News

Thu, 26 April 2018
HisDoc III represented at DAS 2018 in Vienna

The HisDoc III team is well represented at DAS2018 in Vienna with various papers and activities.
Mon, 23 January 2017
HIP'17 Workshop at ICDAR 2017

We are happy to announce that the 4th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP'17) will be held in conjuction...
Fri, 20 January 2017
ICDAR2017 Competition on Layout Analysis for Challenging Medieval Manuscripts

We are happy to announce the ICDAR2017 Competition on Layout Analysis for Challenging Medieval Manuscripts (ICDAR 2017 HisDoc...
Fri, 18 November 2016
HisDoc Workshop in Fribourg

After a successful workshop two years ago, we invite Swiss Researchers to a Joint Workshop on Historical Document Analysis in Switzerland. We would like to use this opportunity in order to...
Sat, 22 October 2016
GraphManuscribble paper accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems

Our paper "A User-Centered Segmentation Method for Complex Historical Manuscripts Based on Document Graphs" has been accepted for publication as a regular paper in the IEEE Transactions...
Sun, 31 July 2016
DIVA-HisDB paper accepted at ICFHR 2016

Our paper "DIVA-HisDB: A Precisely Annotated Large...
Mon, 04 July 2016
'Badass Librarians' Foil al Qaeda, Save Ancient Manuscripts

Scholars smuggled an invaluable collection of ancient manuscripts out of Timbuktu with "donkey carts, boats, and teenage couriers" [source:...
Tue, 21 June 2016
A Timeline for Handwriting Development

The BBC have created a timeline that spans "from tablet to tablet" and describes the history of handwriting from 8000BC to 2015.
Wed, 18 May 2016
World's oldest library restored!

The world's oldest library has been restored by architect Aziza Chaouni in the past few years. An intricate job ...
Mon, 02 May 2016
Visual tour on how a medieval manuscript is created ...

"[...] tour through the making of the medieval manuscript: the book produced in the era before print (500-c. 1450). Navigate through each production stage of the medieval book [...]...
Fri, 29 April 2016
The Secrets of Medieval Fonts

"One of the fundamental things in a medieval book is letters – those symbols that fill up page after page and that make up meaning. Each one of us human beings writes...
Fri, 15 April 2016
Best Student Paper Award @ DAS2016

Marcel's paper "SDK Reinvented: Document Image Analysis Methods as RESTful Web Services" won the ITESOFT Best Student Paper...
Fri, 01 April 2016
New HisDoc 2.0 member: Manuel Bouillon

With the beginning of May 2016 we will welcome a new member of the HisDoc 2.0 team: Manuel Bouillon, who has finished his PhD at...
Sun, 14 February 2016
GraphManuscribble - Talk and Demo

We will present and demo GraphManuscribble at the Second International Conference on Natural Sciences and Technology in Manuscript Analysis in Hamburg.

GraphManuscribble is...
Wed, 06 January 2016
Paper accepted at DAS 2016

Our paper "Creating Ground Truth for Historical Manuscripts with Document Graphs and Scribbling Interaction" has been accepted for publication at the International Workshop on...
Tue, 11 August 2015
Earliest and finest example of multi-colour printing digitised

"Cambridge University Library recently added selections from...
Sat, 01 August 2015
New HisDoc 2.0 member: Fotini Simistira

With the beginning of August 2015 we will welcome a new member of the HisDoc 2.0 team: Fotini Simistira, who has...
Tue, 07 July 2015
Best Student Forensic Paper Award @ IGS 2015

Our paper "Training- and Segmentation-Free Intuitive Writer Identification with Task-Adapted Interest Points" won the 2015 International Graphonomics Society Best Student...
Tue, 21 April 2015
The moaning of miserable medieval scribes

"Oh my hand" and other marginalia written centuries ago by monks testifies that it wasn't such a pleasure to transcribe books...
Wed, 08 April 2015
AncientBiotics - a medieval remedy for modern day superbugs?

"A one thousand year old Anglo-Saxon remedy for eye infections which originates from a manuscript in the British Library has been found to kill the modern-day superbug MRSA in an unusual...
Wed, 04 March 2015
Paper accepted at IGS 2015

Our paper "Training- and Segmentation-Free Intuitive Writer Identification with Task-Adapted Interest Points" got accepted for oral presentation at the...
Thu, 12 February 2015
Andreas Fischer joined DIVA

Andreas Fischer joined DIVA as Maître Assistant and will participate in the HisDoc 2.0 project.
Fri, 06 February 2015
HisDoc 2.0 and DivaDesk in Manuscript Cultures 7

We presented the HisDoc 2.0 Project and the DivaDesk Project at the...
Wed, 10 December 2014
JAACS price for the best Master thesis in computer science at BeNeFri!

Marcel Würsch's Master thesis “Geometric Relations in Interest Point Based Writer Identification” carried out within the scope of the HisDoc 2.0 project, has...
Fri, 08 August 2014
First Master's Thesis within HisDoc 2.0 finished

Marcel Würsch finished his Master's Thesis on writer identification of modern cursive handwriting within the scope of the HisDoc 2.0...
Mon, 23 June 2014
HisDoc 2.0 has been presented at Dagstuhl Seminar: Digital Palaeography: New Machines and Old Texts

The report of the Dagstuhl Seminar Digital Palaeography: New Machines and Old Texts can be...
Wed, 12 March 2014
Master's Thesis within HisDoc 2.0

Marcel Würsch started his Master's Thesis on writer identification of modern cursive handwriting within the scope of the HisDoc 2.0...
Wed, 26 February 2014
27.02.2014 Workshop on Historical Document Analysis in Switzerland

The Diva Group at University of Fribourg invited Swiss Researchers to a Joint Workshop on Historical Document Analysis in Switzerland. We used this opportunity in order to encourage exchanging...
Sun, 02 February 2014
Seminar on Scientific Communication

The Diva group offers a seminar for Scientific Communication in Spring Semester 2014.
Thu, 05 December 2013
International Conference on Natural Sciences and Technology in Manuscript Analysis

We presented the HisDoc 2.0 Project and the DivaDIA Project at the...
Mon, 07 October 2013
HisDoc 2.0 has been granted by the Swiss National Found!

We received the information that HisDoc 2.0 will be funded by the Swiss National Found. The Project will start soon.
Wed, 25 September 2013
Seminar on Document Analysis @ Uni Fribourg

The Diva group offers a seminar for 2D Vision in Document Analysis in Autumn Semester 2013.