# Michael Blumenstein

According to our database1, Michael Blumenstein
• authored at least 141 papers between 1999 and 2017.
• has a "Dijkstra number"2 of four.

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## Bibliography

2017
An Efficient Signature Verification Method Based on an Interval Symbolic Representation and a Fuzzy Similarity Measure.
IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security, 2017

Fractals based multi-oriented text detection system for recognition in mobile video images.
Pattern Recognition, 2017

Arbitrarily-oriented multi-lingual text detection in video.
Multimedia Tools Appl., 2017

Towards a Dedicated Computer Vision Tool set for Crowd Simulation Models.
CoRR, 2017

Writer Identification and Verification from Intra-variable Individual Handwriting.
CoRR, 2017

Recent advances in video-based human action recognition using deep learning: A review.
Proceedings of the 2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2017

Impact of struck-out text on writer identification.
Proceedings of the 2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2017

Deep Learning Based Face Recognition with Sparse Representation Classification.
Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing - 24th International Conference, 2017

Fourier-Residual for Printer Identification.
Proceedings of the 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2017

Legibility and Aesthetic Analysis of Handwriting.
Proceedings of the 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2017

Linking face images captured from the optical phenomenon in the wild for forensic science.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics, 2017

SSERBC 2017: Sclera segmentation and eye recognition benchmarking competition.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics, 2017

A decision-level fusion strategy for multimodal ocular biometric in visible spectrum based on posterior probability.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics, 2017

An Automatic Student Verification System Utilising Off-Line Thai Name Components.
Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, 2017

Counting People Based on Linear, Weighted, and Local Random Forests.
Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, 2017

Can Walking and Measuring Along Chord Bunches Better Describe Leaf Shapes?
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2017

A study on detecting drones using deep convolutional neural networks.
Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, 2017

Drone-vs-Bird detection challenge at IEEE AVSS2017.
Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, 2017

2016
Contour Restoration of Text Components for Recognition in Video/Scene Images.
IEEE Trans. Image Processing, 2016

A framework for liveness detection for direct attacks in the visible spectrum for multimodal ocular biometrics.
Pattern Recognition Letters, 2016

A blind deconvolution model for scene text detection and recognition in video.
Pattern Recognition, 2016

What Effect Does an Animal Robot Called CuDDler Have on the Engagement and Emotional Response of Older People with Dementia? A Pilot Feasibility Study.
I. J. Social Robotics, 2016

Multi-script versus single-script scenarios in automatic off-line signature verification.
IET Biometrics, 2016

Investigating the Feasibility of a 3D Virtual World Technology for People with Dementia.
Proceedings of the 10th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, 2016

Texture-based feature mining for crowd density estimation: A study.
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, 2016

Document image retrieval based on texture features and similarity fusion.
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, 2016

A brief review of document image retrieval methods: Recent advances.
Proceedings of the 2016 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2016

A quad tree based method for blurred and non-blurred video text frames classification through quality metrics.
Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2016

Writer identification by training on one script but testing on another.
Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2016

An Investigation of Novel Combined Features for a Handwritten Short Answer Assessment System.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, 2016

Offline Cursive Bengali Word Recognition Using CNNs with a Recurrent Model.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, 2016

SSRBC 2016: Sclera Segmentation and Recognition Benchmarking Competition.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Biometrics, 2016

A Local Scale Selection Scheme for Multiscale Area Integral Invariants.
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, 2016

An Automatic Off-Line Short Answer Assessment System Using Novel Hybrid Features.
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, 2016

Document Image Retrieval Based on Texture Features: A Recognition-Free Approach.
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, 2016

Performance of an Off-Line Signature Verification Method Based on Texture Features on a Large Indic-Script Signature Dataset.
Proceedings of the 12th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 2016

Preserving Text Content from Historical Handwritten Documents.
Proceedings of the 12th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 2016

Marginal Noise Reduction in Historical Handwritten Documents - A Survey.
Proceedings of the 12th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 2016

Document Image Quality Assessment Based on Texture Similarity Index.
Proceedings of the 12th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 2016

Named Entity Recognition from Unstructured Handwritten Document Images.
Proceedings of the 12th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 2016

Sclera Vessel Pattern Synthesis Based on a Non-parametric Texture Synthesis Technique.
Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing, 2016

Fast and efficent multimodal eye biometrics using projective dictionary pair learning.
Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2016

2015
Cloud computing as a facilitator of SME entrepreneurship.
Techn. Analysis & Strat. Manag., 2015

Piece-wise linearity based method for text frame classification in video.
Pattern Recognition, 2015

Multi-lingual date field extraction for automatic document retrieval by machine.
Inf. Sci., 2015

Short answer question examination using an automatic off-line handwriting recognition system and a novel combined feature.
Proceedings of the 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2015

Bag-of-Visual Words for word-wise video script identification: A study.
Proceedings of the 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2015

