2024

Journal Articles

Neural Models for Semantic Analysis of Handwritten Document Images

Oliver Tueselmann and Gernot A. Fink
Int. Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2024.

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Self-training for handwritten word recognition and retrieval

Fabian Wolf and Gernot A. Fink
Int. Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2024.

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Conference Papers

Weakly Supervised Information Extraction from Semi-Structured Document Images

Fabian Wolf Oliver Tueselmann and Gernot A. Fink
Family History Technology Workshop, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 2024.

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Erschließung von Massenakten mit KI? -- Oder sind große multi-modale Sprachmodelle die zukünftigen Werkzeuge der Tiefenerschließung? (Deep Indexing of Bulk Files with AI? -- Or are Large Multi-Modal Language-Models the Future Tools of Deep Indexing?)

Astrid Küntzel, Gernot A. Fink, Oliver Tüselmann and Fabian Wolf
Workshop (invited) at the Interner Archivtag 2024, Gelsenkirchen, 2024.

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KI-basierte Erschließung der Volkszählungsunterlagen von 1950 (AI-based Deep Indexing of the 1950 Census Records)

Astrid Küntzel and Gernot A. Fink
Presentation (invited) at the Kölner Forum 2024: ``Jenseits des Hype - Anwendung von KI in Archiven'', Cologne, 2024.

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2023

Conference Papers

A Tutorial on Dataset Creation for Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition

Nilah Ravi Nair, Fernando Moya Rueda, Christopher Reining, Friedrich Niemann and Gernot A. Fink
to appear, Atlanta, 2023.

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Exploring Semantic Word Representations for Recognition-Free NLP on Handwritten Document Images

Oliver Tueselmann and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, pages 85-100, San Jose, CA, USA, 2023.

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Deep Learning for Word Spotting: Foundations and Current Developments

Gernot A. Fink
Tutorial (invited) presented at the 5th TC10/TC11 Summer School on Document Analysis, Fribourg, Switzerland, 2023.

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2022

Conference Papers

Retrieval-based Annotation of Multi-channel Time-Series Data for HAR

Erik Altermann, Fernando Moya Rueda, Eugen Rusakov and Gernot A. Fink
2022 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops), to appear, Pisa, Italy, 2022.

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Video-based Pose-Estimation Data as Source for Transfer Learning in Human Activity Recognition

Shrutarv Awasthi, Fernando Moya Rueda and Gernot A. Fink
2022 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), pages 4514-4521, Montreal, 2022.

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Image Augmentations in Planetary Science: Implications in Self-Supervised Learning and Weakly-Supervised Segmentation on Mars

Dominik Kossmann, Arthur Matei, Thorsten Wilhelm and Gernot A Fink
2022 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), pages 2800-2806, 2022.

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Multi-Channel Time-Series Person and Soft-Biometric Identification

Nilah Ravi Nair, Fernando Moya Rueda, Christopher Reining and Gernot A. Fink
HBU - 12th Int. Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, Montreal, 2022.

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UQGAN: A Unified Model for Uncertainty Quantification of Deep Classifiers trained via Conditional GANs

Philipp Oberdiek, Gernot A. Fink and Matthias Rottmann
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, pages 21371-21385, New Orleans, USA, 2022.

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Named Entity Linking on Handwritten Document Images

Oliver Tueselmann and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, pages 199-213, La Rochelle, France, 2022.

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Recognition-free Question Answering on Handwritten Document Collections

Oliver Tueselmann, Friedrich Mueller, Fabian Wolf and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, pages 259-273, Hyderabad, India, 2022.

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A Weighted Combination of Semantic and Syntactic Word Image Representations

Oliver Tueselmann, Kai Brandenbusch, Miao Chen and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, pages 285-299, Hyderabad, India, 2022.

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Self-Training of Handwritten Word Recognition for Synthetic-to-Real Adaptation

Fabian Wolf and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, pages 3885-3892, Montreal, Canada, 2022.

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Combining Self-Training and Minimal Annotations for Handwritten Word Recognition

Fabian Wolf and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, pages 300-315, Hyderabad, India, 2022.

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2021

Books and Book Chapters

Special Issue: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (DAGM GCPR 2019)

Simone Frintrop, Gernot A. Fink and Xiaoyi Jiang
Springer, 2021.

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Conference Papers

Benchmarking Annotation Procedures for Multi-channel Time Series HAR Dataset

Huelya Avsar, Erik Altermann, Christopher Reining, Fernando Moya Rueda, Gernot A. Fink and Michael ten Hompel
2021 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops), Kassel, Germany, 2021.

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Context Aware Generation of Cuneiform Signs

Kai Brandenbusch, Eugen Rusakov and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2021.

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Generation of Attributes for Highly Imbalanced Land Cover Data

Dominik Kossmann, Thorsten Wilhelm and Gernot A. Fink
2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS, pages 2616-2619, 2021.

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Human Activity Recognition using Attribute-Based Neural Networks and Context Information

Stefan Luedtke, Fernando Moya Rueda, Gernot A. Fink and Thomas Kirste
3RD International Workshop on Deep Learning for Human Activity Recognition(to appear), Montreal, Canada, 2021.

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Embedded Attributes for Cuneiform Sign Spotting

Eugen Rusakov, Turna Somel, Gerfrid G. W. Mueller and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2021.

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Are End-to-End Systems Really Necessary for NER on Handwritten Document Images?

Oliver Tueselmann, Fabian Wolf and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, pages 808-822, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2021.

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Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for Learning Attribute Representations for Word Spotting

Fabian Wolf, Andreas Fischer and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, pages 50-64, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2021.

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2020

Journal Articles

LARa: Creating a Dataset for Human Activity Recognition in Logistics Using Semantic Attributes

Friedrich Niemann, and Christopher Reining, Fernando Moya Rueda and Nilah Ravi Nair, Janine Anika Steffens , Gernot A. Fink and Michael ten Hompel
Sensors, 20(15), 2020.

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Annotation-free Word Spotting with Bag-of-Features HMMs

Leonard Rothacker, Fabian Wolf and Gernot A. Fink
Int. Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 35(4), pages 2153001, 2020.

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Conference Papers

Towards Tackling Multi-Label Imbalances in Remote Sensing Imagery

Dominik Kossmann, Thorsten Wilhelm and Gernot A. Fink
2020 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Milan, Italy, 2020.

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Detection and Retrieval of Out-of-Distribution Objects in Semantic Segmentation

Philipp Oberdiek, Matthias Rottmann and Gernot A. Fink
The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, Seattle, USA, 2020.

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Annotation Performance for multi-channel time series HAR Dataset in Logistics

C. Reining, F. Moya Rueda, F. Niemann, G. A. Fink and M. t. Hompel
2020 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops), pages 1-6, 2020.

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From Human Pose to On-body Devices for Human Activity Recognition

Fernando Moya Rueda and Gernot A. Fink
2020 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Milan, Italy, 2020.

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Towards Query-by-eXpression Retrieval of Cuneiform Signs

Eugen Rusakov, Turna Somel, Gernot A. Fink and Gerfrid G. W. Mueller
Proc. Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Dortmund, NRW, Germany, 2020.

