Events

Talk: Document Analysis of Glagolitic Sacramentary Manuscripts

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Robert Sablatnig
TU Vienna, Austria
Institute of Computer Aided Design
Patter Recognition and Image Processing Group (www.prip.tuwien.ac.at)

Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Time: 14:00h
Place: Z613

Abstract:
The Analysis of Glagolitic Sacramentary Manuscripts is a collaboration of philologists and computer scientists devoted to the recording, investigation and editing of medieval Slavonic manuscripts. The study of handwritten sources covers a wide field reaching from the examination of the physical body up to the text and its contents, make-up and condition. Until the 1990ties this was mainly a domain of the humanities. Technical scientists were engaged predominantly in the recording and conservation of valuable objects. During recent years, however, interdisciplinary work has gained ground, concentrating not any more on a few special tasks, like the development of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, but comprising a growing amount of relevant items: the description of manuscripts, the digital-publication of texts, the imaging and restoring of watermarks, palimpsests and other “latent” texts, or a thorough description of writing systems and the identification of individual handwriting. Results of the project are presented with a focus on Multispectral Image Acquisition, Registration and Image Enhancement, Stroke Analysis and Ruling Estimation.

At the beginning of his talk, Prof. Sablatnig will give a brief overview of the research activities currently undertaken by his group at TU Vienna.

Computer Science Master's program Information Engineering at Master Studies Fair Vocatium, April 28/29, in Berlin

The Computer Science Master's program Information Engineering is represented at the first Master Studies Fair "Vocatium" in Berlin, featuring the study profiles Network Analysis, Digital Libraries, Visual Computing, Data Mining, Information Science, and Human Computer Interaction.

Where: Berlin, Atrium Deutsche Bank/Unter den Linden/Charlottenstraße 37

When:

April 28, 2009, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

April 29, 2009: 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

Guest Talk, November 4th, 5:00 p, room C 252

"Cluster Analysis in Dynamic Social Networks"

  Tanja Falkowski  Department for Information Systems  Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg  omen.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/itikmd/Tanja_Falkowski.64.1.html

Dies Academicus

Friday 24 October 2008, 17.00

Lecture hall A 701

Entrance free!

Computing and drawingOn the origin of digital media in computer graphicsProf. Dr. Frieder Nake, University of BremenWhat would computer science be like without excellent computer scientists?Dr. Stefan Keh, Siemens AG, KonstanzAt this year's Dies Academicus, the Department of Computer and InformationScience presents two speakers who explore the subject of computer sciencefrom different perspectives: Prof. Dr. Frieder Nake guides listeners throughthe story of the development from computing to drawing using one of the mostimportant media of the time, while Dr. Stefan Keh reports on thesignificance of studying computer science with regard to business andcomputer science itself.  Winter term 2008/09Lectures begin: 20 October 2008Lectures finish: 14 February 2009Christmas break: 22/12/2008 - 6/01/2009ISI 2009The 11th International Symposium for Information Science shall take placefrom 1 - 3 April 2009 at the University of Konstanz. Topic "Information:drug, product, or common value-added process and transformation process onthe information markets".

Weekly Colloquium of the Graduiertenkolleg:

Every Wednesday at 4:15 pm in C 252.