Dr. phil. Mathias Seuret

2025

Journal Articles

• Mayr M., Dreier MN., Kordon F., Seuret M., Zöllner J., Wu F., Maier A., Christlein V.:
  Zero-Shot Paragraph-level Handwriting Imitation with Latent Diffusion Models
  In: International Journal of Computer Vision 133 (2025), p. 7054-7075
  ISSN: 0920-5691
  DOI: 10.1007/s11263-025-02525-0
  URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11263-025-02525-0
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• Wu F., Seuret M., Mayr M., Kordon F., Zöllner J., Wind S., Maier A., Christlein V.:
  Lightweight cross-attention-based HookNet for historical handwritten document layout analysis
  In: International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition 28 (2025), p. 409-427
  ISSN: 1433-2833
  DOI: 10.1007/s10032-025-00519-9
  URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10032-025-00519-9
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• Mayr M., Neumeier K., Krenz J., Bürcky S., Kordon F., Seuret M., Zöllner J., Wu F., Maier A., Christlein V.:
  Data-efficient handwritten text recognition of diplomatic historical text
  In: Multimedia Tools and Applications (2025)
  ISSN: 1380-7501
  DOI: 10.1007/s11042-024-20545-9
  URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11042-024-20545-9
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Conference Contributions

• Hüttner L., Mayr M., Gorges T., Wu F., Seuret M., Maier A., Christlein V.:
  Low-Rank Adaptation vs. Fine-Tuning for Handwritten Text Recognition
  2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops (WACVW) (Tucson, Arizona, USA, February 28, 2025 – March 4, 2025)
  In: IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops (WACVW) 2025
  DOI: 10.1109/WACVW65960.2025.00146
  URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10972546
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• Schnell M., Gourmelon N., Christlein V., Seuret M.:
  Energy Savings Playing the Lottery
  The 36th British Machine Vision Conference Workshops (Sheffield, November 24, 2025 – November 27, 2025)
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2024

Journal Articles

• Mattick A., Mayr M., Seuret M., Kordon F., Wu F., Christlein V.:
  Evaluating learned feature aggregators for writer retrieval
  In: International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition 27 (2024), p. 265-274
  ISSN: 1433-2833
  DOI: 10.1007/s10032-024-00482-x
  URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10032-024-00482-x
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Conference Contributions

• Kordon F., Weichselbaumer N., Herz R., van der Loop J., Mossman S., Potten E., Seuret M., Mayr M., Wu F., Christlein V.:
  fang: Fast Annotation of Glyphs in Historical Printed Documents
  16th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, DAS 2024 (Athens, August 30, 2024 – August 31, 2024)
  In: Giorgos Sfikas, George Retsinas (ed.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 2024
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-70442-0_23
  URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-70442-0_23
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• van der Loop J., Kordon F., Mayr M., Christlein V., Wu F., Rodriguez Salas D., Weichselbaumer N., Seuret M.:
  ICDAR 2024 Competition on Multi Font Group Recognition and OCR
  18th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2024 (Athens, GRC, August 30, 2024 – September 4, 2024)
  In: Elisa H. Barney Smith, Marcus Liwicki, Liangrui Peng (ed.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 2024
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-70552-6_23
  URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-70552-6_23
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2023

Journal Articles

• Kordon F., Weichselbaumer N., Herz R., Mossman S., Potten E., Seuret M., Mayr M., Christlein V.:
  Classification of incunable glyphs and out-of-distribution detection with joint energy-based models
  In: International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (2023)
  ISSN: 1433-2833
  DOI: 10.1007/s10032-023-00442-x
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Conference Contributions

