel
  Improved Automatic Analysis of Architectural Floor Plans Sheraz Ahmed, Marcus Liwicki, Markus Weber, Andreas Dengel
  Subgraph Spotting through Explicit Graph Embedding: An Application to Content Spotting in Graphic Document Images Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman, Jean-Yves Ramel, Josep Llados and Thierry Brouard
  Exploiting Collection Level for Improving Assisted Handwritten Word Transcription of Historical Documents Laurent Guichard, Joseph Chazalon and Bertrand Coüasnon
  Embedding a Mathematical OCR Module into OCRopus Shinpei Yamazaki, Fumihiro Furukori, Qinzheng Zhao, Keiichiro Shirai, Masayuki Okamoto
  Handwriting Character Recognition as a Service: A New Handwriting Recognition System Based on Cloud Computing Yan Gao, Lanwen Jin, Cong He, Guibin Zhou
  Page Curling Correction for Scanned Books Using Local Distortion Information Vladimir Kluzner, Asaf Tzadok
  Image Enhancement for Degraded Binary Document Images Zhixin Shi, Srirangaraj Setlur, Venu Govindaraju
  Hybrid Approach to Adaptive OCR for Historical Books Vladimir Kluzner, Asaf Tzadok, Dan Chevion, Eugene Walach
  Restoration of Arbitrarily Warped Historical Document Images Using Flow Lines Maryam Rahnemoonfar, Apostolos Antonacopoulos
  Towards Improving the Accuracy of Telugu OCR Systems P. Pavan Kumar, Chakravarthy Bhagvati, Atul Negi, Arun Agarwal, B. L. Deekshatulu
  Correcting Specular Noise in Multiple Images of Photographed Documents Ednardo Mariano, Rafael Lins, Gabriel Silva, Jian Fan, Peter Majewicz and Marcelo Thielo
  A Study on Automatic Chinese Text Classification Xi Luo, Wataru Ohyama, Tetsushi Wakabayashi, Fumitaka Kimura
  A New System for Recognition of Handwritten Persian Bank Checks Javad Sadri, Younes Akbari, Mohammad J. Jalili, Ahmad Farahi, Maliheh Habibi
  Dynamic Text Line Segmentation for Real-Time Recognition of Chinese Handwritten Sentences Da-Han Wang, Cheng-Lin Liu
  Character Enhancement for Historical Newspapers Printed Using Hot Metal Typesetting Iuliu Konya, Stefan Eickeler, Christoph Seibert
  Character n-Gram Spotting in Document Images M. Sudha Praveen, K. Pramod Sankar, C. V. Jawahar
  Use of Semantic and Physical Constraints in Bayesian Networks for Form Recognition Emilie Philippot, Yolande Belaïd and Abdel Belaïd
     
  Keynote Speech 2  
  Chinese Paleography, Calligraphy, and Pattern Recognition: Styles and Scripts in Excavated Ancient Chinese Documents Xing Wen
     
  Oral Session 13: Applications (2)  
  MCS for Online Mode Detection: Evaluation on Pen-Enabled Multi-touch Interfaces Markus Weber, Marcus Liwicki, Yannik T. H. Schelske, Christopher Schölzel, Florian Strauß and Andreas Dengel
  Discovering Legible Chinese Typefaces for Reading Digital Documents Bing Zhang, Ying Li, Ching Y. Suen, Xuemin Zhang
  Detecting Figure-Panel Labels in Medical Journal Articles Using MRF Daekeun You, Sameer Antani, Dina Demner-Fushman, Venu Govindaraju, George R. Thoma
  A New Method on the Segmentation and Recognition of Chinese Characters for Automatic Chinese Seal Imprint Retrieval Chao Ren, Dong Liu, Youbin Chen
     
  Oral Session 14: Graphics Recognition  
  CalliGUI: Interactive Labeling of Calligraphic Character Images George Nagy, Xiafen Zhang
  Symbol Spotting in Line Drawings through Graph Paths Hashing Anjan Dutta, Josep Lladós and Umapada Pal
  A Non-rigid Feature Extraction Method for Shape Recognition Jon Almazán, Alicia Fornés and Ernest Valveny
  Low Resolution QR-Code Recognition by Applying Super-Resolution Using the Property of QR-Codes Yuji Kato, Daisuke Deguchi, Tomokazu Takahashi, Ichiro Ide, Hiroshi Murase
     
