Preliminary Program

September 18, 2012

Opening Ceremony Apulia Room, h. 9.00-10.00
9.00-10.00	Introduction Prof Sebastiano Impedovo Welcome by the Honorary Chair Prof Ching Y. Suen
Session 1 � Track I: Word Spotting I Chair: Josep Llad�s, David Doermann Apulia Room, h. 10.00-11.00
10.00-10.20	Comparison of Bernoulli and Gaussian HMMs using a vertical repositioning technique for off-line handwriting recognition Patrick Doetsch, Mahdi Hamdani, Adri� Gim�nez, Jes�s Andr�s-Ferrer, Alfons Juan and Hermann Ney
10.20-10.40	Separability versus Prototypicality in Handwritten Word Retrieval Jean-Paul van Oosten and Lambert Schomaker
10.40-11.00	Script Independent Word Spotting in Offline Handwritten Documents Based on Hidden Markov Models Safwan Wshah, Gaurav Kumar and Venu Govindaraju
Session 1 � Track II: Digit Recognition Chair: Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Nicole Vincent Albatros Room, h. 10.00-11.00
10.00-10.20	Annotating handwritten characters with minimal human involvement in a semi-supervised learning strategy Jan Richarz, Szilard Vajda and Gernot A. Fink
10.20-10.40	On the Possibility of Instance-Based Stroke Recovery Yutaro Iwakiri, Soma Shiraishi, Yaokai Feng and Seiichi Uchida
10.40-11.00	Benchmarking of Update Learning Strategies on Digit Classifier Systems Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo and Donato Barbuzzi
Session 2 � Track I: Word Spotting II Chair: Gernot A. Fink, Venu Govindaraju Apulia Room, h. 11.30-12.30
11.30-11.50	Arabic Handwritten Word Spotting Using Language Models Muna Khayyat, Louisa Lam and Ching Y. Suen
11.50-12.10	Semi-Supervised Learning for Cursive Handwriting Recognition using Keyword Spotting Volkmar Frinken, Markus Baumgartner, Andreas Fischer and Horst Bunke
12.10-12.30	The Role of the Users in Handwritten Word Spotting Applications: Query Fusion and Relevance Feedback Mar�al Rusi�ol and Josep Llados
Session 2 � Track II: Codebook for Handwriting Recognition Chair: Andreas Dengel, Lambert Schomaker Albatros Room, h. 11.30-12.30
11.30-11.50	Learning Text-Line Segmentation using Codebooks and Graph Partitioning Le Kang, Jayant Kumar, Peng Ye and David Doermann
11.50-12.10	Off-line Features Integration for On-line Handwriting Graphemes modeling improvement Houcine Boubaker, Aymen Chaabouni, Najiba Tagougui, Monji Kherallah, Haikal El Abed and Adel M. Alimi
12.10-12.30	Model-based Tabular Structure Detection and Recognition in Noisy Handwritten Documents Jin Chen and Daniel Lopresti
Session 3 � Track I: Flowchart Recognition, Segmentation Techniques Chair: Louisa Lam, Jean-Marc Ogier Apulia Room, h. 12.30-13.30
12.30-12.50	On-line handwritten flowchart recognition, beautification, and editing system Hidetoshi Miyao and Rei Maruyama
12.50-13.10	A Touching Character Database from Chinese Handwriting for Assessing Segmentation Algorithms Liang Xu, Fei Yin, Qiu-Feng Wang and Cheng-Lin Liu
13.10-13.30	A new Efficient Graphemes Segmentation Technique for Offline Arabic Handwriting Hesham Eraqi and Sherif Abdel Azeem
Session 3 � Track II: Word Segmentation Chair: Adel M. Alimi, Daniel P. Lopresti Albatros Room, h. 12.30-13.30
12.30-12.50	Handwritten and Machine Printed Text Separation in Document Images using the Bag of Visual Words Paradigm Konstantinos Zagoris, Ioannis Pratikakis, Apostolos Antonacopoulos, Basilis Gatos and Nikos Papamarkos
12.50-13.10	A New Method for Text Verification based on Random Forests Yang Zhang, Chunheng Wang, Baihua Xiao, Cunzhao Shi
13.10-13.30	Statistical Hypothesis Testing for Handwritten Word Segmentation Algorithms Mehdi Haji, Kalyan Asis Sahoo, Tien D. Bui, Ching Y. Suen and Dominique Ponson
Session 4 � Track I: Multilingual Recognition Chair: Bidyut B. Chaudhuri, Jihad El-Sana Apulia Room, h. 15.00-16.00
15.00-15.20	A Comparative Study of Persian/Arabic Handwritten Character Recognition Alaei Alireza, Umapada Pal and P. Nagabhushan
15.20-15.40	A Hybrid Language Model for Handwritten Chinese Sentence Recognition Qizhen He, Shijie Chen, Mingxi Zhao and Wei Lin
15.40-16.00	Online Arabic Handwritten Digits Recognition Sherif Abdel Azeem, Maha El Meseery and Hany Ahmed
Session 4 � Track II: Character Classification Chair: Tien D. Bui, Basilis Gatos Albatros Room, h. 15.00-16.00
15.00-15.20	k-NN Classification of Handwritten Characters via Accelerated GAT Correlation Toru Wakahara and Yukihiko Yamashita
15.20-15.40	Bag-of-Features Representations for Offline Handwriting Recognition Applied to Arabic Script Leonard Rothacker, Szilard Vajda and Gernot A. Fink
15.40-16.00	Building Compact On-line MRF Recognizer for Large Character Set Using Structured Dictionary Representation and Vector Quantization Technique Bilan Zhu and Masaki Nakagawa
Session 5 � Track I: Bank Check Processing and Postal Automation Chair: Sargur N. Srihari, Masaki Nakagawa Apulia Room, h. 16.00-17.00
