ICFHR2016 Program: 23-26, October, 2016, Shenzhen, China.

Oct 23 (Sunday)

 8:00-18:00

Registration

 9:00-17:30

Tutorials

18:00-20:00

Welcome reception

Oct 24 (Monday)

8:00-9:00

Registration

9:00-9:20

Opening

9:20-10:20

Keynote 1: Lambert Schomaker  Chair: Umapada Pal

How deep is deep and what's next in computational intelligence?

10:20-10:50

Break

10:50-12:30

Oral Session 1: Document Segmentation and Understanding  Chair: Angelo Marcelli

10:50-11:10

#23: Bastien Moysset, Jerome Louradour, Christopher Kermorvant and Christian Wolf. Learning text-line localization with shared and local regression neural networks

11:10-11:30

#21: Sheng He, Petros Samara, Jan Burgers and Lambert Schomaker. Discovering Visual Element Evolutions for Historical Document Dating

11:30-11:50

#37: Majeed Kassis and Jihad El-Sana. Scribble Based Interactive Page Layout Segmentation Using Gabor Filter

11:50-12:10

#88: Umair Muneer Butt, Muhammad Imran Malik, Faisal Shafait and Sheraz Ahmad. Automatic Signature Segmentation Using Hyper-spectral Imaging

12:10-12:30

#109: K. S. Raghunandan, Palaiahnakote Shivakumara, B. J. Navya, G. Pooja, Navya Prakash, G. Hemantha Kumar, Umapada Pal and Tong Lu. Fourier Coefficients for Fraud Handwritten Document Classification Through Age Analysis

12:30-13:40

Lunch

13:40-14:50

Poster session 1  Chair: Tong-Hua Su

#3: Majeed Kassis and Jihad El-Sana. Word Spotting using Radial Descriptor Graph

#5: Sangheeta Roy, Palaiahnakote Shivakumara, Umapada Pal, Tong Lu and Chew Lim Tan. New Tampered Features for Scene and Caption Text Classification in Video Frame

#8: Moises Diaz, Sukalpa Chanda, Miguel Ferrer, Chayan Kr. Banerjee, Anirban Majumdar, Cristina Carmona-Duarte, Parikshit Acharya and Umapada Pal.Multiple Generation of Bengali Static Signatures

#10: Martin Bresler, Daniel Prusa and Vaclav Hlavac. Recognizing Off-line Flowcharts by Reconstructing Strokes and Using On-line Recognition Techniques

#12: Yunxue Shao, Guanglai Gao and Chunheng Wang. A Connection Reduced Network for Similar Handwritten Chinese Character Discrimination

#14: Ji Liu, Long-Long Ma and Jian Wu. Online Handwritten Mongolian Word Recognition Using MWRCNN and Position Maps

#15: Mauricio Villegas, Alejandro H. Toselli, Verónica Romero and Enrique Vidal. Exploiting Existing Modern Transcripts for Historical Handwritten Text Recognition

#20: Fan Daoerji and Gao Guanglai. DNN-HMM for Large Vocabulary Mongolian Offline Handwriting Recognition

#22: Sheng He and Lambert Schomaker. Co-occurrence features for writer identification

#27: Song Wang, Li Chen, Liang Xu, Wei Fan, Jun Sun and Satoshi Naoi, Deep Knowledge Training and Heterogeneous CNN for Handwritten Chinese Text Recognition

#28: Kai Chen, Mathias Seuret, Marcus Liwicki, Jean Hennebert, Cheng-Lin Liu and Rolf Ingold. Page Segmentation for Historical Handwritten Document Images Using Conditional Random Fields

#30: Nicholas Howe, Andreas Fischer and Baptiste Wicht. Inkball Models as Features for Handwriting Recognition

#33: Hemmaphan Suwanwiwat, Michael Blumenstein and Umapada Pal. An Investigation of Novel Combined Features on Automatic Off-line Short Answer Assessment System

#36: Dona Valy, Michel Verleysen and Kimheng Sok. Line Segmentation Approach for Ancient Palm Leaf Manuscripts using Competive Learning Algorithm

#39: Xi Shen and Ronaldo Messina. A method of synthesizing handwritten Chinese images for data augumentation

