(Sept) The DPRL will have two oral paper presentations at DRR XX in San Francisco this coming February - one on image-based math symbol recognition (S. Zhu and L. Hu), and another on evaluating structural pattern recognition (and in particular, math recognition) (R. Zanibbi, in collaboration with H. Mouchere and C. Viard-Gaudin of Univ. Nantes, France)
(Sept) The lab welcome Matthias Reichenbach to the lab. Matthias is an MSc in HCI student, who will be completing a project on human relevance assessments for math search.
(Sept) Christopher Sasarak has received a student travel award in support of his poster presentation at HCIR 2012.
(Sept) The lab welcomes Awelemdy Orakwue (NSF REU Student) and Keita Del Valle (MSc Student, Human-Computer Interaction), both of whom will be working on HCI aspects of math recognition and retrieval.
(Sept) David Stalnaker has been offered a position with Google.
(Sept) C. Sasarak, K. Hart, R. Pospesel, D. Stalnaker, L. Hu, R. LiVolsi, S. Zhu and Prof. Zanibbi have had their paper "min: A Multimodal Web Interface for Math Search" accepted for poster presentation at the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval being held at IBM Research in Cambridge, MA.
(Aug) Profs. Ludi, Agarwal, Gaborski and Zanibbi have been awarded an NSF grant for improving mathematics lectures for low vision students, through developing a new application integrating video, note-taking and search, including search for mathematical notation.
(Aug) Prof. Zanibbi and Dr. Dorothea Blostein's book chapter entitled "Processing Mathematical Notation" will appear in the upcoming Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition, to be published by Springer-Verlag.
(June) Prof. Zanibbi is spending the month of June as a Visiting Professor at the IRCCyN/IVC research center located within Polytech Nantes, France.
(May) We welcome George Chen to the lab. For his senior undergraduate project in Imaging Science (2012-2013), George will be working on locating and hiding text in videos for Video CAPTCHAs.
(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. Christopher will be working on the min interface and math recognition algorithms over the summer as an NSF REU student.
(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. Meridangela is an undergraduate research assistant, who will be carrying out work on math retrieval in LaTeX documents.
2011
(Dec.) 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.) 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.) Prof. Charles Bigelow and Prof. Zanibbi's proposal "Google Books, Readability and Culturomics" has been funded through Google Research Awards.
(Nov.) Thomas Schellenberg has successfully defended his MSc thesis, Layout-Based Substitution Tree Indexing and Retrieval for Mathematical Expressions.
(Oct. and Nov.) Prof. Zanibbi gave talks on math recognition and retrieval research in the DPRL at the Rochester chapter meetings for the SPIE and IEEE Computer Society (slides are available from the IEEE web page).
(Sept.) The lab welcomes Siyu Zhu to the lab. Siyu is a PhD student in Imaging Science, and will be working on math retrieval using images.
(Sept.) Thomas Schellenberg, Prof. Yuan and Prof. Zanibbi's paper Layout-based substitution tree indexing and retrieval for mathematical expresions has been accepted for presentation at Document Recognition and Retrieval 2012.
(Sept.) Lei Hu and Prof. Zanibbi presented research papers on HMM-based math symbol recognition and image-based math retrieval, along with a poster describing a new metric for evaluating math recognition systems at ICDAR 2011 in Beijing. The metric was developed in collaboration with researchers from Universite de Nantes (France) and Queen's University (Canada).
(Aug.) Ben Holm has successfully defended his MSc thesis, Evaluation of RSL History as a Tool for Assistance in the Development and Evaluation of Computer Vision Algorithms.
(July) The lab welcomes Lane Lawley. Lane is a second-year RIT BSc Computer Science student who has volunteered to assist Bo Ding with his research into text detection in natural scenes.
(July) Prof. Zanibbi and Prof. Dorothea Blostein's survey on recognition and retrieval of mathematical notation has been accepted for publication in the International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition.
