Title
Who are we now? A Multi-Perspective View to Documents as well as Document Analysis and Recognition
Name
Andreas DengelAbstract
In the ICDAR community, a document as an artifact that is a subject of our study and research. However, we are more and more faced with raising challenges that are caused by the way we communicate these days confronting us with the question: What is a document and what would a changing definition mean for the field of document analysis and recognition? This talk is an attempt of analyzing the various dimensions to a document trying to impulse the DAR field. Further, it should stimulate a discussion about what might be the Document Analysis and Recognition research focus in the coming years and how to attract people who study the various dimensions of a document from a different perspective.
Short Bio
Professor Andreas Dengel is a member of the Management Board as well as Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern where he is leading the Smart Data & Knowledge Services Research Department. In 1993 he became a Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Kaiserslautern. Since 2009 he also holds an Honorary Professorship at the Dept. of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems, Graduate School of Engineering of the Osaka Prefecture University.
From 1980 to 1986 Andreas studied Computer Science and Economics at the University of Kaiserslautern. He subsequently worked at the Siemens research lab in Munich and at the University of Stuttgart where he completed his doctoral thesis in 1989. In 1991 he worked as a guest researcher at Xerox Parc in Palo Alto. Andreas is a member of many international advisory boards but also was a member of the ICDAR advisory board from its foundation in 2001 until 2015. Furthermore, he is the co-founder of the DAS workshop series and hosted the first DAS in Kaiserslautern. Andreas was/is program/technical chair of international conferences, such as ICPR, ICDAR, ICFHR, DAS, KES, KI, ICMU and KM. Moreover, he is founder or initiator of several successful start-up companies. In 2005 he received a “Pioneer Spirit Award” for one of his start-up concepts and at Cebit 2015 his recent start-up digipen technologies has received the Cebit Innovation Award. He is co-editor of various international computer science journals, i.e. IJDAR, and of book series on Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence (World Scientific), has written or edited 12 books and is author of more than 350 peer-reviewed scientific publications, several of which received a Best-Paper Award. He supervised more than 200 PhD, master and bachelor theses.
In Cambridge, UK, in 2004, Andreas Dengel has been elected a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). His scientific contributions have been honored several times by international scientific prizes. His main scientific emphasis is in the areas of Document Analysis and Recognition, Smart Data, Deep Learning, Semantic Technologies, Information Retrieval, Multimedia Mining, and Social Media.