  Oral Session 15: Character Recognition (2)  
  Tuning between Exponential Functions and Zones for Membership Functions Selection in Voronoi-Based Zoning for Handwritten Character Recognition S. Impedovo, G. Pirlo
  Multiple Instance Learning Based Method for Similar Handwritten Chinese Characters Discrimination Yunxue Shao, Chunheng Wang, Baihua Xiao, Rongguo Zhang, Yang Zhang
  Perceptron Learning of Modified Quadratic Discriminant Function Tong-Hua Su, Cheng-Lin Liu, Xu-Yao Zhang
  Similar Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition Using Discriminative Locality Alignment Manifold Learning Dapeng Tao, Lingyu Liang, Lianwen Jin, Yan Gao
     
  Keynote Speech 3  
  The Four and a Half Challenges of Humanities Data Marc Wilhelm Küster
     
  Oral Session 16: Text Extraction (2)  
  A Gradient Vector Flow-Based Method for Video Character Segmentation Trung Quy Phan, Palaiahnakote Shivakumara, Bolan Su, Chew Lim Tan
  Text Extraction from Video Using Conditional Random Fields Xujun Peng, Huaigu Cao, Rohit Prasad, Premkumar Natarajan
  Scene Text Extraction by Superpixel CRFs Combining Multiple Character Features Min Su Cho, Jae-Hyun Seok, Seonghun Lee, Jin Hyung Kim
  Bayesian Approach to Photo Time-Stamp Recognition Asif Shahab, Faisal Shafait, Andreas Dengel
  A Chinese Character Localization Method Based on Intergrating Structure and CC-Clustering for Advertising Images Jie Liu, Shuwu Zhang, Heping Li, Wei Liang
  Scenery Character Detection with Environmental Context Yasuhiro Kunishige, Feng Yaokai, Seiichi Uchida
     
  Oral Session 17: Document Retrieval (2)  
  Real-Time Document Image Retrieval for a 10 Million Pages Database with a Memory Efficient and Stability Improved LLAH Kazutaka Takeda, Koichi Kise, Masakazu Iwamura
  Document Image Classification and Labeling Using Multiple Instance Learning Jayant Kumar, Jaishanker Pillai, David Doermann
  A Lattice-Based Method for Keyword Spotting in Online Chinese Handwriting Heng Zhang, Cheng-Lin Liu
  A Graph Lattice Approach to Maintaining Dense Collections of Subgraphs as Image Features Eric Saund
  Similar Manga Retrieval Using Visual Vocabulary Based on Regions of Interest Weihan Sun, Koichi Kise
  Case Study in Hebrew Character Searching Irina Rabaev, Ofer Biller, Jihad El-Sana, Klara Kedem, Itshak Dinstein
     
  Oral Session 18: Character Recognition (3)  
  Multiscale Histogram of Oriented Gradient Descriptors for Robust Character Recognition Andrew J. Newell, Lewis D. Griffin
  A Coarse Classifier Construction Method from a Large Number of Basic Recognizers for On-line Recognition of Handwritten Japanese Characters Bilan Zhu, Masaki Nakagawa
  Affine-Invariant Recognition of Handwritten Characters via Accelerated KL Divergence Minimization Toru Wakahara, Yukihiko Yamashita
  MQDF Discriminative Learning Based Offline Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition Yanwei Wang, Xiaoqing Ding, Changsong Liu
  A Semi-supervised SVM Framework for Character Recognition Amit Arora, Anoop M. Namboodiri
  Efficient Word Recognition Using a Pixel-Based Dissimilarity Measure Sebastian Colutto, Basilis Gatos
     
