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Christian Clausner
Room 318, Peel Building
E-mail: c.clausner (append "@salford.ac.uk")
University of Salford
School of Science, Engineering & Environment
Salford
Greater Manchester, M5 4WT
United Kingdom
Tel: Tel: +44-(0)161-295 6749
Christian Clausner is a Research Fellow at the Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (PRImA) research lab which is part of the School of Science, Engineering and Environment at the University of Salford, UK. He joined the research group in 2009. His main responsibilities are software engineering as well as general research, including publications. He has a PhD degree in computer science.
Research interest and software development skills
- Document Analysis
- Pattern Recognition
- Image Processing
- Digitisation
- Optical Character Recognition
- Performance Evaluation
- Scientific Workflows
- C++ and Java development
- User interface design
- Web application development
- Web services
- Mobile/wearable app development
Workshops and Conferences
- HIP2019 - Program Chair
- ICDAR-OST 2019 - Keynote Speaker
Publications for Christian Clausner
Refereed Papers
2021
A survey of OCR evaluation tools and metrics
In The 6th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 13–18.
2020
Flexible character accuracy measure for reading-order-independent evaluation
Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 131, March 2020, Pages 390-397
2019
A cloud-hosted MapReduce architecture for syntactic parsing
Proceedings of EUROMICRO 45th Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA)
Efficient and Effective OCR Engine Training
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), 23(1), 73-88
ICDAR2019 Competition on Recognition of Early Indian Printed Documents – REID2019
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2019), Sydney, Australia, September 2019, pp. 1527-1532
ICDAR2019 Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts – RDCL2019
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2019), Sydney, Australia, September 2019, pp. 1521-1526
Crowdsourcing Historical Tabular Data – 1961 Census of England and Wales
Proceedings of the 2019 Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP2019), Sydney, Australia, September 2019, pp. 42-47
Highlights of the novel Dewaterability Estimation Test (DET) Device
Environmental Technology
Towards the Extraction of Statistical Information from Digitised Numerical Tables - The Medical Officer of Health Reports Scoping Study
Proceedings of Third International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage (DATeCH 2019), Brussels, Belgium, 08 - 10 May 2019
2018
ICFHR 2018 Competition on Recognition of Historical Arabic Scientific Manuscripts - RASM2018
Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR2018), Niagara Falls, USA, August 2018, pp. 471-476
Ontology and Framework for Semantic Labelling of Document Data and Software Methods
Proceedings of the 13th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS2018), Vienna, Austria, April 24-27, 2018, pp. 73-78
Continuous Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts - RDCL
Short Paper Booklet of the 13th International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS2018), Vienna, Austria, April 2018, pp. 19-20
2017
Effective Geometric Restoration of Distorted Historical Document for Large-Scale Digitization
IET Image Processing
ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Early Indian Printed Documents – REID2017
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2017), Kyoto, Japan, November 2017, pp. 1411-1416
ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts – RDCL2017
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2017), Kyoto, Japan, November 2017, pp. 1404-1410
Creating a Complete Workflow for Digitising Historical Census Documents: Considerations and Evaluation
Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP2017), Kyoto, Japan, November 2017, pp. 83-88
Unearthing the Recent Past: Digitising and Understanding Statistical Information from Census Tables
Proceedings of Second International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage (DATeCH 2017), Goettingen, Germany, 01 - 02 June 2017
2016
Quality Prediction System for Large-Scale Digitisation Workflows
Proceedings of the 12th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS2016), Santorini, Greece, April 11-14, 2016
2015
The ENP Image and Ground Truth Dataset of Historical Newspapers
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2015), Nancy, France, August 2015, pp. 931-935
ICDAR2015 Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts – RDCL2015
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2015), Nancy, France, August 2015, pp. 1151-1155
Europeana Newspapers OCR Workflow Evaluation
Proceedings of the 2015 Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP2015), Nancy, France, August 2015, pp. 39-46
2014
Document Representation Refinement for Precise Region Description
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage (DATeCH2014), Madrid, Spain, May 2014, pp. 9-13
Efficient OCR Training Data Generation with Aletheia
Short Paper Booklet of the 11th International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS2014), Tours, France, April 2014, pp. 19-20
2013
The Significance of Reading Order in Document Recognition and its Evaluation
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2013), Washington DC, USA, August 2013, pp. 688-692
ICDAR2013 Competition on Historical Newspaper Layout Analysis – HNLA2013
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2013), Washington DC, USA, August 2013, pp. 1486-1490
ICDAR2013 Competition on Historical Book Recognition – HBR2013
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2013), Washington DC, USA, August 2013, pp. 1491-1495
The IMPACT Dataset of Historical Document Images
Proceedings of the 2013 Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP2013), Washington DC, USA, August 2013, pp. 123-130
2012
A robust hybrid approach for text line segmentation in historical documents
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2012), Tsukuba, Japan, November 11-15, 2012, IEEE-CS Press, pp. 335-338
2011
Scenario Driven In-Depth Performance Evaluation of Document Layout Analysis Methods
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2011), Beijing, China, September 2011, pp. 1404-1408
Aletheia - An Advanced Document Layout and Text Ground-Truthing System for Production Environments
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2011), Beijing, China, September 2011, pp. 48-52
Historical Document Layout Analysis Competition
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2011), Beijing, China, September 2011, pp. 1516-1520
Grid-Based Modelling and Correction of Arbitrarily Warped Historical Document Images for Large-Scale Digitisation
Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP2011), Beijing, China, September 2011, pp. 106-111