TC-11 Report ICDAR’2001 L.Schomaker

Overview Intro TC-11 title Web site TC-11 list International Unipen Foundation (iUF)

Introduction prof. dr. Lambert Schomaker Background: On-line handwriting recognition, image search AI Institute Groningen University 9712 TS Groningen The Netherlands

TC-11 Title “Applications in text processing” was slightly outdated ambiguous A discussion was started (end 2000) New title: Reading Systems

“Reading Systems”… Captures the essence of our research Does not conflict with the research field which is covered by TC-10 Discussion arguments on web site

The design of Reading Systems, keeping a balance between engineering and theory

Web site Accessible from Refurbished Conference agenda Software tools ‘Research areas’ taxonomy

Conferences IWFHR’7 Amsterdam IWFHR’8 Niagara on the Lake IGS’2001 Nijmegen DAS’02 Princeton IGS’2003 Tempe,US ICDAR’2003 Edinburgh

TC-11 List Being TC-11 member means: Being on the list Currently implemented with “Majordomo” under Linux

TC-11 List, Majordomo instructions Please send an containing a single line with a command to Command: Explanation: help (information on majordomo is ed) subscribe tc-11 (request to become a tc-11 member) unsubscribe tc-11 (to give up your membership)

International Unipen Foundation (iUF) activities: Mainly for ‘on-line handwriting’ CDROM with Unipen database Proceedings book 7 th IWFHR (limited) Unix software tools for the Unipen format Consultancy to InkXML group, a consortium of companies working on ‘ink’ as a media type in MPEG7

International Unipen Foundation Advisory Board Réjean Plamondon Jean-Claude Simon † President & vice-president Lambert Schomaker Isabelle Guyon Treasurer Louis Vuurpijl

International Unipen Foundation Advisory Board Réjean Plamondon Guy Lorette President & vice-president Lambert Schomaker Isabelle Guyon Treasurer Louis Vuurpijl unipen.org

TC-11, go4it! Thank you for your attention! “…there are centripetal forces keeping the field of TC-11 together, based on the notion that its research involves the pattern recognition of characters: on paper, on hand-held devices, and on heterogeneous image sources such as photographs, WWW images and video.”