Opening Ceremony Apulia Room, h. 9.00-10.00
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9.00-10.00
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Introduction Prof Sebastiano Impedovo Welcome by the Honorary Chair Prof Ching Y. Suen
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Session 1 – Track I: Word Spotting I Chair: Josep Lladós, David Doermann Apulia Room, h. 10.00-11.00
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10.00-10.20
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Comparison of Bernoulli and Gaussian HMMs using a vertical repositioning technique for off-line handwriting recognition Patrick Doetsch, Mahdi Hamdani, Adrià Giménez, Jesús Andrés-Ferrer, Alfons Juan and Hermann Ney
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10.20-10.40
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Separability versus Prototypicality in Handwritten Word Retrieval Jean-Paul van Oosten and Lambert Schomaker
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10.40-11.00
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Script Independent Word Spotting in Offline Handwritten Documents Based on Hidden Markov Models Safwan Wshah, Gaurav Kumar and Venu Govindaraju
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Session 1 – Track II: Digit Recognition
Chair: Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Nicole Vincent
Albatros Room, h. 10.00-11.00
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10.00-10.20
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Annotating handwritten characters with minimal human involvement in a semi-supervised learning strategy Jan Richarz, Szilard Vajda and Gernot A. Fink
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10.20-10.40
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On the Possibility of Instance-Based Stroke Recovery Yutaro Iwakiri, Soma Shiraishi, Yaokai Feng and Seiichi Uchida
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10.40-11.00
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Benchmarking of Update Learning Strategies on Digit Classifier Systems Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo and Donato Barbuzzi
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Session 2 – Track I: Word Spotting II
Chair: Gernot A. Fink, Venu Govindaraju
Apulia Room, h. 11.30-12.30
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11.30-11.50
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Arabic Handwritten Word Spotting Using Language Models Muna Khayyat, Louisa Lam and Ching Y. Suen
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11.50-12.10
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Semi-Supervised Learning for Cursive Handwriting Recognition using Keyword Spotting Volkmar Frinken, Markus Baumgartner, Andreas Fischer and Horst Bunke
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12.10-12.30
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The Role of the Users in Handwritten Word Spotting Applications: Query Fusion and Relevance Feedback Marçal Rusiñol and Josep Llados
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Session 2 – Track II: Codebook for Handwriting Recognition
Chair: Andreas Dengel, Lambert Schomaker
Albatros Room, h. 11.30-12.30
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11.30-11.50
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Learning Text-Line Segmentation using Codebooks and Graph Partitioning Le Kang, Jayant Kumar, Peng Ye and David Doermann
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11.50-12.10
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Off-line Features Integration for On-line Handwriting Graphemes modeling improvement Houcine Boubaker, Aymen Chaabouni, Najiba Tagougui, Monji Kherallah, Haikal El Abed and Adel M. Alimi
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12.10-12.30
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Model-based Tabular Structure Detection and Recognition in Noisy Handwritten Documents Jin Chen and Daniel Lopresti
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Session 3 – Track I: Flowchart Recognition, Segmentation Techniques
Chair: Louisa Lam, Jean-Marc Ogier
Apulia Room, h. 12.30-13.30
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12.30-12.50
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On-line handwritten flowchart recognition, beautification, and editing system Hidetoshi Miyao and Rei Maruyama
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12.50-13.10
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A Touching Character Database from Chinese Handwriting for Assessing Segmentation Algorithms Liang Xu, Fei Yin, Qiu-Feng Wang and Cheng-Lin Liu
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13.10-13.30
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A new Efficient Graphemes Segmentation Technique for Offline Arabic Handwriting Hesham Eraqi and Sherif Abdel Azeem
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Session 3 – Track II: Word Segmentation
Chair: Adel M. Alimi, Daniel P. Lopresti
Albatros Room, h. 12.30-13.30
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12.30-12.50
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Handwritten and Machine Printed Text Separation in Document Images using the Bag of Visual Words Paradigm Konstantinos Zagoris, Ioannis Pratikakis, Apostolos Antonacopoulos, Basilis Gatos and Nikos Papamarkos
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12.50-13.10
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A New Method for Text Verification based on Random Forests Yang Zhang, Chunheng Wang, Baihua Xiao, Cunzhao Shi
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13.10-13.30
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Statistical Hypothesis Testing for Handwritten Word Segmentation Algorithms Mehdi Haji, Kalyan Asis Sahoo, Tien D. Bui, Ching Y. Suen and Dominique Ponson
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Session 4 – Track I: Multilingual Recognition
Chair: Bidyut B. Chaudhuri, Jihad El-Sana
Apulia Room, h. 15.00-16.00
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15.00-15.20
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A Comparative Study of Persian/Arabic Handwritten Character Recognition Alaei Alireza, Umapada Pal and P. Nagabhushan
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15.20-15.40
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A Hybrid Language Model for Handwritten Chinese Sentence Recognition Qizhen He, Shijie Chen, Mingxi Zhao and Wei Lin
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15.40-16.00
