Lambert Schomaker

Interests & projects

• Monk is our continuous project for allowing access to historical Dutch archives which are difficult to access by means of traditional OCR approaches due to their special fonts or handwritten style. Since 2009, Monk is one of the demonstrators in the Target project
• Ubbo Emmius' RERUM FRISICARUM HISTORIA (1616) Machine-print OCR on an important historical book (a GUF grant with Zweder von Martels & Arnold Meijster)
• NWO/Morph: Learning to learn: An Adaptive Reading System using a High-Performance Morphed-Image Correlator
  dr. Marius Bulacu, dr. Arnold Meijster; Hado van Hasselt & dr. Marco Wiering
• NWO/CATCH, sub project Scratch (SCRipt Analysis Tools for the Cultural Heritage): Historical document analysis, together with the Nationaal Archief.
  Tijn van der Zant; dr. Sveta Zinger & prof. dr. John Nerbonne
• Biologically inspired image features (Poggio/Serre) are strong in whole-word recognition
• Off-line writer identification
  • NWO/ToKeN TriGraph:
    Axel Brink; Ralph Niels & dr. Louis Vuurpijl
  • The hinge transform for writer identification, by Bulacu & Schomaker (2003; 2007).
  • The allographic fraglet codebooks for writer identification, by Schomaker & Bulacu (2004).
• Our recognizer of mixed-styles online handwriting
  • ... as used in the Scryption museum (2000).
  • Handwriting recognition (on-line cursive) at NICI until 2001
• Methods: Neural networks, SVMs, Multiple agents, Genetic algorithms, finding proper distance measures for nearest-neighbour search
• Multiple-agent approaches to pattern recognition problems (project MAPR)
• Content and object-based image search
• Brain-Computer Interfacing
• Autonomous Systems / camera-based text detection by robots

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Visiting reseacher

dr. Nobuo Ezaki has visited our lab. He has obtained a Japanese grant for research in developing an experimental camera-based text reading system in order to be able to realize a text-to-speech conversion for blind people who are navigating a typical city or office environment with text tags.

Current Ph.D. students

• Marius Bulacu (writer identification, dissertation 2007)
• Merijn van Erp (Multiple-agents in pattern classification)
• Tijn van der Zant (handwritten historical document retrieval)
• Axel Brink (robust writer identification and verification)
• Gert Kootstra (biologically inspired robot vision and navigation)
• Hado van Hasselt (behavior-based reading systems, with Marco Wiering)

Current M.Sc. students

• Auke Klazema (brain-computer interfacing)
• Bram Neijt (multi-classifier & feature selection systems)

• M.Sc. project topics
• more M.Sc. project topics

  [remote supervision]

B.Sc. students

School of Computing and Cognition

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