  Poster Session 3  
  A Compression Scheme for Handwritten Patterns Based on Curve Fitting Kamal Gupta, Manish Bansal, Santanu Chaudhury
  Edge-Based Features for Localization of Artificial Urdu Text in Video Images Akhtar Jamil, Imran Siddiqi, Fahim Arif, Ahsen Raza
  Stamp Detection in Color Document Images Barbora Micenkova and Joost Van Beusekom
  Trie-Lexicon-Driven Recognition for On-line Handwritten Japanese Disease Names Using a Time-Synchronous Method Bilan Zhu, Masaki Nakagawa
  Convolutional Neural Network Committees for Handwritten Character Classification Dan Claudiu Ciresan, Ueli Meier, Luca Maria Gambardella and Juergen Schmidhuber
  Semantic Logging: Towards Explanation-Aware DAS Björn Forcher, Stefan Agne, Andreas Dengel, Michael Gillmann and Thomas Roth-Berghofer
  A Novel Preprocessing Method for Hectography Prints Based on Independent Component Analysis Thomas Kurbiel, Iuliu Konya, Stefan Eickeler
  An Empirical Evaluation on HIT-OR3C Database Shusen Zhou, Qingcai Chen, Xiaolong Wang, Xinyi Guo, Hui Li
  Greek Polytonic OCR Based on Efficient Character Class Number Reduction B. Gatos, G. Louloudis, N. Stamatopoulos
  Adaptive Zoning Features for Character and Word Recognition B. Gatos, A. L. Kesidis, A. Papandreou
  A New Fourier-Moments Based Video Word and Character Extraction Method for Recognition Deepak Rajendran, Palaiahnakote Shivakumara, Bolan Su, Shijian Lu, Chew Lim Tan
  Signature Segmentation from Machine Printed Documents Using Conditional Random Field Ranju Mandal, Partha Pratim Roy, Umapada Pal
  Lexicon-Free, Novel Segmentation of Online Handwritten Indic Words Suresh Sundaram, A. G. Ramakrishan
  Scale Space Binarization Using Edge Information Weighted by a Foreground Estimation Florian Kleber, Markus Diem, Robert Sablatnig
  Multi Resolution Layout Analysis of Medieval Manuscripts Using Dynamic MLP Micheal Baechler, Rolf Ingold
  Document Images Indexing with Relevance Feedback: An Application to Industrial Context O. Augereau, N. Journet, J.-P. Domenger
  Interactive Competitive Breadth-First Exploration for Sketch Interpretation Achraf Ghorbel, Sébastien Macé, Eric Anquetil and Aurélie Lemaitre
  Document Image Indexing Using Edit Distance Based Hashing Ehtesham Hassan, Santanu Chaudhury, M. Gopal
  New Binarization Approach Based on Text Block Extraction Ines Ben Messaoud, Haikal El Abed, Hamid Amiri and Volker Märgner
  Searching OCR'ed Text: An LDA Based Approach Ehtesham Hassan, Vikram Garg, S. K. Mirajul Haque, Santanu Chaudhury, M. Gopal
  A CRF Based Scheme for Overlapping Multi-colored Text Graphics Separation Ritu Garg, Ehtesham Hassan, Santanu Chaudhury, M. Gopal
  Fuzzy Relative Positioning Templates for Symbol Recognition Adrien Delaye, Eric Anquetil
  Recognition of Printed Mathematical Expressions Using Two-Dimensional Stochastic Context-Free Grammars Francisco Álvaro, Joan-Andreu Sánchez and José-Miguel Benedí
  Document Recto-verso Registration Using a Dynamic Time Warping Algorithm Rabeux Vincent, Journet Nicholas, Domenger Jean Philippe
  Automatic Content Extraction on Semi-structured Documents Jose Eduardo Santos
  Video Script Identification Based on Text Lines Trung Quy Phan, Palaiahnakote Shivakumara, Zhang Ding, Shijian Lu, Chew Lim Tan
  Extending Page Segmentation Algorithms for Mixed-Layout Document Processing Amy Winder, Tim Andersen, Elisa H. Barney Smith
  Better Digit Recognition with a Committee of Simple Neural Nets Ueli Meier, Dan Claudiu Ciresan, Luca Gambardella and Juergen Schmidhuber
  Towards Improved Paper-Based Election Technology Elisa H. Barney Smith, Daniel Lopresti, George Nagy, Ziyan Wu
  An Evaluation of HMM-Based Techniques for the Recognition of Screen Rendered Text Sheikh Faisal Rashid, Faisal Shafait, Thomas M. Breuel
  A System for an Automatic Reading of Student Information Sheets Afef Kacem, Asma SaÏdani and Abdel BelaÏd
