Announced: 2. Workshop “Machines and Manuscripts”

On the 19th and 20th February 2015, a second international workshop on “Machines and Manuscripts” will be held at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The topic focus will lie on “Opportunities for the Automatic Pattern Recognition and Analysis of Historical Documents”. The workshop series is organised by the BMBF supported project eCodicology and establishes a basis for the exchange of methods of automatic pattern recognition between researchers in a variety of fields.

Programme

19 Feb 2015

Welcome Speech

1pm–1.05pm: Opening (Andrea Rapp)
1:05pm–1:20pm: Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Michael Beigl)
1:20pm–1:30pm: Organizational Information (Rainer Stotzka)

Session I: Project Introduction

Chair: Andrea Rapp

1:50pm–2:05pm: The Technical Perspective of eCodicology (Swati Chandna, Karlsruhe)
2:05pm–2:30pm: SemToNotes and eCodicology – Manual and an Automatic Manuscript Annotation Tool Working Together (Jochen Graf, Cologne)
2:45pm–3:45pm: Coffee Break and Poster Session

Session II: Pattern Recognition in Different Scientific Fields

Chair: Rainer Stotzka

3:45pm–4:15pm: Medical Imaging with 3D Ultrasound Computer Tomography for Early Breast Cancer Diagnosis (Nicole Ruiter, Karlsruhe; Torsten Hopp, Karlsruhe)
4:15pm–4:45pm: Semi-automated Detection of Ground Monuments in Airborne Laser Scan Data (LIDAR) (Armin Volkmann, Heidelberg; Karl Hjalte Maack Raun, Heidelberg)

20 Feb 2015

Session III (a): Layout Analysis of Historical Documents

Chair: Philipp Vanscheidt

9:30am–10am: Problems of Layout Analysis in Medieval Charters (Otfried Krafft, Marburg)
10am–10:30am: Document Structure Analysis: Modelling Unseeable Patterns (Hervé Déjean, Grenoble)
10:30am–11am: Coffee Break and Poster Session

Session III (b): Layout Analysis of Historical Documents

Chair: Philipp Vanscheidt

11am–11:30am: The Optical Neume Recognition Project (ONRP) – the Development of Search Tool for Neume Notation in Digital images (Jennifer Bain, Halifax; Inga Behrendt, Tübingen; Anton Stingl, Freiburg)
11:30am–12am: Statistical Models for Word Spotting (Gernot Fink, Dortmund)
12am–12:30pm: MultiSpectral Image Analysis for Writer Identification in Ancient Manuscripts (Robert Sablatnig, Vienna)
12:30pm–1:30pm: Lunch

Session IV: Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Research

Chair: Rainer Stotzka

1:30pm–2pm: Digital Humanities at the Ubiquitous Knowledge (Carsten Schnober, Darmstadt)
2pm–2:30pm: Investigating Signals on the Page for Use in Identifying Logical Structures in Texts (Tuomo Toljamo, London)
2:30pm–3pm: Closing Discussion