16.00-16.20	The new method of identification of handwriting using volumes of indentations Takeshi Furukawa
16.20-16.40	Multi-lingual City Name Recognition for Indian Postal Automation Umapada Pal, Ramit Kumar Roy and Fumitaka Kimura
16.40-17.00	Reduction of Bleed-through Effect in Images of Chinese Bank Items Bingyu Chi and Youbin Chen
Session 5 � Track II: Mathematical Expression Chair: Seiichi Uchida, Stephen Watt Albatros Room, h. 16.00-17.00
16.00-16.20	Unbiased Evaluation of Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition Francisco Alvaro, Joan Andreu Sanchez and Jose Miguel Benedi
16.20-16.40	Using Speech for Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition Disambiguation Sofiane Medjkoune, Harold Mouch�re, Simon Petitrenaud and Christian Viard-Gaudin
16.40-17.00	A System for Recognition of On-Line Handwritten Mathematical Expressions Fotini Simistira, Vassilis Papavassiliou, Vassilis Katsouros and George Carayannis
Teaser for Poster Session A Chair: Haikal El Abed, Ioannis Pratikakis Apulia Room, h. 17.30-18.30
Poster Session A Chair: Haikal El Abed, Ioannis Pratikakis Albatros Gallery, h. 18.30-19.30
1	Statistical Text Line Analysis in Handwritten Documents Vicente Bosch, Alejandro H�ctor Toselli and Enrique Vidal
2	Handwritten English Word Recognition based on Convolutional Neural Networks Aiquan Yuan, Gang Bai, Po Yang, Yanni Guo, Xinting Zhao
3	Confused Distance Maximization for Large Category Dimensionality Reduction Xu-Yao Zhang and Cheng-Lin Liu
4	Applying Discriminatively Optimized Feature Transform for HMM-based Off-line Handwriting Recognition Jin Chen, Bing Zhang, Huaigu Cao, Rohit Prasad and Prem Natarajan
5	Signature based Document Retrieval using GHT of Background Information Partha Roy, Souvik Bhowmick, Umapada Pal and Jean-Yves Ramel
6	Analysis of Stability in Static Signatures using Cosine Similarity Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo, Lucia Sarcinella, Erasmo Stasolla, Claudia Adamita Trullo
7	A Novel Technique for Handwritten Digit Classification using Genetic Clustering Sebastiano Impedovo and Francesco Maurizio Mangini
8	Handwritten Digit Recognition Based On a DSmT-SVM Parallel Combination Nassim Abbas, Youcef Chibani and Hassiba Nemmour
9	An MLP for binarizing images of old manuscripts Abderrahmane Kefali, Toufik Sari and Halima Bahi
10	A New Text Extraction Method Incorporating Local Information Yang Zhang, Chunheng Wang, Baihua Xiao, Cunzhao Shi
11	Moment-based Image Normalization for Handwritten Text Recognition Michal Kozielski, Jens Forster and Hermann Ney
12	Page segmentation based on Steerable Pyramid features Mohamed Benjelil, R�my Mullot and Adel M. Alimi
13	Structural Features Extraction for Handwritten Arabic Personal Names Recognition Afef Kacem, Nadia Aou�ti and Abdel Bela�d
14	Segmentation and Word Spotting Methods for Printed and Handwritten Arabic Texts: A Comparative Study Mariem Gargouri, Slim Kanoun, Jean-Marc Ogier
15	Analysis of Preprocessing Techniques for Latin Handwriting Recognition Hendrik Pesch, Mahdi Hamdani, Jens Forster and Hermann Ney
16	A Study of handwritten characters by shape descriptors: doping using the Freeman code Chekib Gmati, Sofiene Haboubi, Abdulqadir Alaqeeli and Hamid Amiri
17	Statistical Machine Translation as a Language Model for Handwriting Recognition Jacob Devlin, Matin Kamali, Krishna Subramanian, Rohit Prasad and Prem Natarajan
18	Segmentation and recognition strategy of handwritten connected digits based on the oriented sliding window Abdeldjalil Gattal and Youcef Chibani
19	Mode Detection in Online Handwritten Documents Using BLSTM Neural Networks Emanuel Inderm�hle, Volkmar Frinken and Horst Bunke
20	MAYASTROUN- A Multilanguage Handwriting Database Sourour Njah, Hala Bezine and Badreddine Ben Nouma and Adel M. Alimi
21	Persian Signature Verification Based on Fractal Dimension Using Testing Hypothesis Atefeh Foroozandeh, Younes Akbari, Mohammad J. Jalili and Javad Sadri
22	Recognition of Relatively Small Handwritten Characters, or Size Matters Vadim Mazalov and Stephen Watt
23	Grouping of Handwritten Bangla Basic Characters, Numerals and Vowel Modifiers for Multilayer Classification Khondker Nayef Reza and Mumit Khan
24	Word Spotting based Retrieval of Urdu Handwritten Documents Ali Abidi, Akhtar Jamil, Imran Siddiqi and Khurram Khurshid
25	Automatic abbreviation detection in medieval medical documents Constantino Malag�n, Roberto Rizky, Kim Yonsoo, Marzal Francisco and Izquierdo Luis
26	Off-line Handwritten Signature Verification Using Contourlet Transform and Co-occurrence Matrix Assia Hamadene, Youcef Chibani and Hassiba Nemmour
27	Dynamic Programming Matching with Global Features for Online Character Recognition Minoru Mori, Seiichi Uchida and Hitoshi Sakano
28	Retrieval of Rashi Semi-Cursive Handwriting via Fuzzy Logic Zeev Zalevsky and Eran Gur

