| The Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA) is pleased to invite you to the seminar talk |
| Water Reservoir Concept and its Applications in Document Analysis |
Dr Umapada Pal
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit, Indian Statistical Institute
Kolkata-108, India |
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| Date: 1 Dec 2005 (Thursday) |
| Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm |
| Venue: LT 10, North Spine, NTU |
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| Admission: Admission is free |
Registration: Please register online via http://www.premia-sg.org/index.php?option=com_events&event_id=10&task=register
(Registration is closed now). |
Synopsis:
Water Reservoir (WR) is a metaphor to illustrate the cavity region of a component. It is the region where water is stored when water is poured from a particular side of a component. Although water reservoir it is a background-based concept, it differs from other background-based techniques. Several distinctive features can be obtained from this concept and these features are helpful in solving pattern recognition problems. In this talk, at first, I shall discuss about water reservoir concept, its computation and its different useful features. Next, applications of these features in different areas of document image analysis will be discussed in detail. |
Biography:
U. Pal received his Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science from Indian Statistical Institute in 1997. He did his Post Doctoral research on the segmentation of touching English numerals at INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique), France. He has been with the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta from 1992 and is now a faculty member (Associate Professor) in the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit of the Institute. His fields of interest include Digital Document Processing, Optical Character Recognition, Medical Image Analysis etc. In 1995, he received student best paper award from Computer Society of India. He also received a merit certificate from Indian Science Congress Association in 1996. In 2003, he received ICDAR outstanding young researcher award from IAPR for his significant impact in the research domain of Indian script OCR. He has about 70 research papers on various reputed journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Pal has been serving as a program committee member of many conferences including International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL), International Workshop on Frontiers of Handwritten Recognition (IWFHR), International Conference on Pattern recognition (ICPR) etc. Also, he is the Asian PC-Chair for 10th ICDAR to be held at Barcelona, Spain in 2009. He is a life member of IUPRAI (Indian unit of IAPR) as well as Computer Society of India. |