Interval-valued symbolic representation based method for off-line signature verification.
Proceedings of the 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2015

Towards robust flood forecasts using neural networks.
Proceedings of the 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2015

A complete automatic short answer assessment system with student identification.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2015

Multi-lingual text recognition from video frames.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2015

ICDAR2015 Competition on Video Script Identification (CVSI 2015).
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2015

Date field extraction from handwritten documents using HMMs.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2015

ICDAR2015 competition on signature verification and writer identification for on- and off-line skilled forgeries (SigWIcomp2015).
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2015

Investigating Various Technologies Applied to Assist Seniors.
Proceedings of the Health Information Science - 4th International Conference, 2015

Characteristics of Research on the Application of Three-Dimensional Immersive Virtual Worlds in Health.
Proceedings of the Health Information Science - 4th International Conference, 2015

SSBC 2015: Sclera segmentation benchmarking competition.
Proceedings of the IEEE 7th International Conference on Biometrics Theory, 2015

Text detection in born-digital images by mass estimation.
Proceedings of the 3rd IAPR Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2015

2014
Signature-Based Biometric Authentication.
Proceedings of the Computational Intelligence in Digital Forensics: Forensic Investigation and Applications, 2014

Off-line handwritten Thai name recognition for student identification in an automated assessment system.
Proceedings of the 2014 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2014

A study on word-level multi-script identification from video frames.
Proceedings of the 2014 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2014

Estuarine flood modelling using artificial neural networks.
Proceedings of the 2014 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2014

Gradient-Angular-Features for Word-wise Video Script Identification.
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2014

Semi-supervised Online Bayesian Network Learner for Handwritten Characters Recognition.
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2014

Off-Line Handwritten Bilingual Name Recognition for Student Identification in an Automated Assessment System.
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, 2014

Application areas of multi-user virtual environments in the healthcare context.
Proceedings of the Investing in E-Health: People, Knowledge and Technology for a Healthy Future, 2014

Fuzzy logic based selera recognition.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, 2014

A new wrist vein biometric system.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management, 2014

Multi-angle based lively sclera biometrics at a distance.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management, 2014

A new efficient and adaptive sclera recognition system.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management, 2014

Automatic Bridge Crack Detection - A Texture Analysis-Based Approach.
Proceedings of the Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition, 2014

2013
Svm and NN Based Offline Signature Verification.
International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, 2013

Off-line verification technique for Hindi signatures.
IET Biometrics, 2013

Multi-Directional Weighted Interpolation for Wi-Fi Localisation.
Proceedings of the Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 2, 2013

Signature segmentation and recognition from scanned documents.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intellient Systems Design and Applications, 2013

Sclera recognition using dense-SIFT.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intellient Systems Design and Applications, 2013

Off-line Bangla signature verification: An empirical study.
Proceedings of the 2013 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2013

A Two-Stage Approach for English and Hindi Off-line Signature Verification.
Proceedings of the New Trends in Image Analysis and Processing - ICIAP 2013, 2013

A New Method for Character Segmentation from Multi-oriented Video Words.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2013

Word-Wise Script Identification from Video Frames.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2013

Multi-script Off-line Signature Verification: A Two Stage Approach.
Proceedings of the 2nd ICDAR International Workshop on Automated Forensic Handwriting Analysis, 2013

ICDAR 2013 Competitions on Signature Verification and Writer Identification for On- and Offline Skilled Forgeries (SigWiComp 2013).
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2013

A New Method for Sclera Vessel Recognition Using OLBP.
Proceedings of the Biometric Recognition - 8th Chinese Conference, 2013

Semi-supervised Online Learning of Handwritten Characters Using a Bayesian Classifier.
Proceedings of the 2nd IAPR Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2013

Sclera Recognition - A Survey.
Proceedings of the 2nd IAPR Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2013

2012
Concept Learning for $\ensuremath{\ensuremath{\cal E}\ensuremath{\cal L}^{++}}$ by Refinement and Reinforcement.
Proceedings of the PRICAI 2012: Trends in Artificial Intelligence, 2012

Off-line signature verification using G-SURF.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, 2012

Off-line English and Chinese signature identification using foreground and background features.
Proceedings of the 2012 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2012

Hindi Off-Line Signature Verification.
Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, 2012

Off-line restricted-set handwritten word recognition for student identification in a short answer question automated assessment system.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, 2012

Multi-script off-line signature identification.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, 2012

A New Method for Word Segmentation from Arbitrarily-Oriented Video Text Lines.
Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications, 2012

A New Method for Arbitrarily-Oriented Text Detection in Video.
Proceedings of the 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 2012

Recent Advances in Video Based Document Processing: A Review.
Proceedings of the 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 2012

Off-Line Bangla Signature Verification.
Proceedings of the 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 2012

A Compact Size Feature Set for the Off-Line Signature Verification Problem.
Proceedings of the 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 2012