#41: Fatma Chabchoub, Yousri Kessentini, Slim Kanoun and Véronique Eglin, Frank Lebourgeois. SmartATID: A mobile captured Arabic Text Images Dataset for multi-purpose recognition tasks

#43: Suliman Alsuhibany and Mohammad Tanvir Parvez. Secure Arabic Handwritten CAPTCHA Generation Using OCR Operations

#46: Rui Wu, Shuli Yang, Dawei Leng, Zhenbo Luo and Yunhong Wang. Random Projected Convolutional Feature for Scene Text Recognition

#49: Kha Cong Nguyen and Masaki Nakagawa. Enhanced Character Segmentation for Format-Free Japanese Text Recognition

#50: Hung Tuan Nguyen, Cuong Tuan Nguyen, Pham The Bao and Masaki Nakagawa. Preparation of an Unconstrained Vietnamese Online Handwriting Database and Recognition Experiments by Recurrent Neural Networks

#52: Kapil K. Upreti and Soumen Bag. Segmentation of Unconstrained Handwritten Hindi Words Using Polygonal Approximation

#56: Youbao Tang and Xiangqian Wu. Scene Text Detection via Edge Clue and Multi-Features

#58: Li Chen, Song Wang, Wei Fan, Jun Sun and Satoshi Naoi. Cascading Training for Relaxation CNN on Handwritten Character Recognition

#61: Made Windu Antara Kesiman, Jean-Christophe Burie, Jean-Marc Ogier, Gusti Ngurah Made Agus Wibawantara and I Made Gede Sunarya.AMADI_LontarSet: The First Handwritten Balinese Palm Leaf Manuscripts Dataset

#65: Daniel Martín-Albo, Luis A. Leiva and Réjean Plamondon. On the Design of Personal Digital Bodyguards: Impact of Hardware Resolution on Handwriting Analysis

#67: Lei Hu and Richard Zanibbi, Line of Sight Stroke Graphs for Handwritten Math Formula Representation and Symbol Segmentation

#68: Ting Zhang, Harold Mouchère and Christian Viard-Gaudin. Online Handwritten Mathematical Expressions Recognition by Merging Multiple 1D Interpretations

#78: Dewi Suryani, Patrick Doetsch and Hermann Ney. On the Benefits of Convolutional Neural Network Combinations in Offline Handwriting Recognition

#79: Leonard Rothacker and Gernot A. Fink. Robust Output Modeling in Bag-of-Features HMMs for Handwriting Recognition

#80: Fredrik Wahlberg, Tomas Wilkinson and Anders Brun. Historical Manuscript Production Date Estimation using Deep Convolutional Networks

#82: Yann Leydier, Jean Duong, Stephane Bres, Véronique Eglin, Frank Le Bourgeois and Martial Tola. libcrn, an Open-Source Document Image Processing Library

#120: Jianjuan Liang, Bilan Zhu and Masaki Nakagawa. A candidate lattice refinement method for online handwritten Japanese text recognition

#134: Adolfo Santoro, Antonio Parziale and Angelo Marcelli. A human in the loop approach to historical handwritten document transcription

14:50-16:10

Oral Session 2: Deep Learning for Handwriting Recognition  Chair: Thierry Paquet

14:50-15:10

#11: Paul Voigtlaender, Patrick Doetsch and Hermann Ney. Handwriting Recognition with Large Multidimensional Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks

15:10-15:30

#13: Bruno Stuner, Clément Chatelain and Thierry Paquet. A Lexicon Verification Strategy in a BLSTM Cascade Framework

15:30-15:50

#32: Zenghui Sun, Lianwen Jin, Zecheng Xie, Ziyong Feng and Shuye Zhang. Convolutional Multi-directional Recurrent Network for Offline Handwritten Text Recognition

15:50-16:10

#94: Cuong Tuan Nguyen and Masaki Nakagawa. Finite State Machine Based Decoding of Handwritten Text Using Recurrent Neural Networks

16:10-16:30

Break

16:30-18:20

Oral Session 3: Online Handwriting Recognition  Chair: Richard Zanibbi

16:30-17:00

Invited: Réjean Plamondon, Personal Digital Bodyguards for e-Security, e-Health and e-Learning: an International Journey

17:00-17:20

#17: Chengcheng Wang, Harold Mouchère, Christian Viard-Gaudin and Lianwen Jin. Combined Segmentation and Recognition of Online Handwritten Diagrams with High Order Markov Random Field

