September 23, 2007 (Sunday)                                                                      15:00-21:00

15:00

Pre-registration (on site, CTCH ground floor)

18:00 

Welcome Reception  (CCJS)

Welcome and Conference Address
Tuca Auditorium

September 24, 2007 (Monday)                                                                       09:00-10:00
Key Note I

Chair: Ching Y. Suen (CENPARMI, Canada)
Local: Tuca Auditorium

9:00

IAPR/ICDAR OutstandingAchievements Award
A View on the Past and Future of Character and Document Recognition
H. Fujisawa

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee Break (CTCH, 2nd floor)

September 24, 2007 (Monday)                                                                       10:30-12:30

Session A1: Handwriting Recognition (1)          

Chair: Volker Maergner (Technical University of Breaunschweig)               
Local: Alceu Amoroso Lima Auditorium

10:30

Using Hidden Markov Models as a Tool for Handwritten Text Line Segmentation
F. Lüthy, T. Varga, and H. Bunke

10:50

Character Stroke Extraction Based on B-spline Curve Matching by Constrained Alternating Optimization
X. Liu and Y. Jia

11:10

Non-Uniform Slant Correction for Handwritten Text Line Recognition
R. Bertolami, S. Uchida, M. Zimmermann, and H. Bunke

11:30

A Method of Annotation Extraction from Paper Documents Using Alignment Based on Local Arrangements of Feature Points
T. Nakai,  K. Kise, and M. Iwamura

11:50

Learning to Group Text Lines and Regions in Freeform Handwritten Notes
M. Ye, P. Viola, S. Raghupathy, H. Sutanto, and C. Li 

12:10

Character-Stroke Detection for Text-Localization and Extraction
K. Subramanian, P. Natarajan, M. Decerbo, and D. Castañón

September 24, 2007 (Monday)                                                                       10:30-12:30

Sessions A2: On-line Handwriting Recognition (1)

Chair: Guy Lorette (IRISA – Université de Rennes I)
Local: Maria Montessori Auditorium

10:30

Kernel Modified Quadratic Discriminant Function for Online Handwritten Chinese Characters Recognition
D. Yang and L. Jin

10:50

A Minimax Classification Approach to HMM-Based Online Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition Robust Against Affine Distortions
Q. Huo and T. He

11:10

Online Handwritten Japanese Character String Recognition Incorporating Geometric Context
X.-D. Zhou, J.-L. Yu, C.-L. Liu, T. Nagasaki, and K. Marukawa

11:30

Minimum Error Discriminative Training for Radical-based Online Chinese Handwriting Recognition
Y. Zhang, P. Liu, and F. Soong

11:50

Direction Code Based Features for Recognition of Online Handwritten Characters of Bangla
U. Bhattacharya, B. K. Gupta, and Swapan Parui

12:10

HMM-based Online Handwriting Recognition System for Telugu Symbols
V.Babu, L. Prasanth, R. Sharma, G.V. Rao, and  A. Bharath

September 24, 2007 (Monday)                                                                       10:30-12:30

Sessions A3: Document Retrieval 

Chair: Rolf Ingold (University of Fribourg)
Local: Thomas Morus Auditorium

10:30

A Fast Keyword-Spotting Technique
L. Li, S.J. Lu, and Chew-Lim Tan

10:50

Locality Sensitive Pseudo-Code for Document Images
K. Terasawa and Y. Tanaka

11:10

XML Data Representation in Document Image Analysis
A. Belaid, Y. Rangoni, and I. Falk

11:30

Language Models for Handwritten Short Message Services
E. Prochasson, C. Viard-Gaudin, and E. Morin

11:50

Vector Model Based Indexing and Retrieval of Handwritten Medical Forms
H. Cao and V. Govindaraju

12:10

Document Content Inventory and Retrieval
H. Baird and M. Moll

12:30-14:00

Lunch (CCJS) / ICDAR 2009 Executives Meeting

September 24, 2007 (Monday)                                                                      14:00-16:00

Poster Session I

Local: hall of the CTCH (2nd floor)

PS1-1

Strategies for Large Handwritten Farsi/Arabic Lexicon Reduction
S. Mozaffari , K. Faez, V. Maergner, and H. El-Abed

PS1-2

Fusing Asynchronous Feature Streams for On-line Writer Identification
A. Schlapbach and H. Bunke

PS1-3

Writer Identification in Handwritten Documents
I. Siddiqi and N. Vincent

PS1-4

Robust Document Warping with Interpolated Vector Fields
D. Schneider, M. Block, and  R.Rojas

PS1-5

Simultaneous Layout Style and Logical Entity Recognition in a Heterogeneous Collection of Documents
S. N.  Chen, S. Mao, and G. Thoma

PS1-6

Learning of Pattern-Based Rules for Document Classification
A. Dengel

PS1-7

A MSD-HMM Approach to Pen Trajectory Modeling for Online Handwriting Recognition
L. Ma, F. Soong, P. Liu, and Y.-J.  Wu

PS1-8

HMM-Based Recognizer with Segmentation-free Strategy for Unconstrained Chinese Handwritten Text
T.-H. Su, T.-W. Zhang, H.-J. Huang, and Y. Zhou

PS1-9

Text Line Segmentation of Historical Arabic documents
A. Zahour, L. Likforman-Sulem, W. Boussellaa, and B. Taconet

PS1-10

Document Images Retrieval Based on Multiple Features Combination
G. Meng, N. Zheng, Y. Song, and Y. Zhang

