Members



PaRADIIT
is a project conducted at the Computer Science Lab. of Tours (LI Tours) France corresponding to two successive GOOGLE Digital Humanities Award obtained in december 2010 and december 2011.

      

This work is done in collaboration with members of BVH team (CESR of Tours)





Jean-Yves RAMEL
JY Ramel
Project manager, Professor

Heorganizes and participates as much as possible to all the work-packages. He collaboratesmainly with Pascal to improve Agora software (WP1) and with Frédéric to definethe final functionalities of Retro (WP2).

Contact: jean-yves.ramel@univ-tours.fr







Frédéric RAYAR

R&D Engineer

He is working on the conception and development of the new version of RETRO dealing with incremental transcription of text and Early Modern typography exploration using redundancy analysis in images (WP2).

Sabine Barrat
Assistant Professor
She works on redundancy analysis in document images by proposing new clustering techniques (WP3).

Contact: sabine.barrat@univ-tours.fr






Pascal BOURQUIN

Professor

He is working on the modeling and development of the new version of AGORA dealing with user-driven layout analysis and incremental content extraction (WP1).

Thierry BROUARD
Assistant Professor
He works on redundancy analysis into document images by proposing new clustering techniques usable even in case of mass digitization (WP3).






Nicolas RAGOT
Assistant Professor

He works on proposing new OCR methods that could be plugged in Retro software to automatically recognize the obtained clusters  (WP2).






Partha Patrim ROY

PostDoc


He works on content spotting in old document images by using information about redundancy. The key target is to define and extract new saillant features from images to achieve a robust spotting (WP2).

Contact: partha.roy@univ-tours.fr



Nicolas SIDERE

 PhD student


He works on graph based method for content spotting in old document images.

Contact: nicolas.sidere@univ-tours.fr




Marie-Luce Demonet, CESR
Professor, Leader of BVH project,

As a specialist in history of literature, she will work on Text Encoding formats, meta-data definition, and other specific needs of scholars in order to design useful tools during the project (Agora and Retro).


Rémi Jimenez, CESR

PhD student

As a specialist in history of literature, he will work with us on Early Modern font and typography characterisation using tools designed during the project (Retro).



Toshinori Uetani, CESR
Research Engineer

As a specialist in history of literature, he will work with us on Early Modern font and typography characterisation using tools designed during the project (Retro).
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And all the other members of the BVH team, we can mention:
  • Lauranne Bertrand (Groundthruth and text encoding)
  • Sandrine Breuil (project manager of BVH project)
  • Sebastien Busson (image digitization and BVH web site management)
  • Jorge Fins (Groundthruth and text encoding)
  • Vidushi Kahtri (student from IndianInstitute of Information Technology,Allahabad, (India) who has worked on Retro during her internships from February to June 2012)