Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes

A 2-day symposium on Image Analysis and
Systematic Palaeography will take place at the Institut de Recherche
et d’Histoire des Textes (Paris) on April 14-15, 2011, serving as the conclusion of the research program ANR GRAPHEM (Grapheme based Retrieval
and Analysis for PalaeograpHic Expertise of medieval Manuscripts)

The research program ANR GRAPHEM (2008-2011), lead by
the  LIRIS
(UMR 5205, Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d'information),
federates four resarch teams: 2 laboratories in computer science (LIFO, EA 4022, Laboratoire
d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans, and LIPADE, Laboratoire
d'Informatique Paris Descartes, former CRIP5) and 2 in human sciences (Institut de recherche et d'histoire des Textes
and Ecole nationale des chartes). Its
aim is to improve the data mining and image processing techniques applied to
medieval scripts and their classification. 

This symposium will not only present the
technological achievements or the software and tools produced during this
research program, but also draw a methodological conclusion on
interdisciplinary work in the field of Palaeography and Image Analysis.

Provisional Program

— 14 April

• Denis
  Muzerelle (IRHT): Image Analysis Techniques applied
  to Medieval Scripts (« Les techniques d'analyse d'images appliquées aux
  écritures médiévales »)
• Matthieu
  Exbrayat (LIFO): Spatial Exploration and Interaction: Implementation in the
  Research Program Graphem (« Exploration et interaction spatiale: mise
  en œuvre dans le cadre du projet Graphem »)
• Stéphane Brès (LIRIS):
  Script Characterization from Local Visual Signs (« Caractérisation
  d'écritures à partir d'indices visuels locaux »)
• Nicole Vincent (LIPADE):
  A Proposal of Script Property Descriptors for Typological Grouping (« Proposition
  de descripteurs des propriétés des écritures en vue d'apparentements
  typologiques »)
• Round table (moderator: Marc Smith, École nationale des chartes): Current applications of informatics in paleography, by which methods and for what purposes?

— 15 April

• Permanent
  Seminar on Cursive Scripts [detailed program]
  
  

Call for posters

A poster session on related themes is organized
during the symposium:

1. Image
   Analysis and Script Categorisation
2. Tools for
   Palaeographical Analysis
3. Script
   Identification, Identification of Writers
4. Optical
   Character Recognition for Handwritten Texts

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