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Intn'l Handwriting Recognition Wkshp - comp.sys.pen #1126
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sandeep Shah USSG)
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This is the info of the Handwriting recognistion workshop if anybody is
interested.
sandeep shah
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Organization: SUNY at Buffalo / Ctr for Document Analysis and Recog (CEDAR)
Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 18:00:54 GMT
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P R O G R A M
THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
on
FRONTIERS IN HANDWRITING RECOGNITION
Sponsored by
IAPR Technical Committee on Text Processing (TC-11)
Supported by
United States Postal Service
Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition
Monday, May 24, 1993
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4:00 pm - 8:00 pm Registration
Tuesday, May 25
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7am Registration
8:00 Welcome Aaron Bloch Provost, SUNY at Buffalo
Sargur N. Srihari Director, CEDAR, SUNY at Buffalo
** Session 1: Digit Recognition
Chair: Richard Casey
8:30 Recognition of Unconstrained Handwritten Numerals Based
on Dual Cooperative Neural Network
Sukhan Lee, Yeongwoo Choi University of Southern California, USA
9:00 An Optimal Method of Combining Multiple Experts for Hand-
written Numerical Recognition
Y.S. Huang, C.Y. Suen Concordia University, Canada
9:30 Automated Feature Generation for Handwritten Digit Recognition
by Neural Networks
Paul D. Gader, Mohamed Ali Khabou U. of Missouri-Columbia, USA
10:00 Break
** Session 2: Character Recognition
Chair: Shunji Mori
10:30 Refining Curvature Feature Extraction to Improve Handwriting Recognition
R. Legault, C.Y. Suen Concordia University, Canada
11:00 The Interpretation and Reconstruction of Interfering Strokes
D. S. Doermann, A. Rosenfeld U. of Maryland at College Park, USA
11:30 Off-Line Recognition of Large-set Handwritten Hangul (Kore-
an script) with Hidden Markov Models
H.S. Park, Seong-Whan Lee Chunbuk National University, Korea
12:00 A Model of Structural Pattern Transformation of Handwritten
Characters
Hirobumi Nishida, Shunji Mori Ricoh, Japan
12:30 Lunch University Inn and Conference Center
** Session 3: Word Recognition 1
Chair: Gilles Houle
2:00 Holistic Lexicon Reduction
Sriganesh Madhvanath, Venu Govindaraju SUNY at Buffalo, USA
2:30 An Alternative to Variable Duration HMM in Handwritten Word Recognition
Mou-Yen Chen, Amlan Kundu SUNY at Buffalo, USA
3:00 Handwritten Word Recognition Using Collective Learning
Systems Theory
G. Houle, C. Radelat, S. Resnick, P. Bock Arthur D. Little, Inc., USA
3:30 Break
** Session 4: Pictograms, Databases
Chair: Mindy Bokser
4:00 Approximate Matching of Hand-Drawn Pictograms
Daniel P. Lopresti, Andrew Tompkins MITL, USA
4:30 Concerns in Creation of Image Databases
Richard Fenrich, Jonathan Hull SUNY at Buffalo, USA
5:00 Database Panel: Chair: Jonathan Hull
Brief presentations by several organizations that handle large
databases. Baseline performance on the CEDAR CD-ROM will be discussed.
6:30 Reception Student Union, SUNY at Buffalo Amherst Campus
(Transportation from/to University Inn provided)
8:30 CEDAR Tour
Wednesday, May 26
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7:00 am Registration
8:00 Plenary Session
On the Robustness of Recognition of Degraded Line Images
Jean-Claude Simon A2IA, France
** Session 5: Word Recognition 2
Chair: Sebastiano Impedovo
9:00 Lexicon Directed Segmentation-Recognition Procedure for
Unconstrained Handwritten Words
F. Kimura, M. Shridhar, U. of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
N. Narasimhamurthi
9:30 An Off-Line Handwriting Recognition System Using Recurrent
Error Propagation Networks
Andrew Senior, F. Fallside University of Cambridge, UK
10:00 Break
** Session 6: Digit Recognition 2
Chair: Ching Suen
10:30 Using Mixtures of Deformable Models to Capture Variations
in Hand Printed Digits
M. Revow, C. K.I. Williams, G. E. Hinton Univ. of Toronto, Canada
11:00 Handprinted Digit Recognition: A Comparison of Algorithms
Dar-Shyang Lee, Sargur N. Srihari SUNY at Buffalo, USA
11:30 Handwritten Numeral Recognition Using LAT with Structural
Information
Toru Wakahara Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Japan
12:00 Pattern Recognition by Stochastic Modeling
Eugene M. Kleinberg, Tin Kam Ho SUNY at Buffalo/AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA
12:30 Lunch University Inn and Conference Center
** Session 7: Handwriting Interpretation Systems
Chair: Andrew Downton
2:00 Is Recognition and Interpretation of Handwritten Text A Scene
Analysis Problem?
