Most people think that their handwriting is unique and cannot be imitated by machines,
especially not using completely new content. Current cursive handwriting synthesis is …

In the course of the mass digitization of historical as well as contemporary sources, an
individual examination by means of historical or forensic experts is no longer feasible. A …

Single image deraining is a fundamental pre-processing step in many computer vision
applications for improving the visual effect and system performance of the downstream high …

In this paper, we present a novel strategy to combine a set of compact descriptors to
leverage an associated recognition task. We formulate the problem from a multiple kernel …

The issue of writer identification and writer retrieval, which is considered a challenging
problem in the field of document analysis and recognition is addressed here.. A novel …

Image retrieval is a common technique to find similar images in a dataset given a query
image. Given such an image, this can for example be used to find images showing similar …

Writer identification is an important task to gain knowledge about life in the past, which is
commonly solved by paleographic experts. In this work, we investigate an automatic writer …

Re-ranking is an essential step for accurate image retrieval, due to its well-known power in
performance improvement. Although numerous works have been proposed for re-ranking …

Automatic writer identification is a common problem in document analysis. State-of-the-art
methods typically focus on the feature extraction step with traditional or deep-learning-based …

Set-based face recognition (SFR) aims to recognize the face sets in the unconstrained
scenario, where the appearance of same identity may change dramatically with extreme …