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Online Arabic Handwritten Digits Recognition Sherif Abdel Azeem, Maha El Meseery and Hany Ahmed
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Session 4 – Track II: Character Classification
Chair: Tien D. Bui, Basilis Gatos
Albatros Room, h. 15.00-16.00
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15.00-15.20
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k-NN Classification of Handwritten Characters via Accelerated GAT Correlation Toru Wakahara and Yukihiko Yamashita
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15.20-15.40
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Bag-of-Features Representations for Offline Handwriting Recognition Applied to Arabic Script Leonard Rothacker, Szilard Vajda and Gernot A. Fink
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15.40-16.00
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Building Compact On-line MRF Recognizer for Large Character Set Using Structured Dictionary Representation and Vector Quantization Technique Bilan Zhu and Masaki Nakagawa
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Session 5 – Track I: Bank Check Processing and Postal Automation
Chair: Sargur N. Srihari, Masaki Nakagawa
Apulia Room, h. 16.00-17.00
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16.00-16.20
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The new method of identification of handwriting using volumes of indentations Takeshi Furukawa
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16.20-16.40
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Multi-lingual City Name Recognition for Indian Postal Automation Umapada Pal, Ramit Kumar Roy and Fumitaka Kimura
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16.40-17.00
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Reduction of Bleed-through Effect in Images of Chinese Bank Items Bingyu Chi and Youbin Chen
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Session 5 – Track II: Mathematical Expression
Chair: Seiichi Uchida, Stephen Watt
Albatros Room, h. 16.00-17.00
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16.00-16.20
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Unbiased Evaluation of Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition Francisco Alvaro, Joan Andreu Sanchez and Jose Miguel Benedi
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16.20-16.40
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Using Speech for Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition Disambiguation Sofiane Medjkoune, Harold MouchÈre, Simon Petitrenaud and Christian Viard-Gaudin
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16.40-17.00
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A System for Recognition of On-Line Handwritten Mathematical Expressions Fotini Simistira, Vassilis Papavassiliou, Vassilis Katsouros and George Carayannis
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Teaser for Poster Session A
Chair: Haikal El Abed, Ioannis Pratikakis
Apulia Room, h. 17.30-18.30
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Poster Session A
Chair: Haikal El Abed, Ioannis Pratikakis
Albatros Gallery, h. 18.30-19.30
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Statistical Text Line Analysis in Handwritten Documents Vicente Bosch, Alejandro Héctor Toselli and Enrique Vidal
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2
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Handwritten English Word Recognition based on Convolutional Neural Networks Aiquan Yuan, Gang Bai, Po Yang, Yanni Guo, Xinting Zhao
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3
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Confused Distance Maximization for Large Category Dimensionality Reduction Xu-Yao Zhang and Cheng-Lin Liu
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4
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Applying Discriminatively Optimized Feature Transform for HMM-based Off-line Handwriting Recognition Jin Chen, Bing Zhang, Huaigu Cao, Rohit Prasad and Prem Natarajan
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5
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Signature based Document Retrieval using GHT of Background Information Partha Roy, Souvik Bhowmick, Umapada Pal and Jean-Yves Ramel
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6
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Analysis of Stability in Static Signatures using Cosine Similarity Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo, Lucia Sarcinella, Erasmo Stasolla, Claudia Adamita Trullo
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A Novel Technique for Handwritten Digit Classification using Genetic Clustering Sebastiano Impedovo and Francesco Maurizio Mangini
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8
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Handwritten Digit Recognition Based On a DSmT-SVM Parallel Combination Nassim Abbas, Youcef Chibani and Hassiba Nemmour
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9
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An MLP for binarizing images of old manuscripts Abderrahmane Kefali, Toufik Sari and Halima Bahi
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10
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A New Text Extraction Method Incorporating Local Information Yang Zhang, Chunheng Wang, Baihua Xiao, Cunzhao Shi
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11
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Moment-based Image Normalization for Handwritten Text Recognition Michal Kozielski, Jens Forster and Hermann Ney
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12
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Page segmentation based on Steerable Pyramid features Mohamed Benjelil, Rémy Mullot and Adel M. Alimi
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13
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Structural Features Extraction for Handwritten Arabic Personal Names Recognition Afef Kacem, Nadia Aouïti and Abdel Belaïd
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14
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Segmentation and Word Spotting Methods for Printed and Handwritten Arabic Texts: A Comparative Study Mariem Gargouri, Slim Kanoun, Jean-Marc Ogier
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15
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Analysis of Preprocessing Techniques for Latin Handwriting Recognition Hendrik Pesch, Mahdi Hamdani, Jens Forster and Hermann Ney
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16
