Publications

Theses

[T1] A. Fischer. Handwriting Recognition in Historical Documents. PhD thesis, University of Bern, March 2012.

[T2] N. Naji. Information Retrieval of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts. PhD thesis, University of Neuchâtel, to be defended in September 2013.

Book Chapters

[B1] A. Fischer, V. Frinken, and H. Bunke. Application of hidden Markov models for handwriting recognition. Handbook of Statistics, 31:421–442, 2012. 10.1016/B978-0-444-53859-8.00017-5

Journal Articles

[J1] A. Fischer, A. Keller, V. Frinken, and H. Bunke. Lexicon-free handwritten word spotting using character HMMs. Pattern Recognition Letters, 33(7):934–942, 2012. 10.1016/j.patrec.2011.09.009

[J2] V. Frinken, A. Fischer, R. Manmatha, and H. Bunke. A novel word spotting method based on recurrent neural networks. IEEE Trans. PAMI, 34(2):211–224, 2012. 10.1109/TPAMI.2011.113

Conference Papers, peer-reviewed

2013

[C13.1] M. Baechler, M. Liwicki, and R. Ingold. Text Line Extraction using DMLP Classifiers for Historical Manuscripts. In Proc. 12th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, in print, 2013.

[C13.2] N. Naji and J. Savoy. Back to Our Roots for Retrieving Very Short Passages. In Proc. 76th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology, in print, 2013.

[C13.3] H. Wei, M. Baechler, F. Slimane, and R. Ingold. Evaluation of SVM, MLP and GMM Classifiers for Layout Analysis of Historical Document. In Proc. 12th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, in print, 2013.

2012

[C12.1] A. Fischer, H. Bunke, N. Naji, J. Savoy, M. Baechler, and R. Ingold. HisDoc: Historical Document Analysis, Recognition, and Retrieval. In Digital Humanities, Book of Abstracts, pp. 94–97, 2012. Digital Humanities-Link

[C12.2] V. Frinken, M. Baumgartner, A. Fischer, and H. Bunke. Semi-Supervised Learning for Cursive Handwriting Recognition using Keyword Spotting. In Proc. 13th Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, pp. 49–54, 2012. 10.1109/ICFHR.2012.268

[C12.3] V. Frinken, F. Zamora-Martinez, S. España-Boquera, M. J. Castro-Bleda, A. Fischer, and H. Bunke. Long-Short Term Memory Neural Networks Language Modeling for Handwriting Recognition. In Proc. 21st Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, pp. 701–704, 2012. IEEE-Link

[C12.4] A. Garz, A. Fischer, R. Sablatnig, and H. Bunke. Binarization-free text line segmentation for historical documents based on interest point clustering. In Proc. 10th Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, pp. 95–99, 2012. 10.1109/DAS.2012.23

[C12.5] N. Naji and J. Savoy. Etude comparative de l’efficacité du dépistage de l’information dans des manuscrits médiévaux. In Proc. 11th Int. Conf. on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data, pp. 1–12, 2012. oai:doc.rero.ch:20130103104948-QM

2011

[C11.1] M. Baechler and R. Ingold. Multi Resolution Layout Analysis of Medieval Manuscripts Using Dynamic MLP. In Proc. 11th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, pp. 1185–1189, 2011. 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.239

[C11.2] A. Fischer and H. Bunke. Character prototype selection for handwriting recognition in historical documents with graph similarity features. In Proc. 19th European Signal Processing Conference, pp. 1435–1439, 2011. Eurasip-Link

[C11.3] A. Fischer, E. Indermühle, V. Frinken, and H. Bunke. HMM-based alignment of inaccurate transcriptions for historical documents. In Proc. 11th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, pp. 53–57, 2011. 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.20

[C11.4] A. Fischer, V. Frinken, A. Fornés, and H. Bunke. Transcription alignment of Latin manuscripts using hidden Markov models. In Proc. 1st Int. Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing, pp. 29–36, 2011. 10.1145/2037342.2037348

[C11.5] A. Fornés, V. Frinken, A. Fischer, J. Almazán, G. Jackson, and H. Bunke. A keyword spotting approach using blurred shape model-based descriptors. In Proc. 1st Int. Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing, pp. 83–90, 2011. 10.1145/2037342.2037356

[C11.6] V. Frinken, A. Fischer, H. Bunke, and A. Fornés. Co-training for handwritten word recognition. In Proc. 11th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, pp. 314–318, 2011. 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.71

[C11.7] V. Frinken, A. Fischer, and H. Bunke. Improving handwritten keyword spotting with self-training. In Proc. 26th Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 838–843, 2011. 10.1145/1982185.1982368