17:20-17:40

#71: Minh Khanh Phan, Anh Le Duc and Masaki Nakagawa. Semi-Incremental Recognition of Online Handwritten Mathematical Expressions

17:40-18:00

#92: Brian Iwana, Seiichi Uchida and Volkmar Frinken. A Robust Dissimilarity-based Neural Network for Temporal Pattern Recognition

18:00-18:20

#122: Tonghua Su and Li Sun. Deep LSTM Networks for Online Chinese Handwriting Recognition

Oct 25 (Tuesday)

9:00-10:00

Keynote 2: Hermann Ney  Chair: Youbin Chen

Handwriting and Speech Recognition: From Bayes Decision Rule to Deep Neural Networks

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-12:30

Oral Session 4: Document Retrieval  Chair: Shivakumara Palaiahnakote

10:30-10:50

#2: Sebastian Sudholt and Gernot Fink. PHOCNet: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Word Spotting in Handwritten Documents

10:50-11:10

#63: Giorgos Sfikas, George Retsinas and Basilis Gatos. Zoning Aggregated Hypercolumns for Keyword Spotting

11:10-11:30

#35: Praveen Krishnan, Kartik Dutta and C V Jawahar. Deep Feature Embedding for Accurate Recognition and Retrieval of Handwritten Text

11:30-11:50

#47: Zhong Zhuoyao, Weishen Pan, Lianwen Jin, Harold Mouchère and Christian Viard-Gaudin. SpottingNet: Learning the Similarity of Word Images with Convolutional Neural Network for Word Spotting in Handwritten Historical Documents

11:50-12:10

#72: Bartosz Bogacz, Nicholas Howe and Hubert Mara. Segmentation free spotting of Cuneiform using part structured models

12:10-12:30

#121: Tomas Wilkinson and Anders Brun. Semantic and Verbatim Word Spotting using Deep Neural Networks

12:30-13:40

Lunch

13:40-14:40

Poster session 2  Chair: Fei Yin

#16: Vicente Bosch Campos, Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza, Alejandro Héctor Toselli and Enrique Vidal. Sheet Music Statistical Layout Analysis

#24: Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza, Alejandro Héctor Toselli and Enrique Vidal. Early Handwritten Music Recognition with Hidden Markov Models

#62: Made Windu Antara Kesiman, Jean-Christophe Burie and Jean-Marc Ogier. A New Scheme for Text Line and Character Segmentation from Gray Scale Images of Palm Leaf Manuscript

#66: Verónica Romero, Alicia Fornés, Enrique Vidal and Joan Andreu Sánchez. Using the MGGI Methodology for Category-based Language Modeling in Handwritten Marriage Licenses Books

#70: Lei Hu and Richard Zanibbi. MST-Based Parsing of Online Handwritten Mathematical Expressions

#76: Liang Xu, Wei Fan, Jun Sun and Satoshi Naoi. An HMM-based Over-segmentation Method for Touching Chinese Handwriting Recognition

#77: Alejandro Toselli, Joan Puigcerver and Enrique Vidal. Two Methods for Improving Confidence Scores for Lexicon-free Word Spotting in Handwritten Text

#83: Salil Kanetkar, Ayush Pathania, Vivek Venugopal and Suresh Sundaram. Offline Writer Identification using Local Derivative Pattern

#85: Patrick Doetsch, Albert Zeyer and Hermann Ney. Bidirectional decoder networks for attention-based end-to-end offline handwriting recognition

#87: Sovann En, Caroline Petitjean, Stephane Nicolas, Frederic Jurie and Laurent Heutte. Region Proposal for Pattern Spotting in Historical Document Images

#93: Soumik Bhattacharya, Durjoy Sen Maitra, Ujjwal Bhattacharya and Swapan Kr. Parui, An End-to-End System for Bangla Online Handwriting Recognition

#95: Zhaoxin Chen, Eric Anquetil, Harold Mouchère and Christian Viard-Gaudin. A dataset for evaluating simultaneous composition of structured documents in a multi-user and multi-touch environment

#97: Fan Yang, Lianwen Jin, Weixin Yang, Ziyong Feng and Shuye Zhang. Handwritten/Printed Receipt Classification using Attention-Based Convolutional Neural Network

