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B. Gatos, G. Louloudis, N. Stamatopoulos, G. 
Retsinas, G. Sfikas, A. Giotis, F. Simistira Liwicki, V. Papavassiliou and V. 
Katsouros, "OldDocPro: Old Greek Document Recognition", Chapter in 
Handwritten Historical Document Analysis, Recognition, and Retrieval — State of 
the Art and Future Trends (Series in Machine Perception and Artificial 
Intelligence), pp. 157-174, 2020.
A. L. Kesidis and B. Gatos, "Providing Access to 
Old Greek Documents Using Keyword Spotting Techniques", Chapter in Visual 
Computing for Cultural Heritage (Springer Series on Cultural Computing book 
series), pp 85-102, 2020.
N. Stamatopoulos, G. Louloudis and B. Gatos, 
"Handwriting Segmentation", Chapter in Document Analysis And Text 
Recognition: Benchmarking State-of-the-art Systems, World Scientific, volume 
82, pp. 29-64, 2018.
G. Louloudis, N. Stamatopoulos and B. Gatos, 
"Writer Identification", Chapter in Document Analysis And Text Recognition: 
Benchmarking State-of-the-art Systems, World Scientific, volume 82, pp. 
121-154, 2018.
B. Gatos, "Imaging Techniques in Document Analysis 
Processes", Chapter in Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition 
(David S. Doermann, Karl Tombre, eds.), Springer, pp.73–131, 2014.
I. Pratikakis, A. Bolovinou, B. Gatos and S. J. 
Perantonis, "Semantics Extraction from Images, Chapter in Knowledge-Driven 
Multimedia Information Extraction and Ontology Evolution - Bridging the Semantic 
Gap (Georgios Paliouras, Constantine D. Spyropoulos, George Tsatsaronis, 
eds.), Springer, volume 6050, pp. 50–88, 2011.
I. Pratikakis, I. Vanhamel, H, Sahli, B, Gatos and 
S. Perantonis, "Content-based image retrieval: A region-driven approach", 
Chapter in Recent advances in applied signals, systems and image processing 
(Karras Dimitrios A., ed.), Springer, 2009.
I. Pratikakis, I. Vanhamel,H. Sahli, B. Gatos and 
S. J. Perantonis, "Watershed-driven region-based image retrieval", Chapter in 
Mathematical Morphology: 40 Years on, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 207–216, 
2005.  Journals
      