September 19, 2012

9.00-10.00	Invited Talk I: Strokes Against Stroke � Stroke For Strides Rejean Plamondon Chair: Ching Y. Suen Apulia Room, h. 9.00-10.00
Session 6 � Track I: Signature Recognition I Chair: Angelo Marcelli, Wataru Ohyama Apulia Room, h. 10.00-11.00
10.00-10.20	Handwritten Signature Verification: New Advancements and Open Issues Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo and Rejean Plamondon
10.20-10.40	Hindi Off-line Signature Verification Srikanta Pal, Michael Blumenstein and Umapada Pal
10.40-11.00	Online Signature Verification Based on Legendre Series Representation. Robustness Assessment of Different Feature Combinations Marianela Parodi, Juan Carlos Gomez and Marcus Liwicki
Session 6 � Track II: Writer Identification I Chair: Volker M�rgner, Saeed Mozaffari Albatros Room, h. 10.00-11.00
10.00-10.20	Modeling Writing Styles for Online Writer Identification: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach Arti Shivram, Chetan Ramaiah, Utkarsh Porwal and Venu Govindaraju
10.20-10.40	Writer-specific Dissimilarity Normalisation for Improved Writer-independent Off-line Signature Verification Jacques Swanepoel and Johannes Coetzer
10.40-11.00	A Database for Arabic Handwritten Text Image Recognition and Writer Identification Anis Mezghani, Slim Kanoun, Maher Khemakhem and Haikal El Abed
Session 7 � Track I: Writer Identification II Chair: Christian Viard-Gaudin, Johannes Coetzer Apulia Room, h. 11.30-12.30
11.30-11.50	Evolution maps for connected components in text documents Ofer Biller, Klara Kedem, Itshak Dinstein and Jihad El-Sana
11.50-12.10	Modeling handwriting style: a preliminary investigation Angelo Marcelli, Antonio Parziale and Adolfo Santoro
12.10-12.30	Structural Learning for Writer Identification in Offline Handwriting Utkarsh Porwal, Chetan Ramaiah, Arti Shivram and Venu Govindaraju
Session 7 � Track II: Signature Recognition II Chair: Michael Fairhurst, Giuseppe Pirlo Albatros Room, h. 11.30-12.30
11.30-11.50	Signature Segmentation from Document Images Sheraz Ahmed, Muhammad Imran Malik, Marcus Liwicki and Andreas Dengel
11.50-12.10	Combination of signature verification techniques by SVM Takashi Ito, Wataru Ohyama, Tetsushi Wakabayashi and Fumitaka Kimura
12.10-12.30	Adaptation of Writer-Independent Systems for Offline Signature Verification George Eskander, Robert Sabourin and Eric Granger
Teaser for Poster Session B Chair: Umapada Pal, Volkmar Frinken Apulia Room, h. 12.30-13.30
Poster Session B Chair: Umapada Pal, Volkmar Frinken Albatros Gallery, h. 15.00-16.00
1	Text Detection and Recognition in Real World Images Raid Saabni and Moti Zwilling
2	KHATT: Arabic Offline Handwritten Text Database Sabri A. Mahmoud, Irfan Ahmad, Mohammad Alshayeb, Wasfi G. Al-Khatib, Mohammad Tanvir Parvez, Gernot A. Fink, Volker M�rgner, Haikal El Abed
3	A Coarse-to-Fine Approach for Handwritten Word Spotting in Large Scale Historical Documents Collection Jon Almaz�n, David Fern�ndez, Alicia Forn�s, Josep Llad�s and Ernest Valveny
4	Procedural Analysis of a sketching activity: Principles and Applications Ney Renau-Ferrer and Remi Celine