PS1-11

How to Reduce the Size of Bank Check Image Archive?
V. Shapiro

PS1-12

A Human-Centric Off-Line Signature Verification System
H. Coetzer and R. Sabourin

PS1-13

A Model Based Book Dewarping Method To Handle 2D Images Captured by a Digital Camera
M. Wu, R. Li, B. Fu,  W. Li , and Z. Xu

PS1-14

Ink Annotations and their Anchoring in Heterogeneous Digital Documents
X. Wang and S. Raghupathy

PS1-15

A Method for the Synthesis of Dynamic Biometric Signature Data
C. Rabasse, R. Guest, and M. Fairhurst

PS1-16

Recognition of broken characters from historical printed books using Dynamic Bayesian Networks
L. Likforman-Sulem and M. Sigelle

PS1-17

An Efficient Word Segmentation Technique for Historical and Degraded Machine-Printed Documents
M. Makridis,  N. Nikolaou, and B. Gatos

PS1-18

Circular Noises Removal from Scanned Document Images
G. Meng, N. Zheng,  Y. Zhang, and Y. Song

PS1-19

Automatic Extraction of Data from 2-D Plots in Documents
X. Lu, J. Wang, P. Mitra, and C. L. Giles

PS1-20

An Efficient Thresholding Algorithm for Brazilian Bank Checks
C. Mello, B. Bezerra, C. Zanchettin, and V. Macário

PS1-21

Recognition of Fragmented Characters Using Multiple Feature-Subset Classifiers
C.-H. Chou, C.-Y. Guo, and F. Chang

PS1-22

Web Document Parsing: A New Approach to Modeling Layout-Language Relations
M. Yoshida and H. Nakagawa

PS1-23

Cryptogram Decoding for OCR using Numerization Strings
G. Huang, E. Learned-Miller, and A. McCallum

PS1-24

Knowledge-based recognition of utility map sub-diagrams
S. Hickinbotham and A. Cohn

PS1-25

Synthesis of Chinese Character Using Affine Transformation
L. Jin and X. Zu

PS1-26

Adaptive Window Based Uneven Lighting Document Segmentation
G. Gu and W. Han

PS1-27

A review of shape descriptors for document analysis
O. R. Terrades, S. Tabbone, and E.Valveny

PS1-28

A High Performance European OCR System
K. Wang and Q. Wang

PS1-29

Automatic Detection of Document Script and Orientation
S.J. Lu and C.-L.Tan

PS1-30

Dynamic handwritten keyword spotting based on the NSHP-HMM
Ch. Choisy

PS1-31

Contribution of multiresolution description for archive document structure recognition
A. Lemaitre, J. Camillerapp, and B. Coüasnon

PS1-32

Iterated Document Content Classification
C. An,  H. Baird, and P.  Xiu

PS1-33

Human Image Preference and Document Degradation Models
C. Hale and E. Barney-Smith

PS1-34

Text and Layout Information Extraction from Document Files of Various Formats Based on the Analysis of Page Description Language
T. Hirano, Y. Okano, Y. Okada, and F. Yoda

PS1-35

Curved paper rectification for digital camera document images by shape from parallel geodesics using continuous dynamic programming
K. Fujimoto, J. Sun, H. Takebe, M. Suwa, and S. Naoi

PS1-36

Annotated Databases for the Recognition of Screen-Rendered Text
S. Wachenfeld, H.-U. Klein, and X. Jiang

PS1-37

An EM Based Algorithm for Skew Detection
A. Egozi and I. Dinstein

PS1-38

Automatic writer identification based on a velocity profile approach to processing of difficult handwriting styles
J. Chapran and M. Fairhurst

PS1-39

A Novel Binarization System for Degraded Document Images
Y. Xi, Y. Chen, Q. Liao, L. Winghong, F. Shunming, and D. Jiangwen

PS1-40

A Suffix Tree Based Handwritten Chinese Address Recognition System
Y. Jiang, X. Ding, and Z. Ren

PS1-41

Language-Based Feature Extraction Using Template Matching In Farsi/Arabic Handwritten Numeral Recognition
M. Ziaratban, K. Faez, and F. Faradji

PS1-42

Recognition of Character Strings in Low-quality Images Using Character and Inter-character Space Patterns
H. Ishida, T. Takahashi, I. Ide, and H. Murase

PS1-43

Locating Charts from Scanned Document Pages
W. Huang and C.-L. Tan

PS1-44

Binarization of Badly Illuminated Document Images through Shading Estimation and Compensation
S. J. Lu and C. L. Tan

PS1-45

A Multi-stream Approach to Off-Line Handwritten Word Recognition
Y. Kessentini, T. Paquet, and A. Benhamadou

PS1-46

Finger-Written Chinese Characters Recognition using Hierarchical LDA
D. Yang, L. Jin, L.-X. Zhen, and J.-C. Huang

PS1-47

A case based reasoning approach for invoice structure extraction
H. Hamza, Y. Belaid, and A. Belaid

PS1-48

An Approach to Improve Accuracy Rate of On-line Signature Verification Systems of Different Sizes
R. Araujo, G. Cavalcanti, and E. Filho

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break (CTCH, 2nd floor)

September 24, 2007 (Monday)                                                                       16:00-16:40
Key Note II

Chair: David Doermann (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
Local: Tuca Auditorium

