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Date: Tuesday August 19, 2008

 

SESSION KS1: Keynote Speech 1

 Date: August 19, 2008

 Time: 09:20 - 10:20

 Location: J.A. De Sève Ampitheatre

 

 SESSION S1.1: Offline Recognition

 Date: August 19, 2008

 Time: 10:40 - 12:00

 Location: J.A. De Sève Ampitheatre

 

 10:40 

 [1146] - EVALUATION OF INCREMENTAL LEARNING ALGORITHMS FOR AN HMM-BASED HANDWRITTEN ISOLATED DIGITS

RECOGNIZER

Paulo Cavalin, Robert Sabourin, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada; Ching Y. Suen, Concordia University, Canada; Alceu Britto,

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil

 11:00 

 [1015] - LOCAL GRADIENT HISTOGRAM FEATURES FOR WORD SPOTTING IN UNCONSTRAINED HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENTS

Jose A. Rodriguez, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain; Florent Perronnin, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France

 

 11:20 

 [1038] - UNCONSTRAINED LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION USING A SHAPE CODEBOOK

Guangyu Zhu, Xiaodong Yu, Yi Li, David Doermann, University of Maryland, United States

 

 11:40 

 [1130] - EFFICIENT SEARCH STRATEGY IN STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS FOR HANDWRITTEN MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION

RECOGNITION

Taik Heon Rhee, Jin Hyung Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

 

 SESSION S1.2: Classification / Decision Theory

 Date: August 19, 2008

 Time: 13:40 - 15:00

 Location: J.A. De Sève Ampitheatre

 

 13:40 

 [1004] - INCLUDING LANGUAGE MODEL INFORMATION IN THE COMBINATION OF HANDWRITTEN TEXT LINE RECOGNISERS

Roman Bertolami, Horst Bunke, University of Bern, Switzerland

 

 14:00 

 [1010] - COMBINING ON-LINE AND OFF-LINE BIDIRECTIONAL LONG SHORT-TERM MEMORY NETWORKS FOR HANDWRITTEN

TEXT LINE RECOGNITION

Marcus Liwicki, DFKI, Germany; Horst Bunke, IAM, Switzerland

 

 14:20 

 [1068] - PHRASE BASED DIRECT MODEL FOR IMPROVING HANDWRITING RECOGNITION ACCURACIES

Faisal Farooq, Damien Jose, Venu Govindaraju, SUNY at Buffalo, United States

 

 14:40 

 [1098] - MAX-MARGIN LEARNING OF GAUSSIAN MIXTURES WITH SEQUENTIAL MINIMAL OPTIMIZATION

Trinh M. T. Do, Thierry Artières, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France

 

 SESSION PS.1: Poster Session I

 Date: August 19, 2008

 Time: 15:00 - 16:00

 Location: Concordia Library Building Atrium

 

 

 [1007] - COMBINING GLOBAL AND LOCAL FEATURES FOR WRITER IDENTIFICATION

Imran Siddiqi, Nicole Vincent, CRIP5-SIP University Paris Descartes, France

 

 

 [1031] - ON THE DESIGN OF OPTIMAL ZONING FOR PATTERN CLASSIFICATION

Anna Ferrante, Sebastiano Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo, Claudia Adamita Trullo, University of Bari, Italy

 

 

 [1032] - CALLIGRAPHIC BEAUTIFICATION OF HANDWRITTEN CHINESE CHARACTERS: A PATTERNIZED APPROACH TO

HANDWRITING TRANSFIGURATION

Xinghua Zhu, Lianwen Jin, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, SCUT, China

 

 

 [1036] - GLOBAL/LOCAL AFFINE TRANSFORMATION CORRELATION FOR HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION AS

DISTORTION-TOLERANT MATCHING

Toru Wakahara, Hosei University, Japan

 

 

 [1037] - A MULTI-STREAM HMM-BASED APPROACH FOR OFF-LINE MULTI-SCRIPT HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION

Yousri Kessentini, Thierry Paquet, LITIS Laboratory, France; AbdelMajid Benhamadou, MIRACL Laboratory, Tunisia

 

 

