Author: Vincent Christlein

We are delighted to announce that Vincent Christlein has been awarded the prestigious IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award 2024 for outstanding contributions to handwriting recognition applied to forensics and historical documents. ICDAR recognizes each second year a scholar under the age of 40 t...

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We are pleased to share that Fei Wu of the Computer Vision group has won the "ICDAR 2024 Competition on Few and Many Shot Layout Segmentation of Ancient Manuscripts." In particular, he achieved remarkable results in both tracks ("Few-Shot Layout Segmentation" and "Many-Shot Layout Segmentation"), u...

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The Odeuropa project (EU Horizon 2020) ends soon. With its fantastic outcome, it received a lot of media attention. Also members of the pattern recognition lab got interviewed, e.g., for the National Geographic lead article, for DLF "Riechen: Wie Computer Gerüche einordnen", as well as in a longer ...

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Mathias Seuret et al. received the IAPR Best Poster Award at this year's International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR, San José, August 23). In total, six of our papers got accepted at the main conference and workshops, making it a particular successful year. Looking forward...

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The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) are funding a research and development project at FAU with the aim of automatically evaluating image sequences from aerial photographs ta...

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We are pleased that the VW foundation funds the project "Shorthand in historical documents. Development of a shorthand tool based on the decipherment of a Vergil commentary in Tironian Notes". The 1,5 years project focuses on transcribing and editing ancient to early medieval stenography using patt...

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We are pleased that the German Research Foundation (DFG) funds the project "Large-scale Automatic Calving Front Segmentation and Frontal Ablation Analysis of Arctic Glaciers using Synthetic-Aperture Radar Image Sequences (LASSI)". The 3 years research project aims to develop computer vision methods...

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