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A Study of handwritten characters by shape descriptors: doping using the Freeman code Chekib Gmati, Sofiene Haboubi, Abdulqadir Alaqeeli and Hamid Amiri
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17
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Statistical Machine Translation as a Language Model for Handwriting Recognition Jacob Devlin, Matin Kamali, Krishna Subramanian, Rohit Prasad and Prem Natarajan
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18
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Segmentation and recognition strategy of handwritten connected digits based on the oriented sliding window Abdeldjalil Gattal and Youcef Chibani
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19
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Mode Detection in Online Handwritten Documents Using BLSTM Neural Networks Emanuel Indermühle, Volkmar Frinken and Horst Bunke
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20
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MAYASTROUN- A Multilanguage Handwriting Database Sourour Njah, Hala Bezine and Badreddine Ben Nouma and Adel M. Alimi
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21
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Persian Signature Verification Based on Fractal Dimension Using Testing Hypothesis Atefeh Foroozandeh, Younes Akbari, Mohammad J. Jalili and Javad Sadri
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22
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Recognition of Relatively Small Handwritten Characters, or Size Matters Vadim Mazalov and Stephen Watt
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23
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Grouping of Handwritten Bangla Basic Characters, Numerals and Vowel Modifiers for Multilayer Classification Khondker Nayef Reza and Mumit Khan
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24
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Word Spotting based Retrieval of Urdu Handwritten Documents Ali Abidi, Akhtar Jamil, Imran Siddiqi and Khurram Khurshid
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25
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Automatic abbreviation detection in medieval medical documents Constantino Malagón, Roberto Rizky, Kim Yonsoo, Marzal Francisco and Izquierdo Luis
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26
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Off-line Handwritten Signature Verification Using Contourlet Transform and Co-occurrence Matrix Assia Hamadene, Youcef Chibani and Hassiba Nemmour
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27
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Dynamic Programming Matching with Global Features for Online Character Recognition Minoru Mori, Seiichi Uchida and Hitoshi Sakano
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28
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Retrieval of Rashi Semi-Cursive Handwriting via Fuzzy Logic Zeev Zalevsky and Eran Gur
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9.00-10.00
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Invited Talk I: Strokes Against Stroke – Stroke For Strides Rejean Plamondon
Chair: Ching Y. Suen
Apulia Room, h. 9.00-10.00
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Session 6 – Track I: Signature Recognition I
Chair: Angelo Marcelli, Wataru Ohyama
Apulia Room, h. 10.00-11.00
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10.00-10.20
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Handwritten Signature Verification: New Advancements and Open Issues Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo and Rejean Plamondon
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10.20-10.40
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Hindi Off-line Signature Verification Srikanta Pal, Michael Blumenstein and Umapada Pal
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10.40-11.00
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Online Signature Verification Based on Legendre Series Representation. Robustness Assessment of Different Feature Combinations Marianela Parodi, Juan Carlos Gomez and Marcus Liwicki
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Session 6 – Track II: Writer Identification I
Chair: Volker Märgner, Saeed Mozaffari
Albatros Room, h. 10.00-11.00
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10.00-10.20
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Modeling Writing Styles for Online Writer Identification: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach Arti Shivram, Chetan Ramaiah, Utkarsh Porwal and Venu Govindaraju
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10.20-10.40
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Writer-specific Dissimilarity Normalisation for Improved Writer-independent Off-line Signature Verification Jacques Swanepoel and Johannes Coetzer
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10.40-11.00
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A Database for Arabic Handwritten Text Image Recognition and Writer Identification Anis Mezghani, Slim Kanoun, Maher Khemakhem and Haikal El Abed
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Session 7 – Track I: Writer Identification II
Chair: Christian Viard-Gaudin, Johannes Coetzer
Apulia Room, h. 11.30-12.30
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11.30-11.50
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Evolution maps for connected components in text documents Ofer Biller, Klara Kedem, Itshak Dinstein and Jihad El-Sana
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11.50-12.10
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Modeling handwriting style: a preliminary investigation Angelo Marcelli, Antonio Parziale and Adolfo Santoro
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12.10-12.30
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Structural Learning for Writer Identification in Offline Handwriting Utkarsh Porwal, Chetan Ramaiah, Arti Shivram and Venu Govindaraju
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Session 7 – Track II: Signature Recognition II
Chair: Michael Fairhurst, Giuseppe Pirlo
Albatros Room, h. 11.30-12.30
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11.30-11.50
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Signature Segmentation from Document Images Sheraz Ahmed, Muhammad Imran Malik, Marcus Liwicki and Andreas Dengel
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11.50-12.10