#98: Anh Le Duc and Masaki Nakagawa. Comparison of parsing algorithms for recognizing online handwritten mathematical expressions

#100: Ali Mirza, Momina Moetesum, Chawki Djeddi and Imran Siddiqi. Gender Classification from Offline Handwriting Images using Textural Features

#101: Hanen Khlif, Sophea Prum, Yousri Kessentini, Slim Kanoun and Jean-Marc Ogier, Fusion of explicit segmentation based system and segmentation-free based system for on-line Arabic handwritten word recognition

#108: Seiichi Uchida, Shota Ide, Brian Iwana and Anna Zhu,  A Further Step to Perfect Accuracy by Training CNN with Larger Data

#110: Fuxi Jia, Cunzhao Shi, Kun He, Chunheng Wang and Baihua Xiao. Document Image Binarization using Structural Symmetry of Strokes

#112: Bilan Zhu, Arti Shivram, Masaki Nakagawa and Venu Govindaraju. Online handwritten cursive word recognition by combining segmentation-free and segmentation-based methods

#113: Anshuman Majumdar, Praveen Krishnan and C V Jawahar. Visual Aesthetic Analysis for Handwritten Document Images

#115:  Chandranath Adak, Bidyut B. Chaudhuri and Michael Blumenstein, Offline Cursive Bengali Word Recognition using CNNs with a Recurrent Model

#116: Rajib Ghosh and Partha Pratim Roy. Comparison of Zone-Features for Online Bengali and Devanagari Word Recognition using HMM

#124: Louisa Kessi, Frank Lebourgeois and Garcia Christophe. An Efficient New PDE-based Characters Reconstruction After Graphics Removal

#138: Antonio Parziale, Adolfo Santoro and Angelo Marcelli. Writer verification in forensic handwriting examination: a pilot study

#141: Riaz Ahmad, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal, Sheikh Faisal Rashid, Marcus Liwicki, Thomas Breuel and Andreas Dengel. KPTI: Katib's Pashto Text Imagebase and Deep Learning Benchmark

#142: Mathias Seuret, Rolf Ingold and Marcus Liwicki. N-light-N: A Highly-Adaptable Java Library for Document Analysis with Convolutional Auto-Encoders and Related Architectures

#143: Arnau Baró, Pau Riba and Alicia Fornés. Towards the recognition of compound music notes in handwritten music scores

#144: Fotini Simistira, Mathias Seuret, Nicole Eichenberger, Angelika Garz, Marcus Liwicki and Rolf Ingold. DIVA-HisDB: A Precisely Annotated Large Dataset of Challenging Medieval Manuscripts

#146: Mahmoud Ltaief, Hala Bezine and Adel M.Alimi. A spiking motor-model for online handwriting movements generation

#147: Cristinel Codrescu,  FIRMLP for Handwritten Digit Recognition

#149: Keigo Matsuda, Wataru Ohyama, Tetsushi Wakabayashi and Fumitaka Kimura. Effective Random-impostor Training for Combined Segmentation Signature Verification

#153: Arie Shaus, Barak Sober, Eli Turkel and Eli Piasetzky. Beyond the Ground Truth: Alternative Quality Measures of Document Binarizations

#159: Nabil Aouadi, Afef Kacem and Abdel Belaid. Localization Of Touching Letters In Arabic Handwritten Documents

14:40-15:00

Break

15:00-16:20

Oral Session 5: Handwritten Character Recognition  Chair: Abdel Belaid

15:00-15:20

#73: Cheng Cheng, Xu-Yao Zhang, Xiao-Hu Shao and Xiang-Dong Zhou. Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition by Joint Classification and Similarity Ranking

15:20-15:40

#99: Hong-Ming Yang, Xu-Yao Zhang, Fei Yin, Zhenbo Luo and Cheng-Lin Liu. Unsupervised Adaptation of Neural Networks for Chinese Handwriting Recognition

15:40-16:00

#119: Yuanping Zhu, Xingle An and Kuang Zhang. A Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition Method Combining Sub-Structure Recognition

16:00-16:20

#137: Bogdan-Ionut Cirstea and Laurence Likforman-Sulem. Tied Spatial Transformer Networks for Digit Recognition

16:20-17:00

TC11 session

17:00-20:30

Social event

20:30-22:30

Banquet

Oct 26 (Wednesday)

