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Papers Submitted: 161

Accepted Poster Papers: 77

 

1007

Combining Global and Local Features for Writer Identification

Imran Siddiqi, Nicole Vincent

1008

Generative Models of Numeral Pairs for Handwritten Numeral Pair Recognition

Yan-Jie Wang, Xia-Bi Liu, Yun-De Jia

1009

A Soft Target Method of Learning Posterior Pseudo-probabilities based Classifiers with its Application to Handwritten Digit Recognition

Xuefeng Chen, Xiabi Liu, Yude Jia

1011

Brazilian Forensic Letter Database

Cinthia Freitas, Luiz Eduardo Oliveira, Robert Sabourin, Flavio Bortolozzi

1013

HMM-based Offline Recognition of Handwritten Words Crossed out with Different Kinds of Strokes

Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Alessandro Vinciarelli

1014

Stroke Width Independent Parameter for Writer Identification and Handwriting Classification

Imran Siddiqi, Nicole Vincent

1016

Score normalization for HMM-based word spotting using a universal background model

Jose A. Rodriguez, Florent Perronnin

1017

Two Dimensional Principal Component Analysis for Online Tamil Character Recognition

Suresh Sundaram, Ramakrishnan A G

1019

OCR-classification interaction mathematical model

Jean-Marie Brodin

1021

Chinese Writer Verification using Distinct Characters

Xin Li, Xiaoqing Ding, Xianliang Wang

1023

Multiple Filter Mask Learning of Feature Extraction in Character Recognition

Yoshiaki Kurosawa

1026

A New Methodology to Improve Myoelectric Signal Processing Using Handwriting

Moussa Djioua, Réjean Plamondon

1028

Handwritten Email Address Recognition with Syntax and Lexicons

Danian Zheng, Jun Sun, Satoshi Naoi, Hotta Yoshinobu, Minagawa Akihiro, Suwa Misako, Fujimoto Katsuhito

1030

Handwritten Signature Verification by Multiple Reference Sets

Anna Ferrante, Donato Impedovo, Raffaele Modugno, Giuseppe Pirlo

1031

On the Design of Optimal Zoning for Pattern Classification

Sebastiano Impedovo, Maria Grazia Lucchese, Giuseppe Pirlo, Lucia Sarcinella

1032

Calligraphic Beautification of Handwritten Chinese Characters: A Patternized Approach to Handwriting Transfiguration

Xinghua Zhu, Lianwen Jin

1036

Global/Local Affine Transformation Correlation for Handwritten Character Recognition as Distortion-Tolerant Matching

Toru Wakahara

1037

A Multi-Stream HMM-based Approach for Off-line Multi-Script Handwritten Word Recognition

Yousri Kessentini

1044

Online handwriting recognition of Ethiopic script

Yaregal Assabie, Josef Bigun

1045

Recognition-based vs syntax-directed models for numerical field extraction in handwritten documents

Clément Chatelain, Laurent Heutte, Thierry Paquet

1046

SCUT-COUCH2008: A Comprehensive Online Unconstrained Chinese Handwriting Dataset

Yunyang Li, Lianwen Jin, Xinhua Zhu, Teng Long

1047

Threshold Equalization Methods for On-Line Signature Verification

Isao Nakanishi

1050

Incorporating Tangent Vectors in SVM Kernels for Handwritten Digit Recognition

hassiba Nemmour, Youcef CHIBANI

1052

Reject Rules and Combination Methods to Improve Arabic Handwritten Word Recognizers

Haikal El Abed, Volker Märgner

1053

Recognition of Handwritten Historical Documents: HMM-Adaptation vs. Writer Specific Training

Emanuel Indermühle, Marcus Liwicki, Horst Bunke

1054

AUT/PHCN : Azad University of Tehran / Persian Handwritten City Names, a very large database of handwritten Persian word

Amir Masod Bidgoli, Mehdi Sarhadi

1058

A New Approach for the Extraction of Handwriting Perceptual Codes using Fuzzy Logic

sourour njah

1060

Boosting descriptive model for large scale classification and its application to Chinese Handwritten Character Recognition