G. Retsinas, G. Louloudis, N. Stamatopoulos and B. 
Gatos "Efficient Learning-Free Keyword Spotting", IEEE transactions on 
pattern analysis and machine intelligence, Vol. 41, No. 7, pp. 1587-1600, 
2019. Download
G. Muehlberger, L. Seaward, M. Terras, S. Ares 
Oliveira, V. Bosch, M. Bryan, S. Colutto, H. Déjean, M. Diem, S.Fiel,B. Gatos, 
A. Greinoecker, T. Grüning, G. Hackl, V. Haukkovaara, G. Heyer, L. Hirvonen, T. 
Hodel, M. Jokinen, P. Kahle, M. Kallio, F. Kaplan, F. Kleber, R. Labahn, E.M. 
Lang, S. Laube, G. Leifert, G. Louloudis, R. McNicholl,J.-L. Meunier, J. 
Michael, E. Mühlbauer, N. Philipp, I. Pratikakis, J. Puigcerver Pérez, H. Putz, 
G. Retsinas, V. Romero, R. Sablatnig, J. A. Sánchez, P. Schofield, G. Sfikas, C. 
Sieber, N. Stamatopoulos, T. Strauß, T. Terbul, A. H. Toselli, B. Ulreich, M. 
Villegas, E. Vidal, J. Walcher, M. Weidemann, H. Wurster and K. Zagoris, 
"Transforming Scholarship in the Archives Through Handwritten Text Recognition: 
Transkribus as a Case Study", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 75, No. 5, 
pp. 954-976, 2019. Download
A. Giotis, G. Sfikas, B. Gatos and C. Nikou, "A 
survey of document image word spotting techniques", Pattern Recognition, 
Vol. 68, pp. 310-332, 2017. Download
K. Zagoris, I. Pratikakis and B. Gatos, 
"Unsupervised Word Spotting in Historical Handwritten Document Images Using 
Document-Oriented Local Features", IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol. 26, 
No. 8, pp. 4032-4041, 2017. Download
T. Konidaris, A. Kesidis and B. Gatos, "A 
segmentation-free word spotting method for historical printed documents",  Pattern 
Analysis and Applications, Vol. 19, Issue 4, pp. 963-976, 
2016. Download
K. Ntirogiannis, B. Gatos and I. Pratikakis "A 
combined approach for the binarization of handwritten document images", 
Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 35, pp. 3 - 15, 2014.
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K. Zagoris, I. Pratikakis, A. Antonacopoulos, B. 
Gatos and N. Papamarkos "Distinction between handwritten and machine-printed 
text based on the bag of visual words model ", Pattern Recognition , Vol. 
47, Issue 3, pp. 1051-1062, 2014. Download
A Papandreou, B Gatos, SJ Perantonis and I 
Gerardis “Efficient skew detection of printed document images based on novel 
combination of enhanced profiles”, International Journal on Document Analysis 
and Recognition (IJDAR), Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 433-454, 2014.
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A Papandreou and B. Gatos “Slant estimation and 
core-region detection for handwritten Latin words”, Pattern Recognition 
Letters, Vol. 35, pp. 16-22, 2014. 
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K. Ntirogiannis, B. Gatos and I. Pratikakis, "Performance Evaluation Methodology for Historical Document Image Binarization", 
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 22, No. 2,  pp 595 -609,
2013. Download
M. Anthimopoulos, B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis, 
“Detection of Artificial and Scene Text in Images and Video Frames”, Pattern 
Analysis and Applications, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 431-446, 
2013. Download
N. Stamatopoulos, B. Gatos and I. Pratikakis, “Performance Evaluation Methodology for Document Image Dewarping Techniques”, IET 
Image Processing, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp. 738-745, 2012.
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B. Gatos, N. Stamatopoulos, G. Louloudis, 
“ICDAR2009 handwriting segmentation contest”, International Journal on 
Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), special issue on performance 
evaluation, Vol.14, No. 1, pp. 25-33, 2011.
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B. Gatos, K. Ntirogiannis, I. Pratikakis, “DIBCO 
2009: document image binarization contest”, International Journal on Document 
Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), special issue on performance evaluation, 
Vol.14, No. 1, pp. 35-44, 2011. Download
N. Stamatopoulos, B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis and S.J. 
Perantonis, “Goal-oriented Rectification of Camera-Based Document Images”, IEEE 
Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 910-920, 2011.
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A. Kesidis, E. Galiotou, B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis, 
“A word spotting framework for historical machine-printed documents”, 
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), vol. 
14, no. 2, pp. 131-144, 2011. Download
G. 
Vamvakas, B. Gatos, S. J. Perantonis, "Handwritten character recognition through 
two-stage foreground sub-sampling",  Pattern Recognition, Vol. 
43, Issue 8, pp.  2807-2816, 2010.  Download 
M. 
Anthimopoulos, B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis, "A two-stage scheme for text detection 
in video images", Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 28 , Issue 9, pp. 
1413-1426, 2010. Download 
N. 
Nikolaou, M. Makridis, B. Gatos, N. Stamatopoulos, N. Papamarkos, "Segmentation 
of historical machine-printed documents using Adaptive Run Length Smoothing and 
skeleton segmentation paths", Image and Vision Computing, 
Vol. 28 , Issue 4, pp. 590-604, 2010. 
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N. 
Stamatopoulos, B. Gatos, S. J. Perantonis, "A method for combining complementary 
techniques for document image segmentation", Pattern Recognition, Vol. 
42, Issue 12, pp.  3158-3168, 2009. 
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G. 
Louloudis, B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis, C. Halatsis, "Text line and word 
segmentation of handwritten documents", Pattern Recognition, Vol. 42, 
Issue 12, pp.  3169-3183, 2009. 
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G. 
Louloudis, B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis, C. Halatsis, "Text line detection in 
handwritten documents", Pattern Recognition, Vol. 41, Issue 12, pp. 
3758-3772, 2008. Download 
K. 
Ntzios, B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis, T. Konidaris and S.J. Perantonis, "An Old Greek 
Handwritten OCR System based on an Efficient Segmentation-free Approach", International Journal on Document Analysis and 
Recognition (IJDAR), special issue on historical documents, Vol. 9, 
No. 2-4, pp. 179-192, 2007. Download 
T. 
Konidaris, B. Gatos, K. Ntzios, I. Pratikakis, S. Theodoridis and S. J. 
Perantonis, "Keyword-Guided Word Spotting in Historical Printed Documents Using 
Synthetic Data and User feedback", International Journal on Document Analysis and 
Recognition (IJDAR), special issue on historical documents, Vol. 9, No. 2-4, 
pp. 167-177, 2007. Download 
B. 
Gatos, I. Pratikakis and S. J. Perantonis, "Adaptive Degraded Document Image 
Binarization", Pattern Recognition, Vol. 39, pp. 317-327, 2006.
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B. 
Gatos, K. Ntzios, I. Pratikakis, S. Petridis, T. Konidaris and S. J. Perantonis, 
"An Efficient Segmentation-free Approach to Assist Old Greek Handwritten 
Manuscript OCR ", Pattern Analysis and 
Applications (PAA), Vol. 8, Num. 4, pp. 305-320, 2006. 
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I. 
Pratikakis, Ι. Vanhamel, Η., Sahli, B. Gatos and S. Perantonis, 
"Unsupervised watershed-driven region-based image retrieval", 
IEE Vision Image and Signal Processing, Special Issue on Knowledge-based 
digital media processing, vol. 153, Issue 3, pp. 313-322, 2006.
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S.J. 
Perantonis, B. Gatos, K. Ntzios, I. Pratikakis, I. Vrettaros, A. Drigas, C. 
Emmanouilidis, A. Kesidis and D. Kalomirakis, "Digitization, Processing and 
Recognition of Old Greek Manuscripts (The  D- SCRIBE Project)", International 
Journal Information Theories & Applications (IJ ITA), Vol. 11, No 3, 
pp.232-240, 2004. Download
S.J. 
Perantonis, B. Gatos, K. Ntzios, I. Pratikakis, I. Vrettaros, A.S. Drigas, C. 
Emmanouilidis, A. Kesidis, D. Kalomirakis, "A System for Processing and 
Recognition of Old Greek Manuscripts (The D-SCRIBE Project)", WSEAS 
Transactions on Computers, Issue 6, Volume 3, pp. 2049-2057, 2004.
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B. Gatos, 
N. Papamarkos, I. Andreadis and S. J. Perantonis, "Fast Implementation of Morphological 
Operations Using Image Block Decomposition", International Journal of Image and 
Graphics (IJIG), Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 183-202, 2004. Download
B. Gatos, S.L. 
Mantzaris, S.J. Perantonis and A. Tsigris, "Automatic page analysis for the 
creation of a digital library from newspaper archives", International Journal on 
Digital Libraries (IJODL), Vol. 3(1), pp. 77-84, 2000.
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S. J. Perantonis, B. 
Gatos and N. Papamarkos, "Block decomposition and segmentation for fast Hough 
transform evaluation", Pattern Recognition, Vol. 32(5), pp. 811-824, 
1999.
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B. Gatos, N. 
Papamarkos and C. Chamzas, "A binary tree based OCR technique for machine 
printed characters", Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 
Vol. 
10, No. 4, pp. 403-412, 1997. Download 
B. Gatos, N. 
Papamarkos and C. Chamzas, "Using curvature features in a multiclassifier OCR 
system", Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 10, No. 2, 
pp. 213-224, 1997. Download  
B. Gatos, N. 
Papamarkos and C. Chamzas, "Skew detection and text line position determination 
in digitized documents", Pattern Recognition, Vol. 30, No. 9, pp. 1505-1519, 
1997. Download 
B. Gatos, S. J. 
Perantonis and N. Papamarkos, "Accelerated Hough transform using rectangular 
image decomposition", Electronics Letters, Vol. 32, No. 8, pp. 730-732, 
1996.
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N. Papamarkos and B. Gatos, "A new approach 
for multilevel threshold selection", Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image 
Processing - Graphical Models and Image Processing, Vol. 56, No. 5, pp. 357-370, 
Sept. 1994. Download  Conferences
      
		
		G. Matidis, B. Gatos, A.L. Kesidis and P. 
		Kaddas, "Detecting Text on Historical Maps by Selecting Best Candidates 
		of Deep Neural Networks Output", 17th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2023), LNCS 14191, pp. 
		358-367, 2023. 
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		G. Sfikas, G. Retsinas, P. Dimitrakopoulos, 
		B. Gatos and C. Nikou, "Shared-Operation Hypercomplex Networks for 
		Handwritten Text Recognition", 17th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2023), LNCS 14190, pp. 
		200-216, 2023. 
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		P. Kaddas, K. Palaiologos, B. Gatos, V. 
		Katsouros and K. Christopoulou, "A System for Processing and Recognition 
		of Greek Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Documents", 17th International 
		Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2023), LNCS 
		14190, pp. 366-376, 2023.
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		G. Sfikas, G. Retsinas and B. Gatos, 
		"Document Binarization with Quaternionic Double Discriminator Generative 
		Adversarial Network", 17th International Conference on Document 
		Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2023), International Workshop on Machine 
		Learning (4th edition), LNCS 14194, pp. 272-284, 2023.
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		P. Kaddas, B. Gatos, K. Palaiologos, K. 
		Christopoulou and K. Kritsis, "Text Line Detection and Recognition of 
		Greek Polytonic Documents", 17th International Conference on Document 
		Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2023), International Workshop on Machine 
		Learning (4th edition), LNCS 14194, pp. 213-225, 2023.
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		P. Kaddas and B. Gatos, “Using Multi-Level 
		Segmentation Features for Document Image Classification”, 15th 
		International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2022), pp. 
		702-712, 2022. Download
		
