3. ICDAR 1995: Montreal, Canada

Keynote Speech

• Peter E. Baier:
  Image processing of forensic documents. 1-
  

Word Recognition I

• Sargur N. Srihari, Yong-Chul Shin, Vemulapati Ramanaprasad, Dar-Shyang Lee:
  Name and Address Block Reader system for tax form processing. 5-10
  
• Didier Guillevic, Ching Y. Suen:
  Cursive script recognition applied to the processing of bank cheques. 11-14
  
• Jean-Pierre Dodel, Rajjan Shinghal:
  Symbolic/neural recognition of cursive amounts on bank cheques. 15-18
  
• Christian Olivier, Thierry Paquet, Manuel Avila, Yves Lecourtier:
  Recognition of handwritten words using stochastic models. 19-23
  
• Gyeonghwan Kim, Venu Govindaraju:
  Handwritten word recognition for real-time applications. 24-
  

Neural Networks

• Seong-Whan Lee, Jong Soo Kim:
  Multi-lingual, multi-font and multi-size large-set character recognition using self-organizing neural network. 28-33
  
• Seong-Whan Lee, Young-Joon Kim:
  A new type of recurrent neural network for handwritten character recognition. 34-37
  
• Seong-Whan Lee, Young-Joon Kim:
  A new type of recurrent neural network for handwritten character recognition. 38-41
  
• Dar-Shyang Lee, Sargur N. Srihari:
  A theory of classifier combination: the neural network approach. 42-45
  
• Hui Su, Wei Wang, Xinyou Li, Shaowei Xia:
  Hierarchical neural network for recognizing hand-written characters in engineering drawings. 46-
  

On-Line Recognition I

• Sonia Garcia-Salicetti, Bernadette Dorizzi, Patrick Gallinari, A. Mellouk, D. Fanchon:
  A hidden Markov model extension of a neural predictive system for on-line character recognition. 50-53
  
• Pyeoung Kee Kim, Hang Joon Kim:
  On-line recognition of run-on Korean characters. 54-
  
• Luc Julia, Claudie Faure:
  Pattern recognition and beautification for a pen based interface. 58-63
  
• Robert K. Powalka, Nasser Sherkat, Robert J. Whitrow:
  Zoning invariant holistic recognizer for hybrid recognition of handwriting. 64-67
  
• Robert K. Powalka, Nasser Sherkat, Robert J. Whitrow:
  Recognizer characterisation for combining handwriting recognition results at word level. 68-
  

Application Systems

• Nick W. Strathy, Ching Y. Suen:
  A two-stage multi-network OCR system with a soft pre-classifier and a network selector. 78-81
  
• Sriganesh Madhvanath, Venu Govindaraju, Vemulapati Ramanaprasad, Dar-Shyang Lee, Sargur N. Srihari:
  Reading handwritten US census forms. 82-85
  
• L. Simoncini, Zsolt Miklós Kovács-Vajna:
  A system for reading USA census '90 hand-written fields. 86-91
  
• Edouard Lethelier, Manuel Leroux, Michel Gilloux:
  An automatic reading system for handwritten numeral amounts on French checks. 92-
  

Handwritten Character Recognition

• Takahiko Kawatani:
  Character recognition performance improvement using personal handwriting characteristics. 98-103
  
• N. Feray, Denis de Brucq, K. Romeo-Pakker, Thierry Paquet:
  Evaluation of codes and primitives: recognition of unconstrained handwritten numerals. 104-107
  
• Jun Cao, Malayappan Shridhar, Majid Ahmadi:
  Fusion of classifiers with fuzzy integrals. 108-111
  
• Moon Jeung Joe, Huen Joo Lee:
  A combined method on the handwritten character recognition. 112-115
  
• Hung-Pin Chiu, Din-Chang Tseng, Jen-Chieh Cheng:
  Invariant handwritten Chinese character recognition using weighted ring-data matrix. 116-
  

Segmentation I

• Yasuo Ariki, Y. Motegi:
  Segmentation and recognition of handwritten characters using subspace method. 120-123
  
• Uma Mahadevan, Ramesh C. Nagabushnam:
  Gap metrics for word separation in handwritten lines. 124-127
  
• Shin-Ywan Wang, Toshiaki Yagasaki:
  Block selection: a method for segmenting a page image of various editing styles. 128-133
  