5	A Novel Naive Bayes Voting Strategy for Combining Classifiers Claudio De Stefano, Francesco Fontanella and Alessandra Scotto Di Freca
6	Semi-Customizable Gestural Commands Approach and its Evaluation Peiyu Li, Ney Renau-Ferrer, Eric Anquetil and Eric Jamet
7	Character Image Patterns as Big Data Seiichi Uchida, Ryosuke Ishida, Akira Yoshida, Wenjie Cai and Yaokai Feng
8	Fast Feature Selection for Handwritten Digit Recognition Hassan Chouaib, Florence Cloppet and Nicole Vincent
9	An Unconstrained Benchmark Urdu Handwritten Sentence Database with Automatic Line Segmentation Ahsen Raza, Imran Siddiqi, Ali Abidi, Fahim Arif
10	A Hybrid Approach for Line Segmentation in Handwritten Documents Hande Adig�zel, Emre Sahin and Pinar Duygulu
11	Multi-script Writer Identification Optimized With Retrieval Mechanism Chawki Djeddi, Imran Siddiqi, Labiba Souici-Meslati and Abdel Ennaji
12	A Multilevel Text-line Segmentation Framework for Handwritten Historical Documents Ines Ben Messaoud, Haikal El Abed, Hamid Amiri and Volker M�rgner
13	Denoising textual images using local/non-local smoothing filters: A comparative study Fadoua Drira and Franck Lebourgeois
14	Optimization of Point Selection on Digital Ink Curves Rui Hu and Stephen Watt
15	Local Feature based Online Mode Detection with Recurrent Neural Networks Sebastian Otte, Marcus Liwicki, Dirk Krechel and Andreas Dengel
16	Chinese Payee Name Recognition Based on Seal Information of Chinese Bank Checks Chao Ren and Youbin Chen
17	MfrDB: Database of Annotated On-line Mathematical Formulae Jan Stria, Martin Bresler, Daniel Prusa and Vaclav Hlavac
18	Comparing Character Recognition Based Approach with Feature Matching Based Approach for Digital Ink Search Cheng Cheng, Zhu Bilan and Nakagawa Masaki
19	HMM-based Offline Arabic Handwriting Recognition, Using new Feature Extraction and Lexicon Ranking Techniques Hesham Eraqi and Sherif Abdelazeem
20	Multi-Classifier System Configuration using Genetic Algorithms Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo and Donato Barbuzzi
21	Two Schemas for Online Character Recognition of Telugu script based on Support Vector Machines Rajkumar Joseph, K. Mariraja, Kanakapriya Kalayanasundaram, Nishanthini Soundararajan and Srinivasa Chakravarthy
22	Competitive hybrid exploration for off-line sketches structure recognition Achraf Ghorbel, Aur�lie Lemaitre and Eric Anquetil
23	A Morphology based Approach for Binarization of Handwritten Documents Vassilis Papavassiliou, Fotini Simistira, Vassilis Katsouros and George Carayannis
24	Keyword Spotting Framework using Dynamic Background Model Gaurav Kumar, Zhixin Shi, Srirangaraj Setlur, Venu Govindaraju and Sitaram Ramachandrula
25	Text Line Extraction Using Adaptive Partial Projection for Palm Leaf Manuscripts from Thailand Rapeeporn Chamchong and Chun Che Fung
26	Effective Technique for the Recognition of Writer Independent Off-line Handwritten Arabic Words Sherif Abdel Azeem and Hany Ahmed
27	HMM Based Online Handwritten Bangla Character Recognition using Dirichlet Distributions Chandan Biswas, Ujjwal Bhattacharya and Swapan K. Parui