G. Lorette, Y. Lecourtier University of Rennes, France
2:30 Interpretation of Handwritten Addresses in US Mail Stream
Venu Govindaraju, Ajay Shekhawat, SUNY at Buffalo, USA
Sargur N. Srihari
3:00 A Fuzzy Approach to Handwritten Address Verification
Hendrawan, A. C. Downton, C. G. Leedham University of Essex, UK
3:30 Break
4:00 Poster Session 1: Character Recognition
6:30 Workshop Dinner Marine Midland Tower, Buffalo
(Transportation provided)
Ray Morgan, Guest Speaker Manager of Advanced Research,
United States Postal Service
Thursday, May 27
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7:00 am Registration
** Session 8: On-Line Recognition 1
Chair: Rejean Plamondon
8:00 Description of On-Line Script Based on Hollerbach's Generation Model
G. H. Abbink, H. L. Teulings, University of Nijmegen,
L. R. B. Schomaker Netherlands
8:30 On-Line Handwriting Recognition Based Upon Continuous
Parameter Mixture Densities
Eveline J. Bellegarda, Jerome R. Bellegarda, IBM T.J. Watson Research
David Nahamoo, Krishna Nathan Center, USA
9:00 On-Line Unconstrained Handwriting Recognition by a Proba-
bilistic Method
Tetsu Fujisaki, Krishna Nathan, Wongyu Cho, IBM Research Division, USA
Homayoon Beigi
9:30 On-Line Handwritten Kanji Character Recognition Using Hypothesis
Generation in the Space of Hierarchical Knowledge
Kenji Ohmori Hosei University, Japan
10:00 Break
10:30 Poster Session 2: Word Recognition
12:30 Lunch University Inn and Conference Center
** Session 9: On-Line Recognition 2
Chair: Hans-Leo Teulings
2:00 Allograph Adjacency Constraints for Cursive Script Recognition
Marc Parizeau, Rejean Plamondon Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
2:30 A Signature Verification System Based on a Dynamical Segmentation
Technique
G. Dimauro, S. Impedovo, G. Pirlo Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy
3:00 Performance Analysis of Handwritten Strokes Generation Models
Adel Alimi, Rejean Plamond Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
3:30 Break
** Session 10: Language Models in On-Line Systems
Chair: Guy Lorette
4:00 Use of Language Models in On-line Sentence/Phrase Recognition
Rohini K. Srihari, Stayvis Ng, SUNY at Buffalo, USA
Charlotte M. Baltus, Jackie Kud
4:30 A Blackboard Approach to On-line Cursive Handwriting Recognition
for Pen-Based Computing
P. E. Bramall, C. A. Higgins The University of Nottingham, UK
5:00 Applications Panel:
Several members of the industrial community will provide
their insights on directions for handwriting recognition vis-a-vis
commercially available products.
