Marcus Liwicki

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Dr. phil. nat. Marcus Liwicki Senior Researcher Research group Knowledge Management DFKI - German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence liwicki@dfki.uni-kl.de Phone +49 (0) 631 20575 1200 Fax +49 (0) 631 20575 1020 Room 3.19 Trippstadter Str. 122 D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany

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My first book has been published in October 2008. Marcus Liwicki and Horst Bunke RECOGNITION OF WHITEBOARD NOTES - Online, Offline and Combination You can order it at World Scientific directly, or at amazon.

Research Interests

• Knowledge Management
• Semantic Desktop
• Electronic Pen-Input Devices
• Handwriting Recognition
• Pattern Matching
• Document Analysis

Publications (BibTeX)

Books

• Liwicki, M. and Bunke, H., RECOGNITION OF WHITEBOARD NOTES - Online, Offline and Combination. In Series in Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 71

Book Chapters and Journal Articles

• Liwicki, M. and Bunke. H.: Recognition Techniques for Whiteboard Notes Written in Roman Script. Chen, C. H. (ed.), Handbook of Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision. Chapter 3.5, World Scientific, 2010, pp. 397-414.
• Liwicki, M. and Schlapbach, A. and Bunke, H.: Automatic Gender Detection using On-Line and Off-Line Information. Pattern Analysis and Applications, 2010, pp. 1-16.
• Uchida, S. and Liwicki, M. and Iwamura, M. and Omachi, S. and Kise, K.: Digital Pen Technologies (Japanese). Journal of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, Vol. 64, No. 3, 2010, pp. 293-298
• Liwicki, M. and Bunke, H.: Feature Selection for HMM and BLSTM based Handwriting Recognition of Whiteboard Notes. Int. Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 23, No. 5 (2009), pp. 907–923.
• Liwicki, M. and Bunke, H. and Pittman, J. A. and Knerr, S.: Combining Diverse Systems for Handwritten Text Line Recognition. Machine Vision and Applications, 2009, published online, soon in print.
• Liwicki, M. and Bunke, H.: Combining Diverse On-Line and Off-Line Systems for Handwritten Text Line Recognition. Pattern Recognition 42, no. 12, 2009, pp. 3254-3263.
• Graves, A. and Liwicki, M. and Fernandez, S. and Bertolami, R. and Bunke, H. and Schmidhuber, J.: A Novel Connectionist System for Unconstrained Handwriting Recognition. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 31, No. 5 (2009), pp. 855-868.pdf
• Schlapbach, A. and Liwicki, M. and Bunke, H.: A Writer Identification System for On-line Whiteboard Data. Pattern Recognition 41, 2008, pp. 2381-2397. pdf
• Liwicki, M. and Bunke, H.: Handwriting Recognition of Whiteboard Notes - Studying the Influence of Training Set Size and Type. Int. Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 21, No. 1 (2007), pp. 83-98. pdf

