About the dprl

The Document and Pattern Recognition Lab (dprl) started in the Summer of 2007. We focus on developing technologies for extracting and searching graphics and text in documents and videos.

Our work involves a number of Computer Science areas, including Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, and Human-Computer Interaction. Our publications have appeared in top venues such as TPAMI, CVPR, and SIGIR, and some of our work is used by groups around the world (e.g., the Tangent formula search engine, and the CROHME handwritten math recognition benchmark).

Members. University students of all levels (BSc, MSc, and PhD) from the Computing and Imaging Science colleges at RIT have worked in the lab. See the Members page for pictures and a list of all students who have worked in the lab. 

Support.  The dprl has supported by a variety of organizations including the NSF, Xerox, Google, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. See the Support page for details.