2011
Off-line signature verification systems: a survey.
Proceedings of the ICWET '11 International Conference & Workshop on Emerging Trends in Technology, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, February 25, 2011

Non-English and Non-Latin Signature Verification Systems A Survey.
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Automated Forensic Handwriting Analysis: A Satellite Workshop of ICDAR-2011, 2011

An Application of the 2D Gaussian Filter for Enhancing Feature Extraction in Off-line Signature Verification.
Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2011

Signature Verification Competition for Online and Offline Skilled Forgeries (SigComp2011).
Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2011

Off-line Signature Identification Using Background and Foreground Information.
Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), 2011

2010
A new system for breakzone location and the measurement of breaking wave heights and periods.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, 2010

Performance Analysis of the Gradient Feature and the Modified Direction Feature for Off-line Signature Verification.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, 2010

The 4NSigComp2010 Off-line Signature Verification Competition: Scenario 2.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, 2010

International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2010) - Competitions Overview.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, 2010

Techniques for static handwriting trajectory recovery: a survey.
Proceedings of the Ninth IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 2010

Segmentation of Inter-neurons in Three Dimensional Brain Imagery.
Proceedings of the Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, 2010

2009
Handwritten Shorthand and its Future Potential for Fast Mobile Text entry.
IJPRAI, 2009

Automated classification of dopaminergic neurons in the rodent brain.
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2009

Global Features for the Off-Line Signature Verification Problem.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2009

2008
A Neural-Genetic Technique for Coastal Engineering: Determining Wave-induced Seabed Liquefaction Depth.
Proceedings of the Engineering Evolutionary Intelligent Systems, 2008

Cursive Character Segmentation Using Neural Network Techniques.
Proceedings of the Machine Learning in Document Analysis and Recognition, 2008

Performance analysis of GAME: A generic automated marking environment.
Computers & Education, 2008

Character Recognition Using Hierarchical Vector Quantization and Temporal Pooling.
Proceedings of the AI 2008: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2008

2007
An investigation of the modified direction feature for cursive character recognition.
Pattern Recognition, 2007

Off-line Signature Verification Using Enhanced Modified Direction Features in Conjunction with Neural Classifiers and Support Vector Machines.
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2007), 2007

Physics-based Modelling of Growing Plant Leaves.
Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality, 2007

A Comparison of Neural-Based Techniques Investigating Rotational Invariance for Upright People Detection in Low Resolution Imagery.
Proceedings of the AI 2007: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2007

2006
Objective Beach-State Classification From Optical Sensing of Cross-Shore Dissipation Profiles.
IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2006

Estimation of chemical oxygen demand by ultraviolet spectroscopic profiling and artificial neural networks.
Neural Computing and Applications, 2006

Empirical Estimation of Nearshore Waves From a Global Deep-Water Wave Model.
IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing Lett., 2006

The Detection of Persons in Cluttered Beach Scenes Using Digital Video Imagery and Neural Network-Based Classification.
International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, 2006

An Exhaustive Search Strategy for Detecting Persons in Beach Scenes using Digital Video Imagery and Neural Network-based Classification.
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2006

Improvement of an Artificial Neural Network Model using Min-Max Preprocessing for the Prediction of Wave-induced Seabed Liquefaction.
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2006

Off-line Signature Verification using the Enhanced Modified Direction Feature and Neural-based Classification.
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2006

Off-line Signature Verification based on the Modified Direction Feature.
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), 2006

Robust Character Recognition Using a Hierarchical Bayesian Network.
Proceedings of the AI 2006: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2006

2005
The Neural-based Segmentation of Cursive Words using Enhanced Heuristics.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2005), 29 August, 2005

Toward Cooperatively-Built Knowledge Repositories.
Proceedings of the Conceptual Structures: Common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge, 2005

Investigation of a Classification-based Technique to Detect Illicit Objects for Aviation Security.
Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 2005

An Intelligent System for Remote Monitoring and Prediction of Beach Safety.
Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 2005

2004
A novel approach for structural feature extraction: Contour vs. direction.
Pattern Recognition Letters, 2004

An experimental analysis of GAME: a generic automated marking environment.
Proceedings of the 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2004

GAME: A Generic Automated Marking Environment for Programming Assessment.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'04), 2004

Experience in Teaching Object-Oriented Concepts to First Year Students with Diverse Backgrounds.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'04), 2004

Experimental analysis of the modified direction feature for cursive character recognition.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, 2004

2003
A Novel Feature Extraction Technique for the Recognition of Segmented Handwritten Characters.
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2003), 2003

2002
Strategies for Improving a Java-Based, First Year Programming Course.
ICCE, 2002

2001
Analysis of Segmentation Performance on the CEDAR Benchmark Database.
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2001), 2001

1999
A new segmentation algorithm for handwritten word recognition.
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference Neural Networks, 1999

Neural-based Solutions for the Segmentation and Recognition of Difficult Handwritten Words from a Benchmark Database.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 1999