Awards

1. IAPR awards for Software Competitions (06)

2. IAPR best student paper award
Document-Zone Classification in Torn Documents
Sukalpa Chanda, Katrin Franke and Umapada Pal

3. ITESOFT best paper award (Joint winner)
(i) Tracking and Retrieval of Pen Tip Positions for an Intelligent Camera Pen
Kazumasa Iwata, Koichi Kise, Masakazu Iwamura, Seiichi Uchida and Shinichiro Omachi
(ii) Retrieving Handwriting Styles: A Content Based Approach to Handwritten Document Retrieval
Anurag Bhardwaj, Achint Oommen Thomas, Yun Fu and Venu Govindaraju

4. ITESOFT best poster paper award
Techniques to Enhance Images for Mokkan Interpretation
Jun Takakura, Akihito Kitadai, Masaki Nakagawa, Hajime Baba and Akihiro Watanabe

5. ITESOFT best industrial paper award
Path Evaluation and Character Classifier Training on Integrated Segmentation and Recognition of Online Handwritten Japanese Character String
Yojiro Tonouchi