		G. Sfikas, G. Retsinas, A.Giotis, B. Gatos 
		and C. Nikou, "Keyword Spotting with Quaternionic ResNet: Application to 
		Spotting in Greek Manuscripts", 15th International Workshop on 
		Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2022), pp. 382-396, 2022.
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		G. Retsinas, G. Sfikas, B.Gatos and C. 
		Nikou, “Best Practices for a Handwritten Text Recognition System”, 
		15th International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2022), 
		pp. 247-259, 2022. Download
		
		G. Retsinas, G. Sfikas, B.Gatos and C. 
		Nikou, “On-the-Fly Deformations for Keyword Spotting”, 15th 
		International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2022), pp. 
		338-351, 2022. Download
		
		B. Gatos, G. Sfikas, P. Kaddas and G. 
		Retsinas, “CULDILE: Cultural Dimensions of Deep Learning, A Document 
		Analysis System for Historical Documents”, 15th International 
		Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2022), Short Paper 
		Booklet, pp. 12-15, 2022.
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		G. Sfikas, G. Retsinas and B. Gatos, 
		"Exploring Uses of Normalizing Flows for Document Image Processing: Text 
		Super-resolution and Binarization", 15th International Workshop on 
		Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2022), Short Paper Booklet, pp. 
		16-19, 2022. 
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		G. Sfikas, G.Retsinas, B. Gatos and C. 
		Nikou, "Hypercomplex Generative Adversarial Networks for Lightweight 
		Semantic Labeling", 3rd International Conference on Pattern 
		Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (ICPRAI 2022), pp. 251-262,
		2022. Download
      
		M. Diem, F. Kleber, R. Sablatnig and B. Gatos, "cBAD: ICDAR2019 
		Competition on Baseline Detection", 15th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2019), pp. 1494-1498, 
		2019.Download
      
		A.M. Sichani, P. Kaddas, G. Mikros and B. Gatos, "OCR 
		for Greek polytonic (multi accent) historical 
		printed documents: development, optimization and quality control",3rd International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural 
		Heritage (DATeCH 2019), pp. 9-13, 2019.
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		G. Retsinas, G. Louloudis, N. Stamatopoulos, G. Sfikas and B. Gatos,
		"An Alternative Deep 
		Feature Approach to Line Level Keyword Spotting",
		2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision 
		and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 
		12658-12666, 2019. Download
      
		P. Kaddas and B. Gatos, "A Deep Convolutional 
		Encoder-Decoder Network for Page Segmentation of 
		Historical Handwritten Documents Into Text Zones",
		16th International Conference on Frontiers in 
		Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2018), pp.259-264, 2018.
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		G. Retsinas, G. Sfikas, G. Louloudis, N. Stamatopoulos and B. Gatos,
		"Compact Deep Descriptors 
		for Keyword Spotting", 16th International 
		Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting 
		Recognition (ICFHR 2018), pp. 315-320, 2018.
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		G. Retsinas, G. Sfikas, N. Stamatopoulos, G. Louloudis and B. Gatos,
		"Exploring critical 
		aspects of CNN-based keyword spotting. A PHOCNet study",
		13th IAPR International Workshop on Document 
		Analysis Systems (DAS 2018), pp. 13-18, 
		2018. Download
      
		I. Pratikakis, K. Zagoris, P. Kaddas and B. Gatos, "ICFHR 2018 
		Competition on Handwritten Document Image Binarization (H-DIBCO 2018)",
		16th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition 
		(ICFHR 2018), pp. 489-493, 2018.Download
      
		G. Sfikas, G. Retsinas and B. Gatos, "A PHOC Decoder for Lexicon-Free 
		Handwritten Word Recognition", 14th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2017), pp. 513-518, 2017. 
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		G. Retsinas, N. Stamatopoulos, G. Louloudis, G. Sfikas and B. Gatos, 
		"Nonlinear Manifold Embedding on Keyword Spotting Using t-SNE", 14th 
		International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 
		2017), pp. 487-492, 2017.  Download
      
		I. Pratikakis, K. Zagoris, G. Barlas and B. Gatos, "ICDAR2017 
		Competition on Document Image Binarization (DIBCO 2017)", 14th 
		International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 
		2017), pp. 1395-1403, 2017. Download
      
		M. Diem, F. Kleber, S. Fiel, T. Grüning and B. Gatos, "cBAD: ICDAR2017 
		Competition on Baseline Detection", 14th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2017), pp. 1355-1360, 2017. 
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		S. Fiel, F. Kleber, M. Diem, V. Christlein, G. Louloudis, S. Nikos and 
		B. Gatos, "ICDAR2017 Competition on Historical Document Writer 
		Identification (Historical-WI)", 14th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2017), pp. 1377-1382, 2017. 
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		G. Sfikas, B. Gatos and C.Nikou, "SemiCCA: A New Semi-Supervised 
		Probabilistic CCA Model for Keyword Spotting", International 
		Conference on Image processing (ICIP 2017), Beijing, China, 
		pp. 1107-1111, 2017. Download
      
		G. Retsinas, G. Sfikas, B. Gatos, "Transferable Deep Features for 
		Keyword Spotting", International Workshop on Computational 
		Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding, held in conjunction with 
		the 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Kos, 
		Greece, 2 (2), 89, 2017. Download
      
		B. Gatos, G. Louloudis, N. Stamatopoulos and G. Sfikas, "Historical 
		Document Processing", ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 
		(DocEng'17) tutorial, pp. 1 - 2, 2017. 
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		G. Sfikas, G. Retsinas and B. Gatos, "Zoning Aggregated Hypercolumns for 
		Keyword Spotting", 15th International Conference on Frontiers in 
		Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR’16), pp. 283-288, 2016.
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		I. Pratikakis, K. Zagoris, B. Gatos, J. Puigcerver, A.H. Toselli and E. 
		Vidal, "ICFHR2016 Handwritten Keyword Spotting Competition (H-KWS 
		2016)", 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting 
		Recognition (ICFHR’16), pp. 613-618, 2016.
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		I. Pratikakis, K. Zagoris, G. Barlas and B. Gatos, "ICFHR2016 
		Handwritten Document Image Binarization Contest (H-DIBCO 2016)", 15th 
		International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition 
		(ICFHR’16), pp. 619-623, 2016. Download
      G. Sfikas, G. Louloudis, N. Stamatopoulos and B. Gatos, "Bayesian mixture 
		models on connected components for Newspaper article segmentation",
		ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng'16), pp. 143 - 146, 
		2016. Download 
      