• Zenk J., Kordon F., Mayr M., Seuret M., Christlein V.:
  Investigations on Self-supervised Learning for Script-, Font-type, and Location Classification on Historical Documents
  7th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing, HIP 2023, held in conjunction with ICDAR 2023 (San Jose, CA, August 25, 2023 – August 26, 2023)
  In: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series 2023
  DOI: 10.1145/3604951.3605519
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• 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 (San José, CA, August 21, 2023 – August 26, 2023)
  In: Gernot A. Fink, Rajiv Jain, Koichi Kise, Richard Zanibbi (ed.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Cham: 2023
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-41734-4_21
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• Seuret M., Marthot-Santaniello I., White SA., Serbaeva Saraogi O., Agolli S., Carrière G., Rodriguez Salas D., Christlein V.:
  ICDAR 2023 Competition on Detection and Recognition of Greek Letters on Papyri
  17th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2023 (San José, CA, USA, August 21, 2023 – August 23, 2023)
  In: Fink, G.A., Jain, R., Kise, K., Zanibbi, R. (ed.): Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2023, Cham: 2023
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-41679-8_29
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• Schuster B., Kordon F., Mayr M., Seuret M., Jost S., Kessler J., Christlein V.:
  Multi-stage Fine-Tuning Deep Learning Models Improves Automatic Assessment of the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test
  Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2023 (San José, CA)
  In: Fink, G.A., Jain, R., Kise, K., Zanibbi, R. (ed.): Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2023, Cham: 2023
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-41676-7_1
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• Nikolaidou K., Retsinas G., Christlein V., Seuret M., Sfikas G., Barney Smith E., Mokayed H., Liwicki M.:
  WordStylist: Styled Verbatim Handwritten Text Generation with Latent Diffusion Models
  International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (San José, CA, August 21, 2023 – August 26, 2023)
  In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Cham: 2023
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-41679-8_22
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• Carriere G., Nikolaidou K., Kordon F., Mayr M., Seuret M., Christlein V.:
  Beyond Human Forgeries: An Investigation into Detecting Diffusion-Generated Handwriting
  ICDAR 2023: Document Analysis and Recognition (San José, CA, August 24, 2023 – August 26, 2023)
  In: Mickael Coustaty, Alicia Fornés (ed.): Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2023 Workshops, Cham: 2023
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-41498-5_1
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• Rodriguez Salas D., Öttl M., Seuret M., Packhäuser K., Maier A.:
  Using Forestnets for Partial Fine-Tuning Prior to Breast Cancer Detection in Ultrasounds
  2023 IEEE 20th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) (Cartagena, Colombia, April 18, 2023 – April 21, 2023)
  In: 2023 IEEE 20th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2023
  DOI: 10.1109/ISBI53787.2023.10230424
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2022

Journal Articles

• Dutta B., Root K., Ullmann I., Wagner F., Mayr M., Seuret M., Thies M., Stromer D., Christlein V., Schür J., Maier A., Huang Y.:
  Deep learning for terahertz image denoising in nondestructive historical document analysis
  In: Scientific Reports 12 (2022), p. 1-11
  ISSN: 2045-2322
  DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-26957-7
  URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-26957-7
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• Nikolaidou K., Seuret M., Mokayed H., Liwicki M.:
  A survey of historical document image datasets
  In: International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (2022)
  ISSN: 1433-2833
  DOI: 10.1007/s10032-022-00405-8
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Conference Contributions

• Christlein V., Marthot-Santaniello I., Mayr M., Nicolaou A., Seuret M.:
  Writer Retrieval and Writer Identification in Greek Papyri
  International Graphonomics Conference (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, June 7, 2022 – June 9, 2022)
  In: Springer (ed.): Intertwining Graphonomics with Human Movements 2022
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-19745-1_6
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• Sukesh R., Seuret M., Nicolaou A., Mayr M., Christlein V.:
  A Fair Evaluation of Various Deep Learning-Based Document Image Binarization Approaches
  15th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, DAS 2022 (La Rochelle, FRA, May 22, 2022 – May 25, 2022)
  In: Seiichi Uchida, Elisa Barney, Véronique Eglin (ed.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 2022
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-06555-2_52
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• Zippert P., Seuret M., Maier A., Hausotte T.:
  Influence of X-Ray Radiation on Historical Paper
  11th Conference on Industrial Computed Tomography (Wels, Austria, February 8, 2022 – February 11, 2022)
  DOI: 10.58286/26625
  URL: https://www.ndt.net/article/ctc2022/papers/ICT2022_paper_id264.pdf
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• El-Ghoussani A., Rodriguez Salas D., Seuret M., Maier A.:
  GAN-based Augmentation of Mammograms to Improve Breast Lesion Detection
  Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2022 (Heidelberg, DEU, June 26, 2022 – June 28, 2022)
  In: Klaus Maier-Hein, Thomas M. Deserno, Heinz Handels, Andreas Maier, Christoph Palm, Thomas Tolxdorff (ed.): Informatik aktuell, Wiesbaden: 2022
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-36932-3_66
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• Nikolaidou K., Upadhyay R., Seuret M., Liwicki M.:
  Investigating the Effect of Using Synthetic and Semi-synthetic Images for Historical Document Font Classification
  15th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, DAS 2022 (La Rochelle, FRA, May 22, 2022 – May 25, 2022)
  In: Seiichi Uchida, Elisa Barney, Véronique Eglin (ed.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 2022
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-06555-2_41
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• Nicolaou A., Christlein V., Riba E., Shi J., Vogeler G., Seuret M.:
  TorMentor: Deterministic dynamic-path, data augmentations with fractals
  2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2022 (New Orleans, LA, June 19, 2022 – June 20, 2022)
  In: IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops 2022
  DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW56347.2022.00305
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2021

