Joan Andreu Sánchez

TL;DR: In this article, a formal model for the recognition of on-line handwritten mathematical expressions using 2D stochastic context-free grammars and hidden Markov models is described.

TL;DR: A new database is presented, compiled from a marriage license books collection, to support research in automatic handwriting recognition for historical documents containing social records, and about the capability of state-of-the-art handwritten text recognition systems, when applied to the presented database.

TL;DR: A contest on Handwritten Text Recognition organised in the context of the ICFHR 2014 conference is described and two tracks with increased freedom on the use of training data were proposed and three research groups participated in these two tracks.

TL;DR: The statistical framework of a model based on two-dimensional grammars and its associated parsing algorithm is defined and a system that implements this approach is developed and results on the large public dataset of the CROHME international competition are reported.

TL;DR: This competition aims to bring together researchers working on off-line HTR and provide them a suitable benchmark to compare their techniques on the task of transcribing typical historical handwritten documents.