CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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Time |
November |
November |
November |
November |
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8:00-8:40 |
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Registration |
Registration |
Registration |
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8:40-9:40 |
Opening Ceremony |
Off-line Recognition-II (Paper Id 69, 97, 47) (3 papers) |
Feature Extraction (Paper Id 4, 65, 112) (3 papers) |
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9:40-10:40 |
Keynote Talk |
Invited Talk - I |
Invited Talk - II |
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10:40-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
Coffee Break |
Coffee Break |
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11:00-12:40 |
Segmentation and Layout Analysis |
Retrieval and Spotting |
On-line Recognition |
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12:40-13:40 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
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13:40-15:00 |
Post Processing / Verification |
Forensic / Signature Verification |
Off-line Recognition-III |
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15:00-15:40 |
Teaser |
Teaser |
Teaser |
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15:40-16:40 |
Poster-1 |
Poster-2 |
Poster-3 |
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16:40-18:00 |
Off-line Recognition-I |
Panel Discussions & Bidding for ICFHR 2014 |
Competition Session, Award Presentation & Closing Ceremony |
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18:00-22:00 |
Registration Cultural Function & Welcome Dinner |
Cruise Dinner |
Banquet |
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Forenoon session |
Afternoon session |
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Room 1 |
Handwritten Text / Word Recognition Systems --
Conception, Approaches and Evaluation |
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Room 2 |
Markov Models for Handwriting Recognition |
New Optional Hands-on Workshop Session |
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Room 3 |
Signature Verification - Forensic Examiners'
Perception and Solutions for Off-line and On-line Signatures |
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Room 4 |
Information Retrieval from Handwritten Documents |
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Room 5 |
Multimodal Computer Assisted Transcription of
Handwriting Images |
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TECHNICAL PROGRAM
The Evolution of Document Authentication
Speaker: David Doermann
Session–1: Segmentation and Layout Analysis
Chair: C. L. Tan
Integrating Geometric Context for Text
Alignment of Handwritten Chinese Documents
Fei Yin, Qiu-Feng Wang and Cheng-Lin Liu
Leveraging the Mixed-Text Segmentation
Problem to design Secure Handwritten CAPTCHAs
Achint Thomas, Sulabh Choudhury and Venu
Govindaraju
A Morphological Approach for Text-Line
Segmentation in Handwritten Documents
Vassilis Papavassiliou, Vassilis Katsouros
and George Carayannis
Document-Zone Classification in Torn
Documents
Sukalpa Chanda, Katrin Franke and Umapada Pal
A new Hierarchical Handwritten Document
Layout Extraction based on Conditional Random Field Modeling
Florent Montreuil, Stéphane Nicolas,
Emmanuèle Grosicki and Laurent Heutte
Session - 2: Post
processing/Verification
Chair: D. Lopresti
Verification of Unconstrained Handwritten
Words at Character Level
Alessandro L. Koerich, Alceu de S. Britto and
Luiz Eduardo S. de Oliveira
A Medical Knowledge Based Postprocessing
Approach for Doctor’s Handwriting Recognition
Qi Chen, Tianxia Gong, Linlin Li, Chew Lim
Tan and Boon Chuan Pang
Embedding Meta-Information in Handwriting
—Reed-Solomon for Reliable Error Correction
Marcus Liwicki, Seiichi Uchida, Masakazu
Iwamura, Shinichiro Omachi and Koichi Kise
Handwritten word verification by SVM-based
hypotheses re-scoring and multiple thresholds rejection
Laurent Guichard, Alejandro H. Toselli and
Bertrand Coüasnon
Chair: G. Pirlo
Poster Session-I
Chair: G. Pirlo
Accented Handwritten Character Recognition
Using SVM – Application to French
De Cao Tran, Patrick Franco and Jean-Marc
Ogier
Rejection Optimization Based on Threshold
Mapping for Offline Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition
Yuanping Zhu, Jun Sun, Yoshinobu Hotta and
Satoshi Naoi
Improving HMM-Based Chinese Handwriting
Recognition Using Delta Features and Synthesized String Samples
Tong-Hua Su and Cheng-Lin Liu
Identity Determination with Offline
Handwritten Input Using Multi Kernel Feature Combination
Ehtesham Hassan, Santanu Chaudhury and M
Gopal
Recognition of Hand-drawn Graphs Using
Digitalgeometric Techniques
Sanjoy Pratihar, Shyamosree Pal, Partha
Bhowmick, Arindam Biswas and Bhargab B. Bhattacharya
Reading Cursive Handwriting
Claudio De Stefano, Angelo Marcelli, Antonio
Parziale and Rosa Senatore
Simply Partitioned DP Matching and
Threshold Equalizing in DWT Domain On-line Signature Verification
Isao Nakanishi, Shingo Nakatani and Shota
Koike
Optimizing the number of states for
HMM-based on-line handwritten Whiteboard recognition
Jürgen Geiger, Joachim Schenk, Frank Wallhoff
and Gerhard Rigoll
Kinematical Analysis of Synthetic Dynamic
Signatures Using the Sigma-Lognormal Model
Javier Galbally, Julian Fierrez, Marcos
Martinez-Diaz, Javier Ortega-Garcia, Rajean Plamondon and Christian O'Reilly
Ancient
handwritings decomposition into graphemes and codebook generation based on
Graph coloring
H. Daher, D. Gaceb, V. Eglin, S. Bres, and N. Vincent
A Model Based Text Line Segmentation
Method For Off-Line Handwritten Documents.