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Identifying and Tackling Key Challenges in Semantic Word Spotting

Oliver Tueselmann, Fabian Wolf and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, pages 55-60, Dortmund, Germany (virtual), 2020.

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Annotation-free Learning of Deep Representations for Word Spotting using Synthetic Data and Self Labeling

Fabian Wolf and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, pages 293-308, Wuhan, China (virtual), 2020, Winner of the Nakano Best Paper Award.

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Improving Handwritten Word Synthesis for Annotation-free Word Spotting

Fabian Wolf, Kai Brandenbusch and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, pages 61-66, Dortmund, Germany (virtual), 2020.

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2019

Journal Articles

Handwritten Arabic text recognition using multi-stage sub-core-shape HMMs

Irfan Ahmad and Gernot A. Fink
Int. Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 22(3), 2019.

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Human Activity Recognition for Production and Logistics - A Systematic Literature Review

Christopher Reining, Friedrich Niemann, Fernando Moya Rueda, Gernot A. Fink and Michael ten Hompel
Information, 10(8), 2019.

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Conference Papers

Combining Symbolic Reasoning and Deep Learning for Human Activity Recognition

Fernando Moya Rueda, Stefan Lüdtke, Max Schröder, Kristina Yordanova, Thomas Kirste and Gernot A. Fink
CoMoRea'19 - 15th Workshop on Context Modeling and Recognition, pages 22-27, 2019.

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Generating Cuneiform Signs with Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks

Eugen Rusakov, Kai Brandenbusch, Denis Fisseler, Turna Somel, Gernot A. Fink, Frank Weichert and Gerfrid G. W. Mueller
Proc. of the Int. Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2019.

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Unsupervised Learning of Scene Categories on the Lunar Surface

Thorsten Wilhelm, Rene Grzeszick, Gernot A. Fink and Christian Wöhler
Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), Prague, Czech Republic, 2019.

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Exploring Confidence Measures for Word Spotting in Heterogeneous Datasets

Fabian Wolf, Philipp Oberdiek and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, Sydney, Australia, 2019.

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Word Spotting in the Era of Deep Learning

Gernot A. Fink
Tutorial (invited) presented at École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, France, 2019.

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2018

Journal Articles

Special issue on deep learning for document analysis and recognition

Cheng-Lin Liu, Gernot A. Fink, Venu Govindaraju and Lianwen Jin
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), 21(3), 2018.

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Convolutional Neural Networks for Human Activity Recognition Using Body-Worn Sensors

Fernando Moya Rueda, Rene Grzeszick, Gernot A. Fink, Sascha Feldhorst and Michael ten Hompel
informatics, 26(5), 2018.

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Attribute CNNs for Word Spotting in Handwritten Documents

Sebastian Sudholt and Gernot A. Fink
Int. Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 21(3), pages 159-160, 2018.

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Conference Papers

Learning Deep Representations for Word Spotting Under Weak Supervision

Neha Gurjar, Sebastian Sudholt and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Vienna, Austria, 2018.

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Towards a Framework for Semi-Automated Annotation of Human Order Picking Activities Using Motion Capturing

Christopher Reining, Fernando Moya Rueda, Michael ten Hompel and Gernot A. Fink
Proceedings of the 2018 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, pages 817-821, 2018.

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Attribute Representation for Human Activity Recognition of Manual Order Picking Activities

Christopher Reining, Michelle Schlangen, Leon Hissmann, Michael ten Hompel, Fernando Moya and Gernot A. Fink
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Sensor-based Activity Recognition and Interaction, pages 10:1-10:10, New York, NY, USA, 2018.

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Learning Attribute Representation for Human Activity Recognition

Fernando Moya Rueda and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, pages 523-528, Bejing, China, 2018.

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A Probabilistic Retrieval Model for Word Spotting Based on Direct Attribute Prediction

Eugen Rusakov, Leonard Rothacker, Hynuho Mo and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Niagara Falls, USA, 2018, Winner of the IAPR Best Student Paper Award.

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Other Publications

Deep Learning for Word Spotting

Gernot A. Fink
Tutorial presented at Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), Niagara Falls, USA, 2018.

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Deep Attribute Learning

Gernot A. Fink
Lecture (invited) presented at 2nd Int. Workshop on Pattern Analysis and Applications (IWPAA), In celebration of the 125th Birth Anniversary of Prof. P. C. Mahalanobis, Kolkata, India, 2018.

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2017

Journal Articles

Bag-of-Features Methods for Acoustic Event Detection and Classification

Rene Grzeszick, Axel Plinge and Gernot A. Fink
IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 25(6), pages 1242-1252, 2017.

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Passive online geometry calibration of acoustic sensor networks

Axel Plinge, Gernot A. Fink and Sharon Gannot
IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 24(3), 2017.

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Conference Papers

Weakly-Supervised Localization of Diabetic Retinopathy Lesions in Retinal Fundus Images

Waleed M. Gondal, Jan M. Koehler, Rene Grzeszick, Gernot A. Fink and Michael Hirsch
Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing, 2017.

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Zero-shot object prediction using semantic scene knowledge

Rene Grzeszick and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), 2017.

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Optimistic and Pessimistic Neural Networks for Object Recognition

Rene Grzeszick, Sebastian Sudholt and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing, 2017.

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Deep Neural Network based Human Activity Recognition for the Order Picking Process

Rene Grzeszick, Jan Marius Lenk, Fernando Moya Rueda, Sascha Feldhorst, Michael ten Hompel and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Workshop on Sensor-based Activity Recognition and Interaction (iWOAR), Rostock, Germany, 2017, Winner of the iWOAR Best Paper Award.

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Word Hypotheses for Segmentation-free Word Spotting in Historic Document Images

Leonard Rothacker, Sebastian Sudholt, Eugen Rusakov, Matthias Kasperidus and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, Kyoto, Japan, 2017.

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Neuron Pruning for Compressing Deep Networks using Maxout Architectures

Fernando Moya Rueda, Rene Grzeszick and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. 39th German Conf. Pattern Recognition, Basel, Switzerland, 2017.

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Query-by-Online Word Spotting Revisited: Using CNNs for Cross-Domain Retrieval

Sebastian Sudholt, Leonard Rothacker and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, Kyoto, Japan, 2017.

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Evaluating Word String Embeddings and Loss Functions for CNN-based Word Spotting

Sebastian Sudholt and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, Kyoto, Japan, 2017.

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From Weakly Supervised Object Localization to Semantic Segmentation by Probabilistic Image Modeling

Thorsten Wilhelm, Rene Grzeszick, Gernot A. Fink and Christian Woehler
Proc. Int. Conf. on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), 2017.

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Word Spotting: From Bag-of-Features to Deep Learning

Gernot A. Fink and Sebastian Sudholt
Tutorial presented at Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), Kyoto, Japan, 2017.

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Wordspotting in historischen Dokumenten

Gernot A. Fink
Lecture (invited) presented at Workshop ``Grundlagen der Familienforschung'', Martin-Opitz-Bibliothek, Herne, 2017.

