Recent Publications

AdOtsu: An adaptive and parameterless generalization of Otsu's method for document image binarization
A spatially adaptive statistical method for the binarization of historical manuscripts and degraded document images
Indexing On-Line Handwritten Texts Using Word Confusion Networks
Non-Rigid 2D/3D Registration of Coronary Artery Models with Live Fluoroscopy for Guidance of Cardiac Interventions

Announcements

2011/01/30 Research open-house

Research open-house @ ETS

1 year 3 weeks ago

2011/01/18 National Library of Quebec Archives visit

National Library of Quebec Archives visit on January 18th. All Synchromedia themes are involved, as we will be talking about virtual organizations (libraries, institutes, etc).

1 year 5 weeks ago

2010/12/30 Synchromedia general meeting and New Year party

Good news will be announced then on the successful evolution of Synchromedia and its next trends.

1 year 7 weeks ago

2010/12/15 Google visits Synchromedia

1 year 9 weeks ago

2009/11/26 Presentation @ RISQ2009

Annual conference of Quebec's Scientific Information Network (RISQ). Watch the talk given by professor Mohamed Cheriet about Building low carbon networks. (French)

2 years 12 weeks ago

A spatially adaptive statistical method for the binarization of historical manuscripts and degraded document images

Submitted by imriss on Thu, 2011-12-15 13:06

Publication Type:

Journal Article

Authors:

Hedjam, Rachid; Reza Farrahi Moghaddam; Mohamed Cheriet

Source:

Pattern Recognition, Volume 44, Number 9, p.2184-2196 (2011)

URL:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2011.02.021

Keywords:

Adaptive local document image classification, Document images binarization, Historical and degraded documents

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News

GreenStar - Dirty data: The Internet's giant carbon footprint

Submitted by rgadhgadhi on Sun, 2011-06-05 19:10

It’s Saturday night, and you want to catch the latest summer blockbuster. You do a quick Google search to find the venue and right time, and off you go to enjoy some mindless fun... Read more.

Synchromedia ranked first in the TC-5/ICFHR'2010 contest

Submitted by imriss on Thu, 2010-12-23 11:24

Synchromedia team won the TC5/ICFHR’2010 - Quantitative evaluation of binarization algorithms of images of historical documents with bleeding noise Competition. The team members are Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Rachid Hedjam and Mohamed Cheriet from Synchromedia.

Mathias Adankon received the best doctoral thesis award

Submitted by dhenault on Sun, 2010-10-31 23:00

Mathias Adankon, PhD student at Synchromedia lab, received the best doctoral thesis award ("Learning for semi-supervised SVM and its variants) - a thesis supervised by Prof. Mohamed Cheriet.

2010/10/27 GreenStar now international

GreenStar now international. See announcements (in French).

1 year 16 weeks ago

2010/10/1 The Gold Academic Medal of Governor General was awarded to Mathias Adankon.

The Gold Academic Medal of Governor General was awarded to Mathias Adankon – Synchromedia PhD student supervised by Prof. Mohamed Cheriet. Mathias earned a perfect score of 4.3 out of 4.3 during his doctoral studies.

1 year 20 weeks ago

2010/08/3 The sun never sets on the GreenStar Network in ISGTW

The sun never sets on the GreenStar Network in ISGTW. More details here.

1 year 29 weeks ago

2010/01/23 Prof. Mohamed Cheriet talks about PANLAB and PSIRI in an interview reported by Les Affaires (French)

Prof. Mohamed Cheriet talks about PANLAB and PSIRI in an interview reported by Les Affaires (French).

2 years 4 weeks ago

2009/11/17 GreenStar Network

CANARIE's biggest Green IT funding recipient is the GreenStar Network, an alliance of Canada's leading IT companies, universities and international partners, led by Quebec's École de technologie supérieure (ETS) in Montreal. See also this announcement (in French).

2 years 14 weeks ago