ICFHR 2010: Kolkata, India

Keynote Address

• David S. Doermann:
  The Evolution of Document Authentication. 3
  

Segmentation and Layout Analysis

• Fei Yin, Qiu-Feng Wang, Cheng-Lin Liu:
  Integrating Geometric Context for Text Alignment of Handwritten Chinese Documents. 7-12
  
• Achint Oommen Thomas, Sulabh Choudhury, Venu Govindaraju:
  Leveraging the Mixed-Text Segmentation Problem to Design Secure Handwritten CAPTCHAs. 13-18
  
• Vassilios Papavassiliou, Vassilios Katsouros, George Carayannis:
  A Morphological Approach for Text-Line Segmentation in Handwritten Documents. 19-24
  
• Sukalpa Chanda, Katrin Franke, Umapada Pal:
  Document-Zone Classification in Torn Documents. 25-30
  
• Florent Montreuil, Stéphane Nicolas, Emmanuele Grosicki, Laurent Heutte:
  A New Hierarchical Handwritten Document Layout Extraction Based on Conditional Random Field Modeling. 31-36
  

Post Processing/Verification

• Alessandro L. Koerich, Alceu de Souza Britto Jr., Luiz E. Soares de Oliveira:
  Verification of Unconstrained Handwritten Words at Character Level. 39-44
  
• Qi Chen, Tianxia Gong, Linlin Li, Chew Lim Tan, Boon Chuan Pang:
  A Medical Knowledge Based Postprocessing Approach for Doctor's Handwriting Recognition. 45-50
  
• Marcus Liwicki, Seiichi Uchida, Masakazu Iwamura, Shinichiro Omachi, Koichi Kise:
  Embedding Meta-Information in Handwriting -- Reed-Solomon for Reliable Error Correction. 51-56
  
• Laurent Guichard, Alejandro Hector Toselli, Bertrand Coüasnon:
  Handwritten Word Verification by SVM-Based Hypotheses Re-scoring and Multiple Thresholds Rejection. 57-62
  

Poster Session-I

• De Cao Tran, Patrick Franco, Jean-Marc Ogier:
  Accented Handwritten Character Recognition Using SVM - Application to French. 65-71
  
• Yuanping Zhu, Jun Sun, Yoshinobu Hotta, Satoshi Naoi:
  Rejection Optimization Based on Threshold Mapping for Offline Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition. 72-77
  
• Tong-Hua Su, Cheng-Lin Liu:
  Improving HMM-Based Chinese Handwriting Recognition Using Delta Features and Synthesized String Samples. 78-83
  
• Ehtesham Hassan, Santanu Chaudhury, Madan Gopal:
  Identity Determination with Offline Handwritten Input Using Multi Kernel Feature Combination. 84-88
  
• Sanjoy Pratihar, Shyamosree Pal, Partha Bhowmick, Arindam Biswas, Bhargab B. Bhattacharya:
  Recognition of Hand-Drawn Graphs Using Digital-Geometric Techniques. 89-94
  
• Claudio De Stefano, Angelo Marcelli, Antonio Parziale, Rosa Senatore:
  Reading Cursive Handwriting. 95-100
  
• Isao Nakanishi, Shingo Nakatani, Shota Koike:
  Simply Partitioned DP Matching and Threshold Equalizing in DWT Domain On-line Signature Verification. 101-106
  
• Jürgen T. Geiger, Joachim Schenk, Frank Wallhoff, Gerhard Rigoll:
  Optimizing the Number of States for HMM-Based On-line Handwritten Whiteboard Recognition. 107-112
  
• Javier Galbally, Julian Fiérrez, Marcos Martinez-Diaz, Javier Ortega-Garcia, Réjean Plamondon, Christian O'Reilly:
  Kinematical Analysis of Synthetic Dynamic Signatures Using the Sigma-Lognormal Model. 113-118
  
• H. Daher, Djamel Gaceb, Véronique Eglin, Stéphane Bres, N. Vincent:
  Ancient Handwritings Decomposition Into Graphemes and Codebook Generation Based on Graph Coloring. 119-124
  
• Jija Das Gupta, Bhabatosh Chanda:
  A Model Based Text Line Segmentation Method for Off-line Handwritten Documents. 125-129
  
• Alireza Alaei, P. Nagabhushan, Umapada Pal:
  A New Two-Stage Scheme for the Recognition of Persian Handwritten Characters. 130-135
  
• Muhammad Ismail Shah, Ching Y. Suen:
  Word Spotting in Gray Scale Handwritten Pashto Documents. 136-141
  
• Fengjun Guo, Shijie Chen:
  Gesture Recognition Techniques in Handwriting Recognition Application. 142-147
  