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Word Spotting: From Bag-of-Features to Deep Learning

Gernot A. Fink and Sebastian Sudholt
Tutorial (invited) presented at IAPR Summer School on Document Analysis, Jaipur, India, 2017.

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2016

Journal Articles

Open-vocabulary recognition of machine-printed Arabic text using hidden Markov models

Irfan Ahmad, Sabri A. Mahmoud and Gernot A. Fink
Pattern Recognition, 51, pages 97-111, 2016.

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Acoustic Microphone Geometry Calibration: An overview and experimental evaluation of state-of-the-art algorithms

Axel Plinge, Florian Jacob, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach and Gernot A. Fink
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 33(4), pages 14-29, 2016.

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Conference Papers

Class-Based Contextual Modeling for Handwritten Arabic Text Recognition

Irfan Ahmad and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Shenzhen, China, 2016.

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Motion Classification for Analyzing the Order Picking Process Using Mobile Sensors

Sascha Feldhorst, Mojtaba Masoudinejad, Michael ten Hompel and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM), Rome, Italy, 2016.

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Camera-assisted Pick-by-feel

Rene Grzeszick, Sascha Feldhorst, Christian Mosblech, Michael ten Hompel and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. 12. Fachkolloquium der WGTL, 2016.

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Bag-of-Features Acoustic Event Detection for Sensor Networks

Julian Kürby, Rene Grzeszick, Axel Plinge and Gernot A. Fink
Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) Workshop, pages 55-59, Budapest, Hungary, 2016.

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Robust Output Modeling in Bag-of-Features HMMs for Handwriting Recognition

Leonard Rothacker and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Shenzhen, China, 2016.

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PHOCNet: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Word Spotting in Handwritten Documents

Sebastian Sudholt and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Shenzhen, China, 2016, Winner of the IAPR Best Paper Award.

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Word Spotting in Historical Document Collections with Online-Handwritten Queries

Christian Wieprecht, Leonard Rothacker and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. IAPR Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Santorini, Greece, 2016.

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2015

Journal Articles

An Iterative Partitioning-based Method for Semi-supervised Annotation Learning in Image Collections

Rene Grzeszick and Gernot A. Fink
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), 2015.

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Camera-Based Whiteboard Reading for Understanding Mind Maps

Szilárd Vajda, Thomas Plötz and Gernot A. Fink
Int. Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 29(3), 2015.

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Conference Papers

Multi-stage HMM based Arabic text recognition with rescoring

Irfan Ahmad and Gernot A. Fink
2015 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), pages 751-755, 2015.

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Training an Arabic handwriting recognizer without a handwritten training data set

Irfan Ahmad and Gernot A. Fink
2015 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), pages 476-480, 2015.

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Temporal Acoustic Words for Online Acoustic Event Detection

Rene Grzeszick, Axel Plinge and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. 37th German Conf. Pattern Recognition, Aachen, Germany, 2015.

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Segmentation-free Query-by-String Word Spotting with Bag-of-Features HMMs

Leonard Rothacker and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, Nancy, France, 2015.

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Retrieving Cuneiform Structures in a Segmentation-free Word Spotting Framework

Leonard Rothacker, Denis Fisseler, Gerfrid G.W. Müller, Frank Weichert and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. of the Int. Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing, Nancy, France, 2015.

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On the Influence of Superpixel Methods for Image Parsing

Johann Strassburg, Rene Grzeszick, Leonard Rothacker and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), 2015.

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A Modified Isomap Approach to Manifold Learning in Word Spotting

Sebastian Sudholt and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. 37th German Conference on Pattern Recognition, Aachen, Germany, 2015.

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Learning Local Image Descriptors for Word Spotting

Sebastian Sudholt, Leonard Rothacker and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, Nancy, France, 2015.

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A Traveller's Guide to the PhD

Gernot A. Fink
Lecture presented at the Doctoral Consortium of the Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2015 DC), Nancy, France, 2015.

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Statistical Models for Wordspotting

Gernot A. Fink
Invited talk presented at Machines and Manuscripts 2015, 2nd Int. Workshop on Opportunities for the Automatic Pattern Recognition and Analysis of Historical Documents, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2015.

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2014

Books and Book Chapters

Markov Models for Pattern Recognition, From Theory to Applications

Gernot A. Fink
Springer, London, 2014.

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Journal Articles

KHATT: An Open Arabic Offline Handwritten Text Database

Sabri A. Mahmoud, Irfan Ahmad, Wasfi G. Al-Khatib, Mohammad Alshayeb, Mohammad Tanvir Parvez, Volker Märgner and Gernot A. Fink
Pattern Recognition, Special Issue on Handwriting Recognition, 47(3), pages 1096 - 1112, 2014.

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Semi-Supervised Learning for Character Recognition in Historical Archive Documents

Jan Richarz, Szilard Vajda, Rene Grzeszick and Gernot A. Fink
Pattern Recognition, 47(3), pages 1011 - 1020, 2014, Special Issue on Handwriting Recognition.

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A Two-Stage Approach to Segmentation-Free Query-by-Example Word Spotting

Leonard Rothacker, Marcal Rusinol, Josep Llados and Gernot A. Fink
manuscript cultures, 1(7), pages 47-57, 2014.

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Conference Papers

Improvements in Sub-character HMM Model Based Arabic Text Recognition

Irfan Ahmad, Gernot A. Fink and Sabri A. Mahmoud
2014 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, pages 537-542, Crete, 2014.

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Grouping Historical Postcards Using Query-by-Example Word Spotting

Gernot A. Fink, Leonard Rothacker and Rene Grzeszick
Proc. Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Crete, Greece, 2014.

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Recognizing Scene Categories of Historical Postcards

Rene Grzeszick and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. 36th German Conference on Pattern Recognition, Muenster, Germany, 2014.

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Toward Object Recognition with Proto-Objects and Proto-Scenes

Fabian Nasse, Rene Grzeszick and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), 2014.

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Multi-Speaker Tracking using Multiple Distributed Microphone Arrays

Axel Plinge and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2014.

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A Bag-of-Features Approach to Acoustic Event Detection

Axel Plinge, Rene Grzeszick and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2014.

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Geometry Calibration of Distributed Microphone Arrays Exploiting Audio-Visual Correspondences

Axel Plinge and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. European Signal Processing Conf., Lisbon, Portugal, 2014.

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Geometry Calibration of Multiple Microphone Arrays in Highly Reverberant Environments

Axel Plinge and Gernot A. Fink
International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, Antibes -- Juan les Pins, France, 2014.

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Kernel Density Estimation for Post Recognition Score Analysis

Sebastian Sudholt, Leonard Rothacker and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. 36th German Conference on Pattern Recognition, Muenster, Germany, 2014.

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Statistical Models for Handwriting Recognition and Retrieval

Gernot A. Fink and Leonard Rothacker
Tutorial (invited) presented at Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Crete, Greece, 2014.

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2013

Conference Papers

Novel Sub-character HMM Models for Arabic Text Recognition

Irfan Ahmad, Leonard Rothacker, Gernot A. Fink and Sabri A. Mahmoud
2013 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, pages 658-662, Washington DC, 2013.