 [1044] - ONLINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION OF ETHIOPIC SCRIPT

Yaregal Assabie, Josef Bigun, Halmstad University, Sweden

 

 

 [1045] - RECOGNITION-BASED VS SYNTAX-DIRECTED MODELS FOR NUMERICAL FIELD EXTRACTION IN HANDWRITTEN

DOCUMENTS

Clément Chatelain, Laurent Heutte, Thierry Paquet, LITIS Lab., France

 

 

 [1046] - SCUT-COUCH2008: A COMPREHENSIVE ONLINE UNCONSTRAINED CHINESE HANDWRITING DATASET

Yunyang Li, Lianwen Jin, Xinghua Zhu, Teng Long, Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology,

China

 

 

 [1047] - THRESHOLD EQUALIZATION METHODS FOR ON-LINE SIGNATURE VERIFICATION

Shouta Koike, Isao Nakanishi, Yoshio Itoh, Tottori University, Japan

 

 

 [1050] - INCORPORATING TANGENT VECTORS IN SVM KERNELS FOR HANDWRITTEN DIGIT RECOGNITION

Hassiba Nemmour, Youcef Chibani, USTHB, Algeria

 

 

 [1052] - REJECT RULES AND COMBINATION METHODS TO IMPROVE ARABIC HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNIZERS

Haikal El Abed, Volker Märgner, TU Braunschweig / Institute for Communications Technology (IfN), Germany

 

 

 [1053] - RECOGNITION OF HANDWRITTEN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS: HMM-ADAPTATION VS. WRITER SPECIFIC TRAINING

Emanuel Indermühle, University of Bern, Switzerland; Marcus Liwicki, DFKI, Germany; Horst Bunke, University of Bern, Switzerland

 

 

 [1030] - HANDWRITTEN SIGNATURE VERIFICATION BY MULTIPLE REFERENCE SETS

Donato Impedovo, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy; Raffaele Modugno, Giuseppe Pirlo, Erasmo Stasolla, University of Bari, Italy

 

 

 [1028] - HANDWRITTEN EMAIL ADDRESS RECOGNITION WITH SYNTAX AND LEXICONS

Danian Zheng, Jun Sun, Satoshi Naoi, Fujitsu R&D Center Co., Ltd., China; Hotta Yoshinobu, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan; Minagawa Akihiro,

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., China; Suwa Misako, Fujimoto Katsuhito, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan

 

 

 [1008] - A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO HANDWRITTEN NUMERAL PAIR RECOGNITION BASED ON GENERATIVE MODELS OF

NUMERAL PAIRS

Yanjie Wang, Xiabi Liu, Yunde Jia, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

 

 

 [1009] - A SOFT TARGET LEARNING METHOD OF POSTERIOR PSEUDO-PROBABILITIES BASED CLASSIFIERS WITH ITS

APPLICATION TO HANDWRITTEN DIGIT RECOGNITION

Xuefeng Chen, Xiabi Liu, Yunde Jia, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

 

 

 [1011] - BRAZILIAN FORENSIC LETTER DATABASE

Cinthia O. A. Freitas, Luiz E. S. Oliveira, PUCPR, Brazil; Robert Sabourin, ETS, Canada; Flavio Bortolozzi, PUCPR, Brazil

 

 

 [1013] - HMM-BASED OFFLINE RECOGNITION OF HANDWRITTEN WORDS CROSSED OUT WITH DIFFERENT KINDS OF STROKES

Laurence Likforman-Sulem, ENST/Telecom ParisTech, France; Alessandro Vinciarelli, IDIAP, Switzerland

 

 

 [1014] - STROKE WIDTH INDEPENDENT FEATURE FOR WRITER IDENTIFICATION AND HANDWRITING CLASSIFICATION

Imran Siddiqi, Nicole Vincent, CRIP5-SIP University Paris Descartes, France

 

 

 [1016] - SCORE NORMALIZATION FOR HMM-BASED WORD SPOTTING USING A UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND MODEL

Jose A. Rodriguez, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain; Florent Perronnin, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France

 

 