  Wall Patch-Based Segmentation in Architectural Floorplans Lluís-Pere De Las Heras, Joan Mas, Gemma Sánchez and Ernest Valveny
  High Performance Layout Analysis of Arabic and Urdu Document Images Syed Saqib Bukhari, Faisal Shafait, Thomas M. Breuel
  Automatically Discriminating between Digital and Scanned Photographs Rafael Lins, Gabriel Silva and Steven Simske
  A Discriminative Model for On-line Handwritten Japanese Text Retrieval Cheng Cheng, Bilan Zhu, Masaki Nakagawa
  A Circular Grid-Based Rotation Invariant Feature Extraction Approach for Off-line Signature Verification Marianela Parodi, Juan Carlos Gomez and Abdel Belaïd
  Fringe Map Based Text Line Segmentation of Printed Telugu Document Images Vijaya Kumar Koppula, Atul Negi
  Combining of Off-line and On-line Feature Extraction Approaches for Writer Identification Aymen Chaabouni, Houcine Boubaker, Monji Kherallah, Adel M. Alimi, Haikal El Abed
  On-line Arabic Handwritten Personal Names Recognition System Based on HMM Sherif Abdelazeem, Hesham M. Eraqi
  Using Earth Mover's Distance in the Bag-of-Visual-Words Model for Mathematical Symbol Retrieval Simone Marinai, Beatrice Miotti, Giovanni Soda
  Enhancing Handwritten Word Segmentation by Employing Local Spatial Features Fotini Simistira, Vassilis Papavassiliou, Themos Stafylakis, Vassilis Katsouros
  Symbol Recognition by Multiresolution Shape Context Matching Feng Su, Tong Lu, Ruoyu Yang
  On-line Arabic Handwriting Recognition System Based on HMM Hany Ahmed, Sherif Abdel Azeem
  Recognizing Text Elements for SVG Comic Compression and Its Novel Applications Chung-Yuan Su, Ray-I Chang, Jen-Chang Liu
  Facilitating Understanding of Large Document Collections Jae Hyeon Bae, Weijia Xu, Maria Esteva
  Translation-Inspired OCR Dmitriy Genzel, Ashok C. Popat, Nemanja Spasojevic, Michael Jahr, Andrew Senior, Eugene Ie, Frank Yung-Fong Tang
  Towards Searchable Digital Urdu Libraries - A Word Spotting Based Retrieval Approach Ali Abidi, Imran Siddiqi, Khurram Khurshid
  Word Warping for Offline Handwriting Recognition Douglas J. Kennard, William A. Barrett, Thomas W. Sederberg
  Script-Free Text Line Segmentation Using Interline Space Model for Printed Document Images Minwoo Kim, Il-Seok Oh
  Text Localization in Web Images Using Probabilistic Candidate Selection Model Liangji Situ, Ruizhe Liu, Chew Lim Tan
  Functional-Based Table Category Identification in Digital Library Seongchan Kim, Ying Liu
  Chinese Chess Character Recognition with Radial Harmonic Fourier Moments Wang Kejia, Zhang Honggang, Ping Ziliang, Haiying
  Non-rigid Registration and Restoration of Double-Sided Historical Manuscripts Jie Wang, Chew Lim Tan
  A Fast Appearance-Based Full-Text Search Method for Historical Newspaper Images Kengo Terasawa, Takahiro Shima, Toshio Kawashima
  Reliable Online Stroke Recovery from Offline Data with the Data-Embedding Pen Marcus Liwicki, Yoshida Akira, Seiichi Uchida, Masakazu Iwamura, Shinichiro Omachi, Koichi Kise
  Online Handwriting Recognition of Tamil Script Using Fractal Geometry Rituraj Kunwar, A. G. Ramakrishnan
  Connected Component Level Discrimination of Handwritten and Machine-Printed Text Using Eigenfaces Samuel J. Pinson, William A. Barrett
  Recognition of Multi-oriented, Multi-sized, and Curved Text Yao-Yi Chiang, Craig A. Knoblock
  Scenario Driven In-depth Performance Evaluation of Document Layout Analysis Methods C. Clausner, S. Pletschacher, A. Antonacopoulos
  Recognition of Multiple Characters in a Scene Image Using Arrangement of Local Features Masakazu Iwamura, Takuya Kobayashi, Koichi Kise
  Quality Evaluation of Character Image Database and Its Application Hiroyuki Hase
  Mathematical Formula Identification in PDF Documents Xiaoyan Lin, Liangcai Gao, Zhi Tang, Xiaofan Lin, Xuan Hu
     
