The Gamera Project

Publications

Here are some publications describing either the Gamera project itself or other research projects performed with the use of Gamera. The publications are sorted by year.

• S. Kokubu (2022):
  The automatic classification of Noh chant books with machine learning.
  Master Thesis, Department of Music Research, Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal
• R. Karpinski, A. Belaid (2018):
  Generic method for grid line detection and removal in scanned documents.
  2018 IEEE 2nd International Workshop on Arabic and Derived Script Analysis and Recognition (ASAR), pp. 1-6
• R. Yaseen, H. Hassani (2018):
  Kurdish Optical Character Recognition.
  UKH Journal of Science and Engineering 2.1, pp. 18-27, 2018
• G. Vigliensoni, J. Calvo-Zaragoza, I. Fujinaga (2018):
  Developing an environment for teaching computers to read music.
  1st International Workshop on Reading Music Systems (WoRMS), pp. 27-28, 2018
• B. Robertson, F. Boschetti (2017):
  Large-Scale Optical Character Recognition of Ancient Greek.
  Mouseion: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada 14.3, pp. 341-359, 2017
• F. Pedersoli, G. Tzanetakis (2016):
  Document segmentation and classification into musical scores and text.
  International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 19.4, pp. 289-304, 2016
• C. Roughan (2016):
  Digital Texts and Diagrams: Representing the Transmission of Euclid's Elements.
  Digital Classics Online 2.1, pp. 32-48, 2016
• C. Dalitz, R. Pohle-Fröhlich, F. Schmitt, M. Jeltsch (2015):
  The Gradient Product Transform for Symmetry Detection and Blood Vessel Extraction.
  International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), pp. 177-184, 2015
• B. Robertson, C. Dalitz, F. Schmitt (2014):
  Automated Page Layout Simplification of Patrologia Graeca.
  First International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage (DATeCH), pp. 167-172, 2014
• C. Clausner, S. Pletschacher, A. Antonacopoulos (2014):
  Efficient OCR Training Data Generation with Aletheia.
  Short Paper Booklet of the 11th International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS), 2014
• C. Dalitz (2014):
  Soft Thresholding for Visual Image Enhancement.
  Technischer Bericht Nr. 2014-01, Hochschule Niederrhein, Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik, 2014
• C. Dalitz, C. Brandt, S. Goebbels, D. Kolanus (2013):
  Fourier Descriptors for Broken Shapes.
  EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2013:161, 2013
• C. Dalitz, T. Bolten, O. Christen (2013):
  Color Visualization of 2D Segmentations.
  International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP), pp. 567-572, 2013
• C. Dalitz, T. Crawford (2013):
  From Facsimile to Content Based Retrieval: the Electronic Corpus of Lute Music.
  Phoibos - Zeitschrift für Zupfmusik 2/2013, pp. 167-185, 2013
• A. Hankinson, A. Burgoyne, G.J. Vigliensoni, I. Fujinaga (2012):
  Creating a large-scale searchable digital collection from printed music materials.
  Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web (WWW'12 Companion), pp. 903-908, 2012.
• G.J. Vigliensoni, A. Burgoyne, A. Hankinson, I. Fujinaga (2011):
  Automatic pitch detection in printed square notation.
  Proceedings of the International Symposium for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), pp. 423-428, 2011.
• A. Fornés, A. Dutta, A.Gordo, J. Lladós (2011):
  The ICDAR 2011 Music Scores Competition: Staff Removal and Writer Identification.
  Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), pp. 1511-1515, 2011.
• A. Dutta, U. Pal, A. Fornés and J. Lladós (2010):
  An Efficient Staff Removal Approach from Printed Musical Documents.
  Proceedings of the Twentieth IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 1965-1968, 2010.
• A. Spadaccini, V.G. Rizzo (2009):
  A Multiple-Choice Test Recognition System based on the Gamera Framework.
  In C. Dalitz (Ed.): "Document Image Analysis with the Gamera Framework." Schriftenreihe des Fachbereichs Elektrotechnik und Informatik, Hochschule Niederrhein, vol. 8, pp. 5-15, Shaker Verlag, 2009
• C. Dalitz (2009):
