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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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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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

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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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

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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Other Publications

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

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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Classification Uncertainty of Deep Neural Networks Based on Gradient Information

Philipp Oberdiek, Matthias Rottmann and Hanno Gottschalk
8th IAPR TC 3 Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition (ANNPR 2018), Siena, Italy, 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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Other Publications

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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Multi-microphone Speech Enhancement Informed by Auditory Scene Analysis

Axel Plinge and Sharon Gannot
Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 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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Other Publications

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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Other Publications

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

Journal Articles

Reproducibility of NMR analysis of urine samples: impact of sample preparation, storage conditions and animal health status

Christina Schreier, Werner Kremer, Fritz Huber, Sindy Neumann, Philipp Pagel, Kai Lienemann and Sabine Pestel
BioMed Research International, 2013.

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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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Other Publications

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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Conference Papers

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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Other Publications

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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Other Publications

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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NMR-based urine analysis in rats: Prediction of proximal tubule kidney toxicity and phospholipidosis

K. Lienemann, T. Plötz and S. Pestel
Journal of Pharmacologial and Toxicological Methods, 58(1), pages 41-49, 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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Evaluating Ubiquitous Systems with Users

C. Kray, L. B. Larsen, P. Olivier, M. Biemans, A. van Bunningen, M. Fetter, T. Jay, V.-J. Khan, G. Leitner, I. Mulder, J. Müller, T. Plötz and I. Lopez de Vallejo
Constructing Ambient Intelligence AmI 2007 Workshop Proceedings, pages 63-74, 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

Conference Papers

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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