Program

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	Monday, April 11th	Tuesday, April 12th	Wednesday, April 13th	Thursday, April 14th
08:00		Registration
			Registration	Registration
09:00	Registration	Opening	Oral Session 5 Details»	IAPR Keynote Details»
		Opening Keynote Details»	DIA Systems	Jean-Marc Ogier
10:00	Tutorial 1 Details»	Ashok Popat		Oral Session 7 Details»
		Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Perf Eval and Ground Truthing
11:00		Oral Session 1 Details»	Discussion Groups Details»	Coffee Break
	Coffee Break	Camera-Based DIA		Oral Session 8 Details»
12:00	Tutorial 1	Oral Session 2 Details»		Handwriting Rec and Word Spotting
		Deep NN for DA
13:00	Break	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch

14:00
	Tutorial 2 Details»	Oral Session 3 Details»	Oral Session 6 Details»	Oral Session 9 Details»
15:00		DA for Digital Humanities	Graphics Rec and Applications	OCR Systems

16:00	Coffee Break	Teasers		Teasers
	Tutorial 2	Coffee Break		Coffee Break
17:00		Poster Session 1 Details»	Social Event Details»	Poster Session 2 Details»
			Visit to Oia
18:00		Oral Session 4 Details»		Reports of Discussion Groups
	Welcome Reception		Social Event	Concluding Remarks & Awards
19:00	at the Conference Centre		Visit to SantoWines winery

20:00
			Gala dinner

Monday, April 11th

08:00 - 08:00
09:00 - 10:00	Registration
10:00 - 11:30	Tutorial 1 Scene-Text Localization, Recognition, and Understanding
11:30 - 12:00	Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:00	Tutorial 1 Scene-Text Localization, Recognition, and Understanding
13:00 - 14:30	Break
14:30 - 16:00	Tutorial 2 Tesseract Blends Old and New OCR Technology
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30	Tutorial 2 Tesseract Blends Old and New OCR Technology
18:30 - 20:00	Welcome Reception at the Conference Centre