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Bag-of-Features Representations using Spatial Visual Vocabularies for Object Classification

Rene Grzeszick, Leonard Rothacker and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing, Melbourne, Australia, 2013.

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Statistical Modeling of the Relation between Characters and Diacritics in Lampung Script

Akmal Junaidi, Rene Grzeszick, Sizilard Vadja and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, Washington DC, USA, 2013.

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Online Multi-Speaker Tracking Using Multiple Microphone Arrays Informed by Auditory Scene Analysis

Axel Plinge and Gernot A. Fink
European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Marrakesh, Morocco, 2013.

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Bag-of-Features HMMs for Segmentation-Free Word Spotting in Handwritten Documents

Leonard Rothacker, Marcal Rusinol and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, Washington DC, USA, 2013.

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Bag-of-Features HMMs for Segmentation-Free Bangla Word Spotting

Leonard Rothacker, Gernot A. Fink, Purnendu Banerjee, Ujjwal Bhattacharya and Bidyut B. Chaudhuri
International Workshop on Multilingual OCR (MOCR), Washington DC, USA, 2013.

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2012

Conference Papers

SIFT-based Camera Localization using Reference Objects for Application in Multi-Camera Environments and Robotics

Hanno Jaspers, Boris Schauerte and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, Vilamoura, Portugal, 2012.

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KHATT: Arabic Offline Handwritten Text Database

Sabri A. Mahmoud, Irfan Ahmad, Mohammad Alshayeb, Wasfi G. Al-Khatib, Mohammad Tanvir Parvez, Gernot A. Fink, Volker Märgner and Haikal El Abed
Proc. Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, pages 449-454, Bari, Italy, 2012.

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A Bottom-up Approach for Learning Visual Object Detection Models from Unreliable Sources

Fabian Nasse and Gernot A. Fink
Pattern Recognition: 34th DAGM-Symposium Graz, pages 488-497, Berlin, 2012.

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Reverberation-Robust Online Multi-Speaker Tracking by using a Microphone Array and CASA Processing

Axel Plinge, Marius H. Hennecke and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. 13th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), Aachen, Germany, 2012.

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Annotating handwritten characters with minimal human involvement in a semi-supervised learning strategy

Jan Richarz, Szilard Vajda and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Bari, Italy, 2012.

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Towards semi-supervised transcription of handwritten historical weather reports

Jan Richarz, Szilard Vajda and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. IAPR Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 2012.

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Bag-of-Features Representations for Offline Handwriting Recognition Applied to Arabic Script

Leonard Rothacker, Szilard Vajda and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Bari, Italy, 2012.

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Active Learning of Ensemble Classifiers for Gesture Recognition

J. Schumacher, D. Sakic, G. A. A. and Fink Grumpe and C. Wöhler
Pattern Recognition: 34th DAGM-Symposium Graz, 2012.

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A Method for Camera-Based Interactive Whiteboard Reading

Szilard Vajda, Leonard Rothacker and Gernot A. Fink
Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition - 4th International Workshop, CBDAR 2011, Beijing, China, September 22, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, 2012.

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Markov Models for Handwriting Recognition

Gernot A. Fink
Tutorial (invited) presented at Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Gold Coast, Australia, 2012.

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2011

Books and Book Chapters

Markov Models for Handwriting Recognition

Thomas Plötz and Gernot A. Fink
Springer, 2011.

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Journal Articles

Visual recognition of 3D emblematic gestures in an HMM framework

J. Richarz and G. A. Fink
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, Thematic Issue on Computer Vision for Ambient Intelligence, 3(3), pages 193-211, 2011.

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Towards Acoustic Self-Localization of Ad Hoc Smartphone Arrays

Marius H. Hennecke and Gernot A. Fink
Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, pages 127-132, Edinburgh, UK, 2011.

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IllumiSense: Context Sensitive Illumination

Marius H. Hennecke, Christian Kleine-Cosack and Gernot A. Fink
Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, pages 156-157, Edinburgh, UK, 2011.

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Lampung - A New Handwritten Character Benchmark: Database, Labeling and Recognition

A. Junaidi, S. Vajda and G. A. Fink
International Workshop on Multilingual OCR (MOCR), pages 105-112, Beijing, China, 2011.

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Multiple Speaker Tracking using a Microphone Array by Combining Auditory Processing and a Gaussian Mixture Cardinalized Probability Hypothesis Density Filter

Axel Plinge, Daniel Hauschildt, Marius H. Hennecke and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Prague, Czech Republic, 2011.

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Unsupervised Geometry Calibration of Acoustic Sensor Networks using Source Correspondences

J. Schmalenstroer, F. Jacob, R. Haeb-Umbach, M. H. Hennecke and G. A. Fink
Interspeech, Florence, Italy, 2011.

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A New Method for Combined Face Detection And Identification Using Interest Point Descriptors

S. Stein and G. A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, pages 519-524, Santa Barbara, California, 2011.

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A Semi-Supervised Ensemble Learning Approach for Character Labeling with Minimal Human Effort

S. Vajda, A. Junaidi and G. A. Fink
International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, pages 259-263, Beijing, China, 2011.

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A Camera-Based Interactive Whiteboard Reading System

S. Vajda, L. Rothacker and G. A. Fink
International Workshop on Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition, pages 91-96, Beijing, China, 2011.

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Build Your Own Handwriting Recognizer

Gernot A. Fink and Szilárd Vajda
Tutorial presented at Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, Bejing, China, 2011.

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2010

Conference Papers

Online Bangla Word Recognition Using Sub-Stroke Level Features and Hidden Markov Models

G. A. Fink, S. Vajda, U. Bhattacharya, Parui S. and B. B. Chaudhuri
Proc. Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, pages 393-398, Kolkata, India, 2010.

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Towards Feature Learning for HMM-based Offline Handwriting Recognition

N. Y. Hammerla, T. Plötz, S. Vajda and G. A. Fink
Int. Workshop on Frontiers of Arabic Handwriting Recognition, Istanbul, Turkey, 2010.

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Robust Multichannel Acoustic Time Delay Estimation in Reverberant Environments

M. H. Hennecke and G. A. Fink
9. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation, Bochum, Germany, 2010.

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Exploiting Acoustic Source Localization for Context Classification in Smart Environments

C. Kleine-Cosack, M. H. Hennecke, S. Vajda and G. A. Fink
Ambient Intelligence, pages 157-166, 2010.

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Robust Neuro-Fuzzy Speaker Localization Using a Circular Microphone Array

Axel Plinge, Marius H. Hennecke and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. 12th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC), Tel Aviv, Israel, 2010.

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Feature Representations for the Recognition of 3D Emblematic Gestures

J. Richarz and G. A. Fink
Proc. Int. Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, in conjunction with 20th Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, 2010.

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Focusing Computational Visual Attention in Multi-Modal Human-Robot Interaction

B. Schauerte and G. A. Fink
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and 7th Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction (ICMI-MLMI), Beijing, China, 2010.