16:00

Energy-Based Learning in Document Recognition and Computer Vision
Yann LeCun, S. Chopra, M. Ranzato, and F.-J. Huang

September 24, 2007 (Monday)                                                                      16:50-18:30

Session B1: Handwriting Recognition (2)          

Chair: Horst Bunke (University of Bern)                                                       
Local: Alceu Amoroso Lima Auditorium

16:50

Learning Handwritten Digit Recognition by the Max-Min Posterior Pseudo-Probabilities Method
X. Chen, X. Liu, and Y. Jia

17:10

Transform-Invariance in Local Averaging Classifier for Handwritten Digit Pattern Recognition
S. Hotta

17:30

Identification of Latin-based Languages through Character Stroke Categorization
S. J. Lu, L. Li, and C.-L. Tan

17:50

Layout Analysis of Handwritten Historical Documents for Searching the Archive of the Cabinet of the Dutch Queen
M. Bulacu, R. van Koert, L. Schomaker, and T. van der Zant

18:10

Indexing Historical Documents by Word Shape Signatures
J. Lladós and G. Sanchez

September 24, 2007 (Monday)                                                                      16:50-18:30

Session B2: On-line Handwriting Recognition (2)          

Chair: Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri (Indian Statistical Institute)
Local: Maria Montessori Auditorium

16:50

A Novel Approach to On-Line Handwriting Recognition Based on Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Networks
M. Liwicki, A. Graves, H. Bunke, and J. Schmidhuber

17:10

Combining On-Line and Off-Line Systems for Handwriting Recognition
M. Liwicki and H. Bunke

17:30

Text/Non-text Ink Stroke Classification in Japanese Handwriting Based on Markov Random Fields
X.-D. Zhou and C.-L. Liu

17:50

Use of a confusion network to detect and correct errors in an on-line handwritten sentence recognition system
S. Quiniou and E. Anquetil

18:10

Redundant Bit Vectors for Robust Indexing and Retrieval of Electronic Ink
K. Chellapilla and J. Platt

September 24, 2007 (Monday)                                                                      16:50-18:30

Session B3: Page Segmentation          

Chair: Andreas Dengel (University of Kaiserslautern)
Local: Thomas Morus Auditorium

16:50

Robust Page Segmentation Based on Smearing and Error Correction Unifying Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches
H. Cao, R. Prasad, P. Natarajan, and E. MacRostie

17:10

Decompose Document Image Using Integer Linear Programming
D. Gao, Y. Wang, H. Hindi, and M. Do

17:30

Character Line Segmentation Based on Feature Clustering
Y. Xi, Y. Chen, Q. Liao, L. Winghong, F. Shunming, and D. Jiangwen

17:50

Document Image Segmentation Using a 2D Conditional Random Field Model
S. Nicolas, J. Dardenne, T. Paquet, and L. Heutte

18:10

Text Segmentation from Complex Background Using Sparse Representations
W. Pan, T. Bui, and C. Suen

19:00

IJDAR Board Meeting, Grand Hotel Rayon

Session C1: Classifier          

Chair: Umapada Pal (Indian Statistical Institute)
Local: Alceu Amoroso Lima Auditorium

8:30

Exploiting Fisher Kernels in Decoding Severely Noisy Document Images
J. Chen and Y. Wang

 8:50

K-Nearest Oracle for Dynamic Ensemble Selection
A.H.-R. Ko, R. Sabourin, and A. Britto Jr

9:10

Multi-Objective Optimization for SVM Model Selection
C. Chatelain, S. Adam, Y. Lecourtier, L. Heutte, and T. Paquet

9:30

A Classifier of Similar Characters using Compound Mahalanobis Function based on Difference Subspace
J. Hirayama, H. Nakayama, and N. Kato

9:50

Extraction of Embedded Class Information from Universal Character Pattern
S. Uchida, M. Sakai, M. Iwamura, S. Omachi, and K. Kise

September 25, 2007 (Tuesday)                                                                       8:30-10:10

Session C2: On-line Handwriting Applications          

Chair: Christian Viard Gaudin (University of Nantes)
Local: Maria Montessori Auditorium

8:30

Context-Driven Constraint Multiset Grammars with Incremental Parsing for On-line Structured Document Interpretation
S. Macé and E. Anquetil

 8:50

On-Line Handwritten Text Line Detection Using Dynamic Programming
M. Liwicki, E. Indermühle, and H. Bunke

9:10

An Incremental On-line Parsing Algorithm for Recognizing Sketching Diagrams
J. Mas, G. Sanchez, J. Lladós, and B. Lamiroy

9:30

New Aspects of InkML for Pen-Based Computing
S. Watt

9:50

Fréchet Distance Based Approach for Searching Online Handwritten Documents
E. Sriraghavendra, Karthik K., and C. Bhattacharyya

September 25, 2007 (Tuesday)                                                                        8:30-10:10

Session C3: Color Analysis and Performance Evaluation        

Chair: Henry Baird (Lehigh University)
Local: Thomas Morus Auditorium

8:30

Color Document Synthesis as a Compression Strategy
J. Marcelo Silva and R. Lins

 8:50

Fast Selection of Small and Precise Candidate Sets from Dictionaries for Text Correction Tasks
K. Schulz, S. Mihov, and P. Mitankin

9:10

Automatic Ground-truth Generation for Document Image Analysis and Understanding
P. Héroux, E. Barbu, S. Adam, and E. Trupin