Jija Das Gupta and Bhabatosh Chanda
A New Two-stage Scheme for the Recognition
of Persian Handwritten Characters
Alireza Alaei, P. Nagabhushan and Umapada Pal
Word Spotting in Gray Scale Handwritten
Pashto Documents
Muhammad Ismail Shah and Ching Y. Suen
Gesture Recognition Techniques in
Handwriting Recognition Application
Fengjun Guo and ShiJie Chen
Strategies for Training Robust Neural
Network Based Digit Recognizers on Unbalanced Data Sets
Szilard Vajda and Gernot Fink
Improvements in HMM Adaptation for
Handwriting Recognition Using Writer Identification and Duration Adaptation
Huaigu Cao, Rohit Prasad and Premkumar
Natarajan
Handwriting
Reconstruction For a Camera Pen Using Random Dot Patterns
Matthias Sperber, Martin Klinkigt, Koichi
Kise, Masakazu Iwamura, Benjamin Adrian and Andreas Dengel
Recognition of words from Legal Amounts of
Indian Bank Cheques
Jayadevan R, Umapada Pal and Fumitaka Kimura
Orthogonal LDA in PCA Transformed Subspace
M Mahadeva Prasad, M Sukumar and A G
Ramakrishnan
Detecting
Text Areas and Decorative Elements in Ancient Manuscripts
Angelika Garz, Markus Diem and Robert
Sabatnig
Semi-Automatic Annotation Tool for
Medieval Manuscripts
Micheal Baechler, Jean-Luc Bloechle and Rolf
Ingold
Personalizable Pen-Based Interface Using
Lifelong Learning
Abdullah Almaksour, Eric Anquetil, Solen
Quiniou and Mohamed Cheriet
Cursive on-line Handwriting word
recognition using a bicharacter model for large lexicon applications
Sophea Prum, Muriel Visani and Jean-Marc
Ogier
On-line handwriting recognition of Indian
scripts – the first benchmark
Tanmay Mondal, Ujjwal Bhattacharya, Swapan K.
Parui, Kalikinkar Das and Dinesh Mandalapu
Generation of Handwriting by Active Shape
Modeling and Global Local Approximation (GLA) Adaptation
Ashirwad Chowriappa, Ricardo N. Rodrigues,
Thenkurussi Kesavadas, Venu Govindaraju and Ann Bisantz
Session–3: Off-line
Recognition-I
Chair: H. Sako
A Novel Multi-feature Multi-Classifier
Scheme for Unconstrained Handwritten Devanagari character Recognition
Sushama Shelke and Shaila Apte
Analysis of Membership Functions for
Voronoibased Classification
S. Impedovo, R. Modugno and Giuseppe Pirlo
Efficient Transcript Mapping to Ease the
Creation of Document Image Segmentation Ground Truth with Text-Image Alignment
Nikolaos Stamatopoulos, Georgios Louloudis and Basilis
Gatos
Alpha-numerical sequences extraction in
handwritten documents
Simon Thomas, Clement Chatelain, Laurent
Heutte and Thierry Paquet
Session–4: Off-line
Recognition-II
Chair: V. Govindaraju
Handwritten mail classification
experiments with the Rimes database
Christopher Kermorvant and Jérôme Louradour
The A2iA-Telecom ParisTech-UOB System for
the ICDAR 2009 Handwriting Recognition Competition.