Conference Contributions

• Seuret M., Nicolaou A., Rodríguez-Salas D., Weichselbaumer N., Stutzmann D., Mayr M., Maier A., Christlein V.:
  ICDAR 2021 Competition on Historical Document Classification
  16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2021 (Lausanne, September 5, 2021 – September 10, 2021)
  In: Josep Lladós, Daniel Lopresti, Seiichi Uchida (ed.): Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021 2021
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-86337-1_41
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• Rodriguez Salas D., Seuret M., Vesal S., Maier A.:
  Ultrasound Breast Lesion Detection using Extracted Attention Maps from a Weakly Supervised Convolutional Neural Network
  Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2021 (Regensburg, March 7, 2021 – March 9, 2021)
  In: Palm, Christoph; Deserno, Thomas M.; Handels, Heinz;Maier, Andreas; Maier-Hein, Klaus;Tolxdorff, Thomas. (ed.): Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2021, Wiesbaden: 2021
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-33198-6
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• Christlein V., Weichselbaumer N., Limbach S., Seuret M.:
  Proof of Concept: Automatic Type Recognition
  In: Reussner RH, Koziolek A, Heinrich R (ed.): INFORMATIK 2020 2021
  DOI: 10.18420/inf2020_122
  URL: https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/34712
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• Mattick A., Mayr M., Seuret M., Maier A., Christlein V.:
  SmartPatch: Improving Handwritten Word Imitation with Patch Discriminators
  16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2021 (Lausanne, CHE, September 5, 2021 – September 10, 2021)
  In: Josep Lladós, Daniel Lopresti, Seiichi Uchida (ed.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 2021
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-86549-8_18
  URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10528
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• Alberti M., Botros A., Schuetz N., Ingold R., Liwicki M., Seuret M.:
  Trainable Spectrally Initializable Matrix Transformations in Convolutional Neural Networks
  25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) (, ELECTR NETWORK)
  In: 2020 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION (ICPR), LOS ALAMITOS: 2021
  DOI: 10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9412204
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2020

Journal Articles

• Rodriguez Salas D., Mürschberger N., Ravikumar N., Seuret M., Maier A.:
  Mapping Ensembles of Trees to Sparse, Interpretable Multilayer Perceptron Networks
  In: SN Computer Science 1 (2020), Article No.: 252
  ISSN: 2661-8907
  DOI: 10.1007/s42979-020-00268-y
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• Baierer K., Boenig M., Engl E., Hartmann V., Neudecker C., Altenhoener R., Geyken A., Mangei J., Stotzka R., Dengel A., Jenckel M., Gehrke A., Puppe F., Weil S., Sachunsky R., Heyer G., Fink F., Schulz KU., Weichselbaumer N., Limbach S., Seuret M., Dong R., Burghardt M., Christlein V., Triet Ho Anh Doan ., Dogan ZM., Panzer JH., Schima-Voigt K., Wieder P.:
  OCR-D Compact: Results and State of Research in the Funding Initiative
  In: Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis 44 (2020), p. 218-230
  ISSN: 1865-7648
  DOI: 10.1515/bfp-2020-0024
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• Weichselbaumer N., Seuret M., Limbach S., Dong R., Burghardt M., Christlein V.:
  New Approaches to OCR for Early Printed Books
  In: DigItalia 2 (2020)
  ISSN: 1972-621X
  DOI: 10.36181/digitalia-00015
  URL: http://digitalia.sbn.it/article/view/2630
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Book Contributions