		G. Retsinas, G. Louloudis, N. Stamatopoulos and B. Gatos, "Efficient 
		Document Image Segmentation Representation by Approximating Minimum-Link 
		Polygons", 12th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis 
		Systems (DAS’16), pp. 293 - 298, 2016.
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		G. Louloudis, G. Sfikas, N. Stamatopoulos and B. 
		Gatos, "Word Segmentation Using the Student’s-t Distribution", 12th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis 
		Systems (DAS’16), pp. 78 - 83, 2016.
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		V. Katsouros, V. Papavassiliou, F. Simistira and B. Gatos, "Recognition of Greek Polytonic on Historical Degraded 
		Texts Using HMMs", 12th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis 
		Systems (DAS’16), pp. 346-351, 2016.
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		A. Papandreou, B. Gatos and K. Zagoris, "An Adaptive Zoning Technique 
		for Word Spotting Using Dynamic Time Warping", 12th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis 
		Systems (DAS’16), pp. 387 - 392, 2016.
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		G. Retsinas, G. Louloudis, N. Stamatopoulos and B. 
		Gatos, "Keyword Spotting in Handwritten Documents Using Projections of 
		Oriented Gradients", 12th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis 
		Systems (DAS’16), pp. 411 - 416, 2016.
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		B. Gatos, N. Stamatopoulos, G. Louloudis, G. Sfikas, G. Retsinas, F. 
		Simistira, V. Papavassiliou and V. Katsouros, "GRPOLY-DB: An Old Greek 
		Polytonic Document Image Database", 13th 
		International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 
		2015), pp. 646 - 650, 2015.
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		A. Giotis, G. Sfikas, C. Nikou and B. Gatos, "Shape-based Word Spotting 
		in Handwritten Document Images", 13th 
		International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 
		2015), pp. 561 - 565, 2015.
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		G. Retsinas, B. Gatos, N. Stamatopoulos and G. Louloudis, "Isolated 
		Character Recognition using Projections of Oriented Gradients", 13th 
		International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 
		2015), pp. 336 - 340, 2015.
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		G. Sfikas, A. Giotis, G. Louloudis and B. Gatos, "Using Attributes for 
		Word Spotting and Recognition in Polytonic Greek Documents", 13th 
		International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 
		2015), pp. 686 - 690, 2015.
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		F. Simistira, A. Hassan, V. Papavassiliou, B. Gatos, V. Katsouros and M. 
		Liwicki, "Recognition of Historical Greek Polytonic Scripts Using LSTM 
		Networks", 13th 
		International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 
		2015), pp. 766 - 770, 2015.
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		N. Stamatopoulos, G. Louloudis and B. Gatos, "Goal-Oriented Performance 
		Evaluation Methodology for Page Segmentation Techniques", 13th 
		International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 
		2015), pp. 281 - 285, 2015.
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		G. Retsinas, B. Gatos, A. Antonacopoulos, G. Louloudis and N. 
		Stamatopoulos, "Historical Typewritten Document Recognition Using 
		Minimal User Interaction", 3rd International Workshop on Historical 
		Document Imaging and Processing (HIP 2015), pp. 31 - 38, 2015.
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		Konstantinos Zagoris, Ioannis Pratikakis and Basilis Gatos, "A Framework 
		for Efficient Transcription of Historical Documents Using Keyword 
		Spotting", 3rd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging 
		and Processing (HIP 2015), pp. 9 - 14, 2015.
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		B. Gatos, N. Stamatopoulos, G. Louloudis and S. Perantonis “H-DocPro: a 
		document image processing platform for historical documents”, First 
		International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage 
		(DATECH’14), pp. 131-136, 2014.
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		A Papandreou, B Gatos, G Louloudis “An adaptive zoning technique for 
		efficient word retrieval using dynamic time warping”, First 
		International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage 
		(DATECH’14), pp. 147-152, 2014. 
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		B. Gatos, G. Louloudis, T. Causer, K. Grint, V. Romero, J. A. Sánchez, 
		A. Toselli, E. Vidal “Ground-Truth Production in the Transcriptorium 
		Project”, 11th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis 
		Systems (DAS’14), pp. 237-241, 2014.
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		K. Ntirogiannis, B. Gatos and I. Pratikakis "ICFHR2014 Competition on 
		Handwritten Document Image Binarization (H-DIBCO 2014)", 14th 
		International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition 
		(ICFHR’14), pp. 809-813, 2014. 
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		I. Pratikakis, K. Zagoris, B. Gatos, G. Louloudis and N. Stamatopoulos "ICFHR 
		2014 Competition on Handwritten KeyWord Spotting (H-KWS 2014)", 14th 
		International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition 
		(ICFHR’14), pp. 814-819, 2014.
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		K. Zagoris, I. Pratikakis and B. Gatos "Segmentation-based Historical 
		Handwritten Word Spotting using Document-Specific Local Features", 
		14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition 
		(ICFHR’14), pp. 9-14, 2014.
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		N. Stamatopoulos, G. Louloudis and B. Gatos “A Novel Transcript Mapping 
		Technique for Handwritten Document Images”, 14th International 
		Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR'14), pp. 
		41-46, 2014. Download
      
		B. Gatos, G. Louloudis and N. Stamatopoulos “Segmentation of Historical 
		Handwritten Documents into Text Zones and Text Lines”, 14th 
		International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition 
		(ICFHR'14), pp. 464-469, 2014. 
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		I. Pratikakis, B. Gatos and K. Ntirogiannis, “ICDAR 2013 document image 
		binarization contest (DIBCO 2013)”,  12th International 
		Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2013), pp. 
		1471 - 1476, 2013. Download
      
		A. Papandreou, B. Gatos, G. Louloudis and N. Stamatopoulos “ICDAR 2013 
		Document Image Skew Estimation Contest (DISEC 2013)”, 12th 
		International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 
		2013), pp. 1444 - 1448, 2013.
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		N. Stamatopoulos, B. Gatos, G. Louloudis, U. Pal and A. Alaei, “ICDAR 
		2013 Handwriting Segmentation Contest“, 12th International Conference 
		on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2013), pp. 1402 - 1406,
		2013. Download
      