• Szilárd Vajda, Gernot A. Fink:
  Strategies for Training Robust Neural Network Based Digit Recognizers on Unbalanced Data Sets. 148-153
  
• Huaigu Cao, Rohit Prasad, Prem Natarajan:
  Improvements in HMM Adaptation for Handwriting Recognition Using Writer Identification and Duration Adaptation. 154-159
  
• Matthias Sperber, Martin Klinkigt, Koichi Kise, Masakazu Iwamura, Benjamin Adrian, Andreas Dengel:
  Handwriting Reconstruction for a Camera Pen Using Random Dot Patterns. 160-165
  
• R. Jayadevan, Umapada Pal, Fumitaka Kimura:
  Recognition of Words from Legal Amounts of Indian Bank Cheques. 166-171
  
• M. Mahadeva Prasad, M. Sukumar, A. G. Ramakrishnan:
  Orthogonal LDA in PCA Transformed Subspace. 172-175
  
• Angelika Garz, Markus Diem, Robert Sablatnig:
  Detecting Text Areas and Decorative Elements in Ancient Manuscripts. 176-181
  
• Micheal Baechler, Jean-Luc Bloechle, Rolf Ingold:
  Semi-automatic Annotation Tool for Medieval Manuscripts. 182-187
  
• Abdullah Almaksour, Éric Anquetil, Solen Quiniou, Mohamed Cheriet:
  Personalizable Pen-Based Interface Using Lifelong Learning. 188-193
  
• Sophea Prum, Muriel Visani, Jean-Marc Ogier:
  Cursive On-line Handwriting Word Recognition Using a Bi-character Model for Large Lexicon Applications. 194-199
  
• T. Mondal, Ujjwal Bhattacharya, Swapan K. Parui, K. Das, D. Mandalapu:
  On-line Handwriting Recognition of Indian Scripts - The First Benchmark. 200-205
  
• Ashirwad Joseph Chowriappa, Ricardo N. Rodrigues, Thenkurussi Kesavadas, Venu Govindaraju, Ann M. Bisantz:
  Generation of Handwriting by Active Shape Modeling and Global Local Approximation (GLA) Adaptation. 206-211
  

Off-line Recognition-I

• Sushama Shelke, Shaila Apte:
  A Novel Multi-feature Multi-classifier Scheme for Unconstrained Handwritten Devanagari Character Recognition. 215-219
  
• Sebastiano Impedovo, Raffaele Modugno, Giuseppe Pirlo:
  Analysis of Membership Functions for Voronoi-Based Classification. 220-225
  
• Nikolaos Stamatopoulos, Georgios Louloudis, Basilios Gatos:
  Efficient Transcript Mapping to Ease the Creation of Document Image Segmentation Ground Truth with Text-Image Alignment. 226-231
  
• Simon Thomas, Clément Chatelain, Laurent Heutte, Thierry Paquet:
  Alpha-Numerical Sequences Extraction in Handwritten Documents. 232-237
  

Off-line Recognition-II

• Christopher Kermorvant, Jérôme Louradour:
  Handwritten Mail Classification Experiments with the Rimes Database. 241-246
  
• Christopher Kermorvant, Farès Menasri, Anne-Laure Bianne, Ramy Al-Hajj Mohamad, Chafic Mokbel, Laurence Likforman-Sulem:
  The A2iA-Telecom ParisTech-UOB System for the ICDAR 2009 Handwriting Recognition Competition. 247-252
  
• Andreas Fischer, Kaspar Riesen, Horst Bunke:
  Graph Similarity Features for HMM-Based Handwriting Recognition in Historical Documents. 253-258
  

Invited Talk-I

• Réjean Plamondon:
  Neuromuscular Studies of Handwriting Generation and Representation. 261
  

Retrieval and Spotting

• Anurag Bhardwaj, Achint Oommen Thomas, Yun Fu, Venu Govindaraju:
  Retrieving Handwriting Styles: A Content Based Approach to Handwritten Document Retrieval. 265-270
  
• Heng Zhang, Da-Han Wang, Cheng-Lin Liu:
  Keyword Spotting from Online Chinese Handwritten Documents Using One-vs-All Trained Character Classifier. 271-276
  
• Kazumasa Iwata, Koichi Kise, Masakazu Iwamura, Seiichi Uchida, Shinichiro Omachi:
  Tracking and Retrieval of Pen Tip Positions for an Intelligent Camera Pen. 277-282
  
• Kiran Bhuvanagiri, Aditya Vikram Daga, Ramachandrula Sitaram, Suryaprakash Kompalli:
  Hand-Drawn Symbol Spotting Using Semi-definite Programming Based Sub-graph Matching. 283-288
  