Christopher Kermorvant, Fares Menasri,
Anne-Laure Bianne, Ramy Al-Hajj, Laurence Likforman-Sulem and Chafic Mokbel
Graph Similarity Features for HMM-Based
Handwriting Recognition in Historical Documents
Andreas Fischer, Kaspar Riesen and Horst
Bunke
Invited Talk - I
Chair: F. Kimura
Neuromuscular
studies of handwriting generation and representation
Speaker: Rejean Plamondon
Session–5: Retrieval
and Spotting
Chair: J. Llados
Retrieving Handwriting Styles: A Content
Based Approach to Handwritten Document Retrieval
Anurag Bhardwaj, Achint Oommen Thomas, Yun Fu
and Venu Govindaraju
Keyword Spotting from Online Chinese
Handwritten Documents Using One-Vs-All Trained Character Classifier
Heng Zhang, Da-Han Wang and Cheng-Lin Liu
Tracking and Retrieval of Pen Tip
Positions for an Intelligent Camera Pen
Kazumasa Iwata, Koichi Kise, Masakazu
Iwamura, Seiichi Uchida and Shinichiro Omachi
Hand-drawn Symbol Spotting using
Semi-definite Programming based Sub-graph Matching
Kiran Bhuvanagiri, Aditya Vikram Daga,
Sitaram Ramachandrula and Suryaprakash Kompalli
a.SCAtch - A Sketch-Based Retrieval for
Architectural Floor Plans
Markus Weber, Marcus Liwicki and Andreas
Dengel
Session–6: Forensic/Signature Verification
Chair: S. N. Shrihari
Off-line Signature Verification using
Flexible Grid Features and Classifier Fusion
J. P. Swanepoel and J. Coetzer
Performance Analysis of the Gradient
Feature and the Modified Direction Feature for Off-line Signature Verification
Vu Nguyen, Yumiko Kawazoe, Tetsushi
Wakabayashi, Umapada Pal and Michael Blumenstein
Forensic Writer Identification Using Allographic
Features
Ruben Fernandez-de-Sevilla, Fernando
Alonso-Fernandez, Julian Fierrez and Javier Ortega-Garcia
Writer Identification of Historical
Documents Among Cohort Writers
Gregory R. Ball, Sargur N. Srihari and Roger
Stritmatter
Chair: S. Uchida
Poster Session-II
Chair: S. Uchida
A New Decision Making Approach for
Improving the Performance of Automatic Signature Verification Using Multi-Sets
of Features
Maan Ammar, Toyohide Watanabe and Fukumura
Teruo
Zoning Methods for Hand-Written Character
Recognition: An Overview
S. Impedovo, G Pirlo, R Modugno and A.
Ferrante
A Novel Arabic Baseline Estimation
Algorithm Based on Sub-Words Treatment
Hanene Boukerma and Nadir Farah
DooDB: a Graphical Password Database
containing Doodles and Pseudo-Signatures
Marcos M. Martinez-Diaz, J. Fierrez, C.
