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Author Dimosthenis Karatzas; Lluis Gomez; A.Nicolaou ; Suman Ghosh; Andrew Bagdanov; Masakazu Iwamura; J.Matas; L.Neumann; V.Ramaseshan; S.Lu ; Faisal Shafait; Seiichi Uchida; Ernest Valveny edit  doi
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  Title ICDAR 2015 Competition on Robust Reading Type Conference Article
  Year 2015 Publication 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR2015 Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1156-1160  
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  Notes DAG; 600.077; 600.084 Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ KGN2015 Serial 2690  
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Author Dimosthenis Karatzas; Lluis Gomez; Marçal Rusiñol edit   pdf
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  Title The Robust Reading Competition Annotation and Evaluation Platform Type Conference Article
  Year 2017 Publication 1st International Workshop on Open Services and Tools for Document Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract The ICDAR Robust Reading Competition (RRC), initiated in 2003 and re-established in 2011, has become the defacto evaluation standard for the international community. Concurrent with its second incarnation in 2011, a continuous effort started to develop an online framework to facilitate the hosting and management of competitions. This short paper briefly outlines the Robust Reading Competition Annotation and Evaluation Platform, the backbone of the Robust Reading Competition, comprising a collection of tools and processes that aim to simplify the management and annotation
of data, and to provide online and offline performance evaluation and analysis services
 
  Address Kyoto; Japan; November 2017  
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  Area Expedition Conference ICDAR-OST  
  Notes DAG; 600.084; 600.121; 600.129 Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ KGR2017 Serial 3063  
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Author J.Kuhn; A.Nussbaumer; J.Pirker; Dimosthenis Karatzas; A. Pagani; O.Conlan; M.Memmel; C.M.Steiner; C.Gutl; D.Albert; Andreas Dengel edit  url
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  Title Advancing Physics Learning Through Traversing a Multi-Modal Experimentation Space Type Conference Article
  Year 2015 Publication Workshop Proceedings on the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Environments Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 19 Issue Pages 373-380  
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  Abstract Translating conceptual knowledge into real world experiences presents a significant educational challenge. This position paper presents an approach that supports learners in moving seamlessly between conceptual learning and their application in the real world by bringing physical and virtual experiments into everyday settings. Learners are empowered in conducting these situated experiments in a variety of physical settings by leveraging state of the art mobile, augmented reality, and virtual reality technology. A blend of mobile-based multi-sensory physical experiments, augmented reality and enabling virtual environments can allow learners to bridge their conceptual learning with tangible experiences in a completely novel manner. This approach focuses on the learner by applying self-regulated personalised learning techniques, underpinned by innovative pedagogical approaches and adaptation techniques, to ensure that the needs and preferences of each learner are catered for individually.  
  Address Praga; Chzech Republic; July 2015  
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  Notes DAG; 600.077 Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ KNP2015 Serial 2694  
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Author Lei Kang; Pau Riba; Yaxing Wang; Marçal Rusiñol; Alicia Fornes; Mauricio Villegas edit   pdf
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  Title GANwriting: Content-Conditioned Generation of Styled Handwritten Word Images Type Conference Article
  Year 2020 Publication 16th European Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Although current image generation methods have reached impressive quality levels, they are still unable to produce plausible yet diverse images of handwritten words. On the contrary, when writing by hand, a great variability is observed across different writers, and even when analyzing words scribbled by the same individual, involuntary variations are conspicuous. In this work, we take a step closer to producing realistic and varied artificially rendered handwritten words. We propose a novel method that is able to produce credible handwritten word images by conditioning the generative process with both calligraphic style features and textual content. Our generator is guided by three complementary learning objectives: to produce realistic images, to imitate a certain handwriting style and to convey a specific textual content. Our model is unconstrained to any predefined vocabulary, being able to render whatever input word. Given a sample writer, it is also able to mimic its calligraphic features in a few-shot setup. We significantly advance over prior art and demonstrate with qualitative, quantitative and human-based evaluations the realistic aspect of our synthetically produced images.  
  Address Virtual; August 2020  
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  Notes DAG; 600.140; 600.121; 600.129 Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ KPW2020 Serial 3426  
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Author Lei Kang; Marçal Rusiñol; Alicia Fornes; Pau Riba; Mauricio Villegas edit   pdf
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  Title Unsupervised Adaptation for Synthetic-to-Real Handwritten Word Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2020 Publication IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is still a challenging problem because it must deal with two important difficulties: the variability among writing styles, and the scarcity of labelled data. To alleviate such problems, synthetic data generation and data augmentation are typically used to train HTR systems. However, training with such data produces encouraging but still inaccurate transcriptions in real words. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised writer adaptation approach that is able to automatically adjust a generic handwritten word recognizer, fully trained with synthetic fonts, towards a new incoming writer. We have experimentally validated our proposal using five different datasets, covering several challenges (i) the document source: modern and historic samples, which may involve paper degradation problems; (ii) different handwriting styles: single and multiple writer collections; and (iii) language, which involves different character combinations. Across these challenging collections, we show that our system is able to maintain its performance, thus, it provides a practical and generic approach to deal with new document collections without requiring any expensive and tedious manual annotation step.  
  Address Aspen; Colorado; USA; March 2020  
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  Notes DAG; 600.129; 600.140; 601.302; 601.312; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ KRF2020 Serial 3446  
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Author Dimosthenis Karatzas; Sergi Robles; Lluis Gomez edit   pdf
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  Title An on-line platform for ground truthing and performance evaluation of text extraction systems Type Conference Article
  Year 2014 Publication 11th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis and Systems Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 242 - 246  
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  Abstract This paper presents a set of on-line software tools for creating ground truth and calculating performance evaluation metrics for text extraction tasks such as localization, segmentation and recognition. The platform supports the definition of comprehensive ground truth information at different text representation levels while it offers centralised management and quality control of the ground truthing effort. It implements a range of state of the art performance evaluation algorithms and offers functionality for the definition of evaluation scenarios, on-line calculation of various performance metrics and visualisation of the results. The
presented platform, which comprises the backbone of the ICDAR 2011 (challenge 1) and 2013 (challenges 1 and 2) Robust Reading competitions, is now made available for public use.
 