9:30

New Metrics for Evaluating Performance in Document Analysis Tasks – Application to the Table Case
A. C. e Silva

9:50

Identification of non-black inks using HSV colour space
H. Dasari and C. Bhagvati

10:10-10:40

Coffee Break (CTCH, 2nd floor)

September 25, 2007 (Tuesday)                                                                      10:40-12:20

Session D1: Asian Character Recognition        

Chair: Young-Bin Kwon (Chung-Ang University)
Local: Alceu Amoroso Lima Auditorium

10:40

Curvelet-based Multi SVM Recognizer for Off-line Handwritten Bangla: A Major Indian Script
A. Majumdar and B. B. Chaudhuri

 11:00

Off-Line Handwritten Character Recognition of Devnagari Script
U. Pal, N. Sharma, T. Wakabayashi, and F.Kimura

11:20

Modular Approach to Recognition of Strokes in Telugu Script
A. Jayaraman, C. C. Selhar, and V. S. Chakravarthy

11:40

Hidden Markov Models for Online Handwritten Tamil Word Recognition
Bharath. A and S. Madhvanath

12:00

A Two Stage Recognition Scheme for Handwritten Tamil Characters
U. Bhattacharya, S. K. Ghosh, and S. Parui

September 25, 2007 (Tuesday)                                                                      10:40-12:20

Session D2: Graphics Recognition        

Chair: Josep Lladós (Computer Vision Center, Barcelona)
Local: Maria Montessori Auditorium

10:40

A New Syntactic Approach to Graphic Symbol Recognition
Y. Yu, W. Zhang, and W. Liu

 11:00

Extraction of Vectorized Graphical Information from Scientific Chart Images
W. Huang, R. Liu, and C.-L. Tan

11:20

Robust Circle Detection
B. Lamiroy, L. Fritz, and Olivier Gaucher

11:40

Toponym Recognition in Scanned Color Topographic Maps
J. Pouderoux, J.-C. Gonzato, A. Pereira, and P. Guitton

12:00

A New Vectorial Signature for Quick Symbol Indexing, Filtering and Recognition
W. Zhang and W. Liu

September 25, 2007 (Tuesday)                                                                      10:40-12:20

Session D3: Image Preprocessing and Image Classification         

Chair:  Laurent Heutte (University of Rouen)
Local: Thomas Morus Auditorium

10:40

PDE-based Enhancement of Low Quality Documents
I. Nwogu, Z. Shi, and V. Govindaraju

 11:00

Non-Local Text Image Reconstruction
H. Luong and W. Philips

11:20

SVM Based Scheme for Thai and English Script Identification
S. Chanda, O. R. Terrades, and U. Pal

11:40

A Hybrid System for Robust Recognition of Ethiopic Script
Y.l . Assabie and J. Bigun

12:00

WEB Image Classification Based on the Fusion of Image and Text Classifiers
P. Kalva,  F. Enembreck, and A. Koerich

12:30-14:00

Lunch (CCJS) / TC10 – TC11 Meeting

September 25, 2007 (Tuesday)                                                                      14:00-16:00

Poster Session II

Local: hall of the CTCH (2nd floor)

PS2-1

Assessing and Improving the Quality of Document Images Acquired with Portable Digital Cameras
R. Lins, A. R. Gomes e Silva, and G. P. e Silva

PS2-2

A Multi-stage Strategy to Perspective Rectification for Mobile Phone Camera-Based Document Images
X. C. Yin, J. Sun, S. Naoi,  K. Fujimoto, Y. Fujii, K. Kurokawa, and H.Takebe

PS2-3

Degraded Character Recognition by Complementary Classifiers Combination
J. Sun, K. Huang, Y. Hotta, K. Fujimoto, and S. Naoi

PS2-4

Middle Zone Component Extraction and Recognition of Telugu Document Image
Pratap Reddy L., Satyaprasad L., and A.S.C.S. Sastry

PS2-5

An SVM-Based High-accurate Recognition Approach for Handwritten Numerals by Using Difference Features
K. Huang, J. Sun, Y. Hotta, K. Fujimoto, and S. Naoi

PS2-6

Retrieval of Handwritten Lines in Historical Documents
L. Schomaker

PS2-7

Text Line Detection in Unconstrained Handwritten Documents Using a Block-Based Hough Transform Approach
G. Louloudis, B. Gatos, and C. Halatsis

PS2-8

Systematic Multi-Path HMM Topology Design for Online Handwriting Recognition of East Asian Characters
S. Han, M. Chang, Y. Zou, X. Chen, and D. Zhang

PS2-9

Bibliographic Meta-Data Extraction Using Probabilistic Finite State Transducers
M. Kraemer,  H. Kaprykowsky,  D. Keysers, and T. Breuel

PS2-10

Perceptive Vision for Headline Localisation in Bangla Handwritten Text Recognition
A. Lemaitre, B. B.Chaudhuri, and B. Coüasnon

PS2-11

Segmentation of Text and Graphics from Document Images
S. Chowdhury, S. Mandal,  A. Das, and B. Chanda

PS2-12

Layout Based Information Extraction from HTML Documents
R. Burget

PS2-13

An overview of the Tesseract OCR Engine
R. Smith

PS2-14

Symbol Recognition using a 2-class Hierarchical Model of Choquet Integrals
L. Wendling and J. Rendek

PS2-15

Deriving Symbol Dependent Edit Weights for Text Correction - The Use of Error Dictionaries
Ch. Ringlstetter, U. Reffle, A. Gotscharek, and K. Schulz