Conference and Workshop Papers

• M. Liwicki, M. Weber, and A. Dengel, “Online Mode Detection for Pen-Enabled Multi-Touch Interfaces,” in Proc. 15th Conf. of the International Graphonomics Society, 2011.
• Uchida, S. and Liwicki, M.: Part-Based Recognition of Handwritten Characters. 12th International Conference on Frontiers of Handwriting Recognition, 2010, pp. 545-550.
• Liwicki, M. and van den Heuvel, C. E. and Found, B. and Malik, M. I.: Forensic Signature Verification Competition 4NSigComp2010 - Detection of Simulated and Disguised Signatures. 12th International Conference on Frontiers of Handwriting Recognition, 2010, pp. 715-720.
• Ebert, S. and Liwicki, M. and Dengel, A.: Ontology-Based Information Extraction from Handwritten Documents. 12th International Conference on Frontiers of Handwriting Recognition, 2010, pp. 483-488.
• Liwicki, M. and Uchida, S. and Iwamura, M. and Omachi, S. and Kise, K.: Embedding Meta-Information in Handwriting - Reed-Solomon for Reliable Error Correction. 12th International Conference on Frontiers of Handwriting Recognition, 2010, pp. 51-56.
• Weber, M. and Liwicki, M. and Dengel, A.: a.SCAtch - A Sketch-Based Retrieval for Architectural Floor Plans. 12th International Conference on Frontiers of Handwriting Recognition, 2010, pp. 289-294.
• Uchida, S. and Liwicki, M.: Analysis of Local Features for Handwritten Character Recognition. 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2010, pp. 1945-1948.
• Weber, M. and Langenhan, Ch. and Roth-Berghofer, T. and Liwicki, M. and Dengel, A. and Petzold, F.: a.SCatch: Semantic Structure for Architectural Floor Plan Retrieval. 18th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, 2010, pp. 510-524.
• Liwicki, M. and Uchida, S. and Iwamura, M. and Omachi, S. and Kise, K.: Data-Embedding Pen - Augmenting Ink Strokes with Meta-Information. 9th Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 2010, pp. 43-52.
• Liwicki, M. and Eisha, H. M. and Dengel, A.: Improving Handwriting Recognition by the use of Semantic Information. 9th Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 2010, pp. 441-446.
• Liwicki, M. and Rostanin, O. and El-Neklawy, S. M. and Dengel, A.: Touch & Write: a Multi-Touch Table with Pen-Input. 9th Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 2010, pp. 479-484.
• Indermühle, E. and Liwicki, M. and Horst Bunke: IAMonDo-Database: an Online Handwritten Document Database with Non-Uniform Contents. 9th Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 2010, pp. 97-104.
• Liwicki, M.: An Easy-To-Use Recurrent Neural Network Architecture for Sequence Recognition. Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding, 2010, 6 pages.
• Liwicki, M. and Uchida, S. and Iwamura, M. and Omachi, S. and Kise, K.: An Interface for Embedding Online Information During Writing. Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding, 2010, 6 pages.
• Uchida, S. and Liwicki, M., and Marsault, V.: Part-based handwritten numeral recognition. Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding, 2010, 6 pages.
• Liwicki, M.: Integrating Touch and Write into a Single Multitouch Surface. Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding, 2010, 5 pages.
• Liwicki, M.: Enhancing a Multi-touch Table with Write Functionality. 5th Joint Workshop on Machine Perception and Robotics, 2009, 5 pages.
• Liwicki, M.: Evaluation of Novel Features and Different Models for Online Signature Verification in a Real-World Scenario. Proc. 14th Conf. of the Int. Graphonomics Society, 2009, pp. 22-25.
• Liwicki, M. and Dengel, A.: Requirements for Intelligent Pen-Based Annotation Systems - An Exemplary Study with Semantic eInk. Proc. 14th Conf. of the Int. Graphonomics Society, 2009, pp. 234-237.
• Fischer, A. and Wüthrich, M. and Liwicki, M. and Indermühle, E. and Frinken, V. and Bunke, H. and Viehhauser, G. and Stolz, M.: Automatic Transcription of Handwritten Medieval Documents. Int. Conf. on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia, 2009, pp. 137-142.
• Liwicki, M. and Weber, M. and Dengel, A.: Automatic Recognition and Interpretation of Pen- and Paper-Based Document Annotations, KI 2009, pp 581-588.
• Wüthrich, M. and Liwicki, M. and Fischer, A. and Indermühle, E. and Bunke, H. and Viehhauser, G. and Stolz, M.: Language Model Integration for the Recognition of Handwritten Medieval Documents. 10th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2009, pp. 211-215.
• Indermühle, E. and Liwicki, M. and Bunke, H.: Combining Alignment Results for Historical Handwritten Document Analysis. 10th Int. Con. on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2009, pp. 1186-1190.
