Partners

Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Images et Systèmes d'information (LIRIS) is a CNRS research laboratory which gathers most of research laboratories in computer sciences from different universities and engineer schools from Lyon. INSA of Lyon which is ranked among the top universities of Science and Technology in Europe, participates to the creation of the LIRIS in 2003. LIRIS includes 260 people, among them 90 are researchers. It has two main research domains: digital imaging and information systems. The research activity of the team IMAGINE focuses on the analysis of image and video classification, identification and indexing of multimedia data. This activity has a very broad spectrum. The applications are faces detection and recognition, emotion recognition, documents imaging, pattern recognition, object recognition in natural images, analysis and indexing of video. IMAGINE Team from the LIRIS Lab, ranked A by the AERES, works for many years on research projects about the digitization of paper documents from the cultural heritage. The team participate to numerous research National projects like the project MADONNE (MAsse de DOnnées issues de la Numérisation du patrimoiNE) 2003-2006, ANR GRAPHEM (2007- 2011) for digital Palaeography, ANR CITERE (2008-2011), ANR BiblIndex, 2010-2014, Computer Assistance of Transcription for the ANR VECMAS, 2008-2011, ANR BOUVARD, 2008-2011, the BVH 2005-2009 and the project Agora 2004-2006 with the CESR (Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance UMR 6576), and enrichment of manuscripts (Project STEMA, 1999-2004). The LIRIS has also contributed to European projects like BAMBI (Better Access to Manuscripts and Browsing of Images, 1995-1997) and DEBORA (Digital AccEss to BOoks of the RenAissance, 1999-2001) for a better access to manuscripts and early printed documents of the Renaissance. Actually the LIRIS is the main partner for the digitization of Arabic manuscripts from Timbuktu (Mali). The research team « Documents Images Analysis» has founded in 2009 a startup called CORENUM for the transfer of technologies.

TSINGHUA University    

TSINGHUA-CIDIP, Center for Intelligent Image and Document Information Processing (CIDIP) is attached to Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University in Beijing and also a part of Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology. The research group includes 6 professors, 1-2 post Docs, 28 Ph. D candidates, 13 master candidates and 12 undergraduates. CIDIP has published more than 400 papers, 20 patents, several books or book chapters. CIDIP won 4 National Scientific and Technical Progress Awards respectively in 1992, 1999, 2003, 2008. CIDIP is dedicated to research in the fields of document, image, video analysis and recognition. TH-OCR character recognition technologies and TH-ID multimodal biometrics security system excelled in many international and domestic competitions and evaluations. The research achievements have been successfully commercialized. CIDIP undertook many projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China ( 863 Hi-Tech Program ) . In last two decades, CIDIP cooperated with many well-known companies, such as Microsoft, Siemens, Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, IBM, HP, Nuance, etc.