Martin-Diaz and J. Ortega-Gacria
Fast Density Estimation for Approximated k
Nearest Neighbor Classification
Takao Kobayashi and Ikuko Shimizu
Adapting BLSTM Neural Network based
Keyword Spotting trained on Modern Data to Historical Documents
Volkmar Frinken, Andreas Fischer, Horst
Bunke and R. Manmatha
Techniques to Enhance Images for Mokkan
Interpretation
Jun Takakura, Akihito Kitadai, Masaki
Nakagawa, Hajime Baba and Akihiro Watanabe
Off-line Recognition of Hand-written Bengali
Numerals using Morphological Features
Pulak Purkait and Bhabatosh Chanda
Dealing with precise and imprecise
decisions with a Dempster-Shafer theory based algorithm in the context of
handwritten word recognition
Thomas Burger, Yousri Kessentini and
Thierry Paquet
A Comparative Evaluation of Finger-Drawn
Graphical Password Verification Methods
Marcos M. Martinez-Diaz, C. Martin-Diaz,
J. Galbally and J. Fierrez
Automatic Annotation for Handwritten
Historical Documents using Markov Models
Ines Ben Messaoud and Haikal El Abed
A New Method for Handwritten Scene Text
Detection in Video
Palaiahnakote Shivakumara, Anjan Dutta,
Umapada Pal and Chew Lim Tan
Online Bangla Word Recognition Using
Sub-Stroke Level Features and Hidden Markov Models
Gernot Fink, Szilard Vajda, Ujjwal
Bhattacharya, Swapan Kumar Parui and Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri
A Real-time Recognition System for
Handwritten Mathematics: Backtracking and Relationship Discovery
Ray Genoe and Tahar Kechadi
User-defined
expected error rate in OCR postprocessing by means of automatic threshold
estimation
J.Ramon Navarro-Cerdan, Joaquim Arlandis, Juan-Carlos
Perez-Cortes and Rafael Llobet
Improvement of on-line signature
verification based on gradient features
Yumiko Kawazoe, Wataru Ohyama, Tetsushi
Wakabayashi and Fumitaka Kimura
Creation of a huge annotated database for
Tamil and Kannada OHR
Nethravathi B, Archana C P, Shashikiran
K, A G Ramakrishnan and Vijay Kumar
Artificial Classifier Generation for
Multi-Expert System Evaluation
D. Impedovo, G Pirlo, L Sarcinella and E.
Stasolla
Improving online handwritten mathematical
expressions recognition with contextual modeling
Ahmad montaser Awal, Harold Mouchère and
Christian Viard-Gaudin
A Hybrid Model for Recognition of Online
Handwriting in Indian Scripts
Amit Arora and Anoop Namboodiri
The Impact of Ruling Lines on Writer
Identification
Jin Chen, Daniel Lopresti and Ergina
Kavallieratou
User-defined expected error rate in OCR
postprocessing by means of automatic threshold estimation
J.Ramon Navarro-Cerdan, Joaquim Arlandis,
Juan-Carlos Perez-Cortes and Rafael Llobet
Word Segmentation and Baseline Detection
in Handwritten Documents Using Isothetic Covers
Aisharjya Sarkar, Arindam Biswas, Partha
Bhowmic and Bhargab B. Bhattacharya
A New Encoding System: Application to
On-Line Arabic Handwriting
Sourour Njah, Hala Bezine and Adel M.
Alimi
Reviewing Performance Metrics for
Handwriting Recognition: Must-Reject and Recognition Graph Scores
Marc-Peter Schambach
Error Reduction based on Error
Categorization in Arabic Handwritten Numeral Recognition
Chun Lei He and Ching Y. Suen
Session-7: Feature Extraction
V. Maergner
Selecting Features using the SFS in
Conjunction with Vector Quantization
Joachim Schenk and Gerhard Rigoll
Feature Extraction for Online Farsi
Characters
Vahid Ghods and Ehsanollah Kabir
Ontology-Based Information Extraction for
Handwritten Documents
Sebastian Ebert, Marcus Liwicki and Andreas
Dengel
Invited Talk - II
Chair: K. Kise
Contribution of Ancient Indians to 'writing'(with
special emphasis on South Asian and Indian writing systems)
Speaker: M. A. Lakshmithathachar
Session –8: Online Recognition
Chair: M. Nagakawa
Error Reduction by Confusing Characters
Discrimination for Online Handwritten Japanese Character Recognition
Xiang-Dong Zhou, Da-Han Wang, Masaki Nakagawa
and Cheng-Lin Liu
Special Radical Detection by Statistical
Classification for On-line Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition
Long-Long Ma, Adrien Delaye, and Cheng-Lin
Liu.
Top-Down Search with Bottom-up Evidence
for Recognizing Handwritten Mathematical Expression
Dae Hwan Kim and Jin Hyung Kim
Path Evaluation and Character Classifier
Training on Integrated Segmentation and Recognition of Online Handwritten
Japanese Character String
Yojiro Tonouchi
A Study of Discriminative Training for HMM
based Online Handwritten Chinese/Japanese Character Recognition
Yongqiang Wang, Qiang Huo and Yu Shi
Session-9: Off-line Recognition-III
Chair: J.-M. Ogier
Similar Chinese Characters Recognition by
Critical Region Selection Based on Average Symmetric Uncertainty
Bo Xu, Kaizhu Huang and Chenglin Liu
Windowed Bernoulli Mixture HMMs for Arabic
Handwritten Word Recognition
Adrià Giménez Pastor, Ihab Khoury and Alfons
Juan
Character-level interaction in
Computer-assisted Transcription of Text Images
Verónica Romero, Alejandro H. Toselli and
Enrique Vidal
Part-Based Recognition of Handwritten
Characters
Seiichi Uchida and Marcus Liwicki
Chair: G. Fink
Poster Session-3
Chair: G. Fink
Recognition of Humboldt’s Handwriting in
Complex Surroundings
Karl-Heinz Steinke, Martin Gehrke and Robert
Dzido
Incremental MQDF Learning for Writer
Adaptive Handwriting Recognition
Kai Ding and Lianwen Jin
Are Characters Objects?