• Markus Weber, Marcus Liwicki, Andreas Dengel:
  a.SCAtch - A Sketch-Based Retrieval for Architectural Floor Plans. 289-294
  

Forensic/Signature Verification

• J. P. Swanepoel, J. Coetzer:
  Off-line Signature Verification Using Flexible Grid Features and Classifier Fusion. 297-302
  
• Vu Nguyen, Yumiko Kawazoe, Tetsushi Wakabayashi, Umapada Pal, Michael Blumenstein:
  Performance Analysis of the Gradient Feature and the Modified Direction Feature for Off-line Signature Verification. 303-307
  
• Ruben Fernandez-de-Sevilla, Fernando Alonso-Fernandez, Julian Fiérrez-Aguilar, Javier Ortega-Garcia:
  Forensic Writer Identification Using Allographic Features. 308-313
  
• Gregory R. Ball, Sargur N. Srihari, Roger Stritmatter:
  Writer Verification of Historical Documents among Cohort Writers. 314-319
  

Poster Session-II

• Maan Ammar, Toyohide Watanabe, Teruo Fukumura:
  A New Decision Making Approach for Improving the Performance of Automatic Signature Verification Using Multi-sets of Features. 323-328
  
• Sebastiano Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo, Raffaele Modugno, Anna Ferrante:
  Zoning Methods for Hand-Written Character Recognition: An Overview. 329-334
  
• Hanene Boukerma, Nadir Farah:
  A Novel Arabic Baseline Estimation Algorithm Based on Sub-Words Treatment. 335-338
  
• Marcos Martinez-Diaz, Julian Fiérrez, C. Martin-Diaz, Javier Ortega-Garcia:
  DooDB: A Graphical Password Database Containing Doodles and Pseudo-Signatures. 339-344
  
• Takao Kobayashi, Ikuko Shimizu:
  Fast Density Estimation for Approximated k Nearest Neighbor Classification. 345-351
  
• Volkmar Frinken, Andreas Fischer, Horst Bunke, R. Manmatha:
  Adapting BLSTM Neural Network Based Keyword Spotting Trained on Modern Data to Historical Documents. 352-357
  
• Jun Takakura, Akihito Kitadai, Masaki Nakagawa, Hajime Baba, Akihiro Watanabe:
  Techniques to Enhance Images for Mokkan Interpretation. 358-362
  
• Pulak Purkait, Bhabatosh Chanda:
  Off-line Recognition of Hand-Written Bengali Numerals Using Morphological Features. 363-368
  
• Thomas Burger, Yousri Kessentini, Thierry Paquet:
  Dealing with Precise and Imprecise Decisions with a Dempster-Shafer Theory Based Algorithm in the Context of Handwritten Word Recognition. 369-374
  
• Marcos Martinez-Diaz, C. Martin-Diaz, Javier Galbally, Julian Fiérrez:
  A Comparative Evaluation of Finger-Drawn Graphical Password Verification Methods. 375-380
  
• Ines Ben Messaoud, Haikal El Abed:
  Automatic Annotation for Handwritten Historical Documents Using Markov Models. 381-386
  
• Palaiahnakote Shivakumara, Anjan Dutta, Umapada Pal, Chew Lim Tan:
  A New Method for Handwritten Scene Text Detection in Video. 387-392
  
• Gernot A. Fink, Szilárd Vajda, Ujjwal Bhattacharya, Swapan K. Parui, Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri:
  Online Bangla Word Recognition Using Sub-Stroke Level Features and Hidden Markov Models. 393-398
  
• Ray Genoe, Tahar Kechadi:
  A Real-Time Recognition System for Handwritten Mathematics: Backtracking and Relationship Discovery. 399-404
  
• J. Ramon Navarro-Cerdan, Joaquim Arlandis, Juan Carlos Pérez-Cortes, Rafael Llobet:
  User-Defined Expected Error Rate in OCR Postprocessing by Means of Automatic Threshold Estimation. 405-409
  
• Yumiko Kawazoe, Wataru Ohyama, Tetsushi Wakabayashi, Fumitaka Kimura:
  Improvement of On-line Signature Verification Based on Gradient Features. 410-414
  
• Nethravathi B., Archana C. P., K. Shashikiran, Angarai Ganesan Ramakrishnan, V. Vijay Kumar:
  Creation of a Huge Annotated Database for Tamil and Kannada OHR. 415-420
  
• Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo, L. Sarcinella, Erasmo Stasolla:
  Artificial Classifier Generation for Multi-expert System Evaluation. 421-426
  