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Web-based Learning of Naturalized Color Models for Human-Machine Interaction

B. Schauerte and G. A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), Sydney, Australia, 2010.

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Saliency-based Identification and Recognition of Pointed-at Objects

B. Schauerte, J. Richarz and G. A. Fink
IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, 2010.

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Exploring Pattern Selection Strategies for Fast Neural Network Training

S. Vajda and G. A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, pages 2913-2916, Istanbul, Turkey, 2010.

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Strategies for Training Robust Neural Network Based Digit Recognizers on Unbalanced Data Sets

S. Vajda and G. A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, pages 148-153, Kolkata, India, 2010.

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Markov Models for Handwriting Recognition

Gernot A. Fink
Tutorial (invited) presented at Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Kolkata, India, 2010.

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2009

Journal Articles

Markov Models for Offline Handwriting Recognition: A Survey

Thomas Plötz and Gernot A. Fink
Int. Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 12(4), pages 269-298, 2009.

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Layout Analysis for Camera-Based Whiteboard Notes

S. Vajda, T Plötz and G. A. Fink
Journal of Universal Computer Science, 15(18), pages 3307-3324, 2009.

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Conference Papers

A Hierarchical Approach to Unsupervised Shape Calibration of Microphone Array Networks

M. Hennecke, T Plötz, G. A. Fink, J. Schmalenströer and R. Häb-Umbach
Proc. 2009 IEEE Workshop on Stat. Signal Proc., pages 257-260, Cardiff, Wales, UK, 2009.

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Stacking for Ensembles of Local Experts in Metabonomic Applications

Kai Lienemann, Thomas Plötz and Gernot A. Fink
Multiple Classifier Systems, pages 498-508, 2009.

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Face Detection Using GPU-based Convolutional Neural Networks

Fabian Nasse, Christian Thurau and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, Münster, 2009.

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A Multi-Modal Attention System for Smart Environments

Boris Schauerte, Thomas Plötz and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Vision Systems, Liege, Belgium, 2009.

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Multi-Modal and Multi-Camera Attention in Smart Environments

B. Schauerte, J. Richarz, T. Plötz, C. Thurau and G. A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. Multimodal Interfaces and Workshop on Machine Learning for Multi-modal Interaction (ICMI-MLMI), pages 261-268, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2009.

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Camera-Based Analysis of Whiteboard Notes

S. Vajda, T. Ramforth, T Plötz and G. A. Fink
3rd Int. Workshop on Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition, pages 42-49, Barcelona, Spain, 2009.

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2008

Books and Book Chapters

Markov Models for Pattern Recognition, From Theory to Applications

Gernot A. Fink
Springer, Heidelberg, 2008.

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Journal Articles

Developing Pattern Recognition Systems Based on Markov Models: The ESMERALDA Framework

G. A. Fink and T. Plötz
Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, 18(2), pages 207-215, 2008.

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Robust Hand Detection in Still Video Images Using a Combination of Salient Regions and Color Cues for Interaction With an Intelligent Environment

T. Plötz, J. Richarz and G. A. Fink
Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, 18(3), pages 417-430, 2008.

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Conference Papers

Towards a Human Centered Infrastructure for KNX enabled Intelligent Environments

C. Kleine-Cosack, T. Plötz and G. A. Fink
Proc. KNX Scientific Conference, 2008.

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Automatic Classification of NMR Spectra by Ensembles of Local Experts

Kai Lienemann, Thomas Plötz and Gernot A. Fink
Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition, pages 790-800, 2008.

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SVM Ensemble Classification of NMR Spectra Based on Different Configurations of Data Processing Techniques

K. Lienemann, T. Plötz and G. A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, Tampa, Florida, 2008, WeAT8.4.

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Calibration-free Camera Hand-Over for Fast and Reliable Person Tracking in Multi-Camera Setups

B. Möller, T. Plötz and G. A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, Tampa, Florida, 2008, TuAT9.19.

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On the use of Empirically Determined Impulse Responses for Improving Distant Talking Speech Recognition

T. Plötz and G. A. Fink
Proc. Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, pages 156-159, Trento, Italy, 2008.

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Towards Human Centered Ambient Intelligence

T. Plötz, C. Kleine-Cosack and G. A. Fink
Proc. European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, pages 26-43, 2008.

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Camera-based Whiteboard Reading: New Approaches to a Challenging Task

T. Plötz, C. Thurau and G. A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, pages 385-390, Montreal, Canada, 2008.

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Real-time Detection and Interpretation of 3D Deictic Gestures for Interaction With an Intelligent Environment

J. Richarz, T. Plötz and G. A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, Tampa, Florida, 2008, TuBCT8.7.

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2007

Conference Papers

ESMERALDA: A Development Environment for HMM-Based Pattern Recognition Systems

G. A. Fink and T. Plötz
Proc. 7th Open German/Russian Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Image Understanding (OGRW 2007), Ettlingen, Germany, 2007.

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On the Use of Context-Dependent Modelling Units for HMM-Based Offline Handwriting Recognition

G. A. Fink and T. Plötz
Proc. Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, pages 729-733, Curitiba, Brazil, 2007.

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On the Application of SVM-Ensembles based on Adapted Random Subspace Sampling for Automatic Classification of NMR Data

K. Lienemann, T. Plötz and G. A. Fink
MCS 2007, pages 42-51, Heidelberg, Germany, 2007.

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An Efficient Method for Making Un-Supervised Adaptation of HMM-based Speech Recognition Systems Robust Against Out-Of-Domain Data

T. Plötz and G. A. Fink
Proc. 4th Int. Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science, Funchal, Portugal, 2007.

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Detecting Hands in Video Images Using Scale Invariant Local Descriptors.

J. Richarz, T. Plötz and G. A. Fink
Proc. IASTED Int. Conf. on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing (VIIP 2007), pages 259-264, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2007.

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Integration of Structural and Color Cues for Robust Hand Detection in Video Images.

J. Richarz, T. Plötz and G. A. Fink
Proc. 7th Open German/Russian Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Image Understanding (OGRW 2007), Ettlingen, Germany, 2007.

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Other Publications

Markov Models for Handwriting Recognition

Gernot A. Fink and Thomas Plötz
Tutorial presented at Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, Curitiba, Brazil, 2007.

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2006

Journal Articles

Pattern Recognition Methods for Advanced Stochastic Protein Sequence Analysis using HMMs

Thomas Plötz and Gernot A. Fink
Pattern Recognition, Special Issue on Bioinformatics, 39, pages 2267-2280, 2006.

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Conference Papers

Integrated perception for cooperative human-machine interaction

Christian Bauckhage, Gernot A. Fink, Jannik Fritsch, Nils Jungclaus, Susanne Kronenberg, Franz Kummert, Frank Lömker and Gerhard Sagerer and Sven Wachsmuth
Situated communication, pages 325-356, Berlin, 2006.

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Architectures of situated communicators: From perception to cognition to learning

Gernot A. Fink, Jannik Fritsch, Nadine Leßmann, Helge Ritter, Gerhard Sagerer, Jochen J. Steil and Ipke Wachsmuth
Situated communication, pages 357-376, Berlin, 2006.

