3D Vision Lectue Timetable The lecture normally takes place in blocks on Monday from 15:00 – 17:00 (c.t.), Wednesday from 13:00 to 15:00 (c.t.), and Thursday from 15:00 to 17:00 (c.t.) in FAV Hörsaal 3 (Favoritenstr. 9-11, ground floor room: HEEG01). The first lecture will be held on March 4. The tutorial associated with the … Continue reading Timetable →

Vienna University of Technology Computer Vision Lab (CVL) Ana Čamba Melanie Gau Fabian Hollaus Robert Sablatnig Advisors: Markus Diem Angelika Garz Florian Kleber Former members Martin Lettner Maria Vill University of Vienna: Institute of Slavic Studies (ISS) Dana Hürner Heinz Miklas Academy of Fine Arts Vienna: Institute of Science and Technolog in Art (ISTA) Bernadette … Continue reading Project Group →

Philological and Culturological Cooperations Tat’jana Afanas’eva (St. Petersburg, Russ. Federation) Viktor A. Baranov (Gosudarstvennyj Techničeskij Univ., Iževsk/Udmuria, Russ. Federation) Ernst Gamillscheg (Austrian National Library, Vienna, Austria) Klimentina Ivanova (Univ. Sofia, Bulgaria) Catherine Mary MacRobert (Oxford Univ., U.K.) Ľubor Matejko (Univ. Komenského, Bratislava, Slovakia) Liljana Mavrodinova (Sofia, Bulgaria) Stefano Parenti (Pont. Ateneo Anselmianum Rome; Grottaferrata, Italy) … Continue reading Cooperations →

NEWS: Publication Announcement of 1st Volume of the “Glagolitica Sinaitica” series (with special thanks to the Holzhausen Publishing House):

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has been a regarded research topic in the last century. Nowadays the main issues of OCR are solved. Since OCR systems are base upon binary images of the text, their results are still poor if the text is degraded. In this thesis a codex consisting of ancient manuscripts is investigated. Due … Continue reading A Character Recognition System of Ancient Manuscripts →

This PhD specification talk first reviews the work done so far in document image analysis, along them especially the enhancement of the readability in multispectral images. The next contribution and main part of the work covers the segmentation of characters in multispectral images. Since the application is based on ancient manuscripts there are challenges which … Continue reading Using Spectral and Spatial Information for Character Segmentation in Multispectral Images →

Within the framework of the Project Sinai (funded by the Austrian Science Fund under grant P19608-G12) a part of the project group was travelling to the monastery of St. Catherine in Sinai/Egypt. Following participants joined the expedition: O. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heinz Miklas, University of Vienna Dr. Velizar Sadovsky, Austrian Academy of Sciences O. Univ.-Prof. Dr. … Continue reading Traveling to St. Catherine Monastery/Sinai (20.09.2007 – 04.10.2007) →

Vienna University of Technology Computer Vision Lab (CVL) Markus Diem Angelika Garz Florian Kleber Robert Sablatnig Maria Vill Martin Lettner University of Vienna Institute for Slavonic Studies (ISS) Melanie Gau Heinz Miklas Velizar Sadovski Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Institute of Science and Technolog in Art (ISTA) Ernst-Georg Hammerschmid Manfred Schreiner

Following persons/group cooperate with the project: Iževskij Gosudarstvennyj Techničeskij Universitet, Iževsk/Udmuria, Russ. Federation Prof. Dr. Viktor Baranov Univerzita Komenského, Bratislava, Slovakia Dr. L’ubor Matejko Plovdivski Universitet, Bulgaria Dr. Maria Schnitter Others Prof. Dr. Ioannis Tarnanidis (Thessaloniki, Greece) Dr. Elena Velkovska (Rome, Italy)