DIBCO 2009 - Document Image Binarization Contest
(in the framework of ICDAR2009)

 

Organizers:



Dr. Basilis G. Gatos (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/~bgat/) was born in 1967, in Athens, Greece. His Ph.D. thesis is on Optical Character Recognition Techniques. In 1993 he was awarded a scholarship from the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR "Demokritos", where he worked till 1996. From 1997 to 1998 he worked as a Software Engineer at Computer Logic S.A. From 1998 to 2001 he worked at Lambrakis Press Archives as a Director of the Research Division in the field of digital preservation of old newspapers. From 2001 to 2003 he worked at BSI S.A. as Managing Director of R&D Division in the field of document management and recognition. He is currently working as a Researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece. His main research interests are in Image Processing and Document Image Analysis, OCR and Pattern Recognition. He has more than 80 publications in journals and international conference proceedings and has participated in several research programs funded by the European community. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and program committee member of several international Conferences (e.g. ICFHR 2008, ICDAR 2009).

Kostantinos Ntirogiannis is a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece.  He is  working at the field  of historical  document  image  processing  and participates  at the  EU  funded project  IMPACT  (http://www.impact-project.eu/).

Dr. Ioannis Pratikakis (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/~ipratika/),  received the Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering from the Demokritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree in 3D Image processing and analysis from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, in January 1999. From March 1999 to March 2000, he was at IRISA/ViSTA group, Rennes, France as an INRIA postdoctoral fellow. He is currently working as a Research Scientist at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece. His research interests include multimedia content analysis and recognition with a particular focus on document images, medical images and 3D media. He has published more than 90 papers in journals, book chapters and conference proceedings in the above areas. He has participated in more than 15 national and international R&D projects. Finally, he has served as a co-chair of the Eurographics Workshop on 3D object retrieval in 2008 and 2009 as well as a co-editor for the Special issue on 3D object retrieval at the International Journal of Computer Vision..



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