		A. Papandreou and B. Gatos, “A Coarse to Fine Skew Estimation Technique 
		for Handwritten Words”, 12th International Conference on Document 
		Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2013), pp. 225 - 229, 2013.
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		G. Louloudis, B. Gatos, N. Stamatopoulos and A. Papandreou, "ICDAR 2013 
		Competition on Writer Identification Document Analysis and Recognition",
		12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 
		2013), pp. 1397 - 1401, 2013.
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		J.A. Sánchez, G. Mühlberger, B. Gatos, P. Schofield, K. Depuydt, R.M. 
		Davis and E. Vidal “TranScriptorium: a european project on handwritten 
		text recognition”, 2013 ACM symposium on Document engineering, pp 
		227-228, 2013. Download
      
      G. Louloudis, B. Gatos and N. Stamatopoulos, “ICFHR2012 Competition on 
      Writer Identification - Challenge 1: Latin/Greek Documents”, 13th 
      International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition 
      (ICFHR'12), pp. 825-830, Bari, Italy, September 2012.
      Download
      
      I. Pratikakis, B. Gatos and K. Ntirogiannis, "ICFHR 2012 Competition on 
      Handwritten Document Image Binarization (H-DIBCO 2012)", 13th 
      International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition 
      (ICFHR'12), pp. 813-818, Bari, Italy, September 2012.
      Download
      
      K. Zagoris, I. Pratikakis, A. Antonacopoulos, B. Gatos and N. Papamarkos, 
      "Handwritten and Machine Printed Text Separation in Document Images using 
      the Bag of Visual Words Paradigm", 13th International Conference on 
      Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR'12), pp. 103-108, Bari, Italy, 
      September 2012. Download
      
      G. Louloudis, A. L. Kesidis and B. Gatos, “Efficient word retrieval using 
      a multiple ranking combination scheme”, 10th International Workshop on 
      Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2012), pp. 379-383, Gold Coast, Australia, 
      March 2012. Download
      
      A. Papandreou and B. Gatos, “Word Slant Estimation Using Non-Horizontal 
      Character Parts And Core-Region Information”, 10th International Workshop 
      on Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2012), pp. 307-311, Gold Coast, 
      Australia, March 2012. Download
      
      B. Gatos, G. Louloudis and N. Stamatopoulos, “Greek Polytonic OCR Based on 
      Efficient Character Class Number Reduction”, 11th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2011), pp. 1155 - 1159, 
		Beijing, China, September 2011. Download
      
      B. Gatos, A. Kesidis and A. Papandreou, “Adaptive Zoning Features for 
      Character and Word Recognition”, 11th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2011), pp. 1160 - 1164, 
		Beijing, China, September 2011.
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      A. Kesidis and B. Gatos, “Efficient Cut-Off Threshold Estimation for Word 
      Spotting Applications”, 11th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2011), pp. 279 - 283, 
		Beijing, China, September 2011. Download
      
      K. Ntirogiannis,
      B. Gatos and I. Pratikakis, “Binarization of Textual Content in Video 
      Frames”, 11th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2011), pp. 673 - 677, 
		Beijing, China, September 2011. Download
      
      A. Papandreou and B. Gatos, “A Novel Skew Detection Technique Based on 
      Vertical Projections”, 11th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2011), pp. 384 - 388, 
		Beijing, China, September 2011. Download
      
      S. Colutto and B. Gatos,  “Efficient Word Recognition Using a 
      Pixel-Based Dissimilarity Measure”, 11th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2011), pp. 1110 - 1114, 
		Beijing, China, September 2011. Download
      
      I. Pratikakis,
      B. Gatos and K. Ntirogiannis, “ICDAR 2011 Document Image Binarization 
      Contest (DIBCO 2011)”, 11th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2011), pp. 1506 - 1510, 
		Beijing, China, September 2011. Download
      
      G. Louloudis, N. Stamatopoulos and B. Gatos, “ICDAR 2011 Writer 
      Identification Contest”, 11th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2011), pp. 1475 - 1479, 
		Beijing, China, September 2011.
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      B. Gatos, N. Stamatopoulos and G. Louloudis, “ICFHR 2010 Handwriting 
      Segmentation Contest”, 12th International Conference on Frontiers in 
      Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR'10), pp. 737-742, Kolkata, India, November 
      2010. Download
      
      I. Pratikakis, B. Gatos, K. Ntirogiannis, “H-DIBCO 2010 – Handwritten 
      Document Image Binarization Competition”, 12th International Conference on 
      Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR'10), pp. 727-732, Kolkata, 
      India, November 2010. Download 
      
      N. Stamatopoulos, G. Louloudis and B. Gatos, “Efficient Transcript Mapping 
      to Ease the Creation of Document Image Segmentation Ground Truth with 
      Text-Image Alignment”, 12th International Conference on Frontiers in 
      Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR'10), pp. 226-231, Kolkata, India, November 
      2010. Download
      
      N. Stamatopoulos, B. Gatos and T. Georgiou, “Page Frame Detection for 
      Double Page Document Images”, 9th International Workshop on Document 
      Analysis Systems (DAS'10), pp. 401-408, Boston, MA, USA, June 2010.
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      G. Vamvakas, N. Stamatopoulos, B Gatos and S.J. Perantonis, “Automatic 
      Unsupervised Parameter Selection for Character Segmentation”, 9th 
      International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS'10), pp. 409-415, 
      Boston, MA, USA, June 2010. Download
      
		B. Gatos, N. Stamatopoulos and G. Louloudis, "ICDAR2009 Handwriting 
		Segmentation Contest", 10th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'09), pp. 1393-1397, 
		Barcelona, Spain, July 2009.
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		B. Gatos, K. Ntirogiannis and I. Pratikakis, "ICDAR 2009 Document Image 
		Binarization Contest (DIBCO 2009)", 10th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'09), pp. 1375-1382, 
		Barcelona, Spain, July 2009.
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		B. Gatos and I. Pratikakis, "Segmentation-free Word Spotting in 
		Historical Printed Documents", 10th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'09), pp. 271-275, 
		Barcelona, Spain, July 2009.
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		G. Vamvakas, B. Gatos and S. J. Perantonis, "A Novel Feature Extraction 
		and Classification Methodology for the Recognition of Historical 
		Documents", 10th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'09), pp. 491-495, 
		Barcelona, Spain, July 2009.
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		A. Nicolaou and B. Gatos, "Handwritten Text Line Segmentation by 
		Shredding Text into its Lines", 10th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'09), pp. 626-630, 
		Barcelona, Spain, July 2009.
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		G. Louloudis, N. Stamatopoulos and B. Gatos, "A Novel Two Stage 
		Evaluation Methodology for Word Segmentation Techniques", 10th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'09), pp. 686-690, 
		Barcelona, Spain, July 2009.
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		N. Stamatopoulos, B. Gatos and I. Pratikakis, "A Methodology for 
		Document Image Dewarping Techniques Performance Evaluation", 10th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'09), pp. 956-960, 
		Barcelona, Spain, July 2009.
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		K. Ntirogiannis, B. Gatos and I. Pratikakis, "A Modified Adaptive 
		Logical Level Binarization Technique for Historical Document Images", 
		10th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'09), pp. 1171-1175, 
		Barcelona, Spain, July 2009.
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		N. Stamatopoulos, G. Louloudis and B. Gatos, "A comprehensive evaluation 
		methodology for noisy historical document recognition techniques", 
		3rd  Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data 
		(AND'09), pp. 47-54, Barcelona, Spain, July 2009.
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		A. Kesidis, E. Galiotou, B. Gatos, A. Lampropoulos, I. Pratikakis, I. 
		Manolessou and A. Ralli, "Accessing the content of Greek historical 
		documents", 3rd  Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured 
		Text Data (AND'09), pp. 55-62, Barcelona, Spain, July 2009.
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		B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis and S. J. Perantonis, "Improved Document Image 
		Binarization by Using a Combination of Multiple Binarization Techniques 
		and Adapted Edge Information", 19th 
		International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'08),  
		ISBN: 978-1-4244-2175-6/08, Tampa, 
		Florida, USA, December 2008. Download 
		