Qiang Fu, Xiaoqing Ding, Changsong Liu

1061

A modelled classification approach to the automatic analysis of hand drawn neuropsychological tests

Richard Guest

1063

An Analytic Scheme for Online Handwritten Bangla Cursive Word Recognition

Ujjwal Bhattacharya, Aditya Nigam, Yogesh Rawat, Swapan Parui

1064

Incorporating Signature Verification on Handheld Devices with User-dependent Hidden Markov Models

Marcos Martinez-Diaz, Julian Fierrez, Javier Ortega-Garcia

1067

Novel Statistical Description for the Structure of Main Body of Isolated Farsi/Arabic Handwritten Characters

Majid Ziaratban, Karim Faez

1072

Feature Set Selection and Weighting for Legal Amount Recognition on Brazilian Bank Checks

Adélia Barros, George Cavalcanti

1075

Continuous Chinese Handwriting Recognition with Language Model

Yanming Zou, Kun Yu, Kongqiao Wang

1077

The On/Off (LMCA) Dual Arabic Handwriting Database

Monji KHERALLAH, Abdelkarim ELBAATI, Haikal EL ABED, Adel. M ALIMI

1078

Text Dependent Writer Verification using Boosting

Sachin Gupta, Anoop Namboodiri

1079

Synthesis of Individual Handwriting in Bangla Script

Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri, Abhisek Kundu

1080

Accuracy improvement of Devnagari Character Recognition Combining SVM and MQDF

Umapada Pal, Sukalpa Chanda, Tetsushi Wakabayashi, Fumitaka Kimura

1082

Off-line Signature Verification based on High Pressure Polar Distribution

Jesus Francisco Vargas Bonilla, Miguel Angel Ferrer Ballester, Carlos Manuel Travieso González, Jesus Bernardino Alonso Hernandez

1085

On-line Handwritten Japanese Text Recognition by Improving Segmentation Quality

Bilan Zhu, Masaki Nakagawa

1089

Camera-Based Whiteboard Reading: New Approaches to a Challenging Task

Thomas Plötz, Christian Thurau, Gernot A. Fink

1091

A Skew-tolerant Strategy and Confidence Measure for k-NN Classification of Online Handwritten Characters

Vandana Roy, Sriganesh Madhvanath

1093

IfN/Farsi-Database: A Database of Farsi Handwritten City Names

Saeed Mozaffari, Haikal El Abed, Volker Märgner, Karim Faez, Ali Amirshahi

1094

A two-stage approach for segmentation of handwritten Bangla word images

Ram Sarkar, Nibaran Das, Subhadip Basu, Mahantapas Kundu, Mita Nasipuri, Dipak Kumar Basu

1096

Off-line Signature Verification Using Contour Features

Almudena Gilperez, Fernando Alonso-Fernandez, Susana Pecharroman, Julian Fierrez, Javier Ortega-Garcia

1101

A Template Matching Distance for Recognition of On-Line Mathematical Symbols

Fotini Simistira, Vassilis Katsouros, George Carayannis

1102

Segmentation of Handwritten Numeral Strings by Introduction of Structural Model

Misako Suwa, Katsuhito Fujimoto

1103

Using an artificial neural network approach for off-line sentence segmentation

César Carvalho, George Cavalcanti

1105

Dynamic selection of classifiers: when few are better than all

Claudio De Stefano, Antonio Della Cioppa, Angelo Marcelli

1106

Detecting and treating invasion in the courtesy amount field on bank checks

Byron L. D. Bezerra, George D. C. Cavalcanti, Cleber Zanchettin, Juliano C. B. Rabelo

1108

Recognition of Eyes-free Handwriting Input for Pen and Touch Interfaces

Bharath A, Sriganesh Madhvanath

1114

Layout analysis of handwritten letters based on textural and spatial information and a 2D Markovian approach

Mélanie Lemaitre, Emmanuèle Grosicki, Edouard Geoffrois, Françoise Prêteux

1117

Hierarchical Classification of Handwritten Characters based on Novel Structural Features

