Dr.-Ing. Vincent Christlein

Vincent Christlein studied Computer Science, graduated in 2012 and received his PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in 2018 from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany. During his studies, he worked on automatic handwriting analysis with focus on writer identification and writer retrieval. Since 2018, he has been working as a research associate at the Pattern Recognition Lab (FAU) and was promoted to Academic Councilor in 2020. He heads the Computer Vision group, which covers a wide variance of topics, e.g. environmental projects such as glacier segmentation or solar cell crack recognition, but also computational humanities topics, such as document and art analysis.

Europa Nostra Cultural Heritage Award for the Odeuropa project

2024

ICDAR/IAPR Young Investigator Award 2024 for outstanding contributions to handwriting recognition applied to forensics and historical documents, 18th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2024

2023

Best Poster Award for the paper: Seuret, M.; van der Loop, J.; Weichselbaumer, N.; Mayr, M.; Molnar, J.; Hass T; Christlein V.: "Combining OCR Models for Reading Early Modern Books", 17th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2023

2021

Best Student Paper Award for the paper: Mattick, A.; Mayr, M.; Seuret, M.; Maier, A.; Christlein, V.: "SmartPatch: Improving Handwritten Word Imitation iwth Patch Discriminators", 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2021

2020

Best Student Paper Award (Honorable Mention) for the paper: Leipert, M.; Vogeler, G.; Seuret M.; Maier A.; Christlein, V.: “The Notary in the Haystack – Countering Class Imbalance in Document Processing with CNNs”, 14th IAPR workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS), 2020.

2018 Best Student Paper Award for the paper: Stromer D., Christlein V., Huang X., Zippert P., Helmecke E., Hausotte T., Maier A.: "Non-Destructive Digitization of Soiled Historical Chinese Bamboo Scrolls", 13th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS), 2018

2017

IEEE SPS Award: on behalf of IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) for the paper: Christlein, Vincent; Riess, Christian; Jordan, Johannes; Riess, Corinna; Angelopoulou, Elli: "An Evaluation of Popular Copy-Move Forgery Detection Approaches", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 1841-1854, 2012 The SPS Best Paper Award is regularly given to high impact journal papers in the last five years and is based on a nomination from the respective IEEE Technical Committee. Competition Winner: ICDAR2017 Competition on the Classification of Medieval Handwritings in Latin Script: Task 2 (Style classification on heterogeneously encoded data) and Task 4 (Manuscript dating on heterogeneously encoded data)

2016

Competition Winner: ICFHR2016 Competition on Multi-Script Writer Demographics Classification Using "QUWI" Database: Task 1 (Writer Identification) and Task 3 (Handedness Classification) Competition Winner: ICFHR2016 Competition on the Classification of Medieval Handwritings in Latin Script: Task 1 (Accuracy)

2015

Best Poster Award for a very significant contribution in the field of document analysis and recognition for the paper: V. Christlein, D. Bernecker and E. Angelopoulou, "Writer identification using VLAD encoded contour-Zernike moments," 2015 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2015

Competition Winner: ICDAR 2015 Competition on Multi-Script Writer Identification and Gender Classification (Task 1 Writer identification)

2014

Competition Winner: ICFHR2014 Competition on Arabic Writer Identification Using AHTID/MW and KHATT Databases (Task 3 Writer identification using the KHATT datasbase)

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2025

Christlein, Vincent Der Duft der Bilder: Geruchskultur und KI im Projekt Odeuropa at Collegium Alexandrinum, Erlangen, Germany (Dec 04)

Christlein, Vincent Handschrift im Fokus: Erkennung, Imitation und Identifikation at Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften (Long Night of Sciences), Erlangen, Germany (Oct 26)

Christlein, Vincent Odeuropa: Mapping the Cultural History of Smell at Sensory Science Lecture, Erlangen, Germany (Oct 09)

Christlein, Vincent Writer Identification Across Scales: From Primitives to Pages (Keynote) at 4th Workshop on Computational Document Forensics, ICDAR 2025, WUHAN China (21.9.)

Christlein, Vincent Automatische Händescheidung im »Vergilius Turonensis« at Stenographie und Karolingische Schriftkultur. Lorsch, Germany (12.9.)

Christlein, Vincent Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Advancing Document Analysis Together (Keynote) at VisionDocs: 1st Workshop on Computer Vision Systems for Document Analysis and Recognition. WACV 2025, Tucson, USA (4.3.)

Christlein, Vincent Computer Vision Techniques for Art Analysis at Philtag 18. Würzburg, Germany (7.2.)

2024

Christlein, Vincent Unraveling Scribal Authorship: New Frontiers in Writer Retrieval (Keynote) at International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Greece (3.9.)