• Jordan S., Seuret M., Král P., Lenc L., Martínek J., Wiermann B., Schwinger T., Maier A., Christlein V.:
  Re-Ranking for Writer Identification and Writer Retrieval
  In: Document Analysis Systems, 2020, p. 572-586
  ISBN: 9783030570576
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-57058-3_40
  URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07101
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• Leipert M., Vogeler G., Seuret M., Maier A., Christlein V.:
  The Notary in the Haystack – Countering Class Imbalance in Document Processing with CNNs
  In: Xiang Bai, Dimosthenis Karatzas, Daniel Lopresti (ed.): Document Analysis Systems, 2020, p. 246-261
  ISBN: 9783030570576
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-57058-3_18
  URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07943
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Conference Contributions

• Seuret M., Nicolaou A., Stutzmann D., Maier A., Christlein V.:
  ICFHR 2020 Competition on Image Retrieval for Historical Handwritten Fragments
  17th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR) (Dortmund, September 8, 2020 – September 10, 2020)
  DOI: 10.1109/ICFHR2020.2020.00048
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• Rodriguez Salas D., Ravikumar N., Seuret M., Maier A.:
  ForestNet – Automatic Design of Sparse Multilayer Perceptron Network Architectures Using Ensembles of Randomized Trees
  The 5th Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (Auckland, New Zealand, November 26, 2019 – November 29, 2019)
  In: Pattern Recognition 2020
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-41404-7_3
  URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-41404-7_3
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• Weichselbaumer N., Seuret M., Limbach S., Hinrichsen L., Maier A., Christlein V.:
  The rapid rise of Fraktur
  7. Tagung des Verbands Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (Paderborn, March 2, 2020 – March 6, 2020)
  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3666690
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• Mayr M., Stumpf M., Nicolaou A., Seuret M., Maier A., Christlein V.:
  Spatio-Temporal Handwriting Imitation
  European Conference on Computer Vision (Online, August 23, 2020 – August 28, 2020)
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-68238-5_38
  URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-68238-5_38
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2019

Conference Contributions

• Seuret M., Limbach S., Weichselbaumer N., Maier A., Christlein V.:
  Dataset of pages from early printed books with multiple font groups
  5th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing, HIP 2019, held in conjunction with ICDAR 2019 (Sydney, NSW, September 20, 2019 – September 21, 2019)
  In: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series 2019
  DOI: 10.1145/3352631.3352640
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• Alberti M., Vogtlin L., Pondenkandath V., Seuret M., Ingold R., Liwicki M.:
  Labeling, cutting, grouping: An efficient text line segmentation method for medieval manuscripts
  15th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2019 (Sydney, NSW, September 20, 2019 – September 25, 2019)
  In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2019
  DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2019.00194
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• Weichselbaumer N., Seuret M., Limbach S., Christlein V., Maier A.:
  Automatic Font Group Recognition in Early Printed Books
  DHd 2019 (Mainz und Frankfurt, March 25, 2019 – March 29, 2019)
  In: Patrick Sahle (ed.): 6. Tagung des Verbands Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum e.V. 2019
  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2596095
  URL: https://zenodo.org/record/2596095
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• Christlein V., Spranger L., Seuret M., Nikolaou A., Král P., Maier A.:
  Deep Generalized Max Pooling
  2019 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) (Sydney, September 20, 2019 – September 25, 2019)
  In: 2019 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) 2019
  DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2019.00177
  URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05040
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• Christlein V., Nikolaou A., Seuret M., Stutzmann D., Maier A.:
  ICDAR 2019 Competition on Image Retrieval for Historical Handwritten Documents
  2019 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) (Sydney, September 20, 2019 – September 25, 2019)
  In: 2019 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) 2019
  DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2019.00242
  URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03713
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