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Room 70-3500 (Golisano College)
Department of Computer Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
Phone: (585) 475-4536

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The Document and Pattern Recognition Lab (dprl) explores ways to improve the algorithms and tools used for automatic recognition and retrieval of information in documents.

News (2013)

(May) Congratulations to Matthias Reichenbach, who has successfully defended his MSc project on the effect of rendered vs. inline math on relevance assessment for math search.
(May) Congratulations to Kenny Davila Castellanos on successfully defending his MSc project on image-based search of whiteboard notes in math lecture videos. Kenny will start his PhD in the DPRL for the AccessMath project this summer, co-supervised by Prof. Zanibbi and Prof. Ludi.
(May) Congratulations to George (Huaijin) Chen on successfully completing his senior undergraduate Imaging Science project on using inpainting to hide text and prevent OCR attacks against Video CAPTCHAs.
(May) Prof. Zanibbi has been awarded an NSF REU grant, which will be used to fund undergraduate researchers in the DPRL lab during summer 2013.
(May) ImagineRIT will be held on Saturday, May 4. The lab will be demonstrating the $m_{in}$ math search interface in the atrium of the Golisano college.
(May) Lei Hu and Siyu Zhu had papers describing a system for detecting text in patent document images (Siyu) and using shape contexts to segment handwritten mathematical symbols (Lei) accepted for publication at the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition being held in Washington, DC in late August.
(April) Congratulations to Matthias Reichenbach, who has secured a position with Square in San Francisco.
(April) Congratulations to George Chen on being accepted for PhD study in Computer Science at Rice University.
(Mar.) Prof. Zanibbi gave a talk on the dprl's work in math recognition and retrieval Creating User-Friendly Systems for Math Search as part of the RIT Imaging Science Seminar Series.
(Feb.) CROHMELib v. 0.1 and LgEval v. 0.2 have been released.
(Jan.) The $m_{in}$ math search interface will be demonstrated at the 20th Document Recognition and Retrieval Conference being held in San Francisco Feb. 5-7th.
(Jan.) The 3rd international Competition on Recognition of Handwritten Mathematical Expressions (CROHME) has begun! Data and tools are available. The registration deadline is Feb. 15th.
(Jan.) The lab welcomes Francisco Alvaro, a PhD student from the University of Valencia, Spain, who will visit the DPRL between January and May of this year, as he carries out his research in mathematical notation recognition.
(Jan.) The LgEval library (a python library for evaluating structural pattern recognition algorithms by Profs. Zanibbi and Mouchere) has been posted on the Software page.
(Dec. 2012) The lab welcomes Alex Canter to the lab, who will be looking at applying OCR to text extracted from natural scenes.
(Nov.) Siyu Zhu and Lei Hu have received RIT Graduate Research and Creativity Awards ($500 each), to be used in support of their travel to DRR in San Francisco, and ICPR in Japan, respectively.
(Nov.) Drs. Zanibbi and Blostein's survey on math recognition and retrieval will be published in the next issue of the International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition.

Earlier News (2008-2012)

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