The number of historical documents which are available in digital form has dramatically increased throughout the last five to ten years. Consequently, there has also been a significant growth in the development of computerized tools for the support of the analysis of such documents. The project “Script and Signs. A Computer-based Analysis of Highmedieval Papal Charters. A Key to Europe’s Cultural History”, which is funded by the e-humanities initiative of the German Ministry of Education, therefore organizes a international symposium. The aim of this symposium is to bring the world’s leading experts on historical document analysis from a diverse set of fields, such as Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Medieval History and Auxiliary Sciences of History together.
This inital point provide a compilation of results of single projects in order to focus on them in the future.
Program:
June 14, 2013
Opening
8:00 Registration
8:30 Welcome
Joachim Hornegger
Vice-President of University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
8:45 Message from Chairs
Klaus Herbers, Irmgard Fees
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
9:00 Script and Signs. A Computer-based Analysis of High Medieval Papal Charters. A Key to Europe’s Cultural History Vincent Christlein
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
09:15 Presentation of the Papal Documents Database
Thorsten Schlauwitz
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Section I. Traditional Palaeography
09:30 Considerations of the Identification of Scribes: Aims and Methods of Traditional Palaeography Martin Wagendorfer
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
10.10 Forensic Handwriting Analysis
Gudrun Bromm
Mannheim Laboratory for Script and Document Analysis
10:50 Break
Section II. Writer Identifcation
11:10 The Right Hand of the Pope: on the Authenticity of the Cardinal Signatures in Registers from the 12th and 13th Centuries Werner Maleczek
University of Vienna
11:50 Role of Automation in the Examination of Handwritten Items: the Lindbergh Case Sargur Srihari
University at Buffalo – State University of New York
12:30 The necessity of simultaneous multiple perspectives in digital identification of the hand Lambert Schomaker
University of Groningen
13:10 Lunch Break
Section III. Digital Palaeography
14:10 The Evolution of Handwriting in the Papal Curia of the 15th Century Thomas Frenz
University of Passau
14:50 In Meaning versus Mining, and Putting the Palaeographer in Charge Peter Stokes
King’s College London
15:30 Break
15:50 Image Analysis and Clustering of Medieval Scripts: an Evaluation Protocol Dominique Stutzmann
French National Center for Scientific Research
16:30 Handwritten Word Spotting in Historical Documents: the Project Five Centuries of Marriages Josep Lladós
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
June 15, 2013
Section IV. General Document Analysis
8:30 Layout and Writer Identifcation
Otfried Krafft
University of Marburg
9:10 Multispectral Image Acquisition and Analysis for Manuscript Research Robert Sablatnik
Vienna University of Technology
09:50 Break
Section V. Automatic Handwriting Recognition and Analysis
10:10 Diptychon: a Transcription Assistant System for the Separation of Glyphs in Medieval Handwritings Björn Gottfried, Matthias Lawo
University of Bremen / Monumenta Germaniae Historica and Humanities
10:50 Searching Handwritten Manuscripts
Raghavan Manmatha
University of Massachusetts
11:30 Automatic Tools for Historical Manuscript Analysis
Lior Wolf
Tel Aviv University
12:10 Concluding Discussion
Kurt Gärtner
Union of the German Academies of Sciences
13:00 Lunch & guided tour in Bamberg
For further information please visit: http://www.aot.uni-erlangen.de/saot/events/workshops/workshop-20/workshophistoricalanalysis.html
Posted by: Viktoria Trenkle (Viktoria.trenkle@gesch.phil.uni-erlangen.de).
