Document and Pattern Recognition Lab, RIT

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Members of the The Document and Pattern Recognition Lab (DPRL) work to improve the algorithms, designs and tools used for pattern recognition systems, with an emphasis on applications for typeset, handwritten, and electronic documents.
A summary of research projects, demonstrations, members of the lab, software, publications and other information are available from the links above. Lab news is provided below.

Contact Information

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

News (late 2011-2012)

(May) The DPRL lab will be demonstrating the min math search interface at ImagineRIT on Saturday, May 5. If you are on campus that day, we invite you to stop by our table in the Golisano College Atrium.
(April) Prof. Bigleow, Robert LiVolsi and Prof. Zanibbi presented preliminary results for historical trends in font metrics at the Reading Digital Syposium on April 28.
(April) The lab welcomes Christopher Sasarak to the lab. Christopher will be working on the min interface and math recognition algorithms over the summer as an NSF REU student.
(April) Meri Guiterrez Jhong will be working as an REU student in the DPRL over the summer, focusing on math retrieval.
(March) Prof. Zanibbi has been awarded an NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) supplement for his math recognition and retrieval work.
(March) David Stalnaker will be working as an intern at Google this summer (Seattle, WA).
(Feb.) Robert LiVolsi has secured a job with Google (Cambridge, MA).
(Feb.) Prof. Zanibbi will be giving a seminar on current math recognition and retrieval research in the DPRL at Lehigh University on March 14.
(Jan.) The lab welcomes Meridangela Gutierrez Jhong to the lab. Meridangela is an undergraduate research assistant, who will be carrying out work on math retrieval in LaTeX documents.
(Jan.) The new experiment summary (`lab report') template is available here. This will be discussed at the first lab meeting for the year.
(Dec. 2011) The lab welcomes David Stalnaker, a BSc/MSc student in Computer Science who will be working as a research assistant on the math recognition and retrieval project.
(Dec. 2011) The lab welcomes Robert LiVolsi, a BSc/MSc student in Computer Engineering who will be working with Profs. Zanibbi and Bigelow on their Google-funded historical font analysis study.
(Nov. 2011) Prof. Charles Bigelow and Prof. Zanibbi's proposal "Google Books, Readability and Culturomics" has been funded through Google Research Awards.
(Nov. 2011) Thomas Schellenberg has successfully defended his MSc thesis, Layout-Based Substitution Tree Indexing and Retrieval for Mathematical Expressions.

Earlier News (2008-2011)

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