• Masaharu Ozaki:
  Column segmentation by white space pattern matching. 134-
  

Image Processing Techniques

• Yong Jian Gao, J. J. Lim, A. Desai Narasimhalu:
  Fuzzy multilinkage thesaurus builder in multimedia information systems. 142-145
  
• Yu Zhong, Kalle Karu, Anil K. Jain:
  Locating text in complex color images. 146-149
  
• Keiji Yamada:
  Optimal sampling intervals for Gabor features and printed Japanese character recognition. 150-153
  
• Shigeru Shimada, Kishiko Maruyama, Atsushi Matsumoto, Kazuhiro Hiraki:
  Agent-based parallel recognition method of contour lines. 154-157
  

Database and Document Retrieval

• Tyne Liang, Suh-Yin Lee, Wei-Pang Yang:
  False hits of tri-syllabic queries in a Chinese signature file. 159-162
  
• Shin'ichi Satoh, Atsuhiro Takasu, Eishi Katsura:
  An automated generation of an electronic library based on document image understanding. 163-166
  
• Masanori Sugimoto, Koichi Hori, Setsuo Ohsuga:
  A document retrieval system for assisting creative research. 167-170
  
• Koji Tsuda, Shuji Senda, Michihiko Minoh, Katsuo Ikeda:
  Clustering OCR-ed texts for browsing document image database. 171-174
  
• F. Kanehara, S. Satoh, T. Hamada:
  A flexible image retrieval using explicit visual instruction. 175-
  

Signature Verificaton

• Brigitte Wirtz:
  Stroke-based time warping for signature verification. 179-182
  
• Frédéric Bauer, Brigitte Wirtz:
  Parameter reduction and personalized parameter selection for automatic signature verification. 183-186
  
• Ke Han, Ishwar K. Sethi:
  Signature identification via local association of features. 187-190
  
• Nabeel A. Murshed, Flávio Bortolozzi, Robert Sabourin:
  Off-line signature verification, without a priori knowledge of class /spl omega//sub 2/. A new approach. 191-196
  
• Robert Sabourin, Ginette Genest:
  An extended-shadow-code based approach for off-line signature verification. II. Evaluation of several multi-classifier combination strategies. 197-201
  
• Xu-Hong Xiao, Ru-Wei Dai:
  A hierarchical on-line Chinese signature verification system. 202-
  

Model-Base Document Analysis

• O. T. Akindele, Abdel Belaïd:
  Construction of generic models of document structures using inference of tree grammars. 206-209
  
• Mohamed Cheriet, Joseph N. Said, Ching Y. Suen:
  A formal model for document processing of business forms. 210-
  
• Edward A. Green, Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy:
  Model-based analysis of printed tables. 214-217
  
• Osamu Hori, David S. Doermann:
  Robust table-form structure analysis based on box-driven reasoning. 218-221
  
• Horst Bunke, R. Liviero:
  Classification and postprocessing of documents using an error-correcting parser. 222-
  

Image Processing

• Fu Chang, Yung-Ping Cheng, Theodosios Pavlidis, Tsuey-Yuh Shuai:
  A line sweep thinning algorithm. 227-230
  
• Hon-Son Don:
  A noise attribute thresholding method for document image binarization. 231-234
  
• Seong-Whan Lee, Eun-Soon Kim, Yuan Yan Tang:
  Nonlinear shape restoration of distorted images with Coons transformation. 235-238
  
• Atsuhiro Takasu, Shin'ichi Satoh, Eishi Katsura:
  A rule learning method for academic document image processing. 239-242
  
• Markus Röösli, Gladys Monagan:
  A high quality vectorization combining local quality measures and global constraints. 243-
  

Map Interpretation

• Marc Pierrot Deseilligny, Hervé Le Men, Georges Stamon:
  Characters string recognition on maps, a method for high level reconstruction. 249-252
  
• Gerd Maderlechner, Helmut Mayer:
  Conversion of high level information from scanned maps into geographic information systems. 253-256
  
• Huizhu Luo, Gady Agam, Its'hak Dinstein:
  Directional mathematical morphology approach for line thinning and extraction of character strings from maps and line drawings. 257-260
  
• Wei Wu, Wei Lu, Masao Sakauchi:
  An object-oriented model for drawing understanding and its ability of noise absorption. 261-
  