PS2-16

Arabic Handwriting Recognition Using Variable Duration HMM
A. Kundu, T. Hines, B. Huyck, J. Phillips, and L. Van Guilder

PS2-17

Curvelets based queries for CBIR Application in handwriting collections
G. Joutel, V. Eglin, S.  Bres, and H. Emptoz

PS2-18

Two Approaches for Arabic Script Recognition-based Segmentation using the Hough Transform
S. Touj, N. Ben Amara, and H. Amiri

PS2-19

A General Method of Segmentation-Recognition Collaboration Applied to Pairs of Touching and Overlapping Symbols
C. Renaudin,  Y. Ricquebourg, and J. Camillerapp

PS2-20

Extracting "Carbon Copy" Names and Organizations from a Heterogeneous Document Collection
K. Taghva, R. Beckley,  and J. Coombs

PS2-21

An Analytic Word Recognition Algorithm Using a Posteriori Probability
T. Hamamura, T.  Akagi, and B. Irie

PS2-22

Predictive DP Matching for On-Line Character Recognition
D. Baba, S.  Uchida, and H. Sakoe

PS2-23

Matching Local Descriptors for Image Identification on Cultural Databases
E. Valle, M. Cord, and S.Philipp-Foliguet

PS2-24

Fast and Accurate Detection of Document Skew and Orientation
S. J.  Lu, J.Wang, and C. L. Tan

PS2-25

Information Management System Using Structure Analysis of Paper/Electronic Documents and Its Applications
M. Seki, M. Fujio, T. Nagasaki, H. Shinjo, and K. Marukawa

PS2-26

Mathpad: A Fuzzy Logic-Based Recognition System for Handwritten Mathematics
J. Fitzgerald, F. Geiselbrechtinger, and T. Kechadi

PS2-27

Patra: A novel document architecture for integrating handwriting with audio-visual information
G. Harit, V. Mankar, and S. Chaudhury

PS2-28

Integrated Segmentation and Recognition of Mixed Chinese/English Document
Y. Xia, B.-H. Xiao, C.-H. Wang, and R.-W. Dai

PS2-29

Appearance Based Models in Document Script Identification
T. N. Vikram  and D.S. Guru

PS2-30

Logical Structure Analysis for Form Images with Arbitrary Layout by Belief Propagation
A. Minagawa, Y. Fujii , H. Takebe, and K. Fujimoto

PS2-31

An automatic mathematical expression understanding system
Y. Guo, L. Huang, C. Liu, and X. Jiang

PS2-32

Modified Dynamic Time Warping for Stroke-based On-line Signature Verification
W. Chang and J. Shin

PS2-33

On the Use of Context-Dependent Modeling Units for HMM-Based Offline Handwriting Recognition
G. Fink and T. Plötz

PS2-34

Off-line Signature Verification Using Enhanced Modified Direction Features in Conjunction with Neural Classifiers and Support Vector Machines
V. Nguyen, M. Blumenstein, V. Muthukkumarasamy, and G. Leedham

PS2-35

A Multi-Agent System for Hand-drawn Diagram Recognition
G. Casella, V.  Deufemia, and V. Mascardi

PS2-36

Enhancement of Old Manuscript Images
A. Gupta, S. Kumar, R.  Gupta, S. Chaudhury, and S. Joshi

PS2-37

Handwritten Numeral Recognition of Six Popular Indian Scripts
U. Pal, N. Sharma, T. Wakabayashi, and F. Kimura

PS2-38

Text Input System using Online Overlapped Handwriting Recognition for Mobile Devices
Y. Tonouchi and A. Kawamura

PS2-39

Machine Dating of Handwritten Manuscripts
U. Garain, S. Parui, T. Paquet, and L. Heutte

PS2-40

Off-line Handwritten Signature GPDS-960 Corpus
F. Vargas, M. A. Ferrer, C. Travieso, and J. B. Alonso

PS2-41

Text-Independent Writer Identification and Verification on Offline Arabic Handwriting
M. Bulacu, L. Schomaker, and A. Brink

PS2-42

A New Physically Motivated Warping Model for Form Drop-Out
G. Rosman, A. Tzadok, and D. Tal

PS2-43

Global Contour Lines Reconstruction in Topographic Maps
J. Pouderoux and S. Spinello

PS2-44

Combination of OCR Engines for Page Segmentation Based on Performance Evaluation
M. Ferrer and E. Valveny

PS2-45

An Indexing Method for Graphical Documents
S. Tabbone and D. Zuwala

PS2-46

Document processing via trained morphological operators
N. Hirata

PS2-47

Content-level Annotation of Large Collection of Printed Document Images
A. Kumar and C. V. Jawahar

PS2-48

Bibliographic Attributes Extraction with Layer-upon-Layer Tagging
W. Wei, I. King and J. H-M. Lee

PS2-49

Guido: a Musical Score Recognition System
M. Szwoch

PS2-50

A coupled Mean Shift-Anisotropic Diffusion Approach for Document Image Segmentation and Restoration
F. Drira, F. LeBourgeois, and H. Emptoz

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break (CTCH, 2nd floor)

September 25, 2007 (Tuesday)                                                                      16:00-16:40
Key Note III

Chair: Hirochimi Fujisawa (Hitachi, Japan)
Local: Tuca Auditorium

16:00

Google Book Search: Document Understanding on a Massive Scale
Luc Vincent

September 25, 2007 (Tuesday)                                                                      16:50-18:30

