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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

biography and cv

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

M. Liwicki, A. Graves, and H. Bunke, “Neural Networks for Handwriting Recognition,” Computational Intelligence Paradigms in Advanced Pattern Classification, pp. 5-24, 2012.
M. Liwicki, A. Schlapbach, and H. Bunke, “Automatic gender detection using on-line and off-line information,” Pattern Analysis and Applications, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 87-92, Apr. 2011.
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.
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.
M. Liwicki, H. Bunke, J. A. Pittman, and S. Knerr, “Combining Diverse Systems for Handwritten Text Line Recognition,” Machine Vision and Applications, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 39-51, 2011.
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

S. Ahmed, M. Liwicki, M. Weber, and A. Dengel, “Automatic Room Detection and Room Labeling from Architectural Floor Plans,” in 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems DAS, 2012, pp. 339-343.
M. I. Malik, S. Ahmed, A. Dengel, and M. Liwicki, “A Signature Verification Framework for Digital Pen Applications,” in 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems DAS, 2012, pp. 419-424.
M. Liwicki, “Koios ++: A Query-Answering System for Handwritten Input,” in 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems DAS, 2012, pp. 17-21.
W. Song, S. Uchida, and M. Liwicki, “Toward Part-based Document Image Decoding,” in 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems DAS, 2012, pp. 266-270.
M. Liwicki, M. Weber, T. Zimmermann, and A. Dengel, “Seamless Integration of Handwriting Recognition into Pen-Enabled Displays for Fast User Interaction,” in 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems DAS, 2012, pp. 364-368.
S. Ahmed, M. Liwicki, and A. Dengel, “Extraction of Text Touching Graphics using SURF,” in 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems DAS, 2012, pp. 349-354.
M. Liwicki, Y. Akira, S. Uchida, M. Iwamura, S. Omachi, and K. Kise, “Reliable Online Stroke Recovery from Offline Data with the Data-Embedding Pen,” in Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2011 International Conference on, 2011, pp. 1384-1388.
W. Song, S. Uchida, and M. Liwicki, “Comparative Study of Part-Based Handwritten Character Recognition Methods,” in Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2011 International Conference on, 2011, pp. 814-818.
M. Liwicki et al., “Signature Verification Competition for Online and Offline Skilled Forgeries (SigComp2011),” in Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2011 International Conference on, 2011, pp. 1480-1484.
W. Song, S. Uchida, and M. Liwicki, “Look Inside the World of Parts of Handwritten Characters,” in Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2011 International Conference on, 2011, pp. 784-788.
C. Langenhan, M. Weber, M. Liwicki, F. Petzold, and A. Dengel, “Sketch-based Methods for Researching Building Layouts through the Semantic Fingerprint of Architecture,” in CAAD Futures, 2011, pp. 85-102.
S. Ahmed, M. Liwicki, M. Weber, A. Dengel, and K.-based S. Group, “Improved Automatic Analysis of Architectural Floor Plans,” 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, pp. 864 - 869, 2011.
M. Weber, M. Liwicki, and A. Dengel, “Indexing with Well-Founded Total Order for Faster Subgraph Isomorphism Detection,” in GraphBased Representations in Pattern Recognition, 2011, pp. 185–194.
S. Ahmed, M. Weber, M. Liwicki, A. Dengel, and K.-based S. Group, “Text/Graphics Segmentation in Architectural Floor Plans,” in 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2011, pp. 734-738.
D. Sonntag, M. Liwicki, and M. Weber, “Digital Pen in Mammography Patient Forms,” in Proceedings of the 13th international conference on multimodal interfaces, 2011, pp. 303-306.
D. Sonntag, M. Liwicki, and M. Weber, “Interactive Paper for Radiology Findings,” in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2011, pp. 459-460.
M. Weber, C. Langenhan, T. Roth-Berghofer, M. Liwicki, A. Dengel, and F. Petzold, “Fast Subgraph Isomorphism Detection for Graph-Based Retrieval,” in CaseBased Reasoning Research and Development, 2011, pp. 319-333.
M. Weber, M. Liwicki, Y. T. H. Schelske, C. Schoelzel, F. Strauß, and A. Dengel, “MCS for Online Mode Detection : Evaluation on Pen-Enabled Multi-Touch Interfaces,” in Proc. 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2011, pp. 957-961.
H. Koessling, M. Liwicki, D. Gorecky, G. Meixner, M. Weber, and A. Dengel, “Pen-Based Interaction Forms for Smarter Product Customization,” in 18th IFAC World Congress Milano (Italy), 2011, pp. 3974-3979.
M. I. Malik, M. Liwicki, and A. Dengel, “Evaluation of Local and Global Features for Offline Signature Verification,” in Online, 2011, pp. 26-30.
M. Liwicki, S. Ebert, and A. Dengel, “From Handwriting Recognition to Ontologie-Based Information Extraction of Handwritten Notes,” in Proc. 15th Int’l Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, 2011, pp. 222-231.
A. Dengel, M. Liwicki, and M. Weber, “Touch & Write — Penabled Collaborative Intelligence —,” in Proc. 3rd Malaysian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, p. 10 pages.
M. Liwicki, S. Thieme, G. Kahl, and A. Dengel, “An Intelligent Shopping List - Combining Digital Paper with Product Ontologies,” in Proc. 15th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems, 2011, pp. 187-194.
M. Liwicki and M. Imran Malik, “Surprising ? Power of Local Features for Automated Signature Verification,” in Proc. 15th Conf. of the Int. Graphonomics Society, 2011, pp. 18-21.
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

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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)