Notes from DAS2006

I just got back today from the 7th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (proceedings), held in Nelson from 13-15 Feb. The presentations were all about document or image analysis, but the heavy use of AI techniques could make some of it relevant to what I work on these days. Some of the interesting people I met or caught up with: Adam Behringer (Exbiblio) Abdel Belaid (Loria) Jim Fruchterman (Benetech) Koichi Kise (Osaka Prefecture University) Bertin Klein (DFKI) Marcus Liwicki (University of Bern) Larry Spitz (DocRec Ltd) Noorazrin Zakaria (Université de la Rochelle) Projects I should take a look at: GroupLens (recommendation system) Semantic Wikis (workshop) PRImA Research document database OpenCV Digital Library of India IUPR camera-captured document archive Tohoku University's OCR web service IAM-OnDB pen-captured writing database Techniques I should learn (or re-learn): Gabor filters Hidden Markov models Standard classifiers: NNC, LDC Analytical segmentation ...

18:34:05 February 15, 2006, Wednesday (PST) Source: Second p0st

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