 [1017] - TWO DIMENSIONAL PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS FOR ONLINE TAMIL CHARACTER RECOGNITION

Suresh Sundaram, Ramakrishnan A G, Indian Institute of Science, India

 

 

 [1019] - OCR-CLASSIFICATION INTERACTION MATHEMATICAL MODEL

Jean-Marie Brodin, A2iA, France

 

 

 [1021] - SEMI-TEXT-INDEPENDENT WRITER VERIFICATION OF CHINESE HANDWRITING

Xin Li, Xiaoqing Ding, Xianliang Wang, Tsinghua University, China

 

 

 [1023] - MULTIPLE FILTER MASK LEARNING OF FEATURE EXTRACTION IN CHARACTER RECOGNITION

Yoshiaki Kurosawa, Toshiba Solutions Co., Japan

 

 

 [1026] - A NEW METHODOLOGY TO IMPROVE MYOELECTRIC SIGNAL PROCESSING USING HANDWRITING

Moussa Djioua, Réjean Plamondon, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada

 

 

 [1054] - IAUT/PHCN :ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN / PERSIAN HANDWRITTEN CITY NAMES, A VERY LARGE

DATABASE OF HANDWRITTEN PERSIAN WORD

Amir Masoud Bidgoli, Mehdi Sarhadi, Islamic Azad University of Tehran North branch, Iran

 

 SESSION S1.3: Historical Document Processing

 Date: August 19, 2008

 Time: 16:00 - 17:00

 Location: J.A. De Sève Ampitheatre

 

 16:00 

 [1059] - GLOBAL AND LOCAL SHAPE PRIOR FOR VARIATIONAL SEGMENTATION OF DEGRADED HISTORICAL CHARACTERS

Itay Bar-Yosef, Klara Kedem, Its'hak Dinstein, Alik Mokeichev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

 

 16:20 

 [1138] - EFDM: RESTORATION OF SINGLE-SIDED LOW-QUALITY DOCUMENT IMAGES

Reza Farrahi-Moghaddam, Mohamed Cheriet, ETS, Canada

 

 16:40 

 [1152] - A HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL FOR ALPHABET-SOUP WORD RECOGNITION

Shaolei Feng, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States; Nicholas Howe, Smith College, United States; R. Manmatha,

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States

 

 SESSION S1.4: Forensics

 Date: August 19, 2008

 Time: 17:00 - 17:40

 Location: J.A. De Sève Ampitheatre

 

 17:00 

 [1020] - AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF SIGMA-LOGNORMAL PARAMETERS ON SIGNATURES

Christian O'Reilly, Réjean Plamondon, Laboratoire Scribens - École Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada

 

 17:20 

 [1157] - ONLINE SIGNATURE VERIFICATION USING SEGMENT-TO-SEGMENT MATCHING

Jian Zhang, Sei-ichiro Kamata, Waseda University, Japan

 

 

Date: Wednesday August 20, 2008

 

 SESSION S2.1: Segmentation

 Date: August 20, 2008

 Time: 08:40 - 10:20

 Location: J.A. De Sève Ampitheatre

 

 08:40 

 [1022] - HANDWRITTEN TEXT LINE SEGMENTATION BY CLUSTERING WITH DISTANCE METRIC LEARNING

Yin Fei, Liu Cheng-Lin, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

 

 09:00 

 [1087] - A METHOD FOR COMBINING COMPLEMENTARY TECHNIQUES FOR DOCUMENT IMAGE SEGMENTATION

Nikolaos Stamatopoulos, Basilis Gatos, Stavros Perantonis, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Greece

 

 09:20 

 [1111] - MORPHOLOGY BASED HANDWRITTEN LINE SEGMENTATION USING FOREGROUND AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Partha Roy, CVC, UAB, Spain; Umapada Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India; Josep LLados, CVC, UAB, Spain

 

 09:40 

 [1115] - LINE AND WORD SEGMENTATION OF HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENTS

Georgios Louloudis, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece; Basilis Gatos, Ioannis Pratikakis,

Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, National Center for Scientific Research 'Demokritos', Greece; Constantin Halatsis,

Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece

 