• Schumacher, K. and Liwicki, M and Dengel, A.: A Paper-based Technology for Personal Knowledge Management. 5th Conf. on Professional Knowledge Management, 2009, LNI, vol. P-145, pp. 289-298.
• Liwicki, M. and Schlapbach, A. and Bunke, H.: Writer-Dependent Recognition of Handwritten Whiteboard Notes in Smart Meeting Room Environments. Proc. 8th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 2008, pp. 151-157. pdf
• Liwicki, M. and Schumacher, K. and Dengel, A. and Weibel, N. and Signer, B. and Norrie, M. C: Pen and Paper-based Interaction with the Semantic Desktop. Handout of 8th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 2008, pp. 2-5. pdf
• Liwicki, M. and Schumacher, K. and Dengel, A. and Weibel, N. and Signer, B. and Norrie, M. C: DEMO: Semantic eInk – Pen and Paper-based Interaction with the Semantic Desktop. Handout of 8th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 2008, pp. 38-40. pdf
• Emanuel Indermühle and Liwicki, M. and Bunke, H., Recognition of Handwritten Historical Documents: HMM-Adaptation vs. Writer Specific Training. Proc. 11th Int. Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, 2008, pp. 186-191. pdf
• Liwicki, M. and Bunke, H., Combining On-Line and Off-Line Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Handwritten Text Line Recognition. 11th Int. Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, 2008, pp. 31-36. pdf
• Graves, A. and Fernandez, S. and Schmidhuber, J. and Liwicki, M. and Bunke, H.: Unconstrained online handwriting recognition with recurrent neural networks. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20, 2008, MIT Press, pp. 577-584. pdf
• Liwicki, M. and Schlapbach, A. and Loretan, P. and Bunke, H.: Automatic Detection of Gender and Handedness from On-Line Handwriting. Proc. 13th Conf. of the Int. Graphonomics Society, 2007, pp. 179-183. pdf
• Liwicki, M. and Bunke, H.: Feature Selection for On-Line Handwriting Recognition of Whiteboard Notes. Proc. 13th Conf. of the Int. Graphonomics Society, 2007, pp. 101-105. pdf
• Liwicki, M. and Graves, A. and Bunke, H. and Schmidhuber, J.: A Novel Approach to On-Line Handwriting Recognition Based on Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Networks. 9th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2007, Volume 1, pp. 367-371. pdf
• Liwicki, M. and Indermühle, E. and Bunke, H.: On-Line Handwritten Text Line Detection Using Dynamic Programming. 9th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2007, Volume 1, pp. 447-451. pdf
• Liwicki, M. and Bunke, H.: Combining On-Line and Off-Line Systems for Handwriting Recognition. 9th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2007, Volume 1, pp. 372-376. pdf
• Knipping, L. and Liwicki, M., Chalklets: Developing Applications for a Board Environment. Proc. 1st IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for E-Learning, 2006, pp. 907-914. pdf
• Liwicki, M. and Bunke, H., HMM-Based On-Line Recognition of Handwritten Whiteboard Notes. Proc. 10th Int. Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, 2006, pp. 595-599. pdf
• Liwicki, M., Scherz, M., and Bunke, H. Word Extraction from On-Line Handwritten Text Lines. Proc. 18th Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, 2006, volume 2, pp. 929-933. pdf
• Liwicki, M. and Schlapbach, A and Bunke, H. and Bengio, S. and Mariéthoz, J. and Richiardi, J.: Writer Identification for Smart Meeting Room Systems. Proc. 7th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Springer, LNCS, Volume 3872, 2006, pp. 186-195. pdf
• Liwicki, M. and Knipping, L.: Recognizing and Simulating Sketched Logic Circuits. Proc. 9th Int. Conf. on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, LNCS, Volume 3683, 2005, pp. 588 - 594. pdf
• Liwicki, M. and Bunke, H.: IAM-OnDB - an On-Line English Sentence Database Acquired from Handwritten Text on a Whiteboard. 8th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2005, Volume 2, pp. 956 - 961. pdf
• Liwicki, M. and Bunke, H.: Enhancing Training Data for Handwriting Recognition of Whiteboard Notes with Samples from a Different Database. 8th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2005, Volume 2, pp. 550 - 554. pdf
• Liwicki, M. and Bunke, H.: Handwriting Recognition of Whiteboard Notes. Proc. 12th Conference of the International Graphonomics Society, 2005, pp. 118 - 122. pdf

Miscellaneous

• Received the Alumni Award for the best PhD thesis in 2007
• Received a "best student presentation" award for my presentation at the IGS 2005.
• The Homepage of my study at the FU-Berlin (German)