  Address Tours; Francia; April 2014  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-4799-3243-6 Medium  
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  Notes DAG; 600.056; 600.077 Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ KRG2014 Serial 2491  
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Author Dimosthenis Karatzas; Sergi Robles; Joan Mas; Farshad Nourbakhsh; Partha Pratim Roy edit  doi
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  Title ICDAR 2011 Robust Reading Competition – Challege 1: Reading Text in Born-Digital Images (Web and Email) Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1485-1490  
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  Abstract This paper presents the results of the first Challenge of ICDAR 2011 Robust Reading Competition. Challenge 1 is focused on the extraction of text from born-digital images, specifically from images found in Web pages and emails. The challenge was organized in terms of three tasks that look at different stages of the process: text localization, text segmentation and word recognition. In this paper we present the results of the challenge for all three tasks, and make an open call for continuous participation outside the context of ICDAR 2011.  
  Address Beijing, China  
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  ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN 978-1-4577-1350-7 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICDAR  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ KRM2011 Serial 1793  
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Author Lei Kang; Pau Riba; Marçal Rusiñol; Alicia Fornes; Mauricio Villegas edit   pdf
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  Title Distilling Content from Style for Handwritten Word Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2020 Publication 17th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Despite the latest transcription accuracies reached using deep neural network architectures, handwritten text recognition still remains a challenging problem, mainly because of the large inter-writer style variability. Both augmenting the training set with artificial samples using synthetic fonts, and writer adaptation techniques have been proposed to yield more generic approaches aimed at dodging style unevenness. In this work, we take a step closer to learn style independent features from handwritten word images. We propose a novel method that is able to disentangle the content and style aspects of input images by jointly optimizing a generative process and a handwritten
word recognizer. The generator is aimed at transferring writing style features from one sample to another in an image-to-image translation approach, thus leading to a learned content-centric features that shall be independent to writing style attributes.
Our proposed recognition model is able then to leverage such writer-agnostic features to reach better recognition performances. We advance over prior training strategies and demonstrate with qualitative and quantitative evaluations the performance of both
the generative process and the recognition efficiency in the IAM dataset.
 
  Address Virtual ICFHR; September 2020  
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  Notes DAG; 600.129; 600.140; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ KRR2020 Serial 3425  
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Author Lei Kang; Pau Riba; Marcal Rusinol; Alicia Fornes; Mauricio Villegas edit  url
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  Title Content and Style Aware Generation of Text-line Images for Handwriting Recognition Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Abbreviated Journal TPAMI  
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  Abstract Handwritten Text Recognition has achieved an impressive performance in public benchmarks. However, due to the high inter- and intra-class variability between handwriting styles, such recognizers need to be trained using huge volumes of manually labeled training data. To alleviate this labor-consuming problem, synthetic data produced with TrueType fonts has been often used in the training loop to gain volume and augment the handwriting style variability. However, there is a significant style bias between synthetic and real data which hinders the improvement of recognition performance. To deal with such limitations, we propose a generative method for handwritten text-line images, which is conditioned on both visual appearance and textual content. Our method is able to produce long text-line samples with diverse handwriting styles. Once properly trained, our method can also be adapted to new target data by only accessing unlabeled text-line images to mimic handwritten styles and produce images with any textual content. Extensive experiments have been done on making use of the generated samples to boost Handwritten Text Recognition performance. Both qualitative and quantitative results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms the current state of the art.  
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  Notes DAG; 600.140; 600.121 Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ KRR2021 Serial 3612  
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Author Lei Kang; Pau Riba; Marçal Rusiñol; Alicia Fornes; Mauricio Villegas edit   file
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  Title Pay Attention to What You Read: Non-recurrent Handwritten Text-Line Recognition Type Journal Article
  Year 2022 Publication Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal PR  
  Volume 129 Issue Pages 108766  
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  Abstract The advent of recurrent neural networks for handwriting recognition marked an important milestone reaching impressive recognition accuracies despite the great variability that we observe across different writing styles. Sequential architectures are a perfect fit to model text lines, not only because of the inherent temporal aspect of text, but also to learn probability distributions over sequences of characters and words. However, using such recurrent paradigms comes at a cost at training stage, since their sequential pipelines prevent parallelization. In this work, we introduce a non-recurrent approach to recognize handwritten text by the use of transformer models. We propose a novel method that bypasses any recurrence. By using multi-head self-attention layers both at the visual and textual stages, we are able to tackle character recognition as well as to learn language-related dependencies of the character sequences to be decoded. Our model is unconstrained to any predefined vocabulary, being able to recognize out-of-vocabulary words, i.e. words that do not appear in the training vocabulary. We significantly advance over prior art and demonstrate that satisfactory recognition accuracies are yielded even in few-shot learning scenarios.  
  Address Sept. 2022  
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  Notes DAG; 600.121; 600.162 Approved no  
  Call Number (up) Admin @ si @ KRR2022 Serial 3556  
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