      
		B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis and S. J. Perantonis, "Efficient Binarization 
		of Historical and Degraded Document Images", 8th International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS'08), 
		pp. 447-454, Nara, Japan, September 2008. 
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		N. Stamatopoulos,
		B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis and S. J. Perantonis, "A Two-Step Dewarping 
		of Camera Document Images", 8th 
		International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS'08), pp. 
		209-216, Nara, 
		Japan, September 2008. Download 
		
      
		K. Ntirogiannis,
		B. Gatos and I. Pratikakis, "An Objective Evaluation Methodology for 
		Document Image Binarization Techniques", 8th International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS'08), 
		pp. 217-224, Nara, Japan, September 2008. 
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		G. Vamvakas, B. Gatos, N. Stamatopoulos, and S.J.Perantonis, "A Complete 
		Optical Character Recognition Methodology for Historical Documents", 8th International Workshop on 
		Document Analysis Systems (DAS'08), pp. 525-532, Nara, Japan, September 2008.
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		M. Anthimopoulos, B. Gatos, and I. Pratikakis, "A Hybrid System for Text 
		Detection in Video Frames", 8th 
		International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS'08), pp. 
		286-292, Nara, 
		Japan, September 2008. Download 
		
      
		T. Konidaris, B. Gatos, S. J. Perantonis and A. Kesidis, "Keyword 
		Matching in Historical Machine-Printed Documents Using Synthetic 
		Data,Word Portions and Dynamic TimeWarping", 8th International Workshop on Document Analysis 
		Systems (DAS'08), pp. 539-545, Nara, Japan, September 2008.
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		N. Stamatopoulos, B. Gatos and S. J. Perantonis, "A Method for Combining 
		Complementary Techniques for Document Image Segmentation", 11th International Conference on Frontiers in 
		Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR'08), pp. 235-240, Montreal, Canada, August 2008.
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		G. Louloudis, B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis and C. Halatsis, "Line and Word 
		Segmentation of Handwritten Documents", 11th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition 
		(ICFHR'08), pp. 247-252, Montreal, Canada, August 2008.
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		K. Ntirogiannis, B. Gatos and I. Pratikakis, "An Objective Evaluation 
		Methodology for Handwritten Image Document Binarization Techniques", 11th International Conference on 
		Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR'08), pp. 586-591, Montreal, Canada, 
		August 2008. Download
      
		G. Vamvakas, B. Gatos and S. J. Perantonis, "Hierarchical Classification 
		of Handwritten Characters based on Novel Structural Features", 11th International Conference on Frontiers in 
		Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR'08), pp. 535-539, Montreal, Canada, August 2008.
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		B. Gatos, A. Antonacopoulos and N. Stamatopoulos, "ICDAR2007 Handwriting 
		Segmentation Contest", 9th International Conference on 
		Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'07), pp. 1284-1288, Curitiba, Brazil, 
		September 2007.
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		A. Antonacopoulos,
		B. Gatos and D. Bridson, "ICDAR2007 Page Segmentation Competition",  
		9th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition 
		(ICDAR'07), pp.
      1279-1283, Curitiba, Brazil, September 2007. 
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		B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis and K. Ntirogiannis, "Segmentation Based 
		Recovery of Arbitrarily Warped Document Images",  
		
      9th International Conference on Document 
      Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'07), pp.
      989-993, Curitiba, Brazil, September 2007. 
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		M. Makridis, N. Nikolaou and B. Gatos, "An Efficient Word Segmentation 
		Technique for Historical and Degraded Machine-Printed Documents", 
		 
      9th International Conference on Document 
      Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'07), pp. 178-182, Curitiba, Brazil, September 
		2007. 
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		G. Louloudis, B. Gatos and C. Halatsis, "Text Line Detection in 
		Unconstrained Handwritten Documents Using a Block-Based Hough Transform 
		Approach", 
		 
      9th International Conference on Document 
      Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'07), pp. 599-603, Curitiba, Brazil, September 
		2007. 
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		G. Vamvakas, B. Gatos, S. Petridis and N. Stamatopoulos, "An Efficient 
		Feature Extraction and Dimensionality Reduction Scheme for Isolated 
		Greek Handwritten Character Recognition",  
      9th International Conference on Document 
      Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'07), pp.
      1073-1077, Curitiba, Brazil, September 2007. 
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		N. Stamatopoulos,
		B. Gatos and A. Kesidis, "Automatic Borders Detection of Camera Document 
		Images",  
		
      2nd  International Workshop on Camera-Based Document 
      Analysis and Recognition (CBDAR'07), pp.
      71-78, Curitiba, Brazil, September 2007.
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		G. Vamvakas, N. Stamatopoulos, B Gatos, I. Pratikakis and S. J. 
		Perantonis, "Greek Handwritten Character Recognition", 11th Panhellenic Conference on 
		Informatics (PCI 2007), pp. 343-352, Patras, Greece, May 2007.
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		M. Anthimopoulos, B. Gatos and I. Pratikakis, "Text detection in video 
		frames", 11th 
		Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2007), pp. 361-370, Patras, Greece, 
		May 2007. Download
      
		A. Kesidis and B. Gatos, 
      "A Robust Image Watermarking Technique Based on Spectrum Analysis and 
		Pseudorandom Sequences", 2nd International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and 
		Applications (VISAPP 2007), pp. 121-126, Barcelona, Spain, March, 2007.
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		M. Anthimopoulos, B. Gatos and I. Pratikakis, 
      "Multiresolution Text Detection in Video Frames", 2nd International Conference on 
		Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2007), pp. 161-166, Barcelona, 
		Spain, March 2007. Download
      
