Title: Multi-oriented and Multi-script Document Recognition
Time： 9:30, Octomber 24 Wednesday,2018
Location: Room 914, Science BuildingB
Lecturer： Prof Umapada Pal, Indian Statistical Institute，IAPR Fellow
Abstract:
Document Image Analysis is the process that performs the overall interpretation of document images. It is one of the most fascinating and challenging areas of Pattern Recognition with various practical applications like: Reading aid for the blind, Postal mail sorting, Bank check processing, Forensic data analysis, Seal or logo based document indexing etc. Today many documents are available where a single document is written in multiple scripts. Moreover, some documents are also available where texts have different orientations in a single document page. In this talk, we will briefly discuss the state of the art techniques towards multi-oriented and multi-script document analysis/recognition and also discuss our new techniques developed in these areas. Finally, for better understanding of the techniques some demonstrations will be shown to the audience.
Biogaphy:
Umapada Pal received his Ph.D. in 1997 from Indian Statistical Institute and Post Doctoral from INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique), France. From January 1997, he is a Faculty member of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolrkata and at present he is Professor and Head of CVPRU. His fields of research interest include different pattern recognition problems like Digital Document Processing, Video text processing, Biometrics, Document Retrieval, Keyword spotting etc. He has published more than 350 research papers in various international journals, conference proceedings and edited volumes. Because of his significant impact in the Document Analysis research, in 2003 he received “ICDAR Outstanding Young Researcher Award” from International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). In 2005-2006 Dr. Pal has received JSPS fellowship from Japan government. In 2008, 2011 and 2012, Dr. Pal received visiting fellowship from Spain, France and Australia governments, respectively. Dr. Pal has been serving as General/Program/Organizing Chair of many conferences including International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), International Conference on Frontiers of Handwritten Recognition (ICFHR), International Workshop on Document Analysis and Systems (DAS), Asian Conference on Pattern recognition (ACPR) etc. Also he has served as a program committee member of more than 60 international events. He has many international research collaborations and supervising Ph.D. students of 5 foreign universities. Currently he is serving as associate editor of five journals: Pattern Recognition, ACM Transactions of Asian Language Information Processing (ACM-TALIP), Pattern recognition Letters (PRL), International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition, and IET Biometrics. Also he has served as a Guest editor of several special issues. He is a Fellow of International Association for Pattern Recognition.
