题目: Frontier Research in Document Analysis and Recognition

时间: 2012年6月26日，9:30 am.

地点: 北京大学 计算机科学技术研究所大楼106报告厅

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Dr. Ching Y. Suen, http://www.cenparmi.concordia.ca/CENPARMI/Suen/

Brief Abstract

The lecture will cover the history of the research and activities of CENPARMI (Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence) at Concordia University in Canada. It will begin with the research of Prof. Suen on transistor circuits in 1966 and a computerized reading machine for the blind in 1968, followed by handwriting recognition and font analysis. Prof. Suen will also summarize the foundations of international conferences on Document Analysis and Recognition, and Handwriting Recognition in 1990-1991, and the editing of various journals related to pattern recognition. In addition, He will talk about his research on Chinese words and sounds, his roles in the international Chinese Language Computer Society, and lectures given at numerous Chinese universities and research institutes in the past 4 decades.

Short Bio

Dr. Ching Y. Suen is the Director of CENPARMI and the Concordia Chair on AI & Pattern Recognition. He received his Ph.D. degree from UBC (Vancouver). He is a fellow of the IEEE (since 1986), IAPR (1994), and the Academy of Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada (1995). Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal of Pattern Recognition and an Adviser or Associate Editor of 5 journals. He is not only the founder of three conferences: ICDAR, IWFHR/ICFHR, and VI, but has also organized numerous international conferences including ICPR, ICDAR, ICFHR, ICCPOL, and others. Dr. Suen has published 4 conference proceedings, 12 books and more than 480 papers. Dr. Suen is the recipient of numerous awards, including the IAPR ICDAR Award (2005) and the ITAC/NSERC national award (1993).