Program for ICDAR-WML 2017
Nov. 11, 2017
Location: Medium Conference Room (East Building, 2nd floor), Kyoto, Terrsa
09:30-09:45 Inauguration
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09:45-10:30 Keynote Talk
Frontiers of Vision and Language: Bridging Images and Texts by Deep Learning
Prof. Yoshitaka Ushiku, The University of Tokyo, Japan
(Session chair - Seiichi Uchida, Kyushu University, Japan)
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10:30-11:30 WML-Session -1 (Session chair - Nicolas Ragot, Université François Rabelais Tours, France)
Guillaume Renton, Clément Chatelain, Sébastien Adam, Christopher Kermorvant and Thierry Paquet
Handwritten text line segmentation using Fully Convolutional Network
Andreas Kölsch, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal and Marcus Liwicki
Multilevel Context Representation for Improving Object Recognition
Ignazio Gallo, Shah Nawaz and Alessandro Calefati
Semantic Text Encoding for Text Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks
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11:30-12:00 Tea/Coffee break
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12:00-13:00 WML-Sesson -2 (Session chair - Mickaël Coustaty, Université de La Rochelle, France)
Ruyu Zhang, Qingqing Wang and Yue Lu
Combination of ResNet and Center Loss Based Metric Learning for Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition
Vinaychandran Pondenkandath, Mathias Seuret, Rolf Ingold, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal and Marcus Liwicki
Exploiting State-of-the-Art Deep Learning Methods for Document Image Analysis
Ignazio Gallo, Alessandro Calefati and Shah Nawaz
Multimodal Classification Fusion in Real-World Scenarios
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13:00-14:30 Lunch
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14:30-15:00 Invited talk
Prof. Seiichi Uchida, Kyushu University, Japan
ML for DAR, DAR for ML --- How machine learning and document analysis and recognition benefit each other
(Session chair - Michael Blumenstein, University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
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15:00: 16:00 WML-Sesson -3 (Session chair - Wataru Ohyama, Mie University, Japan)
Devarapalli Koteswara Rao and Atul Negi
Orthographic Properties Based Telugu Text Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models
Gantugs Atarsaikhan, Brian Kenji Iwana, Atsushi Narusawa, Keiji Yanai and Seiichi Uchida
Neural Font Style Transfer
Asma Shaukat and Nazar Khan
New Word Pair Level Embeddings to Improve Word Pair Similarity
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16:00-16:30 Tea/Coffee break
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16:30-17:30 WML-Sesson-4 (Session chair - Shivakumara Palaiahnakote, University of Malaya, Malaysia)
Chris Andrew, Santhoshini Reddy, Viswanath Pulabaigari and Umapada Pal
Text Independent Writer Identification for Telugu Script using Directional Filter based Features
Vinay Kumar N and Guru D S
A novel feature ranking criterion for supervised interval valued feature selection for classification
Ahmed Hamdi, Joris Voerman, Mickaël Coustaty, Aurelie Joseph, Vincent Poulain d'Andecy and Jean-Marc Ogier
Machine Learning vs Deterministic Rule-Based System for Document Stream Segmentation
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17:30-17:45 Closing session