Christlein, Vincent Document Analysis and Recognition Activities of the PRL at OCR-AG Workshop, online (26.6.)

Christlein, Vincent Künstliche Intelligenz im Fokus: Grundlagen verstehen und Perspektiven erkennen at Jahresempfang des IHK-Gremiums Herzogenaurach, IHK Industrie- und Handelskammer Nürnberg für Mittelfranken, Höchstadt/Aisch (13.6.)

Christlein, Vincent How to see smells in artworks? at Pint of Science, Kilians Pub, Nuremberg (14,5.)

2023

Christlein, Vincent Pose Estimation for Artworks Retrieval at Fostering Collaborative Breakthroughs in Heritage Science Through Machine Learning and Data Science, SCAI, Sorbonne University, Paris (19.6.)

Christlein, Vincent Odeuropa und der Duft der Bilder at Wie riecht Heimat?, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, München (8.5.)

Christlein, Vincent Neural Networks & Deep Learning at MOCCA Seminar, Tennenlohe, Erlangen (25.2.)

2022

Christlein, Vincent Pose Estimation for Artworks Retrieval at Training the Archive - Konferenz zu Kunst und Algorithmen, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen (18.11.)

Christlein, Vincent Document Analysis and Handwriting Generation at University Rostock (27.10.)

Christlein, Vincent Maschinelles Lernen zur Analyse von historischen Dokumenten at Post aus Nürnberg, Die Briefbücher des 15. Jahrhunderts, Interdisziplinäre Tagung, Nürnberg (08.07.)

Christlein, Vincent Automatische (Textunabhängige) Schreiberidentifizierung at Tagung der Gesellschaft für forensische Schriftuntersuchung, Königswinter (17.06.)

Christlein, Vincent Maschinelles Lernen zur Analyse historischer Dokumente at Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, Erlangen (21.05.)

Christlein, Vincent Machine Learning for the Analysis of Artworks and Historical Documents at Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence (DHAI) Seminar (10.05.)

Christlein, Vincent; Mayr, Martin Handwriting Generation at Weihnachtskolloquium 2020/21, AG OCR (25.01.)

2021

Christlein, Vincent Maschinelles Lernen zur Bilddatenanalyse von Historischen Dokumenten at Ringvorlesung "Materialität in den Historischen Grundwissenschaften - Aktuelle Technologien, die Digital Humanities und neue Wege der Forschung", Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich (17.11.)

Christlein, Vincent Handwriting Analysis and Generation at Lunchtime Lectures, University of Graz (30.06.)

Christlein, Vincent; Mayr, Martin Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) - Entwicklung und aktuelle Ansätze der Handschriftenerkennung at Weihnachtskolloquium 2020/21, AG OCR (21.01.)

2020

Christlein, Vincent Automatische Schreiberidentifizierung in historischen Dokumenten at "Digital History", Digitale Geschichtswissenschaften an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (09.11.)

Christlein, Vincent; Stromer, Daniel How to Read the Unreadable? Non-Invasive digitization of cultural heritage at Dark Archives Conference 2020 (09.09.)

Christlein, Vincent; Weichselbaumer, Nikolaus The rapid rise of Fraktur at University of Paderborn (DHd2020) in Paderborn (05.03)

Christlein, Vincent Writer Identification in Historical Document Images at Universität Basel, Switzerland (Neo-Palaeography: Analysing Ancient Handwritings in the Digital Age) in Basel (21.01)

2019

Christlein, Vincent Automatische Bilddatenanalyse von Historischen Dokumenten at Mathematikon, University of Heidelberg (GG3D19: Graphdatenbanken, GIS und 3D-Modelle in der Bauforschung des Mittelalters) in Heidelberg (5.12.)

Christlein, Vincent Deep Generalized Max-Pooling at Sydney, Australia (International Conference on Document Analaysis and Recognition) in Sydney (25.09)

Christlein, Vincent Maschinelles Lernen zur bildbasierten Dokumentenanalyse at Digital Humanities (Digital Humanities Cologne Colloquium) in University of Cologne (09.05)

2018

Christlein, Vincent Encoding CNN Activations for Writer Recognition at TU Wien (13th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS)) in Wien (24.04)

2017

Christlein, Vincent Classification of Medieval Handwritten Script at Interdisziplinäre Zentrum Editionswissenschaften (IZED), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Workshop Digitale Paläographie) in Erlangen (31.01)

2016

2015

2014

2013

Christlein, Vincent (A Letter Driven) Writer Identification in Medieval Papal Charters at University of Leeds (International Medieval Congress 2013) in Leeds (02.07)

Winter semester: Advanced Deep Learning

Every semester: Project Computer Vision + Computer Vision Colloquium

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Please see https://lme.tf.fau.de/teaching/thesis/

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Bachelor's Theses: 17 Master's Theses: 42