 10:00 

 [1132] - TEXT LINE SEGMENTATION IN HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENTS USING MUMFORD-SHAH MODEL

Xiaojun Du, Wumo Pan, Tien D. Bui, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, Canada

 

 SESSION S2.2: Arabic Related

 Date: August 20, 2008

 Time: 10:40 - 12:00

 Location: J.A. De Sève Ampitheatre

 

 10:40 

 [1055] - ON-LINE ARABIC HANDWRITING RECOGNITION WITH TEMPLATES

Jakob Sternby, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Sweden; Jonas Morwing, Jonas Andersson, Christer Friberg, Zi Decuma AB, Sweden

 

 11:06 

 [1100] - HOW TO CONVERT A LATIN HANDWRITING RECOGNITION SYSTEM TO ARABIC

Marc-Peter Schambach, Jörg Rottland, Siemens AG, Germany; Théophile Alary, Université de Technologie Troyes, France

 

 11:32 

 [1134] - KEYWORD SEARCHING FOR ARABIC HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENTS

Raid Saabni, Jihad El-Sana, Ben-Guion University of the Negev, Israel

 

 SESSION S2.3: Multilingual Recognition

 Date: August 20, 2008

 Time: 13:40 - 15:00

 Location: J.A. De Sève Ampitheatre

 

 13:40 

 [1027] - A NEW BENCHMARK ON THE RECOGNITION OF HANDWRITTEN BANGLA AND FARSI NUMERAL CHARACTERS

Cheng-Lin Liu, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Ching Y. Suen, CENPARMI, Concordia University, Canada

 

 14:00 

 [1062] - MODELING INVERSE COVARIANCE MATRICES BY EXPANSION OF TIED BASIS MATRICES FOR ONLINE HANDWRITTEN

CHINESE CHARACTER RECOGNITION

Yongqiang Wang, Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Qiang Huo, Microsoft Research Asia, China

 

 14:20 

 [1076] - BANGLA HANDWRITTEN PIN CODE STRING RECOGNITION FOR INDIAN POSTAL AUTOMATION

Umapada Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India; Kaushik Roy, West Bengal University of Technology, India; Fumitaka Kimura, Mie University, Japan

 

 14:40 

 [1084] - THE NICICON DATABASE OF HANDWRITTEN ICONS FOR CRISIS MANAGEMENT

Ralph Niels, Don Willems, Louis Vuurpijl, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Netherlands

 

 SESSION PS.2: Poster Session II

 Date: August 20, 2008

 Time: 15:00 - 16:00

 Location: Concordia Library Building Atrium

 

 

 [1058] - A NEW APPROACH FOR THE EXTRACTION OF HANDWRITING PERCEPTUAL CODES USING FUZZY LOGIC

Sourour Njah, Hala Bezine, ENIS-REGIM, Tunisia; Adel M. Alimi, enis-regim, Tunisia

 

 

 [1089] - CAMERA-BASED WHITEBOARD READING: NEW APPROACHES TO A CHALLENGING TASK

Thomas Plötz, Robotics Research Institute, Dortmund University of Technology, Germany; Christian Thurau, Gernot A. Fink, Department of

Computer Science, Dortmund University of Technology, Germany

 

 

 [1091] - A SKEW-TOLERANT STRATEGY AND CONFIDENCE MEASURE FOR K-NN CLASSIFICATION OF ONLINE HANDWRITTEN

CHARACTERS

Vandana Roy, Sriganesh Madhvanath, Hewlett Packard Labs, India

 

 

 [1093] - IFN/FARSI-DATABASE: A DATABASE OF FARSI HANDWRITTEN CITY NAMES

Saeed Mozaffari, Faculty of Engineering, Semnan University, Iran; Haikal El Abed, Volker Märgner, TU Braunschweig / Institute for Communications

Technology (IfN), Germany; Karim Faez, Ali Amirshahi, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

 

 

 [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, Jadavpur University, India

 

 

 [1096] - OFF-LINE SIGNATURE VERIFICATION USING CONTOUR FEATURES

Almudena Gilperez, Fernando Alonso-Fernandez, Susana Pecharroman, Julian Fierrez, Javier Ortega-Garcia, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

 

 

