PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

2001 Symposium on

Document Image Understanding

Technology

April 23-25, 2001

Sheraton Columbia Hotel

Columbia, Maryland

Post Symposium information will be available on the SDIUT Home Page

http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/SDIUT

If you have any questions, please contact the Symposium Coordinators at

Phone: (301) 405-6444

Fax: (301) 314-9658

E-mail: sdiut01@cfar.umd.edu

SDIUT01, UMIACS, University of Maryland,

College Park, MD 20742

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Sunday―April 22, 2001

6:00-8:00 pm Welcome Registration

Monday―April 23, 2001

7:30 AM Registration/Breakfast

8:30 AM Welcome/Introduction

9:00–10:15 Session 1 - Preprocessing

Chair: Richard Schwartz and Gary Kuhn

Line by Line Script Identification

C. Cumbee -- DoD

Gaussian Model-Based Image Binarization for Text Extraction

T. Drayer -- DoD

Low Resolution Expansion of Gray Scale Text Image Using

Gibbs-Markov Random Field Model

P. Thouin, Y. Du and C.-I. Chang -- DoD, UMBC

Bilevel Image Degradations: Effects and Estimation

E. Barney Smith -- Boise State University

10:15–10:45 Morning Break

10:45–12:00 Session 2 - Multimedia

Chair: Ken Cantwell

A Framework for Reliable Text Based Indexing of Video

R. Kasturi, S. Antani, D.J. Crandall and V.Y. Mariano -- PSU

Digital Camera for Document Acquisition

P. Fisher -- ARL

Recognition of Text in 3D Scenes

G. Myers, R.C. Bolles, Q.-T. Luong, and J.A. Herson -- SRI

MediaBrowse: A Workbench for Multimedia Information Fusion

J. Liang and G. Marchisio, Insightful Corp.

12:00– 1:15 Lunch

1:15– 2:15 Keynote SPEAKER

Document Appliances in Practices

Kurt Piersol -- Ricoh Silicon Valley

2:30–3:30 Session 3 - Projects and Applications

Chair: Larry Spitz and Melissa Holland

The CMU-Seagate Historical New York Times Project

R. Thibadeau, C. DeWan, J. Young and D. Marous -- CMU

Overview of the DjVu Document Compression Technology

Y. LeCun, L. Bottou, P. Haffner, J. Triggs, B. Riemers,

L. Vincent -- AT&T Labs, LizardTech, Inc.

Performance Metrics for the Electronic Conversion of Large Archival Document Collections

Thomas Nartker -- UNLV - ISRI

3:30–4:00 Afternoon Break

4:00–5:00 Session 4 - Performance Evaluation

Chair: Dan Lopresti

OCR Accuracy of Three Systems on English and Russian Documents of Highly Varying Quality

K. Summers -- Highland Technologies

Truthing, Testing, Evaluation Issues in Complex Systems,

S. Setlur, V. Govindaraju, S. Srihari, A. Lawson -- CEDAR, SUNY Buffalo,

US Postal Service

What System Developers Need to Select OCR for Authentic Tasks: Evaluating End-to-End Systems

M. Holland, C. Schlesiger, L. Hernandez -- ARL

Tuesday―April 24, 2001

7:30 AM Registration/Breakfast

9:00–10:15 Session 5 - Foreign Language Information Retrieval

Chair: Kazeem Taghva and John Kovarik

Document Image Retrieval Techniques for Chinese

Y.-H. Tseng and D. Oard -- Fu Jen Catholic Univ., UMCP

Advances in Arabic Text Recognition

J. Trenkle, A. Gillies, E. Erlandson, S. Schlosser,

and S. Cavin -- NovoDynamics, Inc.

Experiments in Trilingual Cross-Language Information Retrieval

G. Marchisio, J. Liang -- Insightful Corp.

10:15–10:45 Morning Break

10:45–12:00 Session 6 - Page Analysis and Classification

Chair: Thomas Breuel and Nigel Dewdney

Binary Document Image Using Similarity of Multiple Texture Features

D. Doermann and J. Liang -- UMCP

Style-Directed Document Segmentation

L. Spitz -- Document Recognition Technologies

Evaluating Document Analysis Results via Graph Probing

D. Lopresti and G. Wilfong -- Bell Labs., Lucent Technologies

Applications of the Turbo Recognition: Approach to Layout Analysis

T. Tokuyasu -- UC Berkeley

12:00–1:15 Lunch

1:15–2:15 Keynote Speaker

The Making of America Project

Maria Bonn -- University of Michigan

2:15–3:30 Session 7 - Indexing and Retrieval

Chair: Doug Oard

A Conceptual Model and Image Similarity

N. Dewdney -- DoD

Recognize, Categorize, and Retrieve

K. Taghva, T. Nartker and J. Borsack -- UNLV-ISRI

Large-Scale Duplicate Document Detection in Operation

M. Turner, Y. Katsnelson, J. Smith -- Highland Technologies and DoD

Shape Extraction from Digital Document Images

G. Becker and P. Brock -- Magnify Research, Inc., GW Univ.

3:30–4:00 Afternoon Break

4:00–5:00 Demos & Abstracts

Integrating OCR and Machine Translation on Non-Traditional Languages

C. Schlesiger, M. Holland, L. Hernandez - ARL

Creating a Digital Library from Newspaper Archives
S. Mantzaris, B. Gatos, and N. Gouraros -- Lambrakis Press SA

Standard Metadata for Multimedia Content

W. Chang -- NIST

OCR Accuracy of Three Systems on English and Russian Documents of Highly Varying Quality

K. Summers -- Highland Technologies

DjVu Document Compression Technology

Y. LeCun, L. Bottou, P. Haffner, J. Triggs, B. Riemers,

L. Vincent -- AT&T Labs, LizardTech, Inc.

A Recognition Method of the Machine-Printed Monetary Amounts

M. Koga, R. Minc, H. Sako and H. Fujisawa -- Hitachi, Inc.

VIPER: Tools and Techniques for Video Performance Evaluation Applied to Scene and Document Images

D. Doermann and D. Mihalcik, UMCP

5:00–8:00 Demos/Posters and Buffet Reception

Wednesday―April 25, 2001

8:00 AM Registration/Breakfast

9:00–9:30 Research Directions And Opportunities In Documents Analysis

Steve Dennis, Department of Defense

9:30–10:30 Session 8 - Text Recognition and Page Analysis

Chairs: David Doermann and Tom Drayer

OCR of Low-Resolution Text Images from Diverse Sources

P. Natarajan, R. Schwartz, J. Makhoul -- BBN Tech., Verizon

Document Image Analysis Research at Xerox PARC

T. Breuel and K. Popat -- Xerox, PARC

Advanced Labeling Techniques for Scanned Document Images

D.X. Le and G. Thoma -- National Library of Medicine

10:30–11:00 Morning Break

11:00–12:00 Session 9 -Panel Discussions

Chair: David Doermann