Tuesday, April 12th

08:00 - 09:00	Registration
09:00 - 09:30	Opening
09:30 - 10:30	Opening Keynote "Developing Multilingual OCR at Google" Ashok Popat, Google Read more »
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00	Oral Session 1 Camera-Based Document Image Analysis (Chair: Koichi Kise) Delaunay Triangulation-Based Features for Camera-Based Document Image Retrieval System Q. B. Dang, M. Rusiñoly, M. Coustaty, M. M. Luqman, C. D. Tranz, and J.-M. Ogier High Performance OCR for Camera-Captured Blurred Documents with LSTM Networks Fallak Asad, Adnan Ul-Hasan, Faisal Shafait, and Andreas Dengel Text Detection in Arabic News Video Based on SWT Operator and Convolutional Auto-Encoders Oussama Zayene, Mathias Seuret, Sameh M. Touj, Jean Hennebert, Rolf Ingold, and Najoua E. Ben Amara
12:00 - 13:00	Oral Session 2 Deep NN for Document Analysis (Chair: Cheng-Lin Liu) RNN Based Uyghur Text Line Recognition and Its Training Strategy Pengchao Li, Jiadong Zhu, Liangrui Peng, and Yunbiao Guo CNN Based Transfer Learning for Historical Chinese Character Recognition Yejun Tang, Liangrui Peng, Qian Xu, Yanwei Wang, and Akio Furuhata Complete System for Text Line Extraction Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Watershed Transform Joan Pastor-Pellicer, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal, Marcus Liwicki, and María José Castro-Bleda
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch
14:30 - 16:00	Oral Session 3 Document Analysis for Digital Humanities (Chair: Marcus Liwicki) Historical Document Dating Using Unsupervised Attribute Learning Sheng He, Petros Samara, Jan Burgers, and Lambert Schomaker Automatic Handwritten Character Segmentation for Paleographical Character Shape Analysis Théodore Bluche, Dominique Stutzmann, and Christopher Kermorvant Large Scale Continuous Dating of Medieval Scribes Using a Combined Image and Language Model Fredrik Wahlberg, Lasse Mårtensson, and Anders Brun An Interactive Transcription System of Census Records Using Word-Spotting Based Information Transfer Joan Mas, Alicia Fornés, and Josep Lladós
16:00 - 16:30	Teasers (Chair: Alicia Fornes)
16:30 - 17:00	Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:00	Poster Session 1 (Chair: Alicia Fornes) A Fine-Grained Approach to Scene Text Script Identification Lluís Gómez and Dimosthenis Karatzas OCR Error Correction Using Character Correction and Feature-Based Word Classification Ido Kissos and Nachum Dershowitz New Sharpness Features for Image Type Classification Based on Textual Information K. S. Raghunandan, Palaiahnakote Shivakumara, G. Hemantha Kumar, Umapada Pal, and Tong Lu Removal of Gray Rubber Stamps Soumyadeep Dey, Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, and Shamik Sural Evaluation of the Stability of Four Document Segmentation Algorithms Sébastien Eskenazi, Petra Gomez-Krämer, and Jean-Marc Ogier Combination of Structural and Factual Descriptors for Document Stream Segmentation Romain Karpinski and Abdel Belaïd Document Image Quality Assessment Using Discriminative Sparse Representation Xujun Peng, Huaigu Cao, and Prem Natarajan Modified X-Y Cut for Re-Ordering Strokes of Online Handwritten Mathematical Expressions Anh Duc Le, Hai Dai Nguyen, and Masaki Nakagawa Automatic Synthesis of Historical Arabic Text for Word-Spotting Majeed Kassis and Jihad El-Sana Analysis of Stroke Intersection for Overlapping PGF Elements Yan Chen, Xiaoqing Lu, Jingwei Qu, and Zhi Tang Recognition-Based Approach of Numeral Extraction in Handwritten Chemistry Documents Using Contextual Knowledge Nabil Ghanmi and Abdel Belaïd Unsupervised Word Clustering Using Deep Features Mandar Kulkarni, Shirish Subhash Karande, and Sachin Lodha An Interactive Approach with Off-Line and On-Line Handwritten Text Recognition Combination for Transcribing Historical Documents Emilio Granell, Verónica Romero, and Carlos D. Martínez-Hinarejos Handwriting Transcription and Keyword Spotting in Historical Daily Records Documents Verónica Romero, Alejandro H. Toselli, Joan Andreu Sánchez, and Enrique Vidal Text Extraction in Document Images: Highlight on Using Corner Points Vikas Yadav and Nicolas Ragot A Table Detection Method for PDF Documents Based on Convolutional Neural Networks Leipeng Hao, Liangcai Gao, Xiaohan Yi, and Zhi Tang Efficient Document Image Segmentation Representation by Approximating Minimum-Link Polygons George Retsinas, Georgios Louloudis, Nikolaos Stamatopoulos, and Basilis Gatos Page Segmentation for Historical Document Images Based on Superpixel Classification with Unsupervised Feature Learning Kai Chen, Cheng-Lin Liu, Mathias Seuret, Marcus Liwicki, Jean Hennebert, and Rolf Ingold Isolated Handwritten Digit Recognition Using oBIFs and Background Features Abdeljalil Gattal, Chawki Djeddi, Youcef Chibani, and Imran Siddiqi Fuzzy Integral for Combining SVM-Based Handwritten Soft-Biometrics Prediction Nesrine Bouadjenek, Hassiba Nemmour, and Youcef Chibani Preserving Text Content from Historical Handwritten Documents Arpita Chakraborty and Michael Blumenstein Handwritten and Machine-Printed Text Discrimination Using a Template Matching Approach Mehryar Emambakhsh, Yulan He, and Ian Nabney Discovery and Verification of Computed Data Values in Heterogeneous Web Tables George Nagy, David W. Embley, Mukkai Krishnamoorthy and Sharad Seth Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Word Spotting in Historical Documents Sebastian Sudholt and Gernot Fink A CNN Based Scene Chinese Text Recognition Algorithm With Synthetic Data Engine Xiaohang Ren, Kai Chen and Jun Sun Object Proposals for Text Extraction in Natural Scenes using Ensemble RankSVM Rong Li, Mengyi En, Jianqiang Li and Haibin Zhang Data Mining Historical Newspaper Metadata Jean-Philippe Moreux Clustering Fundamental Spatial n-Grams for Large Scale Cuneiform Search Bartosz Bogacz and Hubert Mara Improving Online Arabic Handwritten Recognition by using Deep Architecture for Feature Extraction Mohamed Elleuch, Rania Maalej, Najiba Tagougui and Monji Kherallah Subword Spotting for Use in a Computer Assisted Transcription System Brian Davis, Robert Clawson and William Barrett Accuracy of Gradient based Skew Estimation Florian Kleber, Markus Diem and Robert Sablatnig
18:00 - 19:00	Oral Session 4 Forensic Document Analysis (Chair: Dimosthenis Karatzas) General Pattern Run-Length Transform for Writer Identification Sheng He and Lambert Schomaker Banknote Counterfeit Detection through Background Texture Printing Analysis Albert Berenguel, Oriol Ramos Terrades, Josep Lladós, and Cristina Cañero Performance of an Off-Line Signature Verification Method Based on Texture Features on a Large Indic-Script Signature Dataset Srikanta Pal, Alireza Alaei, Umapada Pal, and Michael Blumenstein