Session E1: Writer Identification and Verification          

Chair: Thiery Paquet (University of Rouen)
Local: Alceu Amoroso Lima Auditorium

16:50

Towards Explainable Writer Verification and Identification Using Vantage Writers
A. Brink, L.Schomaker, and M. Bulacu

17:10

A New Method for Writer Identification and Verification Based on Farsi/Arabic Handwritten Texts
F. S. Nejad and M. Rahmati

17:30

Off-line Signature Verification System Performance Against Image Acquisition Resolution
F. Vargas, M. A. Ferre, C. Travieso, and J. B. Alonso

17:50

Writer Identification using Steered Hermite Features and SVM
A. Imdad, S. Bres, V. Eglin, C. Rivero-Moreno, and H. Emptoz

18:10

On Computing Strength of Evidence for Writer Verification
H. Srinivasan, S. Kabra , C. Huang, and S. Srihari

September 25, 2007 (Tuesday)                                                                      16:50-18:30

Session E2: Symbol Recognition          

Chair: Garain Utpal (Indian Statistical Institute)
Local: Maria Montessori Auditorium

16:50

Mathematical Formulae Recognition using 2D Grammars
D. Prusa and V.Hlavac

17:10

A Unified Framework for Symbol Segmentation and Recognition of Handwritten Mathematical Expressions
Y. Shi, H. Li, and F. Soong

17:30

Hybrid Mathematical Symbol Recognition Using Support Vector Machines
B. Keshari and S. Watt

17:50

Automatic Document Logo Detection
G. Zhu and D. Doermann

18:10

A Bayesian Network Approach to Mode Detection for Interactive Maps
D. Willems and L. Vuurpijl

September 25, 2007 (Tuesday)                                                                      16:50-18:30

Session E3: Camera and Video Applications          

Chair: Sagur Srihari (CEDAR)
Local: Thomas Morus Auditorium

16:50

Robust Binarization for Video Text Recognition
Z. Saidane and C. Garcia

17:10

A Parametric Spectral-based Method for Verification of Text in Videos
V. Papavassiliou, T. Stafylakis, V. Katsouros, and G. Carayannis

17:30

Camera-Based Graphical Symbol Detection
M. Rusiñol,  J. Lladós, and P. Dosch

17:50

A Weighted Finite-State Framework for Correcting Errors in Natural Scene OCR
R. Beaufort and C. Mancas-Thillou

18:10

Exploiting Videotext “Events” for Improved Videotext Detection
H. Aradhye and G. Myers

20:00

Banquet (IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award,  TC10-TC11 Announcements and Social Activities)

Local: Barigui Park (Maggiore Restaurant)

Session F1: Chinese Handwriting Recognition          

Chair: Chew Lim Tan (National University of Singapore)
Local: Alceu Amoroso Lima Auditorium

9:00

Skew Detection for Chinese Handwriting by Horizontal Stroke Histogram
T.-H. Su, T.-W. Zhang, H.-J. Huang, and Y. Zhou

9:20

LDA-Based Compound Distance for Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition
T.-F. Gao and C.-L. Liu

9:40

Building Compact MQDF Classifier for Off-line Handwritten Chinese Characters by Subspace Distribution Sharing
T. Long and L.-W. Jin

10:00

Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition Using Modified LDA and Kernel FDA
D. Yang and L. Jin

September 26, 2007 (Wednesday)                                                                  9:00-10:20

Session F2: Layout Analysis          

Chair: Daniel Lopresti (Lehigh University)
Local: Maria Montessori Auditorium

9:00

Example-Based Logical Labeling of Document Title Page Images
J. van Beusekom, D. Keysers, F. Shafait, and T. Breuel

9:20

A Data Mining Approach to Reading Order Detection
M. Ceci, M. Berardi, G. Porcelli, and D. Malerba

9:40

A General Approach for Partitioning Web Page Content Based on Geometric and Style Information
H. Guo, J. Mahmud, Y. Borodin, A. Stent, and I. Ramakrishnan

10:00

Searching for Tables in Digital Documents
Y. Liu, K. Bai, P. Mitra, and C. L. Giles

September 26, 2007 (Wednesday)                                                                  9:00-10:20

Session F3: Applications (1)          

Chair: Lambert Shomaker (University of Groningen)
Local: Thomas Morus Auditorium

9:00

A Pen-Based Interface for Real-Time Document Edition
J. Rodriguez, G. Sanchez, and J. Lladós

9:20

Computer Assisted Transcription of Handwritten Text Images
A. Toselli, V. Romero, L. Rodríguez, and E. Vidal

9:40

A Method for Image Local-Difference Visualization
E. Baudrier and A. Riffaud

10:00

iGesture: A General Gesture Recognition Framework
B. Signer, U. Kurmann, and M. Norrie

10:20-10:50

Coffee Break (CTCH, 2nd floor)

September 26, 2007 (Wednesday)                                                                 10:50-12:10

Session G1: Arabic Recognition          

Chair: Venu Govindaraju (CEDAR)
Local: Alceu Amoroso Lima Auditorium

10:50

Combination of HMM-Based Classifiers for the Recognition of Arabic Handwritten Words
R. Al-hajj, C. Mokbel, and L. Likforman-Sulem