Classification Methods

• Takahiko Horiuchi, Kazuo Toraichi, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Hiromitsu Yamada:
  Relaxation optimizing processes in extended probabilistic space. 266-269
  
• Tao Hong, Stephen W. K. Lam, Jonathan J. Hull, Sargur N. Srihari:
  The design of a nearest-neighbor classifier and its use for Japanese character recognition. 270-273
  
• Hiroki Mori, Hirotomo Aso, Shozo Makino:
  Japanese document recognition based on interpolated n-gram model of character. 274-277
  
• Tin Kam Ho:
  Random decision forests. 278-
  

Document Understanding

• Yasuto Ishitani:
  Model matching based on association graph for form image understanding. 287-292
  
• Gary S. D. Farrow, Costas S. Xydeas, John P. Oakley:
  Model matching in intelligent document understanding. 293-296
  
• Koong H. C. Lin, Rey-Long Liu, Von-Wun Soo:
  Interactive acquisition of thematic information of Chinese verbs for judicial verdict document understanding using templates, syntactic clues, and heuristics. 297-300
  
• Antoine Ting, Maylor K. H. Leung, Siu Cheung Hui, Kai-Yun Chan:
  A syntactic business form classifier. 301-304
  
• Keiji Gyohten, Tomoko Sumiya, Noboru Babaguchi, Koh Kakusho, Tadahiro Kitahashi:
  Extracting characters and character lines in multi-agent scheme. 305-
  

Feature Extraction

• Daniel P. Lopresti, Jiangying Zhou, George Nagy, Prateek Sarkar:
  Spatial sampling effects in optical character recognition. 309-314
  
• Wolfgang Utschick, P. Nachbar, C. Knobloch, A. Schuler, Josef A. Nossek:
  The evaluation of feature extraction criteria applied to neural network classifiers. 315-318
  
• L. R. Blando, Junichi Kanai, Thomas A. Nartker:
  Prediction of OCR accuracy using simple image features. 319-322
  
• P. V. S. Rao, T. M. Ajitha:
  Telugu script recognition-a feature based approach. 323-326
  
• Daniel X. Le, George R. Thoma, Harry Wechsler:
  Document image analysis using integrated image and neural processing. 327-
  

Reconstruction and Interpretation

• Christian Ah-Soon, Karl Tombre:
  A step towards reconstruction of 3-D CAD models from engineering drawings. 331-334
  
• Hideki Tanahashi, Katsuhiko Sakaue, Kazuhiko Yamamoto:
  Recovering decorative patterns of ceramic objects from a monocular image using a genetic algorithm. 339-342
  
• R. E. Marston, M. H. Kuo:
  Interpretation of 3-view engineering drawings as central quadric surface mechanical parts. 343-346
  
• Atish K. Das, Noshir A. Langrana:
  Recognition of dimension sets and integration with vectorized engineering drawings. 347-
  

Word Recognition II

• Sheila X. Zhao, Sargur N. Srihari:
  A word recognition algorithm for machine-printed word images of multiple fonts and varying qualities. 351-354
  
• Badr Al-Badr, Robert M. Haralick:
  Segmentation-free word recognition with application to Arabic. 355-359
  
• Chi Fang, Jonathan J. Hull:
  A hypothesis testing approach to word recognition using an A* search algorithm. 360-363
  
• Philippe Gentric:
  Experimental results on improved handwritten word recognition using the Levenshtein metric. 364-367
  
• Jean-Michel Bertille, Michel Gilloux:
  A probabilistic approach to automatic handwritten address reading. 368-
  

Document Analysis

• Judith Hochberg, Lila Kerns, Patrick Kelly, Timothy Thomas:
  Automatic script identification from images using cluster-based templates. 378-381
  
• Torsten Caesar, Joachim M. Gloger, Eberhard Mandler:
  Estimating the baseline for written material. 382-385
  
• Arnold Jonk, Arnold W. M. Smeulders:
  An axiomatic approach to clustering line-segments. 386-389
  
• I. S. I. Abuhaiba, S. Datta, Murray J. J. Holt:
  Line extraction and stroke ordering of text pages. 390-
  

Neural Networks and Systems

• Michel Gilloux, Bernard Lemarié, Manuel Leroux:
  A hybrid radial basis function network/hidden Markov model handwritten word recognition system. 394-397
  