  Panel Discussion  
  Evaluation of Fonts for Digital Publishing and Display C. Y. Suen, N. Dumont, M. Dyson, Y.-C. Tai, X. Lu
     
  Competition Session 1  
  International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2011) - Competitions Overview Haikal El Abed, Liu Wenyin and Volker Märgner
  ICDAR 2011 - Arabic Handwriting Recognition Competition Volker Märgner and Haikal El Abed
  ICDAR 2011 - Arabic Recognition Competition: Multi-font Multi-size Digitally Represented Text Fouad Slimane, Slim Kanoun, Haikal El Abed, Adel M. Alimi, Rolf Ingold, Jean Hennebert
  Online Arabic Handwriting Recognition Competition Monji Kherallah, Adel M. Alimi, Haikal El Abed and Volker Märgner
  ICDAR 2011 - French Handwriting Recognition Competition Emmanuèle Grosicki and Haikal El Abed
  ICDAR 2011 Chinese Handwriting Recognition Competition Cheng-Lin Liu, Fei Yin, Qiu-Feng Wang, Da-Han Wang
     
  Competition Session 2  
  The ICDAR2011 Arabic Writer Identification Contest Abdelâali Hassaïne, Somaya Al-Ma'adeed, Jihad Mohamad Alja'am, Ali Mohamed Jaoua and Ahmed Bouridane
  ICDAR 2011 Writer Identification Contest G. Louloudis, N. Stamatopoulos, B. Gatos
  Signature Verification Competition for Online and Offline Skilled Forgeries (SigComp2011) Marcus Liwicki, Muhammad Imran Malik, C. Elisa van den Heuvel, Xiaohong Chen, Charles Berger, Reinoud Stoel, Michael Blumenstein, Bryan Found
  ICDAR 2011 Robust Reading Competition - Challenge 1: Reading Text in Born-Digital Images (Web and Email) D. Karatzas, S. Robles Mestre, J. Mas, F. Nourbakhsh, P. Pratim Roy
  ICDAR 2011 Robust Reading Competition Challenge 2: Reading Text in Scene Images Asif Shahab, Faisal Shafait, Andreas Dengel
     
  Competition Session 3  
  CROHME2011: Competition on Recognition of Online Handwritten Mathematical Expressions Harold Mouchère, Christian Viard-Gaudin, Dae Hwan Kim, Jin Hyung Kim and Utpal Garain
  ICDAR 2011 Book Structure Extraction Competition Antoine Doucet, Gabriella Kazai, Jean-Luc Meunier
  ICDAR 2011 Document Image Binarization Contest (DIBCO 2011) Ioannis Pratikakis, Basilis Gatos, Konstantinos Ntirogiannis
  The ICDAR 2011 Music Scores Competition: Staff Removal and Writer Identification Alicia Fornés, Anjan Dutta, Albert Gordo and Josep Lladós
  Historical Document Layout Analysis Competition A. Antonacopoulos, C. Clausner, C. Papadopoulos, S. Pletschacher
  Document Analysis Algorithm Contributions in End-to-End Applications: Report on the ICDAR 2011 Contest Bart Lamiroy, Daniel Lopresti, Tao Sun
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