11:10

A Hybrid Approach for Off-line Arabic Handwriting Recognition Based on a Planar Hidden Markov Modeling
S. Touj, N. Ben Amara, and H. Amiri

11:30

Shape-based Alphabet for Off-line Arabic Handwriting Recognition
F. Menasri, N. Vincent, M. Cheriet, and E. Augustin

11:50

Comparison of Different Preprocessing and Feature Extraction Methods for Offline Recognition of Handwritten Arabic Words
H. El-Abed and V. Maergner

September 26, 2007 (Wednesday)                                                                10:50-12:10

Session G2: Camera-based Systems

Chair: Alessandro Koerich (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná)
Local: Maria Montessori Auditorium

10:50

Fast Lexicon-Based Scene Text Recognition with Sparse Belief Propagation
J. Weinman, E. Learned-Miller, and A. Hanson

11:10

Removing Shading Distortions in Camera-based Document Images Using Inpainting and Surface Fitting With Radial Basis Functions
L. Zhang, A. Yip, and C.-L. Tan

11:30

Segmentation Based Recovery of Arbitrarily Warped Document Images
B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis, and K. Ntirogiannis

11:50

Keyword Spotting and Retrieval of Document Images Captured by a Digital Camera
S. Lu and C.-L. Tan

September 26, 2007 (Wednesday)                                                                 10:50-11:50

Session G3: Applications (2)           

Chair: Apostolos Antonacopoulos (University of Salford)
Local: Thomas Morus Auditorium

10:50

Spoken Handwriting Verification using Statistical Models
A. Humm, R. Ingold, and J. Hennebert

11:10

An Embedded OCR Software Architecture for Enhancing Portability
S. Kim, J. Park, and Y.-B. Kwon

11:30

Generating Copybooks from Consistent Handwriting Styles
R. Niels and L. Vuurpijl

12:30-14:00

Lunch (CCJS) / DAS2008 & ICFHR2008 Meetings

September 26, 2007 (Wednesday)                                                                14:00-16:00

Poster Session III

Local: hall of the CTCH (2nd floor)

PS3-1

A Feature based on Encoding the Relative Position of a Point in the Character for Online Handwritten Character Recognition
Dinesh  M. and M. Sridhar

PS3-2

Implementation of Contents Analysis System for Recognition of Journals' Table of Contents
Y. B. Kwon and J. Park

PS3-3

Preliminary experiments in layout analysis of handwritten letters based on textural and spatial information and a 2D Markovian approach
M. Lemaitre, E. Grosicki, E. Geoffrois, and F. Preteux

PS3-4

Elastic Matching of Online Handwritten Tamil and Telugu Scripts Using Local Features
L. Prasanth, V. Babu, R. Sharma, G.V. Rao, and Dinesh M.

PS3-5

Usage-Oriented Performance Evaluation for Text Localization Algorithms
Y. Ma, C. Wang, B. Xiao, and R. Dai

PS3-6

An Effective and Practical Classifier Fusion Strategy for Improving Handwritten Character Recognition
Q. Fu, X. Ding, T.Li, and C. Liu

PS3-7

Using Random Forests for Handwritten Digit Recognition
S. Bernard, S. Adam, and L. Heutte

PS3-8

An Approach for Multifont Arabic Characters Features Extraction based on Contourlet Transform
N. Ben Amor and N. Ben Amara

PS3-9

A Proposition of Retrieval tools for Historical Document Images Libraries
N. Journet, J.-Y.  Ramel, R. Mullot, and V. Eglin

PS3-10

PRAAD: Preprocessing and Analysis Tool for Arabic Ancient Documents
W. Boussellaa, A. Zahour, B. Taconet, A. Alimi, and A. Benabdelhafid

PS3-11

The hOCR Microformat for OCR Workflow and Results
T. Breuel

PS3-12

OCR Accuracy Improvement through a PDE Based Approach
F. Drira, F. LeBourgeois, and H. Emptoz

PS3-13

An Efficient Feature Extraction and Dimensionality Reduction Scheme for Isolated Greek Handwritten Character Recognition
G. Vamvakas, B. Gatos, S. Petridis, and N. Stamatopoulos

PS3-14

Using Grammar-Based Recognizers for Symbol Completion in Diagrammatic Sketches
G. Costagliola, V. Deufemia, and M. Risi

PS3-15

A Visualization Tool to Improve the Performance of a Classifier Based on Hidden Markov Models
G. da Silva and M. Nakagawa

PS3-16

On the Use of Lexeme Features for Writer Verification
A. Bhardwaj, A. Singh, H. Srinivasan, and S.Srihari

PS3-17

Incremental Learning of First Order Logic Theories for the Automatic Annotations of Web Documents
F. Esposito, S. Ferilli, N. Di Mauro, and T. Basile

PS3-18

Handwritten Word Recognition using Conditional Random Fields
S. Shetty, H. Srinivasan, and S.Srihari

PS3-19

Three decision levels strategy for Arabic and Latin texts differentiation in printed and handwritten natures
M. Ben Jlaiel,  S. Kanoun, A. Alimi, and R.Mullot

PS3-20

Neural Network for the Recognition of Handwritten Tunisian City Names
I. Ben Cheikh and A. Kacem

PS3-21

On the Effects of Sampling Rate and Interpolation in HMM-based Dynamic Signature Verification
M. Martinez-Diaz, J. Fierrez, M. Freire, and J. Ortega-Garcia

PS3-22

Skeletonization by Gradient Regularization and Diffusion
F. LeBourgeois and H. Emptoz