September 20, 2012

9.00-10.00

Invited Talk II: Evaluating the Probability of Identification in the Forensic Sciences
Sargur N. Srihari
Chair: Sebastiano Impedovo
Apulia Room, h. 9.00-10.00

Session 8 � Track I: Forensic Applications
Chair: Michael Blumenstein, Tonis Kasvand
Apulia Room, h. 10.00-11.00

10.00-10.20

From Terminology to Evaluation: Performance Assessment of Automatic Signature Verification Systems
Muhammad Imran Malik and Marcus Liwicki

10.20-10.40

Role of Automation in the Examination of Handwritten Items
Sargur Srihari and Kirsten Singer

10.40-11.00

Off-line Writer Verification Using Shape and Pen Pressure Information
Manabu Okawa and Kenichi Yoshida

Session 8 � Track II: Historical Documents
Chair: Eric Anquetil, Ujjwal Bhattacharya
Albatros Room, h. 10.00-11.00

10.00-10.20

Region Based Local Binarization Approach for Handwritten Ancient Documents
Ines Ben Messaoud, Hamid Amiri, Haikal El Abed and Volker M�rgner

10.20-10.40

Layout Analysis for Arabic Historical Document Images Using Machine Learning
Syed Saqib Bukhari, Thomas Breuel, Abedelkadir Asi, Jihad El-Sana

10.40-11.00

Binarization of First Temple Period Inscriptions - Performance of Existing Algorithms and a New Registration Based Scheme
Arie Shaus, Eli Turkel and Eli Piasetzky

Teaser for Poster Session C
Chair: Rohit Prasad , Marcus Liwicki
Apulia Room, h. 11.30-12.30

Poster Session C
Chair: Rohit Prasad , Marcus Liwicki
Albatros Gallery, h. 12.30-13.30

A Wavelet-based Descriptor for Handwritten Numeral Classification
Leticia Seijas and Enrique Segura

A Neural Scheme for Procedural Motor Learning of Handwriting
Rosa Senatore and Angelo Marcelli

New Advancements in Zoning-Based Recognition of Handwritten Characters
Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo and Raffaele Modugno

Analysis of Different Subspace Mixture Models in Handwriting Recognition
V.N. Manjunath Aradhya and S K Niranjan

Handwritten Digit Recognition by Multi-Objective Optimization of Zoning Methods
Sebastiano Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo and Francesco Maurizio Mangini

A semi-automatic annotation scheme for Bangla online mixed cursive handwriting samples
Ujjwal Bhattacharya, Raja Banerjee, Sudarshan Baral, Rohitaswa De and Swapan K. Parui

Building a Personal Handwriting Recognizer on an Android Device
Debarshi Dutta, Aruni Roy Chowdhury, Ujjwal Bhattacharya and Swapan K. Parui

A structure for adaptive handwriting recognition
Vadim Mazalov and Stephen Watt

Farsi/Arabic Handwritten from Machine-printed Words Discrimination
Saeed Mozaffari and Parnia Bahar

A Component-based On-line Handwritten Tibetan Character Recognition Method Using Conditional Random Field
Longlong Ma and Jian Wu