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Unsupervised Estimation of Writing Style Models for Improved Unconstrained Off-line Handwriting Recognition

Gernot A. Fink and Thomas Plötz
Proc. Int. Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, pages 429-434, La Baule, France, 2006.

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Automatic Detection of Song Changes in Music Mixes Using Stochastic Models

Thomas Plötz, Gernot A.\ Fink, Peter Husemann, Sven Kanies, Kai Lienemann, Tobias Marschall, Marcel Martin and Lars Schillingmann, Matthias Steinrücken and Henner Sudek
Proc. Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, pages 665-668, 2006.

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2005

Journal Articles

Robust Remote Homology Detection by Feature Based Profile Hidden Markov Models

Thomas Plötz and Gernot A. Fink
Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, 4(1), 2005.

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Toward Automatic Video-based Whiteboard Reading

M. Wienecke, G. A. Fink and G. Sagerer
Int. Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 7(2--3), pages 188-200, 2005.

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Conference Papers

Experiments in Distant Talking Speech Recognition Using a Standard Database

Gernot A. Fink and Sascha Hohenner
Proc. 31. Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik, DAGA '05, München, 2005.

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On Appearance-Based Feature Extraction Methods for Writer-Independent Handwritten Text Recognition

G. A. Fink and T. Plötz
Proc. Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, pages 1070-1074, Seoul, Korea, 2005.

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Experiments in Video-Based Whiteboard Reading

G. A. Fink and M. Wienecke
First Int. Workshop on Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition, pages 95-100, Seoul, Korea, 2005.

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A New Approach for HMM based Protein Sequence Modeling and its Application to Remote Homology Classification

T. Plötz and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Workshop Statistical Signal Processing, Bordeaux, France, 2005.

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Modality Integration and Dialog Management for a Robotic Assistant

I. Toptsis, A. Haasch, S. Hüwel and G.A. J. and Fink Fritsch
Proc. European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology, Lisboa, Portugal, 2005.

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2004

Journal Articles

Towards Multi-Modal Interaction with a Mobile Robot

G. A. Fink, J. Fritsch, S. Hohenner, M. Kleinehagenbrock and S. Lang and G. Sagerer
Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, 14(2), pages 173-184, 2004.

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Conference Papers

Integrating Speaker Identification and Learning with Adaptive Speech Recognition

Gernot A. Fink and Thomas Plötz
2004: A Speaker Odyssey -- The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, pages 185-192, Toledo, 2004.

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Audiovisual Person Tracking with a Mobile Robot

J. Fritsch, M. Kleinehagenbrock, S. Lang and G. A. Fink and G. Sagerer
Proc. Int. Conf. on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, pages 898-906, Amsterdam, 2004.

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BIRON -- The Bielefeld Robot Companion

A. Haasch, S. Hohenner, S. Hüwel, M. Kleinehagenbrock and S. Lang, I. Toptsis, G. A. Fink, J. Fritsch and B. Wrede and G. Sagerer
Proc. Int. Workshop on Advances in Service Robotics, pages 27-32, Stuttgart, Germany, 2004.

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Feature extraction for improved Profile HMM based biological sequence analysis

Thomas Plötz and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, pages 315-318, 2004.

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A Multi-modal Dialog System for a Mobile Robot

Ioannis Toptsis, Shuyin Li, Britta Wrede and Gernot A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, pages 273-276, Jeju, Korea, 2004.

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Research Issues for Designing Robot Companions: BIRON as a Case Study

B. Wrede, A. Haasch, N. Hofemann, S. Hohenner, S. Hüwel and M. Kleinehagenbrock, S. Lang, S. Li, I. Toptsis and G. A. Fink, J. Fritsch and G. Sagerer
Proc. IEEE Conf. on Mechatronics \& Robotics, pages 1491-1496, Aachen, Germany, 2004.

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2003

Books and Book Chapters

Mustererkennung mit Markov-Modellen

Gernot A. Fink
B. G. Teubner, Stuttgart -- Leipzig -- Wiesbaden, 2003.

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Journal Articles

Multi-Modal Anchoring for Human-Robot-Interaction

J. Fritsch, M. Kleinehagenbrock, S. Lang, T. Plötz and G. A. Fink and G. Sagerer
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Special issue on Anchoring Symbols to Sensor Data in Single and Multiple Robot Systems, 43(2--3), pages 133-147, 2003.

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Conference Papers

Architekturen situierter Kommunikatoren: Von Perzeption \"uber Kognition zum Lernen

Gernot A. Fink, Jannik Fritsch, Nadine Leßmann, Helge Ritter, Gerhard Sagerer, Jochen J. Steil and Ipke Wachsmuth
INFORMATIK 2003 -- Innovative Informatikanwendungen, Band 2, 29. September -- 2. Oktober in Frankfurt am Main, pages 29-44, 2003.

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Multimodale Sprecherlokalisation f\"ur Mensch-Roboter-Interaktionen in einer Multi-Personen-Umgebung

S. Hohenner, S. Lang, M. Kleinehagenbrock and F. G. A. and Kummert Fink
{Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung}, pages 162-169, Karlsruhe, 2003.

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Providing the Basis for Human-Robot-Interaction: A Multi-Modal Attention System for a Mobile Robot

S. Lang, M. Kleinehagenbrock, S. Hohenner, G. A. J. and Fink Fritsch and G. Sagerer
Proc. Int. Conf. on Multimodal Interfaces, pages 28-35, Vancouver, Canada, 2003.

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Data-driven Pronunciation Modeling for ASR using Acoustic Subword Units

T. Spiess, B. Wrede, F. Kummert and G. A. Fink
"Proc. European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology", pages 2549-2552, Geneva, 2003.

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Towards Automatic Video-based Whiteboard Reading

M. Wienecke, G. A. Fink and G. Sagerer
Proc. Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, pages 87-91, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2003.

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What is in the Dynamic Features: Analysis of the Derivatives of Log-Mel-Spectra

B. Wrede and G. A. Fink
"Proc. Int. Congress of Phonetic Science", Barcelona, 2003.

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2002

Journal Articles

Combining Acoustic and Articulatory Information for Robust Speech Recognition

Katrin Kirchhoff, Gernot A. Fink and Gerhard Sagerer
Speech Communication, 37(3-4), pages 303-319, 2002.

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Conference Papers

Improving Adaptive Skin Color Segmentation by Incorporating Results from Face Detection

J. Fritsch, S. Lang, M. Kleinehagenbrock and G. G. A. and Sagerer Fink
Proc. IEEE Int. Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), pages 337-343, Berlin, Germany, 2002.

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Person Tracking with a Mobile Robot based on Multi-Modal Anchoring

M. Kleinehagenbrock, S. Lang, J. Fritsch, F. Lömker, G. A. Fink and G. Sagerer
Proc. IEEE Int. Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), pages 423-429, Berlin, Germany, 2002.

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Detection of Communication Partners from a Mobile Robot

S. Lang, M. Kleinehagenbrock, J. Fritsch and G. A. Fink and G. Sagerer
Proc. 4th Workshop on Dynamic Perception, pages 183-188, Bochum, Germany, 2002.

