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...
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 ...
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...
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...
We are happy to announce that Andreas Maier and Vincent Christlein are listed in the 2023 update of the 2% most-cited academics list created by Prof. Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis from Stanford University. It consists of citations from the year 2022.
Our thanks go to our doctoral students and collabo...
We are pleased that the VW foundation funds the project "Shorthand in historical documents.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...
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...
We are proud to announce the launch of the ICPR 2022 ODeuropa Competition on Olfactory Object Recognition (ODOR), the world's first competition for the detection on olfactory objects on historical artworks. Work with a data set of >24000 object annotations in 87 categories on ~3000 images and cr...
We are pleased that the Elite Network Bavaria (ENB) of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science & Art funds the international doctorate program "Measuring and Modelling Mountain glaciers and ice caps in a Changing Climate (M³OCCA)". The goal of this four years program is to substantially contribu...
We are pleased that the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the British Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funds the project ›Werck der Bücher‹ – Transitions, Experimentation, and Collaboration in Reprographic Technologies, 1440–1470 . It is a 3 year project analyzing early technologies o...