PS3-23

Use of Legal Amount to Confirm or Correct the Courtesy Amount on Farsi Bank Checks
M. Ziaratban,  K. Faez, and M.Ezoji

PS3-24

A Colour Document Interpretation: Application to Ancient Cadastral Maps
R. Raveaux, J.-C. Burie, and J.-M. Ogier

PS3-25

Arabic Handwriting Texture Analysis for Writer Identification Using the DWT-Lifting Scheme
S. Gazzah and N. Ben Amara

PS3-26

Recognition, understanding and aestheticization of freehand drawing flowcharts
W. Szwoch

PS3-27

Table Recognition and Understanding from PDF Files
T.Hassan and R. Baumgartner

PS3-28

Ink Discrimination based on Co-occurrence Analysis of Visible and Infrared Images
V. Kokla, A. Psarrou, and V. Konstantinou

PS3-29

Segmentation of Very Low Resolution Screen-Rendered Text
S. Wachenfeld, S. Fleischer, H-U. Klein, and X. Jiang

PS3-30

Quantile Linear Algorithm for Robust Binarization of Digitalized Letters
M. Ramírez  E. Tapia, M. Block, and R.Rojas

PS3-31

A Shared Parts Model for Document Image Recognition
M. Das Gupta and P. Sarkar

PS3-32

Context-Sensitive Error Correction: Using Topic Models to Improve OCR
M. Wick, M. Ross, and E. Learned-Miller

PS3-33

On the applicability of off-line signatures to the fuzzy vault construction
M. Freire, J. Fierrez, M. Martinez-Diaz, and J. Ortega-Garcia

PS3-34

Autonomous Text Capturing Robot Using Improved DCT Feature and Text Tracking
M. Tanaka and H. Goto

PS3-35

Aspects of Mathematical Expression Analysis in Arabic Handwriting
E. Smirnova and S. Watt

PS3-36

Online Handwritten Kanji Recognition Based on Inter-stroke Grammar
I. Ota, R. Yamamoto, S.  Sako, and S. Sagayama

PS3-37

Physical Structure Segmentation with Projection Profile for Mathematical Formulae and Graphics in Academic Paper Images
T-Y. Chang, Y. Takiguchi, and M. Okada

PS3-38

Representing and Characterizing Handwritten Mathematical Symbols Through Succinct Functional Approximation
B. Char and S. Watt

PS3-39

Extracting Features of Paper-made Objects Recognized from Origami Books Based on Design Knowledge
H. Shimanuki, J. Kato, and T. Watanabe

PS3-40

Word Image Based Latent Semantic Indexing for Conceptual Querying in Document Image Databases
S. Banerjee, G. Harit, and S. Chaudhury

PS3-41

A Sparse and Locally Shift Invariant Feature Extractor Applied to Document Images
M. A. Ranzato and Y. LeCun

PS3-42

A Novel Hierarchical Classification Scheme for Online Tamil Character Recognition
S. Sundaram and A. Ramakrishnan

PS3-43

Extraction of Arabic Words from Complex Color Images
R. Fathalla, Y. El Sonbaty, and M. Ismail

PS3-44

Image Pixel Force Fields and their Application for Color Map Vectorisation
V. Bucha, S. Ablameyko, and S.Uchida

PS3-45

New Strategy for the On-Line Handwriting Modelling
H. Boubaker, M. Kherallah, and A. Alimi

PS3-46

On Using Classical Poetry Structure for Indian Language Post-Processing
A. Namboodiri, P.J. Narayanan, and C. V. Jawahar

PS3-47

On Segmentation of Documents in Complex Scripts
K. S. Kuma, S. Kumar, and C. Jawahar

PS3-48

A Blind Indic Script Recognizer for Multi-script Documents
P.Pati and A. Ramakrishnan

PS3-49

Streaming-Archival InkML Conversion
B. Keshari and S. Watt

PS3-50

Performance Analysis Framework for Layout Analysis Methods
A. Antonacopoulos and D. Bridson

PS3-51

Unsupervised Newspaper Segmentation Using Language Context
R. Furmaniak

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break (CTCH, 2nd floor)  

September 26, 2007 (Wednesday)                                                                16:00-16:40
Key Note IV

Chair: Abdel Belaïd (LORIA-Nancy University, France)
Local: Tuca Auditorium

16:00

Advances in Writer Identification and Verification
L. Schomaker

September 26, 2007 (Wednesday)                                                                16:40-17:10

Competitions Report

Chair: Luiz Eduardo Soares de Oliveira (PUCPR, Brazil)
Local: Tuca Auditorium

16:40

ICDAR2007 - Arabic Handwriting Recognition Competition
V. Margner and H. El Abed

16:50

ICDAR2007 - Page Segmentation Competition
A. Antonacopoulos,  B. Gatos, and D. Bridson

17:00

ICDAR2007 - Handwriting Segmentation Contest
B. Gatos, A. Antonacopoulos, and N. Stamatopoulos

September 26, 2007 (Wednesday)                                                                17:10-18:00

Closing Session

Flavio Bortolozzi (OPET – Brazil) and Robert Sabourin (ETS Montreal - Canada)

                                          IAPR/ICDAR  Best Paper Award                
                                          IAPR/ICDAR  Best Student Paper Award                                                                            IAPR/ICDAR  Best Poster Award                                
                                          Closing Remarks

Local: Tuca Auditorium