A Courtesy Amount Recognition System for Chinese Bank Checks
Dong Liu and Youbin Chen

Language and script identification based on Steerable Pyramid Features
Mohamed Benjelil, R�my Mullot and Adel M.Alimi

Recovering Dynamic Stroke Information of Multi-Stroke Handwritten Characters with Complex Patterns
Takayuki Nagoya and Hiroyuki Fujioka

Implementing Word Retrieval in Handwritten Documents using a Small Dataset
Yiqing Liang, Richard Guest and Michael Fairhurst

Fast Key-Word Searching Using 'BoostMap' based Embedding
Raid Saabni and Alexander Bronstein

Stroke Segmentation and Recognition from Bangla Online Handwritten Text
Nilanjana Bhattacharya and Umapada Pal

QUWI: An Arabic and English Handwriting Dataset for Offline Writer Identification
Somaya Al-Maadeed, Wael Ayouby, Abdelaali Hassaine and Jihad Alja�am

Reducing Annotation Workload Using a Codebook Mapping and its Evaluation in On-Line Handwriting
Jinpeng Li, Harold Mouch�re and Christian Viard-Gaudin

A System for Hand-Written and Machine-Printed Text Separation in Bangla Document Images
Purnendu Banerjee and Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri

On Influence of Line Segmentation in Efficient Word Segmentation in Old Manuscripts
David Fern�ndez, R. Manmatha, Josep Llad�s and Alicia Forn�s

Interactive Enhancement on Handwritten Text trough Multi-resolution Gaussian
Oliver Nina

Three Evaluation Criteria's Towards a Comparison of Two Characters Segmentation Methods for Handwritten Arabic Script
Fadoua Bouafif Samoud, Samia Snoussi Maddouri, Hamid Amiri

New protocol design for wordspotting assistance system: Case study of the collaborative library model � ARMARIUS
Abir Chaari, Fadoua Drira, Elod Egyed-Zsigmond, Mohamed Adel Alimi, Frack Lebourgeois

A Novel Approach for Stroke Extraction of Off-line Chinese handwritten characters based on Optimum paths
Jun Tan, Jian-Huang Lai, Wei-Shi Zheng and Ching Y Suen

Natural Revocability in Handwritten Signatures to Enhance Biometric Security
Tasmina Islam and Michael Fairhurst

Improving handwritten signature-based identity prediction through the integration of fuzzy soft-biometric data
M�rjory Da Costa-Abreu and Michael Fairhurst

A neuro-Beta-elliptic model for handwriting generation movements
Mahmoud Ltaief, Hala Bezine and Adel M.Alimi

Occluded Character Restoration Using Active Contour with Shape Priors
Rafi Cohen, Klara Kedem, Itshak Dinstein and Jihad El-Sana

15.00-16.00

Panel Session:
The future of handwriting recognition

Chair: Lambert Schomaker
Apulia Room, h. 15.00-16.00

16.00-17.00

Competitions

Chair: Apostolos Antonacopoulos, Haikal El Abed
Apulia Room, h. 16.00-17.00

Competition on Recognition of On-line Mathematical Expressions (CROHME 2012)
H. Mouch�re and C. Viard-Gaudin - D. H. Kim and J. H. Kim

Competition on Handwritten Document Image Binarization (H-DIBCO 2012)
I. Pratikakis, B. Gatos, K. Ntirogiannis

Competition on Automatic Forensic Signature Verification (4NsigComp 2012)
M. Liwiki, M.I. Malik, L. Alewijnse, E. van den Heuvel, B. Found

Competition on Writer Identification - Challenge 1: Latin/Greek Documents
G. Louloudis, B. Gatos, N. Stamatopoulus

Competition on Writer Identification - Challenge 1: Arabic Scripts
A. Hassaïne, S. Al Maadeed

17.30-18.30

Awards

GIRPR Award
Chair: Gabriella Sanniti di Baja

IGS Award
Chair: Angelo Marcelli

ICFHR 2012
IAPR Best paper Award
Chairs: Andreas Dengel, Masaki Nakagawa, Sargur N. Srihari

ICFHR 2012
IAPR Best Poster Award
Chairs: Andreas Dengel, Masaki Nakagawa, Sargur N. Srihari

Apulia Room, h. 17.30-18.30

18.30-19.30

Closure Ceremony

Chair: Sebastiano Impedovo
Apulia Room, h. 18.30-19.30