		M. Anthimopoulos, B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis, S. J. Perantonis, 
      "Detecting Text in Video Frames", The Fourth IASTED International Conference on Signal 
      Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Applications (SPPRA 2007), 
      ISBN: 978-0-88986-646-1, pp. 39-44, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2007.
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      B. Gatos and K. Ntirogiannis, 
      "Restoration of Arbitrarily Warped Document Images Based on Text Line and 
      Word Detection", The Fourth IASTED International Conference on Signal 
      Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Applications (SPPRA 2007), 
      ISBN: 978-0-88986-646-1, pp. 203-208, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2007.
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      G. Vamvakas, B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis, N. Stamatopoulos, A. Roniotis 
      and S.J. Perantonis, "Hybrid Off-Line OCR for Isolated Handwritten Greek 
      Characters", The Fourth IASTED 
      International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, and 
      Applications (SPPRA 2007), ISBN: 978-0-88986-646-1, pp. 197-202, Innsbruck, Austria, February 
		2007.
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      B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis, A.L. Kesidis and S.J. Perantonis, "Efficient 
      Off-Line Cursive Handwritten Word Recognition", 10th International 
      Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR 2006), 
      
      pp. 121-125, 
        La Baule, France,  
      
      October 2006. Download
      
      G. Louloudis, K. Halatsis, B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis, "A Block-Based Hough 
      Transform Mapping for Text Line Detection in Handwritten Documents", 
      10th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR 
      2006),  pp. 515-520, La Baule, France, October 2006. 
      
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      B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis and S.J. Perantonis, "Hybrid Off-Line Cursive 
      Handwritten Word Recognition", 18th International Conference on Pattern 
      Recognition (ICPR2006), pp. 998-1001, Hong Kong, August 2006. 
      
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      D. Kosmopoulos, S. Petridis, I. Pratikakis, B. Gatos, S. 
      Perantonis, V. Karkaletsis, G. Paliouras, "Knowledge Acquisition from 
      Multimedia Content using an Evolution Framework, 3rd. IFIP Conference 
      on Artificial Intelligence Applications & Innovations, pp. 
		557-565, Athens, Greece, 
      June 2006. Download
      
      
      Β. Gatos, T. Konidaris, I. Pratikakis and S. Perantonis, "A holistic 
      methodology for keyword search in historical typewritten documents", 
      4th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in 
      Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 3955, pp. 490-493, Irakleion, Greece, May 
      2006. Download
      
      Download I. Pratikakis, B. Gatos 
      and Stelios C.A. Thomopoulos, "Scene categorisation using low-level visual 
      features", International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and 
      Applications (VISAPP06), pp. 155-160, Setubal, Portugal, Feb. 25-28, 
      2006.  C. 
      D. Spyropoulos, G. Paliouras, V. Karkaletsis, D. Kosmopoulos, I. 
      Pratikakis, S. Perantonis, B. Gatos, "BOEMIE: Bootstrapping Ontology 
      Evolution with Multimedia Information Extraction", 2nd
      European Workshop 
      on Integration of Knowledge, Semantic and Digital Media Technologies,
      pp. 
      419-420, London, UK, November 2005. Download 
      B. Gatos, T. Konidaris, K. Ntzios, I. Pratikakis and S. J. Perantonis, "A 
      Segmentation-free Approach for Keyword Search in Historical Typewritten 
      Documents",  8th International Conference on Document 
      Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'05), pp. 54-58, Seoul, Korea, August 
		2005.
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      K. Ntzios, B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis, T. Konidaris and S. J. Perantonis, "An 
      Old Greek Handwritten OCR System",  
      8th International Conference on Document 
      Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'05), pp. 64-68, Seoul, Korea, August 
		2005.
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      A. Antonacopoulos, B. Gatos and D. Bridson, "ICDAR2005 Page Segmentation 
      Competition",  8th International Conference on Document 
      Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'05), pp. 75-79, Seoul, Korea, August 
		2005.
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      Β. Gatos, Ι. Pratikakis and Perantonis S.J. "Text detection in 
      indoor/outdoor scene images", First International Workshop on Camera-based 
      Document Analysis and Recognition (CBDAR'05), 
      pp. 127-132, Seoul, Korea, August 2005. Download 
      B. Gatos, D. Danatsas, I. Pratikakis and S. J. Perantonis, "Automatic 
      Table Detection in Document Images", 3rd International Conference on 
      Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR'05), pp. 612-621, Path, UK, August 
		2005.
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      B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis and S.J. Perantonis, "Towards text 
      recognition in natural scene images", 5th International Conference on 
      Automation and Technology (ICTA'05), 
      pp. 354-359, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2005. Download 
      I. Pratikakis, I. Vanhamel, H. Sahli, B. Gatos and S. Perantonis, 
      "Object-driven content-based image 
      retrieval", 
      12th International Workshop on Systems, Signals and 
      Image Processing (IWSSIP'05), pp. 189-193, INDERSCIENCE Publishers, ISBN 
      0-907776-20-5, 22-24 September, Chalkida, Greece, 2005. 
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      I. Pratikakis, I. Vanhamel, H, Sahli, B, Gatos and S. Perantonis, 
		"Watershed-driven region-based image retrieval", 
      International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology, pp. 207-216, 
      Paris, France, 2005. 
      C.D. Spyropoulos, G. Paliouras, V. Karkaletsis, D. Kosmopoulos, I. 
      Pratikakis, S. Perantonis, B. Gatos, "BOEMIE: bootstrapping ontology 
      evolution with multimedia information extraction", 2nd European 
      Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantics and Digital Media 
      Technology (EWIMT 2005) pp. 419-420, 2005. 
      Download I. Pratikakis, I. Vanhamel, H. 
      Sahli, Z. Efraimidis, B. Gatos and S. Perantonis, "Unsupervised 
		region-based image retrieval",  European 
      Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantic and Digital Media 
      Technologies, pp. 39-46, London, UK, 2004. 
      B. Gatos, K. Ntzios, I. Pratikakis, S. Petridis, T. Konidaris and S. J. Perantonis, 
      "A 
      segmentation-free recognition technique to assist old Greek handwritten 
      manuscript OCR", IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis systems (DAS'2004), 
      Lecture Notes in Computer Science (3163),  pp. 63-74, Florence, Italy, 
      September 2004. Download  
      B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis and S. J. Perantonis, "An adaptive binarisation technique for 
      low quality historical documents", 
      IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis 
      systems (DAS’2004), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (3163),  pp. 102-113, 
      Florence, Italy, September 2004. Download 
       