  Reject Options and Confidence Measures for kNN Classifiers.
  In C. Dalitz (Ed.): "Document Image Analysis with the Gamera Framework." Schriftenreihe des Fachbereichs Elektrotechnik und Informatik, Hochschule Niederrhein, vol. 8, pp. 16-38, Shaker Verlag, 2009
• C. Dalitz (2009):
  Kd-Trees for Document Layout Analysis.
  In C. Dalitz (Ed.): "Document Image Analysis with the Gamera Framework." Schriftenreihe des Fachbereichs Elektrotechnik und Informatik, Hochschule Niederrhein, vol. 8, pp. 39-52, Shaker Verlag, 2009
• C. Dalitz, R. Baston (2009):
  Optical Character Recognition with the Gamera Framework.
  In C. Dalitz (Ed.): "Document Image Analysis with the Gamera Framework." Schriftenreihe des Fachbereichs Elektrotechnik und Informatik, Hochschule Niederrhein, vol. 8, pp. 53-65, Shaker Verlag, 2009
• C. Dalitz, C. Pranzas (2009):
  German Lute Tablature Recognition.
  Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), pp. 371-375, 2009
• J.S. Cardoso, A. Capela, A. Rebelo, C. Guedes, J.F.P. da Costa (2009):
  Staff Detection with Stable Paths
  IEEE Transactions Pattern Analysis Machine Intelligence, vol. 31, pp. 1134-1139, 2009
  (the above link requires subscription; a selfarchived version can be found on J.S. Cardoso's homepage)
• C. Dalitz, G.K. Michalakis, C. Pranzas: (2008):
  Optical Recognition of Psaltic Byzantine Chant Notation.
  International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition, vol. 11, pp. 143-158, 2008
  (the above link requires subscription; there is also a selfarchived version of this paper available)
• A. Capela, A. Rebelo, J.S. Cardoso, C. Guedes (2008):
  Staff Line Detection and Removal with Stable Paths.
  International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP 2008), pp. 263-270, 2008
• L. Pugin, J. Hockman, J.A. Burgoyne, I. Fujinaga (2008):
  Gamera Versus Aruspix: Two Optical Music Recognition Approaches.
  Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2008), pp. 419-424, 2008
• C. Dalitz, M. Droettboom, B. Pranzas, I. Fujinaga (2008):
  A Comparative Study of Staff Removal Algorithms.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. vol. 30, pp. 753-766, 2008
  (the above link requires subscription; there is also a selfarchived version of this paper available)
• S. Reddy, G. Crane, (2006):
  A Document Recognition System for Early Modern Latin.
  Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science 2006
• K. Canfield (2005):
  A Pilot Study for a Navajo Textbase.
  Proceedings of The 17th International Conference on Humanities Computing and Digital Scholarship (ACH/ALLC), pp. 28-30, 2005
• C. Dalitz, T. Karsten (2005):
  Using the Gamera framework for building a lute tablature recognition system.
  Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2005), pp. 478-481, 2005
• J. Hopkins, T. Andersen (2005):
  A Fourier-descriptor-based character recognition engine implemented under the Gamera open-source document-processing framework
  SPIE Proceedings, vol. 5676 (Document Recognition and Retrieval XII), pp. 111-118, 2005
  (the above link requires subscription; there is also a selfarchived version of this paper available)
• M. Droettboom (2003):
  Correcting broken characters in the recognition of historical printed documents.
  Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'03), pp. 364-366, 2003
• M. Droettboom, K. MacMillan, I. Fujinaga (2003):
  The Gamera framework for building custom recognition systems.
  Symposium on Document Image Understanding Technologies, pp. 275-286, 2003
• M. Droettboom, K. MacMillan, I. Fujinaga, G.S. Choudhury, T. DiLauro, M. Patton, T. Anderson (2002):
  Using the Gamera framework for the recognition of cultural heritage materials
  Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'02), pp. 11-17, 2002
• K. MacMillan, M. Droettboom, I. Fujinaga (2001):
  Gamera: A Python-based toolkit for structured document recognition.
  International Python Conference, pp. 25-40, 2001
• K. MacMillan, M. Droettboom, I. Fujinaga (2001):
  Gamera: A structured document recognition application development environment
  Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2001), pp. 173-178, 2001