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 book...

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Dr. Mike Kestemont is a long-term collaborator of FAU with respect to Digital Humanities. We finally managed to get him for an invited presentation on his latest research: Title: Ecology and cultural heritage: modelling the historic survival of books and authors with unseen species modelsDate: M...

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Leonhard Rist received his Master’s degree in Medical Engineering, with specialization on Medical Imaging and Data Processing, from Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. He joined the Pattern Recognition Lab in February 2021 as a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Mai...

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