Wednesday, April 13th

08:00 - 08:00
08:30 - 09:00	Registration
09:00 - 10:30	Oral Session 5 Document Image Analysis (DIA) Systems (Chair: Andreas Dengel) Word Segmentation Using the Student’s-t Distribution Georgios Louloudis, Giorgos Sfikas, Nikolaos Stamatopoulos, and Basilis Gatos MSIO: MultiSpectral Document Image BinarizatIOn Markus Diem, Fabian Hollaus, and Robert Sablatnig SDK Reinvented: Document Image Analysis Methods as RESTful Web Services Marcel Würsch, Rolf Ingold, and Marcus Liwicki A Compliant Document Image Classification System Based on One-Class Classifier Nicolas Sidère, Jean-Yves Ramel, Sabine Barrat, Vincent Poulain D’Andecy, and Saddok Kebairi
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:00	Discussion Groups
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch
14:30 - 16:00	Oral Session 6 Graphics Recognition and Applications (Chair: Jean-Yves Ramel) Automatic Hyperlinking of Engineering Drawing Documents Purnendu Banerjee, Sumit Choudhary, Supriya Das, Himadri Majumdar, Rahul Roy, and Bidyut B. Chaudhuri Understanding Line Plots Using Bayesian Network Rathin Radhakrishnan Nair, Nishant Sankaran, Ifeoma Nwogu, and Venu Govindaraju What You See is What You Get? Automatic Image Verification for Online News Content Sarah Elkasrawi, Andreas Dengel, Ahmed Abdelsamad, and Syed Saqib Bukhari Semi-Automatic Text and Graphics Extraction of Manga Using Eye Tracking Information Christophe Rigaud, Thanh-Nam Le, J.-C. Burie, J.-M. Ogier, Shoya Ishimaru, Motoi Iwata, and Koichi Kise
17:00 - 18:30	Social Event Visit to Oia, a traditional village in the north of Santorini
18:30 - 20:30	Social Event Visit to SantoWines winery and enjoy the sunset from the terrace of the winery with a great view to Santorini volcano and the Aegean sea
20:30 -	Gala dinner Gala dinner at the Mario Restaurant specialising in traditional Greek and Santorinian cusine