(June) Lei Hu, Li Yu, Amit Pillay, and Prof. Zanibbi have had three papers accepted for the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition being held in Beijing, China this fall. Both Lei and Li's papers were accepted for oral presentation at the conference (see the Publications link, above).
(June) Prof. Zanibbi will receive his third US Patent in late June for work on business document region labeling with John Handley and other researchers from the Xerox Research Center in Webster, NY.
(May) Congratulations to Lei Hu, who has successfully passed his first-year PhD student assessment (roughly speaking, his 'comprehensives').
(May) The lab welcomes Bo Ding, an MSc in Imaging Science student to the lab. Bo will continue David's work on detecting text in video.
(May) David Snyder has successfully defended his MSc in Imaging Science, titled "Text Detection in Natural Scenes through Weighted Majority Voting of DCT High Pass Filters, Line Removal, and Color Consistency Filtering".
(May) The lab will present a system for pen/finger-based math entry at ImagineRIT on May 7th that runs on iPads, as well as desktops and laptops. Please note that this system is only in its early stages. A link to the interface is provided above under the Software link.
(April) The lab welcomes Kevin Hart to the lab. Kevin will be completing an NSF REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) project in the lab this summer.
(Jan.) David Snyder has been awarded an RIT Center for Imaging Science Research Micro-Grant, "Increasing the Security of Video CAPTCHAs through Text Detection and Removal."
(Aug. 2010) The lab welcomes Lei Hu, who is starting his PhD in Computing and Information Science this fall. Lei will be working on math recognition and retrieval.
(Aug. 2010) Prof. Zanibbi has been awarded a research grant for work on math recognition and retrieval from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
(May 2010) Richard Pospesel, a Master's student in the RIT Computer Gaming Program will continue Amit Srinet's work on recognition of machine drawings at InspectionEasy (a Rochester company) over the summer. Richard was a student in Prof. Zanibbi's Pattern Recognition course (Winter 2009).
(May 2010) Amit Srinet will be working at Virtual Solutions in Cambridge, MA this summer.
(Mar. 2010) The lab welcomes Ben Holm. He will be working on the Recognition Strategy Language under the supervision of Prof. Zanibbi and Prof. Fluet.
(Mar. 2010) Amit Srinet is working with InspectionEasy (a Rochester company) on the recognition of machine drawings. The DPRL is acting as a consultant for the project.
(Feb. 2010) A poster on Amit Pillay and Prof. Zanibbi's neural combination of 2D math notation parsers was presented as poster at the
CEIS University Technology Annual Showcase on Feb. 25.
(Feb. 2010) The RIT Center for Imaging Science has awarded
funds to support research
on Video CAPTCHAs during the summer of 2010 (to be carried out by
Dave Snyder and Prof.
Zanibbi).
2009
(Nov. 2009) The lab welcomes Dave Snyder (Imaging Science Master's student) as a new member.
(July 2009) Kurt Kluever's video CAPTCHA work has been featured in a story at
ZDNet UK
(July 2009) R. Zanibbi, D. Blostein, and J. Cordy's paper White-Box Evaluation of Computer Vision Algorithms through Explicit Decision-Making has been accepted for podium presentation at the International Conference on Computer Vision Systems.
(April 2009) Amit Pillay has been awarded a CS Department Graduate Alumni Scholarship
(April 2009) Ines Pavon has been awarded the Outstanding 5th Year Student award, and was recently accepted for graduate study by the University of California at San Diego (UCSD)
(April 2009) Kurt Kluever and Richard Zanibbi have had a paper on YouTube-based video CAPTCHAs accepted for presentation at the 2009 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
(February 2009) The DPRL will be presenting work in pen-based equation editing and video CAPTCHAs at the "WOW! Center" (Field House) during ImagineRIT (May 2, 2009)
(January 2009) Richard Zanibbi gave a talk on video CAPTCHAs at the Center for Imaging Science at RIT. The talk can be seen online here (requires Adobe Acrobat Connect).
2008
(November, 2008) The DPRL received a CAT-EIS Grant (NYSTAR) to support research into algorithms and tools for intelligently combining document recognition algorithms.
