Vincent Christlein

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08MAR 2021
News
DFG funds Font Group Recognition for Improved OCR
We are pleased that the German Research Foundation (DFG) funded our project “Font Group Recognition for Improved OCR”. It will be part of Phase III of OCR-D, the German initiative for OCR development. In total, FAU will receive 210.000 Eur for 24 months. This project aims to improve OCR for books from the 16th to […]
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10SEP 2020
Competitions
ICDAR 2021 Competition on Historical Document Classification
This competition investigates the performance of historical document classification. The analysis of historical documents is a difficult challenge commonly solved by trained humanists. We provide three different classification tasks, which can be solved individually or jointly: font group, location, date. Additionally, we will declare an overall winner for participants who contributed to all three tasks. […]This competition investigates the performance of historical document classification. The analysis of historical documents is a difficult challenge commonly solved by trained humanists. We provide three different classification tasks, which can be solved individually or jointly: font group, location, date. Additionally, we will declare an overall winner for participants who contributed to all three tasks. […]
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07AUG 2020
News
Honorable Mention Best Student Paper Award
Great achievement by Martin Leipert, Georg Vogeler, Mathias Seuret, Andreas Maier, Vincent Christlein! Their paper “The Notary in the Haystack — Countering Class Imbalance in Document Processing with CNNs” received the Honorable Mention Best Student Paper Award by the 14th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems For more information on the paper, please see:Youtube: https://youtu.be/z0KqfwyL0wUarXiv: […]Great achievement by Martin Leipert, Georg Vogeler, Mathias Seuret, Andreas Maier, Vincent Christlein! Their paper “The Notary in the Haystack — Countering Class Imbalance in Document Processing with CNNs” received the Honorable Mention Best Student Paper Award by the 14th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems For more information on the paper, please see:Youtube: https://youtu.be/z0KqfwyL0wUarXiv: […]
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15JUL 2020
Competitions
HisFragIR20 – ICFHR 2020 Competition on Image Retrieval for Historical Handwritten Fragments
This competition investigates the performance of large-scale retrieval of historical document fragments based on writer recognition. The analysis of historic fragments is a difficult challenge commonly solved by trained humanists. To simulate fragments, we extract random text patches from historical document images. The goal is then to find similar patches of the same page or […]
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07JUL 2020
News
BR Fernsehen – Abendschau Feature
Today a BR film crew came to the lab and shot a feature for the “Abendschau” about our work on handwriting imitation . We demonstrated in detail how one’s handwriting can automatically be synthesized. It was broadcast on BR Fernsehen Monday 20th of July in the “Abendschau” and can now be watched in the mediathek […]
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08JUN 2020
News
Spatio-Temporal Handwriting Imitation
Written by Vincent Christlein Contribution To the best of our knowledge, it is the first paper that synthesizes realistic Western cursive handwriting by mimicking the actual temporal writing process of a single handwritten line. Our method works nearly fully automatic, e.g. no manual cutting out of characters, and is able to render full lines instead […]
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