Giorgos Vamvakas, Basilis Gatos, Stavros Perantonis

1118

On-Line Recognition of Handwritten Whiteboard Notes: A Novel Approach for Script Line Identification and Normalization

Joachim Schenk, Johannes Lenz, Gerhard Rigoll

1119

PCA in On-Line Handwriting Recognition of Whiteboard Notes: A Novel VQ Design for use with Discrete HMMs

Joachim Schenk, Stefan Schwärzler, Gerhard Rigoll

1120

Discrete Single vs. Multiple Stream HMMs: A Comparative Evaluation of their Use in On-Line Handwriting Recognition of Whiteboard Notes

Joachim Schenk, Stefan Schwärzler, Gerhard Rigoll

1124

Study of temporal variability in on-line signature verification

Nicolas Ragot, Julie Fortune, Nicole Vincent, Hubert Cardot

1125

Feature Selection and Model Design through GA Applied to Handwritten Digit Recognition

Elias R. Silva Jr, Adriano L. I. Oliveira, Wellington P. Santos, Carlos A. B. Mello, Cleber Zanchettin

1127

Off-line handwritten word recognition based on a bidimensional Markovian approach with a large vocabulary

Mélanie Lemaitre, Emmanuèle Grosicki, Edouard Geoffrois, Françoise Prêteux

1128

RIMES evaluation campaign for handwritten mail processing

Emmanuele Grosicki, Matthieu CARRE, jean-marie brodin, edouard geoffrois

1129

Sharing Digital Ink in Heterogeneous Collaborative Environments

Birendra Keshari, Sriganesh Madhvanath, Manoj Prasad A, Muthuselvam Selvaraj, Stephen M. Watt

1133

An Objective Evaluation Methodology for Handwritten Image Document Binarization Techniques

Konstantinos Ntirogiannis, Basilis Gatos, Ioannis Pratikakis

1139

Relative Pattern Recognition for Noisy Handwritten Numeral Recognition

Hansheng Lei, Venu Govindaraju

1140

A New Segmentation Algorithm for Online HandwrittenWord Recognition in Persian Script

Sara Izadi, Mehdi Haji, Ching Y. Suen

1142

Context Sensitive Mathematical Character Recognition

Elena Smirnova, Stephen Watt

1143

A Bayesian approach to off-line signature verification

Harish Srinivasan, Kamal Kuzhinjedathu, Sargur Srihari

1144

AllWrite: the first Internet-based platform for benchmarking handwriting recognition systems

Matthieu Carre, Françoise Prêteux, Benoît Le Bonhomme

1148

Fast Online Incremental Learning with Few Examples For Online Handwritten Character Recognition

Abdullah Almaksour, Harold Mouchère, Eric Anquetil

1149

A Priority-Driven General Approach of Segmentation-Recognition of Connected Symbols

Christophe Renaudin, Yann Ricquebourg, Jean Camillerapp

1151

A New Multipurpose Comprehensive Database for Handwritten Dari Recognition

Muhammad Ismail Shah, Javad Sadri, Ching Y. Suen, Nicola Nobile

1153

Detection and Reconstruction of Contact Shape for Calligraphy Education by using Horizon View Camera

kazuhiko yamamoto

1159

Biometric Key Generation Using Pseudo-Signatures

Lucas Ballard, Jin Chen, Daniel Lopresti, Fabian Monrose

1160

Writer-independent Offline Ethiopic Handwriting Recognition

Yaregal Assabie, Josef Bigun

1162

2D markovian models for document structure analysis

Stéphane Nicolas, Thierry Paquet, Laurent Heutte

1166

A Novel Comprehensive Database for Arabic Off-Line Handwriting Recognition

Huda Alamri, Javad Sadri, Ching Suen, Nicola Nobile

1169

Designing an optimal Classifier Ensemble for online character recognition using Genetic Algorithms

Jitendra Kumar, Srinivasa Chakravarthy

1170

Baseline Extraction: Comparison of Six Methods on IFN/ENIT Database

Samia Snoussi Maddouri, Haikal El Abed, Fadoua Bouafif Samoud, Kaouthar Bouriel, Noureddine Ellouze

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