 [1101] - A TEMPLATE MATCHING DISTANCE FOR RECOGNITION OF ON-LINE MATHEMATICAL SYMBOLS

Fotini Simistira, National Technical University of Athens, Greece; Vassilis Katsouros, George Carayannis, Institute for Language and Speech

Processing of Athena, Greece

 

 

 [1102] - SEGMENTATION OF HANDWRITTEN NUMERAL STRINGS BY INTRODUCTION OF STRUCTURAL MODEL

Misako Suwa, Fujitsu Labratories LTD., Japan

 

 

 [1103] - USING AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK APPROACH FOR OFF-LINE SENTENCE SEGMENTATION

César Carvalho, George Cavalcanti, Federal University of Pernambuco - UFPE, Brazil

 

 

 [1105] - DYNAMIC SELECTION OF CLASSIFIERS: WHEN FEW ARE BETTER THAN ALL

Claudio De Stefano, Universita degli di Cassino, Italy; Antonio Della Cioppa, Angelo Marcelli, University of Salerno, Italy

 

 

 [1106] - DETECTING AND TREATING INVASION IN THE COURTESY AMOUNT FIELD ON BANK CHECKS

Byron L. D. Bezerra, George Cavalcanti, Cleber Zanchettin, Juliano C. B. Rabelo, AiLeader Pattern Recognition, Brazil

 

 

 [1108] - RECOGNITION OF EYES-FREE HANDWRITING INPUT FOR PEN AND TOUCH INTERFACES

Bharath A, Sriganesh Madhvanath, Hewlett-Packard Labs, India

 

 

 [1085] - ON-LINE HANDWRITTEN JAPANESE TEXT RECOGNITION BY IMPROVING SEGMENTATION QUALITY

Bilan Zhu, Masaki Nakagawa, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

 

 

 [1082] - OFF-LINE SIGNATURE VERIFICATION BASED ON HIGH PRESSURE POLAR DISTRIBUTION

Jesus F. Vargas, Universidad de Antioquia - Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Colombia; Miguel A. Ferrer, Carlos M. Travieso,

Jesus B. Alonso, Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

 

 

 [1060] - A NEW ADABOOST ALGORITHM FOR LARGE SCALE CLASSIFICATION AND ITS APPLICATION TO CHINESE HANDWRITTEN

CHARACTER RECOGNITION

Qiang Fu, Xiaoqing Ding, Changsong Liu, Tsinghua University, China

 

 

 [1061] - A MODELLED CLASSIFICATION APPROACH TO THE AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF HAND DRAWN NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL

TESTS

Richard Guest, University of Kent, United Kingdom

 

 

 [1063] - AN ANALYTIC SCHEME FOR ONLINE HANDWRITTEN BANGLA CURSIVE WORD RECOGNITION

Ujjwal Bhattacharya, Indian Statistical Institute, India; Aditya Nigam, Yogesh Rawat, Banaras Hindu University, India; Swapan Parui,

Indian Statistical Institute, India

 

 

 [1064] - INCORPORATING SIGNATURE VERIFICATION ON HANDHELD DEVICES WITH USER-DEPENDENT HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS

Marcos Martinez-Diaz, Julian Fierrez, Javier Ortega-Garcia, ATVS - Biometric Recognition Group, UAM, Spain

 

 

 [1067] - NOVEL STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION FOR THE STRUCTURE OF ISOLATED FARSI/ARABIC HANDWRITTEN CHARACTERS

Majid Ziaratban, Karim Faez, Farshid Allahveiradi, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran

 

 

 [1072] - FEATURE SET SELECTION AND WEIGHTING FOR LEGAL AMOUNT RECOGNITION ON BRAZILIAN BANK CHECKS

Adélia Barros, George Cavalcanti, Center of Informatics, UFPE, Brazil

 

 

 [1075] - CONTINUOUS CHINESE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION WITH LANGUAGE MODEL

Yanming Zou, NOKIA, China; Kun Yu, Kongqiao Wang, Nokia, China

 

 

