ICDAR 2011 - Writer Identification Contest


 

Organizers:



Dr. Georgios Louloudis (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/~louloud) was born in 1979 in Athens, Greece. He received his Bachelor in Informatics and Telecommunications in 2000, his Master’s degree in Signal Processing for Telecommunications and Multimedia and his Ph.D. degree in Character Recognition in Historical Documents from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Currently, he is working at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece at the field  of handwritten historical  document  image  processing  and participates  at the  EU funded project  "IMPACT". His main research interests are in Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Document Image Analysis and Processing of Historical Documents.
Nikolaos Stamatopoulos (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/~nstam/) was born in 1984, in Athens, Greece. He graduated in 2006 from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and from November 2006 he is a Ph.D. candidate at the same university. His Ph.D Thesis is on Optical Process and Analysis of Historical Documents. He is currently working 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 His main research interests are in Image Processing and Document Image Analysis, Processing of Historical Documents, OCR and Pattern Recognition.
Dr. Basilis G. Gatos (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/~bgat/) was born in 1967, in Athens, Greece. He received his Electrical Engineering Diploma in 1992 and his Ph.D. degree in 1998, both from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, 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 90 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, of the Editorial Board of the International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR) and program committee member of several international Conferences (e.g. ICFHR 2008, AND 2009, ICDAR 2009, ICDAR 2011).

Anna Gkinala  was born in 1986 in Athens, Greece. She is a student in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of University of Athens,  Greece. She is currently working on a project on Writer Identification of Historical Documents. Her main research interests are in Image Processing and Document Image Analysis, OCR, and Pattern Recognition.



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