Thursday, April 14th

08:00 - 08:00
08:30 - 09:00	Registration
09:00 - 10:00	IAPR Keynote "How Companies and the Academic World Can Interact Together to Generate Innovations Related to Document Analysis" Jean-Marc Ogier, Université de La Rochelle
10:00 - 11:00	Oral Session 7 Performance Evaluation and Ground Truthing (Chair: Jean-Marc Ogier) Creating Ground Truth for Historical Manuscripts with Document Graphs and Scribbling Interaction Angelika Garz, Mathias Seuret, Fotini Simistira, Andreas Fischer, and Rolf Ingold Document Image Quality Assessment Based on Texture Similarity Index Alireza Alaei, Donatello Conte, Michael Blumenstein, and Romain Raveaux Quality Prediction System for Large-Scale Digitisation Workflows Christian Clausner, Stefan Pletschacher, and Apostolos Antonacopoulos
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00	Oral Session 8 Handwriting Recognition and Word Spotting (Chair: Enrique Vidal) Keyword Retrieval Using Scale-Space Pyramid Irina Rabaev, Klara Kedem, and Jihad El-Sana A Segmentation-Free Handwritten Word Spotting Approach by Relaxed Feature Matching Anders Hast and Alicia Fornés Increasing Robustness of Handwriting Recognition Using Character N-Gram Decoding on Large Lexica Martin Schall, Marc-Peter Schambach, and Matthias O. Franz Word Spotting in Historical Document Collections with Online-Handwritten Queries Christian Wieprecht, Leonard Rothacker, and Gernot A. Fink
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch
14:30 - 16:00	Oral Session 9 OCR Systems (Chair: Abdel Belaid) QATIP — An Optical Character Recognition System for Arabic Heritage Collections in Libraries Felix Stahlberg and Stephan Vogel OCRoRACT: A Sequence Learning OCR System Trained on Isolated Characters Adnan Ul-Hasan, Syed Saqib Bukhari, and Andreas Dengel Error Detection in Indic OCRs V. S. Vinitha and C. V. Jawahar Multilingual OCR for Indic Scrips Minesh Mathew, Ajeet Kumar Singh, and C. V. Jawahar
16:00 - 16:30	Teasers (Chair: Masaki Nakagawa)
16:30 - 17:00	Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:00	Poster Session 2 (Chair: Masaki Nakagawa) Entity Local Structure Graph Matching for Mislabeling Correction Nihel Kooli, Abdel Belaïd, Aurélie Joseph, and Vincent Poulain D’Andecy OCR Accuracy Prediction Method Based on Blur Estimation Van-Cuong Kieu, Florence Cloppet, and Nicole Vincent Marginal Noise Reduction in Historical Handwritten Documents — A Survey Arpita Chakraborty and Michael Blumenstein Globally Optimal Text Line Extraction Based on K-Shortest Paths Algorithm Liuan Wang, Seiichi Uchida, Wei Fan, and Jun Sun Natural Scene Character Recognition Using Robust PCA and Sparse Representation Zheng Zhang, Yong Xu, and Cheng-Lin Liu Recognition of Greek Polytonic on Historical Degraded Texts Using HMMs Vassilis Katsouros, Vassilis Papavassiliou, Fotini Simistira, and Basilis Gatos Effective Candidate Component Extraction for Text Localization in Born-Digital Images by Combining Text Contours and Stroke Interior Regions Kai Chen, Fei Yin, and Cheng-Lin Liu Interactive Definition and Tuning of One-Class Classifiers for Document Image Classification Nathalie Girard, Roger Trullo, Sabine Barrat, Nicolas Ragot, and Jean-Yves Ramel Election Tally Sheets Processing System Juan Ignacio Toledo, Alicia Fornés, Jordi Cucurull, and Josep Lladós Human-Document Interaction Systems — A New Frontier for Document Image Analysis, Delaunay Triangulation-Based Features for Camera-Based Document Image Retrieval System Dimosthenis Karatzas, Vincent Poulain D’Andecy, Marçal Rusiñol, Antonio Chica, and Pere-Pau Vazquez Named Entity Recognition from Unstructured Handwritten Document Images Chandranath Adak, Bidyut B. Chaudhuri, and Michael Blumenstein Visual Analysis System for Features and Distances Qualitative Assessment: Application to Word Image Matching Frédéric Rayar, Tanmoy Mondal, Sabine Barrat, Fatma Bouali, and Gilles Venturini An Adaptive Zoning Technique for Word Spotting Using Dynamic Time Warping A. Papandreou, B. Gatos, and K. Zagoris Visual Script and Language Identification Anguelos Nicolaou, Andrew D. Bagdanov, Lluis Gomez-Bigorda, and Dimosthenis Karatzas Making Europe’s Historical Newspapers Searchable Clemens Neudecker and Apostolos Antonacopoulos Keyword Spotting in Handwritten Documents Using Projections of Oriented Gradients George Retsinas, Georgios Louloudis, Nikolaos Stamatopoulos, and Basilis Gatos Online Arabic Handwriting Recognition with Dropout Applied in Deep Recurrent Neural Networks Rania Maalej, Najiba Tagougui, and Monji Kherallah Automatic Selection of Parameters for Document Image Enhancement Using Image Quality Assessment Ritu Garg and Santanu Chaudhury A Simple and Effective Solution for Script Identification in the Wild Ajeet Kumar Singh, Anand Mishra, Pranav Dabral, and C. V. Jawahar Camera-Based System for User Friendly Annotation of Documents Yusuke Oguma and Koichi Kise Searching Corrupted Document Collections Jason Soo and Ophir Frieder Stamp processing with examplar features Yash Bhalgat, Mandar Kulkarni, Shirish Karande and Sachin Lodha Computer Assisted Transcription and Indexing of Handwritten Historical Documents Demonstration Verónica Romero, Enrique Vidal, Alejandro Toselli, Joan Puigcerver and Luis A. Leiva Character Recognition using SVM-HMM in a Multi-hypotheses architecture Anupama Ray and Santanu Chaudhury Handwriting Drawing and Learning through Generation Rabiaa Zitouni, Hala Bezine, Najet Arous and Adel M. Alimi A Novel Skew Detection and Correction Approach for Scanned Documents Riaz Ahmad, Sheikh Faisal Rashid, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal, Andreas Dengel, Thomas Breuel and Marcus Liwicki A Novel Model For Arbitrarily-Oriented Characters Recognition in Natural Scene Images Yangbo Dong, Anna Zhu and Guoyou Wang Multi One-Class Incremental SVM for Document Stream Digitization Anh Khoi Ngo Ho, Véronique Eglin, Nicolas Ragot and Jean-Yves Ramel Clustering Benchmark for Characters in Historical Documents Martin Jenckel, Syed Saqib Bukhari and Andreas Dengel Online Arabic Handwriting Recognition System based on BLSTM for Features Extraction Rania Maalej, Najiba Tagougui and Monji Kherallah Semi Automatic Color Segmentation of Document Pages Stéphane Bres and Véronique Eglin Redefining Binarization and the Visual Archetype Anguelos Nicolaou and Marcus Liwicki
18:00 - 18:30	Reports of Discussion Groups
18:30 - 19:00	Concluding Remarks & Awards

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