 [1077] - THE ON/OFF (LMCA) DUAL ARABIC HANDWRITING DATABASE

Monji Kherallah, Abdelkarim El-Baati, REGIM, Tunisia; Haikal El Abed, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany; Adel M. Alimi, REGIM, Tunisia

 

 

 [1078] - TEXT DEPENDENT WRITER VERIFICATION USING BOOSTING

Sachin Gupta, Anoop Namboodiri, International Institute of Information Technology, India

 

 

 [1079] - SYNTHESIS OF INDIVIDUAL HANDWRITING IN BANGLA SCRIPT

Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri, Indian Statistical Institute, India; Abhisek Kundu, CSE Department, Jadavpur University, India

 

 

 [1080] - ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT OF DEVNAGARI CHARACTER RECOGNITION COMBINING SVM AND MQDF

Umapada Pal, Sukalpa Chanda, Indian Statistical Institute, India; Tetsushi Wakabayashi, Fumitaka Kimura, Mie University, Japan

 

 

 [1114] - LAYOUT ANALYSIS OF HANDWRITTEN LETTERS BASED ON TEXTURAL AND SPATIAL INFORMATION AND A 2D

MARKOVIAN APPROACH

Mélanie Lemaitre, ULCO/LIL, France; Emmanuèle Grosicki, Edouard Geoffrois, DGA/CEP/GIP, France; Françoise Prêteux,

TELECOM Sud Paris/Dpt Artemis, France

 

 SESSION S2.4: Applications

 Date: August 20, 2008

 Time: 16:00 - 17:00

 Location: J.A. De Sève Ampitheatre

 

 16:00 

 [1071] - GENERATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SYNTHETIC HANDWRITTEN CAPTCHAS

Achint Thomas, Venu Govindaraju, CEDAR, CUBS, United States

 

 16:20 

 [1095] - TRACING OF HANDWRITING ON PRINTED DOCUMENT BY VIDEO CAMERA

Jae-Hyun Seok, KAIST, South Korea; Simon Levasseur, University of Technologies of Belfort-Montbéliard, France; Kee-Eung Kim, Jin Hyung Kim,

KAIST, South Korea

 

 16:40 

 [1116] - LINE-MEMBERS - A NOVEL FEATURE IN ON-LINE WHITEBOARD NOTE RECOGNITION

Joachim Schenk, Johannes Lenz, Gerhard Rigoll, TU München, Germany

 

 

Date: Thursday August 21, 2008

 

 SESSION KS2: Keynote Speech 2

 Date: August 21, 2008

 Time: 08:40 - 09:40

 Location: J.A. De Sève Ampitheatre

 

 SESSION S3.1: Writer Identification

 Date: August 21, 2008

 Time: 09:40 - 10:20

 Location: J.A. De Sève Ampitheatre

 

09:40

 [1070] - ONLINE WRITER IDENTIFICATION USING FUZZY C-MEANS CLUSTERING OF CHARACTER PROTOTYPES

Guo Xian Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Christian Viard-Gaudin, Ecole Polytechnique de l'universite de Nantes, France; Alex C. Kot, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

 

 10:00 

 [1135] - WRITER IDENTIFICATION THROUGH INFORMATION RETRIEVAL: THE ALLOGRAPH WEIGHT VECTOR

Ralph Niels, Franc Grootjen, Louis Vuurpijl, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Netherlands

 

 SESSION S3.2: Online Recognition

 Date: August 21, 2008

 Time: 10:40 - 12:00

 Location: J.A. De Sève Ampitheatre

 

 10:40 

 [1040] - A PROBABILISTIC METHOD FOR KEYWORD RETRIEVAL IN HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT IMAGES

Huaigu Cao, Anurag Bhardwaj, Venu Govindaraju, CUBS, University at Buffalo, United States

 

 11:00 

 [1056] - HAND-DRAWN ELECTRIC CIRCUIT DIAGRAM UNDERSTANDING USING 2D DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING

Guihuan Feng, Zhengxing Sun, Nanjing University, China; Christian Viard-Gaudin, Ecole Polytechnique de l'Université de Nantes, France

 

 11:20 

 [1065] - INCREMENTAL INTERPRETATION OF ON-LINE HAND-DRAWN STRUCTURED DOCUMENTS

Sébastien Macé, Eric Anquetil, IRISA - INSA, France

 