Markus Diem and Robert Sablatnig
A new approach for synthesis and
recognition of large scale handwritten Chinese words
Liu Gang, Jin Lianwen, Ding Kai and Yan Hanyu
JollyMate: Assistive Technology for Young
Children with Dyslexia
Jignesh Khakhar and Sriganesh Madhvanath
SCUT-COUCH
Textline_NU: An Unconstrained Online Handwritten Chinese Text Lines Dataset
Hanyu Yan, Lianwen Jin, Christian Viard-Gaudin, and
Harold Mouchère
Off-line Signature Verification Based on
Gray Level Information using Wavelet Transform and Texture Features
J.F. Vargas, C.M. Travieso, J.B. Alonso, and
M.A. Ferrer
A Real-time Recognition System for
Handwritten Mathematics: Structural Development
Ray Genoe and Tahar Kechadi
Personal
Dictionaries for Handwritten Character Recognition Using Characters Written by
a Similar Writer
Shinji Tsuruoka, Masahiro Hattori, Mohd Fadzil bin
Abdul Kadir, Toshiaki Takano, Hiroharu Kawanka, Haruhiko Takase, and Yasuji
Miyake
Using Field Interdependence to Improve
Correction Performance in a Transducer-based OCR Post-processing System
Juan-Carlos Perez-Cortes, Rafael Llobet,
J.Ramon Navarro-Cerdan, and Joaquim Arlandis
Online handwritten Kannada word recognizer
with unrestricted vocabulary
Rituraj Kunwar, Shashikiran K and Angarai
Ganesan Ramakrishnan
The Zone-Based Projection Distance Feature
Extraction Method for Handwritten Numeral/Mixed Numerals Recognition of Indian
Scripts
S V Rajashekararadhya and P. Vanaja Ranjan
On-line Signature Verification by
Stroke-Dependent Representation Domains
Donato Impedovo and Giuseppe Pirlo
Word-wise Handwritten Persian and Roman
Script Identification
Kaushik Roy, Alireza Alaei and Umapada Pal
A Symbol-dependent Writer Identification
Approach in Old Handwritten Music Scores
Alicia Fornés and Josep Llados
A Full-text Search System for Images of
Hand-Written Cursive Documents
Hajime IMURA and Yuzuru Tanaka
The Problem of Handwritten Mathematic al
Expression Recognition Evaluation
Ahmad Montaser Awal, Harold Mouchere and
Christian Viard-gaudin
Spatial Similarity based Stroke Number and
Order Free Clustering
Santosh K. C., Cholwich Nattee and Bart
Lamiroy
Writer Identification for Handwritten
Telugu Documents using Directional Morphological Features
Pulak Purkait, Rajesh Kumar and Bhabatosh
Chanda
Annotation Tool and XML representation for
Online Indic Data
Swapnil Belhe, Chetan Paulzagade, Sanket
Surve, Nitesh Jawanjal, Kapil Mehrotra and Anil Motwani
Impact of Character Models Choice on
Arabic Text Recognition Performance
fouad Slimane, rolf Ingold, slim Kanoun, Adel
M. Alimi and Jean Hennebert
Pre and Post Processing Approaches in Edge
Detection for Character Recognition
Binu P Chacko and Babu Anto P
Context Aware On-Line Diagramming
Recognition
Mudit Agrawal, Alexander Zotov, Ming Ye and
Sashi Raghupathy
Digital Ink Compression via Functional
Approximation
Vadim Mazalov and Stephen M. Watt
Fuzzy Segmentation and Graphemes Modeling
for Online Arabic Handwriting Recognition
Houcine Boubaker, Aymen Chaabouni, Monji
Kherallah, Haikal El Abed and Adel M. Alimi