9:00-10:00

Keynote 3: Masaki Nakagawa  Chair: Cheng-Lin Liu

Online handwriting recognition: past, present and future

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-12:30

Oral Session 6: Handwritten Text Recognition  Chair: Lianwen Jin

10:30-10:50

#26: Théodore Bluche and Ronaldo Messina. Faster Segmentation-Free Handwritten Chinese Text Recognition with Character Decompositions

10:50-11:10

#29: Wassim Swaileh, Julien Lerouge and Thierry Paquet. A Unified French/English syllabic model for handwriting recognition

11:10-11:30

#90: Joan Andreu Sánchez and Umapada Pal. Handwritten Text Recognition for Bangla

11:30-11:50

#107: Zi-Rui Wang and Jun Du. Writer Code Based Adaptation of Deep Neural Network for Offline Handwritten Chinese Text Recognition

11:50-12:10

#158: Irfan Ahmad and Gernot Fink. Class-Based Contextual Modeling for Handwritten Arabic Text Recognition

12:10-12:30

#129: Akram Khemiri, Afef Kacem Echi, Abdel Belaid and Mourad Elloumi. A System for off-line Arabic Handwritten Word Recognition based on the Bayesian Approach

12:30-13:40

Lunch

13:40-15:00

Oral Session 7: Writer Identification  Chair: Seiichi Uchida

13:40-14:00

#55: Youbao Tang and Xiangqian Wu. Text-independent Writer Identification via CNN Features and Joint Bayesian

14:00-14:20

#53: Isht Dwivedi, Swapnil Gupta, Vivek Venugopal and Suresh Sundaram. Online Writer Identification using Sparse Coding and Histogram based descriptors

14:20-14:40

#45: Jun Tan, Ning Bi, Ching Y Suen and Nicola Nobile. Multi-Feature Selection of Handwriting for Gender Identification Using Mutual Information

14:40-15:00

#18: Linjie Xing and Yu Qiao. DeepWriter: A Multi-Stream Deep CNN for Text-independent Writer Identification

15:00-16:00

Panel discussion: New Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition

Chair: Michael Blumenstein

Panlists: Youbin Chen, Gernot Fink, Qiang Huo, Christopher Kermorvant, Lambert Schomaker

16:00-16:20

Break

16:20-17:40

Competitions  Chair: Jean-Marc Ogier

16:20-16:30

Florence Cloppet, Véronique Eglin, Van Cuong Kieu, Dominique Stutzmann, Nicole Vincent. ICFHR2016 Competition on the Classification of Medieval Handwritings in Latin Script

16:30-16:40

Jean-Christophe Burie, Mickael Coustaty, Setiawan Hadi, Made Windu Antara Kesiman, Jean-Marc Ogier, Erick Paulus, Kimheng Sok, I Made Gede Sunarya, Dona Valy. ICFHR2016 Competition on Analysis of Handwritten Text in Images of Balinese Palm Leaf Manuscripts

16:40-16:50

Chawki Djeddi, Somaya Al-Maadeed, Abdeljalil Gattal, Imran Siddiqi, Abdellatif Ennaji, Haikal El Abed. ICFHR2016 Competition on Multi-script Writer Demographics Classification Using "QUWI" Database

16:50-17:00

Harold Mouchère, Christian Viard-Gaudin, Richard Zanibbi, Utpal Garain. ICFHR2016 Competition on Recognition of Handwritten Mathematical Expressions (CROHME2016)

17:00-17:10

Ioannis Pratikakis, Konstantinos Zagoris, Georgios Barlas, Basilis Gatos. ICFHR2016 Handwritten Keyword Spotting Competition (H-KWS 2016)

17:10-17:20

Ioannis Pratikakis, Konstantinos Zagoris, Georgios Barlas, Basilis Gatos. ICFHR2016 Handwritten Document Image Binarization Competition (H-DIBCO 2016)

17:20-17:30

Michael Murdock, Jack Reese, Shawn Reid ICFHR2016. Competition on Local Attribute Detection for Improving Handwriting Recognition

17:30-17:40

Joan Andreu Sánchez, Verónica Romero, Alejandro H. Toselli, Enrique Vidal. ICFHR2016 Competition on  Handwritten Text Recognition  on the READ Dataset

17:40-17:50

Award presentation, Closing