Status: open Supervisor: Markus Diem, Florian Kleber, Christina Bartosch (University of Vienna) Exhibition catalogues comprise information containing accompanying texts, name of the paintings, owner of the paintings, etc. An example image shown on this page illustrates a page of an catalogue comprising consecutive numbers, name of the paintings and owners, and the hall number. The … Continue reading Layout Analysis and OCR of art exhibition catalogues →

Status: open Supervisor: Markus Diem, Florian Kleber, Stefan Fiel Document layout analysis deals with the layout structure of document images, thus segmenting a page into homogeneous image regions. Within the project READ a framework for layout analysis is currently developed. The layout analysis allows to detect text regions (text lines, text blocks, etc.). The main … Continue reading Document Layout Analysis for Newspapers →

Status: open Supervisors: Florian Kleber, Markus Diem Problem Statement Documents can contain tables, which can be placed everywhere within a document page, and a have a regular structure. The detection and analyis of tables is a part of current Document Image Analysis (DIA) systems. The detection of tables is of interest, since tables normally contain specific … Continue reading Table Detection in Document Images →

Status: open Supervisors:Florian Kleber, Stefan Fiel and Manuel Keglevic Problem Statement Within the project FORMS the traces of burglary tools are analyzed and compared with a database. One the one hand traces of burglary tools of different crime scences can be compared. This is done to identify series burglar. On the other hand the comparison is done … Continue reading Pattern Matching of Burglary Tools →

Status: closed Supervisors: Markus Diem, Florian Kleber, and Fabian Hollaus Problem Statement Historical documents are often scanned or photographed to publish facsimile editions. Thus, it is important to know the exact scale of the image, and the correct color information. With this information, the document can be reproduced in such a manner that the dimension and color of … Continue reading Color Chart Detection and Calibration →

Status: open Supervisors: Florian Kleber, Markus Diem and Stefan Fiel Problem Statement Current Document Image Analysis (DIA) frameworks have also to deal with photographed images, which can originate from DSLR cameras or even from smartphones. Typically, the images are not taken within a defined aquisition setup and thus can have perspective distortions and an uneven … Continue reading Document Image Dewarping and AutoCrop →

Status of Master Praktikum: open Supervisors: Paolo Rota, Michael Reiter and Florian Kleber Problem Statement Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) is the most frequent leukaemia entity in children and adolescents. Despite continued progress and refinement of therapeutic approaches, disease relapse due to insufficient extinction of leukaemic blasts still remains the number one cause of treatment failure. … Continue reading Evaluation of existing automated MRD methods in R →