6:30 Niagara Falls Tour
POSTER SESSIONS
Wednesday, May 26
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Poster Session 1: Character Recognition
Experiments with the CENPARMI Data Base Combining Different
Classification Approaches
Jurgen Franke, Daimler-Benz Research Center,Ulm, Germany;
Louisa Lam, Raymond Legault, Concordia University, Canada
Christine Nadal, Ching Y. Suen
THETA(1) Feature Extraction for Handwritten Character Recognition
Phil Rhee, Ju-hyoung Yoo Inha University, Korea
Gradient Representation for Handwritten Character Recognition
Geetha Srikantan
Hand Printed Numeral Recognition with the Learning Distance Function
Takahiko Kawatani NTT Corp., Japan
Invariant Handwritten Numeral Recognition with Spatio-temporal
Feature Representation
Sukhan Lee, Jack C. Pan U. of Southern California, USA
A New Pattern Recognition Method Using Non-Linear Transformation
Bunpei Irie Toshiba Corporation, Japan
Normalization-Cooperation Feature Extraction Method for Hand
Printed Kanji Character Recognition
M. Hamanaka, Keiji Yamada, Jun Tsukumo NEC Corp., Japan
A PC Based Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition system
Lo-Ting Tu, Win-Win Lin, Industrial Technology Research
Yung-Kuan Chan, Ing-Shyh Shyu Institute, Chutung, Taiwan
Recognition of Handwritten Characters by Quasi-monotonic
Programmed Array Grammars with Attribute Vectors
Rudolf Freund Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Recognition of Handwritten Characters Using A Character
Reduction Methodology
N. Pereira, N. Bourbakis SUNY at Binghamton, USA
The Writing Instruction Script Hebrew (WISH) System
Jon W. McKeeby, Rachelle S. Heller, George Washington Univ., USA
Yael Moses
Thursday, May 27
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Poster Session 2: Word Recognition
Cursive Handwriting Word Spotting Using A Discrete Dynamic
Approach
Yoram Singer, Naftali Tishby The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Israel
Hypothesis Evaluation for Word Recognition
Chien-Huei Chen, Gregory K. Myers SRI International, USA
On-Line Handwritten Word Recognition: An Approach Based on
Hidden Markov Models
S. Bercu, G. Lorette University of Rennes, France
Partition of Documents Based on a Complexity Measure for the
Purpose of Text-Independent Writer Identification
Isao Yoshimura, Mitsu Yoshimura, Science University of Tokyo, Japan
Hajime Uno
A Principled Performance Measure for Handwriting Recognition
Eric Sven Ristad Princeton University, USA
Reading Cursive Script by Parts
Mohamed Cheriet Universite du Quebec, Canada
Recognition of Handwritten Word Images by Statistical Methods
Torsten Caesar, Joachim Gloger, Daimler-Benz Research Center
Alfred Kaltenmeier, Eberhard Mandler Ulm, Germany
Recognition of Handwritten Words in a Limited Dynamic
Vocabulary
Michel Gilloux, Jean-Michel Bertille, Service de Recherche Technique
Manuel Leroux de la Poste, France
Recognition of State Name Abbreviations
Jian Zhou, Venu Govindaraju, SUNY at Buffalo, USA
Raj S. Acharya, Sargur N. Srihari
SCRIPTOR: An On-Line Recognition Engine of Cursive
Handwriting with Incremental Learning Capabilities
P. Morosso, L. Gismondi, E. Musante, Universita di Genova, Italy
A. Pareto
Segmentation & Recognition of Cursive Handwriting with Improved
Structured Lexica
Ingolf Karls, Gerd Maderlechner, Volkmar Pflug, Siemens AG, Germany
Stephen Baumann, Achim Weigel, Andreas Dengel
Demonstrations
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Demonstrations will be shown concurrently with pa-
per presentations. They will also be available during
breaks and the poster sessions. Scheduled demon-
strations include, but are not limited to:
% CCL On-Line/Off-Line Chinese Character ITRI, Taiwan
Recognition System
% Handwritten Address Interpretation SUNY at Buffalo, USA
% Handwritten Word Recognition Paragraph International, USA
% On-Line Digit/Word Recognition SUNY at Buffalo, USA
% Use of Language Models SUNY at Buffalo, USA
% Lexicon Directed Handwritten Word University of
Recognition Michigan at Dearborn, USA
% On-Line Cursive Handwriting Recognition Nijmegen Institute for
Cognition and Information, Netherlands
% On-Line Cursive Script Recognition KAIST, Korea
Open House
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An open house will be held at CEDAR on the morning
of Friday May 28, 1993 from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon.
