department of informatics

Research of the DIVA Group

The DIVA research group (Document, Image and Voice Analysis) belongs to the Department of Informatics of the University of Fribourg and is active in several research fields dealing with multimedia engineering and machine intelligence. Our research projects are listed below, organized by research themes:

Ongoing Research Projects

Media Analysis and Recognition

  • Document Analysis and Recognition
    • XED : A Tool for Extracting Hidden Structures from Electronic Documents
    • Dolores : Logical Structure Extraction From Electronic Documents
    • HisDoc: Historical Document Analysis, Recognition, and Retrieval
    • PART: Printed Arabic Recognition Text in low resolution
  • Gesture Analysis and Recognition
    • ARAMIS: Augmented Reality Avatar as Model for Interaction Science
  • Biometry
    • MyIdea : Biometric Database
    • CHASM : Combined Handwriting And Speech Modalities

Human Computer Interaction

  • IM2-HMI :Human Machine Interaction
  • Multimodal Human-Machine Interaction
    • MeModules : Tangible shortcuts to digital information for dailylife activities
    • HephaisTK : A Toolkit Allowing Rapid Creation of Multimodal Interfaces
  • Information Visualization and Multimedia Mining
    • Risk Manager Dashboard: visualization for assessing and managing risk in corporate networks through metrics and user behavior analysis
    • Humanitics: Visual Analytics for All
    • WotanEye : Personal Information Management and Visualization
  • Multimedia management and analysis
    • IM2-DMA : Database Management and meeting analysis

Document Engineering

Achieved Research  Projects

Media Analysis and Recognition

  • Document Analysis and Recognition
    • VLR-OCR : Very Low Resolution Character Recognition
  • Speech Analysis and Processing
    • FASLAV : Towards Fully Automated Spoken Language Acquisition, Understanding and Speaker Verification by Machines
  • Biometry

Human Computer Interaction

  • Information Visualization and Multimedia Mining
    • NetSecurity : Network Security Intelligence Through Distributed User Behaviour Modelling and Interactive Visualizations
    • FaericWorld : A Framework for Managing and Exploring Multimedia Archives through Links and Static Documents
    • JFriDoc : A document-centric multimedia meeting browser
    • SMAC : Smart Multimedia Archives for Conferences