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Multi-Modal Human-Machine Communication for Instructing Robot Grasping Tasks

P. McGuire, J. Fritsch, J. J. Steil, F. Röthling and G. A. Fink, S. Wachsmuth, G. Sagerer and H. Ritter
Proc. IROS 2002, pages 1082-1089, 2002.

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Robust Time-Synchronous Environmental Adaptation For Continuous Speech Recognition Systems

T. Plötz and G. A. Fink
Proc. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, pages 1409-1412, Denver, 2002.

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Regulierbare Verarbeitungsgeschwindigkeit automatischer Spracherkennungssysteme durch dynamische Suchraumeinschr\"ankung

S. Wendt, G. A. Fink and F. Kummert
{Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung}, pages 96-103, Dresden, 2002.

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Dynamic Search-Space Pruning for Time-Constrained Speech Recognition

S. Wendt, G. A. Fink and F. Kummert
Proc. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, pages 377-380, Denver, 2002.

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Experiments in Unconstrained Offline Handwritten Text Recognition

M. Wienecke, G. A. Fink and G. Sagerer
Proc. 8th Int. Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Ontario, Canada, 2002.

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Other Publications

Dynamische Suchraumeinschr\"ankung f\"ur automatische Spracherkennung unter Zeitrestriktionen

S. Wendt, G. A. Fink and F. Kummert
Universität Bielefeld, 2002.

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2001

Conference Papers

An Integrated System for Cooperative Man-Machine Interaction

C. Bauckhage, G. A. Fink, J. Fritsch, F. F. and Lömker Kummert, G. Sagerer and S. Wachsmuth
IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, pages 328-333, Banff, Canada, 2001.

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Towards a Wearable Frication Transposer for Severely Hearing Impaired Persons -- Based on Digital Processing Techniques

Dieter Bauer, Axel Plinge and Martin Finke
Assitive Technology - Added Value to the Quality of Life (AAATE 2001), pages 449-454, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2001.

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Video-Based On-line Handwriting Recognition

G. A. Fink, M. Wienecke and G. Sagerer
Proc. Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, pages 226-230, Seattle, 2001.

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Telecommunication Adapter For Hearing Aid Wearers - with extensions

Martin Finke, Dieter Bauer and Axel Plinge
Assitive Technology - Added Value to the Quality of Life (AAATE 2001), 2001.

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Intelligibility enhancement of human speech for severely hearing impaired persons by dedicated digital processing

Axel Plinge, Dieter Bauer and Martin Finke
Assitive Technology - Added Value to the Quality of Life (AAATE 2001), Amsterdam, 2001.

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Vorw\"artsmaskierung f\"ur cepstrum-basierte Spracherkennungssysteme

S. Wendt, G. A. Fink and F. Kummert
Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung, pages 85-91, Bonn, 2001.

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Forward Masking for Increased Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition

S. Wendt, G. A. Fink and F. Kummert
Proc. European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology, pages 615-618, Aalborg, 2001.

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A Handwriting Recognition System Based on Visual Input

M. Wienecke, G. A. Fink and G. Sagerer
2nd International Workshop on Computer Vision Systems, pages 63-72, Vancouver, Canada, 2001.

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An investigation of modelling aspects for rate-dependent speech recognition

B. Wrede, G. A. Fink and G. Sagerer
Proc. European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology, pages 2527-2530, Aalborg, 2001.

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Untersuchung der Faktoren Dauer und Koartikulation bei der Modellierung von Sprechgeschwindigkeit in der Spracherkennung

B. Wrede, G. A. Fink and G. Sagerer
Proc. Konf. Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung, Bonn, 2001.

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2000

Conference Papers

Zeitsynchrone Suche mit n-Gramm-Modellen h\"oherer Ordnung

G. A. Fink and G. Sagerer
Konvens 2000 / Sprachkommunikation, pages 145-150, Berlin, 2000.

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Conversational Speech Recognition Using Acoustic and Articulatory Input

K. Kirchhoff, G. A. Fink and G. Sagerer
Proc. Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Istanbul, 2000.

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A hybrid speech recognizer combining HMMs and polynomial classification

F. Kummert, G. A. Fink and G. Sagerer
Proc. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, pages 814-817, Beijing, China, 2000.

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Grapheme based speech recognition for large vocabularies

C. Schillo, G. A. Fink and F. Kummert
Proc. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, pages 584-587, Beijing, China, 2000.

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Using Speech in Visual Object Recognition

S. Wachsmuth, G. A. Fink, F. Kummert and G. Sagerer
Mustererkennung 2000, 22. DAGM-Symposium Kiel, pages 428-435, Berlin, 2000.

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Influence of duration on static and dynamic properties of german vowels in spontaneous speech

B. Wrede, G. A. Fink and G. Sagerer
Proc. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, pages 82-85, Beijing, China, 2000.

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1999

Conference Papers

Towards an Image Understanding Architecture for a Situated Artificial Communicator

C. Bauckhage, G. A. Fink, F. Kummert, S. Posch, G. Sagerer and D. Schlüter
Pattern Recognition and Image Understanding, pages 203-210, Sankt Augustin, 1999.

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A Comparative Study of HMM-Based Approaches for the Automatic Recognition of Perceptually Relevant Aspects of Spontaneous German Speech Melody

C. Brindöpke, G. A. Fink and F. Kummert
Proc. European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology, pages 699-702, Budapest, 1999.

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Developing HMM-based Recognizers with ESMERALDA

G. A. Fink
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 229-234, Berlin Heidelberg, 1999.

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Quantitative Untersuchungen zu antizipierender Koartikulation mit Methoden der Automatischen Spracherkennung

B. Wrede, G. A. Fink, F. Kummert and G. Sagerer
34. Linguistisches Kolloquium, 1999.

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Integrated Recognition and Interpretation of Speech for a Construction Task Domain

H. {Brandt-Pook}, G. A. Fink, S. Wachsmuth and G. Sagerer
Proceedings 8th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pages 550-554, München, 1999.

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1998

Conference Papers

An HMM-Based Recognition System for Perceptive Relevant Pitch Movements of Spontaneous German Speech

C. Brindöpke, G. A. Fink, F. Kummert and G. Sagerer
Proc. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, pages 2895-2898, Sydney, 1998.

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Entwicklung verteilter Musteranalysesysteme mit DACS

G. A. Fink, N. Jungclaus, H. Ritter and G. Sagerer
Mustererkennung 98, 20. DAGM-Symposium Stuttgart, Informatik aktuell, pages 429-436, Berlin, 1998.

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Incremental Speech Recognition for Multimodal Interfaces

G. A. Fink, C. Schillo, F. Kummert and G. Sagerer
Proc. 24th Annual Conf. of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, pages 2012-2017, Aachen, 1998.

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Hybrid Object Recognition in Image Sequences

F. Kummert, G. A. Fink, G. Sagerer and E. Braun
Proc. Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, pages 1165-1170, Brisbane, 1998.

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Integration of Parsing and Incremental Speech Recognition

S. Wachsmuth, G. A. Fink and G. Sagerer
Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference, pages 371-375, Rhodes, 1998.