SUNY at Buffalo Amherst Campus and University Inn and Conference Center
Committees
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General Chairman
Sargur (Hari) Srihari
SUNY at Buffalo, USA
** Program Committee
Mindy Bokser
Calera Recognition Systems, USA
Richard Casey
IBM Almaden Res. Center, USA
Andrew Downton
University of Essex, UK
Richard Fenrich
SUNY at Buffalo, USA
Venu Govindaraju
SUNY at Buffalo, USA
Jonathan Hull
SUNY at Buffalo, USA
Sebastiano Impedovo
Universita de Bari, Italy
Guy Lorette
IRISA, France
Shunji Mori
Ricoh Corporation, Japan
Rejean Plamondon
Ecole Polytechnique Montreal Canada
Jean-Claude Simon
A2I, Paris, France
Ching Suen
Concordia University, Canada
Hans-Leo Teulings
Nijmegen Institute, Netherlands
** Local Organizing Committee
Richard Fenrich (Chairman)
Heike Berlind
Rita Hamilton
Joseph Piazza
Eugena Smith
Tim Stives
Program Summary
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May 25-27, 1993
Monday, May 24, 1993
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4:00 pm P 8:00 pm Registration
Tuesday, May 24, 1993
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8:00 am Welcome
8:30 Session 1: Digit Recognition 1
10:00 Break
10:30 Session 2: Character Recognition
12:00 Lunch
2:00 Session 3: Word Recognition 1
3:30 Break
4:00 Session 4: Pictograms, Databases
5:00 Database Panel
6:30 Reception
8:30 CEDAR Tour
Wednesday, May 25, 1993
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8:00 am Plenary Session
9:00 Session 5: Word Recognition 2
10:00 Break
10:30 Session 6: Digit Recognition 2
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Session 7: Interpretation Systems
3:30 Break
4:00 Poster Session 1
6:30 Workshop Dinner
Thursday, May 25, 1993
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8:00 am Session 8: On-Line Recognition 1
10:00 Break
10:30 Poster Session 2
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Session 9: On-Line Recognition 2
3:30 Break
4:00 Session 10: Use of Language Models
5:00 Applications Panel
6:30 Niagara Falls Tour
Friday, May 25, 1993
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9:00 am - 12 noon CEDAR Open House
General Information
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Registration
The registration/help desk will be available from
7:00 am to 5:30 pm on May 25-27, 1993. In addition,
the desk will open on May 24, 1993 from 4:00 pm to
8:00 pm.
Questions may be directed to:
Rita Hamilton or Natalie Leaver
UB Commons
520 Lee Entrance, Suite 202
Amherst NY 14228-2576
(716) 645-6164 extension 112 or 114
Fax: (716)J645-6176
email: hamilton@cs.buffalo.edu, leaver@cs.buffalo.edu
A limited number of late registrations are available.
To register for the IWFHR III please complete the following:
Name: ______________________________________
Organization: ______________________________
Address:____________________________________
City: __________ State ________ Zip ________
Country: ___________________________________
Phone number: ______________________________
Fax number: ________________________________
Email address: _____________________________
Registration fees:
Student: $120 (Proof of student status required.
Photocopy of student ID acceptable).
Author: $330
Non-Author: $480
Luncheons provided daily during the Workshop.
Workshop dinner held on the evening of May 26th.
Payment Information:
We will accept checks, money orders, bank drafts,
and Mastercard, Visa and Diners Club.
Please contact CEDAR Research Group, UB Commons,
520 Lee Entrance, Suite 202, Amherst, NY 14228-2567
(Phone: 716-645-6164; Fax: 716-645-6167).
Accommodations:
The University Inn (Conference site) (716) 636-7500; (fax) (716) 636-8296
Single: $68; Double $78; Parlor only suite: $90; Parlor & 1 Bedroom $135\
Hampton Inn Amherst (716) 689-4414; (fax) (716) 689-4382
Single: $59; Double $66
Heritage House Country Inn (716) 633-4900 (same number for fax)
Single: $40; Double $50
Marriott Inn (716) 689-6900; (fax) (716) 689-0483
Single: $78; Double $78