 11:40 

 [1156] - FEATURE DESYNCHRONIZATION IN ONLINE CHARACTER RECOGNITION

Seichi Uchida, Kazuya Niyagawa, Hiroaki Sakoe, Kyushu University, Japan

 

 SESSION S3.3: Classification / Decision Theory

 Date: August 21, 2008

 Time: 13:40 - 15:00

 Location: J.A. De Sève Ampitheatre

 

 13:40 

 [1099] - MODEL SELECTION WITH SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES

Trinh M. T. Do, Thierry Artières, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France

 

 14:00 

 [1136] - MODEL SELECTION FOR LS-SVM : APPLICATION TO HANDWRITING RECOGNITION

Mathias Adankon, Mohamed Cheriet, ETS, Canada

 

 14:20 

 [1158] - INTEGRATING PRIOR DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE INTO DISCRIMINATIVE LEARNING USING PHANTOM EXAMPLES

Shiau Hong Lim, Li-Lun Wang, Gerald DeJong, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States

 

 14:40 

 [1137] - PROTOTYPE INTEGRATION IN OFF-LINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION ADAPTATION

Gregory R. Ball, Sargur Srihari, Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition, United States

 

 SESSION PS.3: Poster Session III

 Date: August 21, 2008

 Time: 15:00 - 16:00

 Location: Concordia Library Building Atrium

 

 

 [1117] - HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFICATION OF HANDWRITTEN CHARACTERS BASED ON NOVEL STRUCTURAL FEATURES

Giorgos Vamvakas, Basilis Gatos, Stavros Perantonis, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece

 

 

 [1144] - ALLWRITE: THE FIRST INTERNET-BASED PLATFORM FOR ON-DEMAND BENCHMARKING HANDWRITING RECOGNITION SYSTEMS

Matthieu Carré, Françoise Prêteux, Benoît Le Bonhomme, TELECOM & Management SudParis / ARTEMIS, France

 

 

 [1148] - FAST ONLINE INCREMENTAL LEARNING WITH FEW EXAMPLES FOR ONLINE HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION

Abdullah Almaksour, Harold Mouchère, Eric Anquetil, IRISA/INSA de Rennes, France

 

 

 [1149] - A PRIORITY-DRIVEN GENERAL APPROACH OF SEGMENTATION-RECOGNITION OF CONNECTED SYMBOLS

Christophe Renaudin, Yann Ricquebourg, Jean Camillerapp, IRISA / INSA de Rennes, France

 

 

 [1151] - A NEW MULTIPURPOSE COMPREHENSIVE DATABASE FOR HANDWRITTEN DARI RECOGNITION

M. Ismail Shah, Javad Sadri, Ching Y. Suen, Nicola Nobile, CENPARMI, Concordia University, Canada

 

 

 [1153] - DETECTION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF CONTACT SHAPE FOR CALLIGRAPHY EDUCATION BY USING HORIZON VIEW CAMERA

Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Kensuke Tobitani, Gifu University, Japan

 

 

 [1159] - BIOMETRIC KEY GENERATION USING PSEUDO-SIGNATURES

Lucas Ballard, Johns Hopkins University, United States; Jin Chen, Daniel Lopresti, Lehigh University, United States; Fabian Monrose, Johns Hopkins University, United States

 

 

 [1160] - WRITER-INDEPENDENT OFFLINE RECOGNITION OF HANDWRITTEN ETHIOPIC CHARACTERS

Yaregal Assabie, Josef Bigun, Halmstad University, Sweden

 

 

 [1162] - 2D MARKOVIAN MODELS FOR DOCUMENT STRUCTURE ANALYSIS

Stéphane Nicolas, Thierry Paquet, Laurent Heutte, LITIS Laboratory, University of Rouen, France

 

 

 [1166] - A NOVEL COMPREHENSIVE DATABASE FOR ARABIC OFF-LINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION

Huda Alamri, Javad Sadri, Ching Y. Suen, Nicola Nobile, CENPARMI, Concordia University, Canada

 

 

