Research Areas

Research and Engineering Areas covered by IAPR/TC-11

• Early Processing
  • Document Image Processing
    • image operators, skeletonization, contour detection, convex hull
    • foreground/background separation
    • segmentation (page, paragraph, line, word, character etc.)
    • image-feature computation
  • Pen-based Signal Processing
    • sampling techniques
    • filtering techniques
    • dehooking, artefact removal
    • pen angles and pen 'pressure' signal processing
    • on-line feature computation
• Character Recognition
  • machine-print fonts
  • handwritten characters
  • handwritten gestures and shorthand
• Word Recognition
  • handwritten cursive word recognition
  • text recognition in low-quality images
• Text Processing
  • use of linguistic information to improve shape classification
  • geometrical and logical document structure
  • forms definition languages
  • information retrieval
• Multimedia Processing
  • character recognition in streaming video
  • license plate recognition
  • character recognition from color images (e.g. on WWW, or scanned book covers)
  • image, sketch and shape search
• Performance Evaluation
  • methodology
  • public software tool development
  • databases
    • machine-print ocr
    • handwriting
    • text and document corpora
• Application areas
  • document processing: image-to-text
  • check reading
  • postal automation: envelope reading
  • forms reading and parsing
  • graphics recognition and beautification (Also see: TC-10)
  • musical score reading
  • mathematical equation reading
  • signature verification
  • pen computing