Program

Thursday April, 27th

Program, April 27th (9:00 - 9:30)

	Registration
9:00 - 9:30	Opening

• Workshop Presentation

• Interactive Document Processing and Digital Libraries George Nagy(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA.) Daniel Lopresti(Lehigh University, Bethlehem, USA)

Program, April 27th (9:30 - 10:00)

9:30 - 10:00

Handwritten documents segmentation and recognition I

• Document Image Retrieval using Signatures as Queries Sargur N. Srihari, Shravya Shetty, Siyuan Chen, Harish Srinivasan and Chen Huang (Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR), Buffalo NY, USA)

• Exploring the Use of Conditional Random Field Models and HMMs for Historical Handwritten Document Recognition Shaolei Feng, R. Manmatha, Andrew McCallum (Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval Group Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA)

COFFEE BREAK

Program, April 27th (10:30 - 11:30)

10:30 - 11:30

Handwritten documents segmentation and recognition II

• Separating Lines of Text in Free-Form Handwritten Historical Documents Douglas J. Kennard and William A. Barrett (Brigham Young University, Provo, USA)

• Text line extraction in handwritten document with Kalman filter applied on low resolution image Aurélie Lemaitre, Jean Camillerapp, Bertrand Coüasnon (IRISA / INSA, Rennes, France)

• Complex Handwritten Page Segmentation Using Contextual Models Stéphane Nicolas, Thierry Paquet, Laurent Heutte (Laboratoire PSI – Université de Rouen, Saint Etienne du Rouvray, France)

Program, April 27th (11:30 - 12:30)

11:30 - 12:30

Special Session

• Needs of researchers in the field of Humanities Philippe Régnier (CNRS, Research Cluster, France) Anne-Marie Mercier-Faivre (University Lyon II, France) Antony McKenna (University of Saint Etienne, France)
• Research Engines

LUNCH

Program, April 27th (14:00 - 15:30)

14:00 - 15:30

OCR and Layout analysis for multilingual printed documents

• Dedicated texture based tools for characterisation of old books Nicholas Journet(L3I, La Rochelle, France) Véronique Eglin(LIRIS INSA de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France) Jean-Yves Ramel(LI-RFAI, Tours, France) Rémy Mullot(L3I, La Rochelle, France)

• Improving OCR Text Categorization Accuracy with Electronic Abstracts Linlin Li and Chew Lim Tan (School of Computing National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore)

• Character templates learning for textual images recognition as an example of learning in structural recognition Bogdan Savchynskyy and Olexander Kamotskyy (International Research and Training Center of Information Technologies and Systems, Kiev, Ukraine)

• Design and Comparison of Segmentation Driven and Recognition Driven Devanagari OCR Suryaprakash Kompalli, Srirangaraj Setlur and Venu Govindaraju (CEDAR, University at Buffalo, Amherst, NY, USA)

• Combining a hybrid Approach for Features Selection and Hidden Markov Models in Multifont Arabic Characters Recognition Nadia Ben Amor(National Engineering School of Tunis (ENIT) Tunisia) Najoua Essoukri Ben Amara(National Engineering School of Sousse (ENISo), Laboratory of Systems and Signal Processing (LSTS) Tunisia)

• OCR Voting Methods for Recognizing Low Contrast Printed Documents István Marosi and László Tóth (ScanSoft-Recognita, Inc.)

COFFEE BREAK

Program, April 27th (16:00 - 17:30)

16:00 - 17:30

DIA applications for Digital Libraries

• The Case of the Digitized Works at a National Digital Library José Borbinha, João Gil, Gilberto Pedrosa, João Penas (INESC-ID – Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Lisboa, Portugal)

• Multilingual document recognition research and its application in China Liangrui Peng, Changsong Liu, Xiaoqing Ding, Hua Wang (Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, Beijing, China)

• Digital Bleaching and Content Extraction for the Digital Archive of Rare Books Asanobu Kitamoto, Takeo Yamamoto, Makiko Onishi, Tomohiro Ikezaki, Dominique Deuff, Eka Meyer, Sonoko Sato, Takako Muramatsu and Kinji Ono (National Institute of Informatics, Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan )

• AGORA: the interactive document image analysis tool of the BVH project Jean Yves Ramel, Sébastien Busson, Marie-Luce Demonet (Lab. d'Informatique, Ecole Polytechnique de l’Université de Tours, France)

• Ink recognition based on statistical classification methods Vassiliki Kokla, Alexandra Psarrou, Vassilis Konstantinou (Harrow School of Computer Science, University of Westminster, Watford Road, UK)

• What can we learn from the processing of 165,000 forms from the 19th century? Bertrand Coüasnon (IRISA / INSA, Rennes, France)

DEMOS (during all the workshop)

Library visit

• Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon Pierre Guinard (BML, Lyon)

• Bibliothèque Unviversitaire de Jean Moulin Jean Bernon (univ. Jean Moulin)

City Tour

Banquet

Friday (April, 28th)