 [1169] - DESIGNING AN OPTIMAL CLASSIFIER ENSEMBLE FOR ONLINE CHARACTER RECOGNITION USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS

Jitendra Kumar, Srinivasa Chakravarthy, IIT Madras, India

 

 

 [1143] - A BAYESIAN APPROACH TO OFF-LINE SIGNATURE VERIFICATION

Kamal Kuzhinjedathu, Harish Srinivasan, University at Buffalo, United States; Sargur Srihari, CEDAR, University at Buffalo, United States

 

 

 [1142] - CONTEXT SENSITIVE MATHEMATICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION

Elena Smirnova, Texas Instruments, Canada; Stephen M. Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada

 

 

 [1140] - A NEW SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM FOR ONLINE HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION IN PERSIAN SCRIPT

Sara Izadi, Mehdi Haji, Ching Y. Suen, CENPARMI, Canada

 

 

 [1118] - ON-LINE RECOGNITION OF HANDWRITTEN WHITEBOARD NOTES: A NOVEL APPROACH FOR SCRIPT LINE IDENTIFICATION AND NORMALIZATION

Joachim Schenk, Johannes Lenz, Gerhard Rigoll, TU München, Germany

 

 

 [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, TU München, Germany

 

 

 [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, TU München, Germany

 

 

 [1124] - STUDY OF TEMPORAL VARIABILITY IN ON-LINE SIGNATURE VERIFICATION

Nicolas Ragot, Julie Fortune, LI Tours, France; Nicole Vincent, SIP /CRIP5, Paris 5, France; Hubert Cardot, LI Tours, France

 

 

 [1125] - FEATURE SELECTION AND MODEL DESIGN THROUGH GA APPLIED TO HANDWRITTEN DIGIT RECOGNITION FROM HISTORICAL DOCUMENT IMAGES

Elias R. Silva Jr, Adriano L. I. Oliveira, Wellington P. Santos, Carlos A. B. Mello, University of Pernambuco, Brazil; Cleber Zanchettin, George Cavalcanti, AiLeader Technologies, Brazil

 

 

 [1127] - OFF-LINE HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION BASED ON A BIDIMENSIONAL MARKOVIAN APPROACH WITH A LARGE VOCABULARY

Mélanie Lemaitre, ULCO/LIL, France; Emmanuèle Grosicki, Edouard Geoffrois, DGA/CEP/GIP, France; Françoise Prêteux, TELECOM Sud Paris/Dpt Artemis, France

 

 

 [1128] - RIMES EVALUATION CAMPAIGN FOR HANDWRITTEN MAIL PROCESSING

Emmanuèle Grosicki, DGA/CEP, France; Matthieu Carré, Telecom sudParis, France; jean-marie brodin, A2IA, France; Edouard Geoffrois, DGA/CEP, France

 

 

 [1129] - SHARING DIGITAL INK IN HETEROGENEOUS COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS

Birendra Keshari, University of Western Ontario, Canada; Sriganesh Madhvanath, Manoj Prasad, Muthuselvam Selvaraj, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, India; Stephen M. Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada

 

 

 [1133] - AN OBJECTIVE EVALUATION METHODOLOGY FOR HANDWRITTEN IMAGE DOCUMENT BINARIZATION TECHNIQUES

Konstantinos Ntirogiannis, Basilis Gatos, Ioannis Pratikakis, IIT/NCSR 'Demokritos', Greece

 

 

 [1139] - RELATIVE PATTERN RECOGNITION FOR NOISY HANDWRITTEN NUMERAL RECOGNITION

Hansheng Lei, The Univ of Texas at Brownsville, United States; Venu Govindaraju, The State Univ of New York at Buffalo, United States

 

 

 [1170] - BASELINE EXTRACTION: COMPARISON OF SIX METHODS ON IFN/ENIT DATABASE

Samia S. Maddouri, Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis (ENIT), Tunisia; Haikal El Abed, TU Braunschweig / Institute for Communications Technology (IfN), Germany; Fadoua Bouafif Samoud, Kaouthar Bouriel, Noureddine Ellouze, Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis (ENIT), Tunisia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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