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1997

Conference Papers

Schritthaltende hybride Objektdetektion

F. Kummert, G. A. Fink and G. Sagerer
Mustererkennung 97, 19. DAGM-Symposium Braunschweig, Informatik-Fachberichte, pages 137-144, Berlin, 1997.

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1996

Conference Papers

A Distributed System for Integrated Speech and Image Understanding

G. A. Fink, N. Jungclaus, F. Kummert and G. H. and Sagerer Ritter
International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, pages 117-126, Cancun, Mexico, 1996.

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Automatically Generated Models for Unknown Words

A. Jusek, G. A. Fink, F. Kummert and G. Sagerer
Proceedings Sixth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, pages 301-306, Adelaide, South Australia, 1996.

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Incremental Generation of Word Graphs

G. Sagerer, H. Rautenstrauch, G. A. Fink, B. Hildebrandt, A. Jusek and F. Kummert
International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 3.-6. October, 96, pages 2143-2146, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 1996.

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A Hybrid Approach to Identifying Objects from Verbal Descriptions

G. Socher, G. A. Fink, F. Kummert and G. Sagerer
Workshop on Multi-Langual Spontaneous Speech Recognition in Real Environments, June 6-7, Nancy, France, 1996.

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A Robust Dialogue System for Making an Appointment

H. {Brandt-Pook}, G. A. Fink, B. Hildebrandt, F. Kummert and G. Sagerer
International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 3.-6. October, 96, pages 693-696, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 1996.

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1995

Journal Articles

With Friends like Statistics who needs Linguistics --- Statistische versus wissensbasierte Sprachverarbeitung

G. A. Fink, F. Kummert and G. Sagerer
KI Künstliche Intelligenz(5), pages 31-33, 1995.

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Conference Papers

A Flexible Formal Language for the Orthographic Transcription of Spontaneous Dialogues

G. A. Fink, M. Johanntokrax and B. Schaffranietz
Proc. European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology, pages 871-874, Madrid, 1995.

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A Communication Framework for Heterogeneous Distributed Pattern Analysis

G. A. Fink, N. Jungclaus, H. Ritter and G. Sagerer
Proc. Int. Conf. on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, pages 881-890, Brisbane, 1995.

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Robuste inkrementelle Verarbeitung gesprochener Sprache

G. A. Fink, F. Kummert and G. Sagerer
Mustererkennung 95, 17. DAGM-Symposium Bielefeld, Informatik aktuell, pages 68-75, Berlin, 1995.

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Detection of Unknown Words and its Evaluation

A. Jusek, G. A. Fink, F. Kummert and G. H. and Sagerer Rautenstrauch
Proc. European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology, pages 2107-2110, Madrid, 1995.

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Generation of Language Models Using the Results of Image Analysis

U. Naeve, G. Socher, G. A. Fink, F. Kummert and G. Sagerer
Proc. European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology, pages 1739-1742, Madrid, 1995.

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Other Publications

Integration von Spracherkennung und Sprachverstehen. Dissertationen zur K\"unstlichen Intelligenz (DISKI 103). Sankt Augustin: infix-Verlag

G. A. Fink
Universität Bielefeld, Technische Fakultät, 1995.

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1994

Journal Articles

A Speech Understanding and Dialog System with a Homogeneous Linguistic Knowledge Base

M. Mast, F. Kummert, U. Ehrlich, T. G. A. and Kuhn Fink, H. Niemann and G. Sagerer
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 16(2), pages 179-194, 1994.

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Conference Papers

Integration von Erkennung und Interpretation gesprochener Sprache

G. A. Fink, F. Kummert and G. Sagerer
{KI-94} Workshops, pages 168-169, Bonn, 1994.

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A New Approach to Distributed Word Recognition

G. A. Fink, F. Kummert and G. Sagerer
Progress and Prospects of Speech Research and Technology, {CRIM/FORWISS} Workshop, pages 253-256, Sankt Augustin, 1994.

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A Close High-Level Interaction Scheme for Recognition and Interpretation of Speech

G. A. Fink, F. Kummert and G. Sagerer
International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 18.-22. September, 94, pages 2183-2186, Yokohama, 1994.

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Understanding of Time Constituents in Spoken Language Dialogues

B. Hildebrandt, G. A. Fink, F. Kummert and G. Sagerer
International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 18.-22. September, 94, pages 939-942, Yokohama, 1994.

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Detektion unbekannter W\"orter mit Hilfe phonotaktischer Modelle

A. Jusek, H. Rautenstrauch, G. A. Fink, G. F. and Sagerer Kummert, J. {Carson-Berndsen} and D. Gibbon
Mustererkennung 94, 16. DAGM-Symposium und 18. Workshop der {\"OAGM} Wien, pages 238-245, 1994.

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Schritthaltende Generierung von Wortgraphen

H. Rautenstrauch, G. A. Fink, F. Kummert and G. Sagerer
{Plenarvorträge und Fachbeiträge der 20. Gemeinschaftstagung der Deutschen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Akustik}, pages 1261-1264, Dresden, 1994.

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1993

Conference Papers

Speech Recognition Using Semantic Hidden Markov Networks

G. A. Fink, F. Kummert, G. Sagerer and E.G. Schukat-Talamazzini
Proc. European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology, pages 1571-1574, Berlin, 1993.

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Robust Interpretation of Speech

G. A. Fink, F. Kummert, G. Sagerer and B. Seestaedt
Proc. European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology, pages 1529-1532, Berlin, 1993.

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Modelling of Time Constituents for Speech Understanding

B. Hildebrandt, G. A. Fink, F. Kummert and G. Sagerer
Proc. European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology, pages 2247-2250, Berlin, 1993.

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1992

Conference Papers

EVAR: Ein sprachverstehendes Dialogsystem

W. Eckert, G. A. Fink, R. A. and Kompe Kießling, T. Kuhn, F. Kummert, H. M. and Niemann Mast, E. Nöth, R. Prechtel, S. Rieck, G. Sagerer, A. Scheuer and E. G. and Seestaedt. B. Schukat-Talamazzini
{KONVENS 92}, pages 49-58, Berlin, 1992.

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Semantic Hidden Markov Networks

G. A. Fink, F. Kummert, G. Sagerer, E. G. Schukat-Talamazzini and H. Niemann
Proc. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, pages 919-922, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 1992.

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Automatic Extraction of Language Models from a Linguistic Knowledge Base

G. A. Fink, G. Sagerer and F. Kummert
Proc. European Signal Processing Conf., pages 547-550, Brussels, 1992.

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Robuste Verarbeitung fehlerhafter Segmentierungsergebnisse

F. Kummert, G. A. Fink and G. Sagerer
Mustererkennung 92, 14. DAGM-Symposium Dresden, Informatik aktuell, pages 269-273, Berlin, 1992.

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1991

Conference Papers

Automatische Extraktion von Sprachmodellen f\"ur Hidden-Markov-Modelle aus einem semantischen Netzwerk

G. Sagerer, F. Kummert, G. A. Fink and B. Seestaedt
Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung, pages 151-160, Dresden, 1991.

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