• Francine Chen, Lynn Wilcox, Dan S. Bloomberg:
  A comparison of discrete and continuous hidden Markov models for phrase spotting in text images. 398-402
  
• Stefan Manke, Michael Finke, Alex Waibel:
  NPen/sup ++/: a writer independent, large vocabulary on-line cursive handwriting recognition system. 403-408
  
• Hee-Seon Park, Seong-Whan Lee:
  Hidden Markov mesh random field: theory and its application to handwritten character recognition. 409-412
  
• Seong-Whan Lee, Eung-Jae Lee:
  Integrated segmentation and recognition of connected handwritten characters with recurrent neural network. 413-
  

Symbol Recognition

• Ann Grbavec, Dorothea Blostein:
  A. Grbavec, D. Blostein. 417-421
  
• Yung-Sheng Chen:
  Computer processing on the identification of a Chinese seal image. 422-425
  
• Y. J. Bae, Michael C. Fairhurst:
  Parallelism in dynamic time warping for automatic signature verification. 426-429
  
• Hashim M. Twaakyondo, Masayuki Okamoto:
  Structure analysis and recognition of mathematical expressions. 430-437
  
• Cheng-Lin Liu, Ru-Wei Dai, Ying-Jian Liu:
  Extracting individual features from moments for Chinese writer identification. 438-
  

Postprocessing

• Tao Hong, Jonathan J. Hull:
  Visual inter-word relations and their use in OCR postprocessing. 442-445
  
• R. Garcia Garcia, Yannis A. Dimitriadis, F. Merino Pastor, Juan López Coronado:
  Error detection in character recognition using pseudosyllable analysis. 446-
  
• Hsi-Jian Lee, Cheng-Huang Tung:
  A language model based on semantically clustered words in a Chinese character recognition system. 450-453
  
• Isabelle Guyon, Fernando Pereira:
  Design of a linguistic postprocessor using variable memory length Markov models. 454-457
  
• Anikó Simon, Jean-Christophe Pret, A. Peter Johnson:
  (Chem)DeT/sub E/X automatic generation of a markup language description of (chemical) documents from bitmap images. 458-
  

Document Structure and Analysis

• Kristen Maria Summers:
  Near-wordless document structure classification. 462-465
  
• Floriana Esposito, Donato Malerba, Giovanni Semeraro:
  A knowledge-based approach to the layout analysis. 466-471
  
• Debashish Niyogi, Sargur N. Srihari:
  Knowledge-based derivation of document logical structure. 472-
  
• T. A. Bayer, H. Walischewski:
  Experiments on extracting structural information from paper documents using syntactic pattern. 476-479
  
• Philippe Lefèvre, François Reynaud:
  ODIL: an SGML description language of the layout structure of documents. 480-
  

Modeling Methods

• Jean-Pierre Crettez:
  A set of handwriting families: style recognition. 489-494
  
• Wacef Guerfali, Réjean Plamondon:
  The Delta LogNormal theory for the generation and modeling of cursive characters. 495-498
  
• Gidas Menier, Guy Lorette, Philippe Gentric:
  A new modeling method for on-line handwriting recognition. 499-503
  
• A. J. Elms, John Illingworth:
  Modelling polyfont printed characters with HMMs and a shift invariant Hamming distance. 504-
  
• George Saon, Abdel Belaïd, Y. Gong:
  Stochastic trajectory modeling for recognition of unconstrained handwritten words. 508-
  

Drawing and Map Recognition

• Wei Lu, Wei Wu, Masao Sakauchi:
  A drawing recognition system with rule acquisition ability. 512-515
  
• Chikahito Nakajima, Toshihiro Yazawa:
  Automatic recognition of facility drawings and street maps utilizing the facility management database. 516-519
  
• Wei Lu, Toshiyuki Okuhashi, Masao Sakauchi:
  A proposal of efficient interactive recognition system for understanding of map drawings. 520-523
  
• Dong-June Lee, Seong-Whan Lee:
  A new methodology for gray-scale character segmentation and recognition. 524-527
  
• Jingbo Gao, Long Tang, Liu Wenyin, Zesheng Tang:
  Segmentation and recognition of dimension texts in engineering drawings. 528-