• Ahmad-Montaser Awal, Harold Mouchère, Christian Viard-Gaudin:
  Improving Online Handwritten Mathematical Expressions Recognition with Contextual Modeling. 427-432
  
• Amit Arora, Anoop M. Namboodiri:
  A Hybrid Model for Recognition of Online Handwriting in Indian Scripts. 433-438
  
• Jin Chen, Daniel P. Lopresti, Ergina Kavallieratou:
  The Impact of Ruling Lines on Writer Identification. 439-444
  
• Aisharjya Sarkar, Arindam Biswas, Partha Bhowmick, Bhargab B. Bhattacharya:
  Word Segmentation and Baseline Detection in Handwritten Documents Using Isothetic Covers. 445-450
  
• Sourour Njah, Hala Bezine, Adel M. Alimi:
  A New Encoding System: Application to On-line Arabic Handwriting. 451-456
  
• Marc-Peter Schambach:
  Reviewing Performance Metrics for Handwriting Recognition: Must-Rejects and Recognition Graph Scores. 457-462
  
• Chun Lei He, Ching Y. Suen:
  Error Reduction Based on Error Categorization in Arabic Handwritten Numeral Recognition. 463-468
  

Feature Extraction

• Joachim Schenk, Gerhard Rigoll:
  Selecting Features Using the SFS in Conjunction with Vector Quantization. 471-476
  
• Vahid Ghods, Ehsanollah Kabir:
  Feature Extraction for Online Farsi Characters. 477-482
  
• Sebastian Ebert, Marcus Liwicki, Andreas Dengel:
  Ontology-Based Information Extraction from Handwritten Documents. 483-488
  

Invited Talk-II

• M. A. Lakshmithathachar:
  Contribution of Ancient Indians to 'Writing' (With Special Emphasis on South Asian and Indian Writing Systems). 491
  

Online Recognition

• Xiang-Dong Zhou, Da-Han Wang, Masaki Nakagawa, Cheng-Lin Liu:
  Error Reduction by Confusing Characters Discrimination for Online Handwritten Japanese Character Recognition. 495-500
  
• Long-Long Ma, Adrien Delaye, Cheng-Lin Liu:
  Special Radical Detection by Statistical Classification for On-line Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition. 501-506
  
• Dae Hwan Kim, Jin Hyung Kim:
  Top-Down Search with Bottom-Up Evidence for Recognizing Handwritten Mathematical Expressions. 507-512
  
• Yojiro Tonouchi:
  Path Evaluation and Character Classifier Training on Integrated Segmentation and Recognition of Online Handwritten Japanese Character String. 513-517
  
• Yongqiang Wang, Qiang Huo, Yu Shi:
  A Study of Discriminative Training for HMM-Based Online Handwritten Chinese/Japanese Character Recognition. 518-523
  

Off-line Recognition-III

• Bo Xu, Kaizhu Huang, Cheng-Lin Liu:
  Similar Handwritten Chinese Characters Recognition by Critical Region Selection Based on Average Symmetric Uncertainty. 527-532
  
• Adrià Giménez, Ihab Khoury, Alfons Juan:
  Windowed Bernoulli Mixture HMMs for Arabic Handwritten Word Recognition. 533-538
  
• Verónica Romero, Alejandro Hector Toselli, Enrique Vidal:
  Character-Level Interaction in Computer-Assisted Transcription of Text Images. 539-544
  
• Seiichi Uchida, Marcus Liwicki:
  Part-Based Recognition of Handwritten Characters. 545-550
  

Poster Session-III

• Karl-Heinz Steinke, Martin Gehrke, Robert Dzido:
  Recognition of Humboldt's Handwriting in Complex Surroundings. 553-558
  
• Kai Ding, Lianwen Jin:
  Incremental MQDF Learning for Writer Adaptive Handwriting Recognition. 559-564
  
• Markus Diem, Robert Sablatnig:
  Are Characters Objects? 565-570
  
• Gang Liu, Lianwen Jin, Kai Ding, Hanyu Yan:
  A New Approach for Synthesis and Recognition of Large Scale Handwritten Chinese Words. 571-575
  
• Jignesh Khakhar, Sriganesh Madhvanath:
  JollyMate: Assistive Technology for Young Children with Dyslexia. 576-580
  
• Hanyu Yan, Lianwen Jin, Christian Viard-Gaudin, Harold Mouchère:
  SCUT-COUCH Textline_NU: An Unconstrained Online Handwritten Chinese Text Lines Dataset. 581-586
  
• Jesus Francisco Vargas Bonilla, Carlos M. Travieso, Jesús B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer:
  Off-line Signature Verification Based on Gray Level Information Using Wavelet Transform and Texture Features. 587-592
  