[C11.8] N. Naji, J. Savoy, and L. Dolamic. Recherche d’information dans un corpus bruité (OCR). In Proc. 8ième Conférence en Recherche d’Information et Applications, pp. 271–286, 2011. Link

[C11.9] N. Naji and J. Savoy. Comparative Information Retrieval Evaluation for Scanned Documents. In Proc. 15th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Computers, pp. 527–534, 2011. ACM-Link

[C11.1] N. Naji and J. Savoy. Information retrieval strategies for digitized handwritten medieval documents. In Proc. 7th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, pp. 103–114, 2011. 10.1007/978-3-642-25631-8_10

2010

[C10.1] M. Baechler, J.-L. Blochle, and R. Ingold. Semi-automatic annotation tool for medieval manuscripts. In Proc. 12th Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, pp. 182–187, 2010. 10.1109/ICFHR.2010.36

[C10.2] M. Baechler and R. Ingold. Medieval manuscript layout model. In Proc. 10th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, pp. 275–278, 2010. 10.1145/1860559.1860622

[C10.3] A. Fischer, E. Indermühle, H. Bunke, G. Viehhauser, and M. Stolz. Ground truth creation for handwriting recognition in historical documents. In Proc. 9th Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, pp. 3–10, 2010. 10.1145/1815330.1815331

[C10.4] A. Fischer, A. Keller, V. Frinken, and H. Bunke. HMM-based word spotting in handwritten documents using subword models. In Proc. 20th Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, pp. 3416–3419, 2010. 10.1109/ICPR.2010.834

[C10.5] A. Fischer, K. Riesen, and H. Bunke. Graph similarity features for HMM-based handwriting recognition in historical documents. In Proc. 12th Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, pp. 253–258, 2010. 10.1109/ICFHR.2010.47

[C10.6] V. Frinken, A. Fischer, and H. Bunke. Combining neural networks to improve performance of handwritten keyword spotting. In Proc. 9th Int. Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, pp. 215–224, 2010. 10.1007/978-3-642-12127-2_22

[C10.7] V. Frinken, A. Fischer, and H. Bunke. A novel word spotting algorithm using bidirectional long short-term memory neural networks. In Proc. 4th Int. Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition, pp. 185–196, 2010. 10.1007/978-3-642-12159-3_17

[C10.8] V. Frinken, A. Fischer, H. Bunke, and R. Manmatha. Adapting BLSTM neural network based keyword spotting trained on modern data to historical documents. In Proc. 12th Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, pp. 352–257, 2010. 10.1109/ICFHR.2010.61

2009

[C09.1] A. Fischer and H. Bunke. Kernel PCA for HMM-based cursive handwriting recognition. In Proc. 13th Int. Conf. on Computer Analysis of Images and Patters, pp. 181–188, 2009. 10.1007/978-3-642-03767-2_22

[C09.2] A. Fischer, M. Wüthrich, M. Liwicki, V. Frinken, H. Bunke, G. Viehhauser, and M. Stolz. Automatic transcription of handwritten medieval documents. In Proc. 15th Int. Conf. on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, pp. 137–142, 2009. 10.1109/VSMM.2009.26

[C09.3] V. Frinken, T. Peter, A. Fischer, H. Bunke, T.-M.-T. Do, and T. Artieres. Improved handwriting recognition by combining two forms of hidden Markov models and a recurrent neural network. In Proc. 13th Int. Conf. on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, pp. 189–196, 2009. 10.1007/978-3-642-03767-2_23

[C09.4] M. Wüthrich, M. Liwicki, A. Fischer, E. Indermühle, H. Bunke, G. Viehhauser, and M. Stolz. Language model integration for the recognition of handwritten medieval documents. In Proc. 10th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, pp. 211–215, 2009. 10.1109/ICDAR.2009.17

Conference Papers, not peer-reviewed

[Cn1] A. Fischer, H. Bunke, N. Naji, J. Savoy, M. Baechler, and R. Ingold. The HisDoc Project. Automatic Analysis, Recognition, and Retrieval of Handwritten Historical Documents for Digital Libraries. In Proc. InterNational and InterDisciplinary Aspects of Scholarly Editing, in print, Bern, 2012. Link

Other

[O1] N. Naji. The HisDoc project, at Easy Tools for Difficult Texts Workshop, Den Haag, Netherlands, April 2013. Abstract and short presentation. Link

[O2] N. Naji. The HisDoc project, at L'École d'Automne en Recherche d'Information et Applications (EARIA), Éveux, Lyon, France, October 2012. Poster, school proceedings, and short presentation.