      B. Gatos, I. Pratikakis and S. J. Perantonis, "Locating Text in historical collection 
      manuscripts", 3rd Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lecture 
      Notes in Artificial Intelligence (3025), pp. 476-485, Samos, Greece, 
      May 2004.
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      S. J. Perantonis, B. Gatos, V. Maragos, V. Karkaletsis and G. Petasis, "Text Area 
      Identification in Web Images", 
      3rd Hellenic Conference on Artificial 
      Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (3025), pp. 82-92, Samos, 
      Greece, May 2004. Download  
      B. Gatos, N. Papamarkos and S. J. Perantonis, "Comparing Point and Block 
      Representation in Computer Vision and Image Processing Tasks", 3rd Hellenic 
      Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 217-226, Samos, Greece, 
      2004.
      Download S. J. 
      Perantonis, B. Gatos and V. Maragos, "A Novel Web Image Processing 
		Algorithm for Text Area Identification that Helps Commercial OCR Engines 
		to Improve Their Web Image Recognition Efficiency", Second 
      International Workshop on Web Document Analysis (WDA2003), pp. 61-64, Edinburgh, 
      Scotland, August 2003. Download A. 
      Antonacopoulos, B. Gatos and D. Karatzas, "ICDAR 2003 Page 
		Segmentation Competition", 7th International Conference on Document 
      Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'03), pp. 688-692, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 
		2003.
      Download B. Gatos and N. 
      Papamarkos, "Applying Fast Segmentation Techniques at a Binary Image 
		Represented by a Set of Non-Overlapping Blocks", Sixth 
      International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'01), 
      pp. 1147-1151, Seattle, USA, September 2001.
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      Mantzaris and A. Antonacopoulos, “First International Newspaper 
		Segmentation Contest”, Sixth International Conference on 
      Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'01), pp. 1190-1194, Seattle, USA, 
      September 2001. Download B. Gatos, S. L. 
      Mantzaris and N. Gouraros, “An Integrated System for Creating a Digital 
		Library from Newspaper Archives”, Digital Resources for the 
      Humanities (DRH2001) Conference, page 37, London, U.K., July 2001. 
      Download S. L. Mantzaris, 
      B. Gatos and N. Gouraros, "Creating a Digital Library from Newspaper 
		Archives", 2001 Symposium on Document Image Understanding 
      Technology, pp. 285-287, Columbia, Maryland, April 2001.  B. Gatos, N. 
      Papamarkos, I. Andreadis and S. J. Perantonis, “Applying Morphological 
      Transformations on a Block Represented binary Image”, Fourth 
      International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS2000), pp. 
      487-495, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 2000. Download B. Gatos and S. 
      L. Mantzaris, “A novel recursive algorithm for area location using 
      isothetic polygons”, 15th International Conference on Pattern 
      Recognition (ICPR2000), pp. 496-499, Barcelona, Spain, September 2000.
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      B. Gatos, N. Gouraros and P. Tzavelis, “Integrated Search Tools for 
		Newspaper Digital Libraries”, ACM Conference on Research and 
      Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2000), page 389, Athens, 
      Greece, July 2000. Download B. Gatos, N. 
      Gouraros, S. L. Mantzaris and P. Tzavelis, "A Digital Library from 
      Newspaper Archives", demonstration at Digital Libraries 2000:The Fifth ACM 
      Conference on Digital Libraries (DL'00), San Antonio, Texas, June 2000. S.L. Mantzaris, 
      B. Gatos, N. Gouraros and S. J. Perantonis, “Linking Article Parts for the 
		Creation of a Newspaper Digital Library”, Content-Based 
      Multimedia Information Access International Conference (RIAO2000), pp. 
      997-1005, Paris, France, April 2000. Download B. Gatos, S. L. 
      Mantzaris, K. V. Chandrinos, A. Tsigris and S. J. Perantonis, "Integrated 
		Algorithms for Newspaper Page Decomposition and Article Tracking", Fifth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition 
      (ICDAR'99), pp. 559-562, Bangalore, India, September 1999.
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      Gouraros, S. Mantzaris, S. Perantonis, A. Tsigris, P. Tzavelis and N. 
      Vassilas, “A new Method for Segmenting Newspaper Articles”, Second European Conference On Research and Advanced Technology for Digital 
      Libraries (ECDL’98), pp. 695-696, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 
      1998. Download S. Perantonis, 
      B. Gatos and N. Papamarkos, "Image segmentation and linear feature 
		identification using rectangular block decomposition", Third 
      IEEE Int. Conf. On Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS 96, pp. 
      183-186, Rodos, Greece, 1996. N. Papamarkos, 
      J. Tzortzakis and B. Gatos, "Determination of Run-Length smoothing values 
		for document segmentation”, Third IEEE Int. Conf. On 
      Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS 96, pp. 684-687, Rodos, Greece, 
      1996. Download A. Benaki, B. 
      Gatos, E. Karamani, D. Karras, S. Perantonis, N. Basilas, H. Harou, S. 
      Varoufakis, "A sensor driven robot arm for playing chess", 5th Hellenic Conference on Informatics – Session: Artificial Intelligence 
      I, pp. 471-480, Athens, Greece, December 1995. B. Gatos, 
      “Optical Character Recognition Techniques”, 5th Hellenic Conference on 
      Informatics – Session: Ph.D. Consortium I, Athens, Greece, December 1995. B. Gatos and N. 
      Papamarkos, " On the development of an OCR system based on curvature 
		features", IEEE International Symposium on Industrial 
      Electronics (ISIE'95), pp. 205-210, Athens, July 10-14,1995 B. Gatos, N. 
      Papamarkos and C. Chamzas, "Skew detection of digitized documents using 
		cross-correlation", 5th International Conf. On Advances in 
      Communication & Control - Telecommunications/Signal Processing in the 
      Multimedia Era (COMCON 5), pp. 124-130, Rethymno, Greece, 1995. A. Benaki, B. 
      Gatos, E. Karamani, D. Karras, S. Perantonis, N. Basilas and N. Gaitanis, 
      "A Robot Hand-Eye Coordination System for 3-D Object Recognition Using 
      Novel Neural Networks Trained with Multiview Moments", European Robotics and Intelligence Systems Conference (EURISCON '94), pp. 
      1692-1701, Malaga, Spain, 1994. T. Tambourantzi 
		and B. Gatos, "A Topology-Preserving Harmony Theory Network for Optical 
		Character Recognition", 4th International Conference on 
      Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN '94) from the Springer Verlag LTD. 
      London, p. 977, Sorento, Italy, May 1994. B. Gatos and N. 
      Papamarkos, " A novel method for character recognition", Proc. of the 
      4th 
      International Conf. On Advances in Communication & Control - 
      Telecommunications/Signal Processing in the Multimedia Era (COMCON 4), pp. 
      493-503, Rodos, Greece, June 1993. B. Gatos, D. 
      Karras and S. Perantonis, "Optical Character Recognition Using Novel 
      Feature Extraction & Neural Network Classification Techniques", Proc. of 
      the Workshop on Neural Network Application and Tools, IEEE Computer 
      Society Press, pp. 65-72, Liverpool, UK, September 1993. 
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