• Ray Genoe, Tahar Kechadi:
  A Real-Time Recognition System for Handwritten Mathematics: Structural Development. 593-598
  
• Shinji Tsuruoka, Masahiro Hattori, Mohd Fadzil bin Abdul Kadir, Toshiaki Takano, Hiroharu Kawanaka, Haruhiko Takase, Yasuji Miyake:
  Personal Dictionaries for Handwritten Character Recognition Using Characters Written by a Similar Writer. 599-604
  
• Juan Carlos Pérez-Cortes, Rafael Llobet, J. Ramon Navarro-Cerdan, Joaquim Arlandis:
  Using Field Interdependence to Improve Correction Performance in a Transducer-Based OCR Post-Processing System. 605-610
  
• Rituraj Kunwar, Shashikiran K., A. G. Ramakrishnan:
  Online Handwritten Kannada Word Recognizer with Unrestricted Vocabulary. 611-616
  
• S. V. Rajashekararadhya, P. Vanaja Ranjan:
  The Zone-Based Projection Distance Feature Extraction Method for Handwritten Numeral/Mixed Numerals Recognition of Indian Scripts. 617-622
  
• Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo:
  On-line Signature Verification by Stroke-Dependent Representation Domains. 623-627
  
• Kaushik Roy, Alireza Alaei, Umapada Pal:
  Word-Wise Handwritten Persian and Roman Script Identification. 628-633
  
• Alicia Fornés, Josep Lladós:
  A Symbol-Dependent Writer Identification Approach in Old Handwritten Music Scores. 634-639
  
• Hajime Imura, Yuzuru Tanaka:
  A Full-Text Search System for Images of Hand-Written Cursive Documents. 640-645
  
• Ahmad-Montaser Awal, Harold Mouchère, Christian Viard-Gaudin:
  The Problem of Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition Evaluation. 646-651
  
• K. C. Santosh, Cholwich Nattee, Bart Lamiroy:
  Spatial Similarity Based Stroke Number and Order Free Clustering. 652-657
  
• Pulak Purkait, Rajesh Kumar, Bhabatosh Chanda:
  Writer Identification for Handwritten Telugu Documents Using Directional Morphological Features. 658-663
  
• Swapnil Belhe, Chetan Paulzagade, Sanket Surve, Nitesh Jawanjal, Kapil Mehrotra, Anil Motwani:
  Annotation Tool and XML Representation for Online Indic Data. 664-669
  
• Fouad Slimane, Rolf Ingold, Slim Kanoun, Adel M. Alimi, Jean Hennebert:
  Impact of Character Models Choice on Arabic Text Recognition Performance. 670-675
  
• Binu P. Chacko, Babu Anto P.:
  Pre and Post Processing Approaches in Edge Detection for Character Recognition. 676-681
  
• Mudit Agrawal, Alexander Zotov, Ming Ye, Sashi Raghupathy:
  Context Aware On-line Diagramming Recognition. 682-687
  
• Vadim Mazalov, Stephen M. Watt:
  Digital Ink Compression via Functional Approximation. 688-694
  
• Houcine Boubaker, Aymen Chaabouni, Monji Kherallah, Adel M. Alimi, Haikal El Abed:
  Fuzzy Segmentation and Graphemes Modeling for Online Arabic Handwriting Recognition. 695-700
  

Competition Session

• Haikal El Abed, Volker Märgner, Michael Blumenstein:
  International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2010) - Competitions Overview. 703-708
  
• Volker Märgner, Haikal El Abed:
  ICFHR 2010 - Arabic Handwriting Recognition Competition. 709-714
  
• Marcus Liwicki, C. Elisa van den Heuvel, Bryan Found, Muhammad Imran Malik:
  Forensic Signature Verification Competition 4NSigComp2010 - Detection of Simulated and Disguised Signatures. 715-720
  
• Michael Blumenstein, Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesus Francisco Vargas Bonilla:
  The 4NSigComp2010 Off-line Signature Verification Competition: Scenario 2. 721-726
  
• Ioannis Pratikakis, Basilios Gatos, Konstantinos Ntirogiannis:
  H-DIBCO 2010 - Handwritten Document Image Binarization Competition. 727-732
  
• Roberto Paredes, Ergina Kavallieratou, Rafael Dueire Lins:
  ICFHR 2010 Contest: Quantitative Evaluation of Binarization Algorithms. 733-736
  
• Basilios Gatos, Nikolaos Stamatopoulos, Georgios Louloudis:
  ICFHR 2010 Handwriting Segmentation Contest. 737-742
  

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