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Combination of signature verification techniques by SVM Takashi Ito, Wataru Ohyama, Tetsushi Wakabayashi and Fumitaka Kimura
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12.10-12.30
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Adaptation of Writer-Independent Systems for Offline Signature Verification George Eskander, Robert Sabourin and Eric Granger
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Teaser for Poster Session B
Chair: Umapada Pal, Volkmar Frinken
Apulia Room, h. 12.30-13.30
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Poster Session B
Chair: Umapada Pal, Volkmar Frinken
Albatros Gallery, h. 15.00-16.00
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Text Detection and Recognition in Real World Images Raid Saabni and Moti Zwilling
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2
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KHATT: Arabic Offline Handwritten Text Database Sabri A. Mahmoud, Irfan Ahmad, Mohammad Alshayeb, Wasfi G. Al-Khatib, Mohammad Tanvir Parvez, Gernot A. Fink, Volker Märgner, Haikal El Abed
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3
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A Coarse-to-Fine Approach for Handwritten Word Spotting in Large Scale Historical Documents Collection Jon Almazán, David Fernández, Alicia Fornés, Josep Lladós and Ernest Valveny
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4
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Procedural Analysis of a sketching activity: Principles and Applications Ney Renau-Ferrer and Remi Celine
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5
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A Novel Naive Bayes Voting Strategy for Combining Classifiers Claudio De Stefano, Francesco Fontanella and Alessandra Scotto Di Freca
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6
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Semi-Customizable Gestural Commands Approach and its Evaluation Peiyu Li, Ney Renau-Ferrer, Eric Anquetil and Eric Jamet
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Character Image Patterns as Big Data Seiichi Uchida, Ryosuke Ishida, Akira Yoshida, Wenjie Cai and Yaokai Feng
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8
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Fast Feature Selection for Handwritten Digit Recognition Hassan Chouaib, Florence Cloppet and Nicole Vincent
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An Unconstrained Benchmark Urdu Handwritten Sentence Database with Automatic Line Segmentation Ahsen Raza, Imran Siddiqi, Ali Abidi, Fahim Arif
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10
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A Hybrid Approach for Line Segmentation in Handwritten Documents Hande Adigüzel, Emre Sahin and Pinar Duygulu
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11
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Multi-script Writer Identification Optimized With Retrieval Mechanism Chawki Djeddi, Imran Siddiqi, Labiba Souici-Meslati and Abdel Ennaji
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12
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A Multilevel Text-line Segmentation Framework for Handwritten Historical Documents Ines Ben Messaoud, Haikal El Abed, Hamid Amiri and Volker Märgner
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13
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Denoising textual images using local/non-local smoothing filters: A comparative study Fadoua Drira and Franck Lebourgeois
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14
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Optimization of Point Selection on Digital Ink Curves Rui Hu and Stephen Watt
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15
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Local Feature based Online Mode Detection with Recurrent Neural Networks Sebastian Otte, Marcus Liwicki, Dirk Krechel and Andreas Dengel
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Chinese Payee Name Recognition Based on Seal Information of Chinese Bank Checks Chao Ren and Youbin Chen
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MfrDB: Database of Annotated On-line Mathematical Formulae Jan Stria, Martin Bresler, Daniel Prusa and Vaclav Hlavac
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Comparing Character Recognition Based Approach with Feature Matching Based Approach for Digital Ink Search Cheng Cheng, Zhu Bilan and Nakagawa Masaki
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HMM-based Offline Arabic Handwriting Recognition, Using new Feature Extraction and Lexicon Ranking Techniques Hesham Eraqi and Sherif Abdelazeem
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Multi-Classifier System Configuration using Genetic Algorithms Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo and Donato Barbuzzi
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Two Schemas for Online Character Recognition of Telugu script based on Support Vector Machines Rajkumar Joseph, K. Mariraja, Kanakapriya Kalayanasundaram, Nishanthini Soundararajan and Srinivasa Chakravarthy
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Competitive hybrid exploration for off-line sketches structure recognition Achraf Ghorbel, Aurélie Lemaitre and Eric Anquetil
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23
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A Morphology based Approach for Binarization of Handwritten Documents Vassilis Papavassiliou, Fotini Simistira, Vassilis Katsouros and George Carayannis
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24
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Keyword Spotting Framework using Dynamic Background Model Gaurav Kumar, Zhixin Shi, Srirangaraj Setlur, Venu Govindaraju and Sitaram Ramachandrula
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25
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Text Line Extraction Using Adaptive Partial Projection for Palm Leaf Manuscripts from Thailand Rapeeporn Chamchong and Chun Che Fung
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26
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Effective Technique for the Recognition of Writer Independent Off-line Handwritten Arabic Words Sherif Abdel Azeem and Hany Ahmed
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27
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HMM Based Online Handwritten Bangla Character Recognition using Dirichlet Distributions Chandan Biswas, Ujjwal Bhattacharya and Swapan K. Parui
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