Program, April 28th (09:00 - 10:00)

09:00 - 10:00

Documents Images Indexing and Retrieval I

• Use of Figures in Literature Mining for Biomedical Digital Libraries Nawei Chen, Hagit Shatkay, Dorothea Blostein (School of Computing, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada)

• Automatic Content-based Indexing of Digital Documents through Intelligent Processing Techniques Floriana Esposito, Stefano Ferilli,Teresa M.A. Basile, Nicola Di Mauro (Dipartimento di Informatica University of Bari Via Orabona, Italy)

• Querying for silhouettes by qualitative feature schemes Björn Gottfried (Centre for Computing Technologies University of Bremen, Germany)

COFFEE BREAK

Program, April 28th (10:30 - 11:30)

10:30 - 11:30

Documents Images Indexing and Retrieval II

• On defining signatures for the retrieval and the classification of graphical dropcaps Rudolf Pareti and Nicole Vincent (Laboratoire CRIP5, Université de Paris 5, France) Surapong Uttama and Jean-Marc Ogier (Laboratoire L3i, Université de la Rochelle, France) Jean-Pierre Salmon, Salvatore Tabbone, Laurent Wendling (LORIA, INRIA, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France)

• Distance Measures for Layout-Based Document Image Retrieval Joost van Beusekom, Daniel Keysers, Faisal Shafait, Thomas M. Breuel (Image Understanding and Pattern Recognition Research Group German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH and University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany)

• Tree clustering for layout based document image retrieval Simone Marinai, Emanuele Marino, Giovanni Soda (Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica Universit`a di Firenze Via S.Marta, Firenze, Italy)

• Detection and Segmentation of Table of Contents and Index Pages from Document Images S. Mandal, S. P. Chowdhury, A. K. Das (CST Dept., B.E. & Science University Sibpur, India) Bhabatosh Chanda (ECS Unit, Indian Statistical Unit Calcutta, India)

Program, April 27th (11:30 - 12:30)

11:30 - 12:30

Special Session

• The Timbuktu manuscripts project Alfadoulou Abdoulahi, Mohamed Gallah Dicko (Ahmed Baba Institute, Timbuktu, Mali) The Future of the Library Patrick Bazin (Library of Lyon, France) Needs for industrial companies Christophe Rouesné (Infotechnique,Howald, Luxemburg)

LUNCH

Program, April 28th (14:00 - 15:30)

14:00 - 15:30

Other trends in DIA

• Computer assistance for Digital Libraries: Contributions to Middle-ages and Authors’ Manuscripts exploitation and enrichment Veronique Eglin, Frank LeBourgeois, Stephane Bres, Hubert Emptoz, Yann Leydier (LIRIS INSA de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France)

• Refinement of retro-digitized documents including mathematical formulae by re-recognition Toshihiro Kanahori (Research and Support Center on Higher Education for the Hearing and Visually Impaired, Tsukuba University of Technology, Japan) Masakazu Suzuki (Faculty of Mathematics, Kyushu University, Japan)

• Image Analysis for Palaeography Inspection Ikram Moalla (LIRIS INSA de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France) Adel M. Alimi (REsearch Group on Intelligent Machines (REGIM), University of Sfax, Tunisia)

• A novel technique for the watermarking of symbolically compressed documents Sarbani Palit and Utpal Garain (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit, Indian Statistical Institute,Kolkata, India)

• User centered image management system for digital libraries Zoltán Iszlai Elöd Egyed-Zsigmond (Sapientia EMTE P-ta Trandafirilor, Târgu Mures, Romania) Elöd Egyed-Zsigmond (LIRIS INSA de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France)

COFFEE BREAK

Program, April 28th (16:00 - 17:30)

16:00 - 17:30

DIA evaluation and Document Image Quality

• DIAL 2004 Working Group Report on Acquisition Quality Control Elisa H. Barney Smith, H. Baird, W. Barrett, F. Le Bourgeois, X. Lin, G. Nagy and S. Simske

• Quality assurance in high volume document digitization: A survey Xiaofan Lin (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, USA)

• Improving the Quality of Degraded Document Images Ergina Kavallieratou and Efstathios Stamatatos (Dept. of Information and Communication Systems Eng., University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, Greece)

• Towards restoring historic documents degraded over time Fadoua Drira (LIRIS INSA de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France)

• Image Interpolation using Mathematical Morphology Alessandro Ledda, Hiêp Q. Luong, Wilfried Philips (Telin Department, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium) Valérie De Witte and Etienne E. Kerre (Department of Applied Mathematics & Computer Science, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium)

• Performance Evaluation of a Mathematical Formula Recognition System with a large scale of printed formula images Kazuki Ashida (Faculty of Economics, Shinshu University, Asahi, Matsumoto, Japan) Takashi Kitahara, Masayuki Naka, Tsubasa Nakatsuka, Masayuki Okamoto (Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University, Wakasato, Nagano, Japan)

Program, April 28th 17:30

Closing