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2015-2019

"Image Processing Methods for Determining Visual Manuscript and Character Features"

in Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich) 950
"Manuscript Cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe" (DFG)"

DFG project homepage: http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/203079013

Former Team

Märgner, Volker, Dr.-Ing., Co-PI
Academic Director ret.
Institute for Communications Technology, TU Braunschweig
Tel.: +49 531 391 2483
Fax: +49 531 391 8218
v.maergner [at] tu-bs.de
www.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de

Konidaris, Thomas, PhD
PostDoc (Word Spotting)
Tel: +49 40 42838 - 9394
Fax: +49 40 42838 - 4899
thomas.konidaris [at] uni-hamburg.de

Mohammed, Hussein Adnan, PhD
Doctoral Student (Handwriting Analysis and Writer Identification)
Tel: +49 40 42838 - 9397
Fax: +49 40 42838 - 4899
hussein.adnan.mohammed [at] uni-hamburg.de

Dissertation:
https://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/volltexte/2019/9730/pdf/Dissertation.pdf

See also: Handwriting Analysis Tool v3.0 (HAT3)
https://www.fdr.uni-hamburg.de/record/902#.XptAd8gzaUk#.XptAd8gzaUk
as well as https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/about/people/mohammed.html for recent work

Publications

Writer Identification for Historical Manuscripts: Analysis and Optimisation of a Classifier as an Easy-to-Use Tool for Scholars from the Humanities (H. Mohammed, V. Maergner, and H. S. Stiehl), In: 16th IAPR International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), IEEE, Aug 2018. (pdf)(pdf)

Normalised Local Naive Bayes Nearest-Neighbour Classifier for Offline Writer Identification (Hussein Mohammed, Volker Märger, Thomas Konidaris, H. Siegfried Stiehl), In: Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 14th International Conference on. IEEE, 2017, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 1013-1018. (pdf)

Efficient Keypoint Reduction for Document Image Matching (T. Konidaris, V. Märgner, H.A. Mohammed, H.S. Stiehl), In: Proc. 8th Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, Prague, February 19-21, 2019 (pdf).

Other

Participation in ICDAR-2017 Competition on Historical Document Writer Identification: Fiel, S., et al. "ICDAR2017 Competition on Historical Document Writer Identification (Historical-WI)." (Dissertation by Dr. Mohammed)

Doctoral Dissertations

Hussein Adnan Mohammed (2019)
Computational Analysis of Writing Style in Digitised Manuscripts
Dissertation, Department of Informatics

1st Reviewer: Prof. H. S. Stiehl
2nd Reviewer: Dr. V. Märgner, TU Braunschweig
3rd Reviewer: Prof. N. Vincent, Université Paris Descartes

Dissertation:
https://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/volltexte/2019/9730/pdf/Dissertation.pdf

See also: Handwriting Analysis Tool v3.0 (HAT3)
https://www.fdr.uni-hamburg.de/record/902#.XptAd8gzaUk#.XptAd8gzaUk

Rainer Herzog (2018)
Ein generischer Ansatz zur digitalen Layoutanalyse von Manuskripten
Dissertation, Department of Informatics
https://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/volltexte/2019/10058/pdf/Dissertation.pdf

1st Reviewer: Prof. B. Neumann
2nd Reviewer: Prof. H. S. Stiehl
3rd Reviewer: Prof. L. Dreschler-Fischer