Historical Document Analysis

Excerpt of a document of the pontificate of Leo IX (1050)
"Rota" (pontificate LEO IX, 1049)

The papal documents of the Middle Ages are in the center of this research project. It is a cooperation with the mediavistic lab of the university of munich (LMU) and the medieval history lab of the university of Erlangen (FAU).

The goal is the detailed anaysis of the upheavals which happened to the papal documents during the 11th and 12th century. 

On one hand, the focus is on the historical sequence of these upheavals, and on the other hand at the appearance of the papal documents: the script as well as the modified or newly introduced gaphical symbols, e.g. Rota, Benevalete, of the pontificate of Leo IX.

Group Members: Öffnet internen Link im aktuellen FensterVincent Christlein

For more information please visit our Opens internal link in current windowproject page.

Closely related for this project is also our work for writer identification Opens internal link in current windowproject page.

Related Publications

Monographs (article)
Christlein, Vincent; Gropp, Martin; Maier, Andreas
Technical Tools for the Analysis of High Medieval Papal Charters
Papstgeschichte im Digitalen Zeitalter. Neue Zugangsweisen zu einer Kulturgeschichte Europas, Böhlau Verlag GmbH & Cie Wien, 2018, 45-53 (BiBTeX, Who cited this?)
Articles in Conference Proceedings
Christlein, Vincent; Maier, Andreas
Encoding CNN Activations for Writer Recognition
2018 13th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS) (13th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS)), Wien, 24.04.2018, pp. 169-174, 2018 (BiBTeX, Who cited this?)
Monographs (article)
Christlein, Vincent; Gropp, Martin; Maier, Andreas
Automatic Dating of Historical Documents
Kodikologie und Paläographie im digitalen Zeitalter Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik, BoD Norderstedt, 2017, 151-164 (BiBTeX, Who cited this?)
Journal Articles
Christlein, Vincent; Bernecker, David; Hönig, Florian; Maier, Andreas; Angelopoulou, Elli
Writer Identification Using GMM Supervectors and Exemplar-SVMs
Pattern Recognition, vol. 63, pp. 258-267, 2017 (BiBTeX, Who cited this?)
Articles in Conference Proceedings
Stromer, Daniel; Christlein, Vincent; Schön, Tobias; Holub, Wolfgang; Maier, Andreas
Fast, Robust and Efficient Extraction of Book Pages from a 3-D X-ray CT Volume
Proceedings of the 14th International Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine), Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, 18.06.2017, pp. 401-404, 2017 (BiBTeX, Who cited this?)
Christlein, Vincent; Gropp, Martin; Fiel, Stefan; Maier, Andreas
Unsupervised Feature Learning for Writer Identification and Writer Retrieval
2017 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) (14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)), Kyoto, Japan, 13.11.2017, pp. 991-997, 2017 (BiBTeX, Who cited this?)
Journal Articles
Christlein, Vincent; Diem, Markus; Kleber, Florian; Mühlberger, Günter; Schwägerl-Melchior, Verena; van Gelder, Esther; Maier, Andreas
Automatic Writer Identification in Historical Documents: A Case Study
Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften, pp. -, 2016 (BiBTeX, Who cited this?)
Articles in Conference Proceedings
Hofmann, Simon; Gropp, Martin; Bernecker, David; Pollin, Christopher; Maier, Andreas; Christlein, Vincent
Vesselness for Text Detection in Historical Document Images
2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Phoenix, USA, 25.09.2016, pp. 3259-3263, 2016 (BiBTeX, Who cited this?)
Köhler, Thomas; Maier, Andreas; Christlein, Vincent
Binarization Driven Blind Deconvolution for Document Image Restoration
Pattern Recognition (37th German Conference on Pattern Recognition, GCPR 2015), RWTH Aachen, 2015, pp. 91-102, 2015, ISBN 978-3-319-24947-6 (BiBTeX, Who cited this?)
Christlein, Vincent; Bernecker, David; Maier, Andreas; Angelopoulou, Elli
Offline Writer Identification Using Convolutional Neural Network Activation Features
Pattern Recognition (German Conference on Pattern Recognition), Aachen, 07.10.2015, pp. 540-552, 2015, ISBN 978-3-319-24946-9 (BiBTeX, Who cited this?)
Christlein, Vincent; Bernecker, David; Angelopoulou, Elli
Writer Identification Using VLAD Encoded Contour-Zernike Moments
Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2015 13th International Conference on (13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition), Nancy, France, 23.08.2015, pp. 906-910, 2015 (BiBTeX, Who cited this?)
Christlein, Vincent; Angelopoulou, Elli
Automatic Writer Identification in Medieval Papal Charters
Papsturkundenforschung zwischen internationaler Vernetzung und Digitalisierung - Neue Zugangsweisen zur europäischen Schriftgeschichte (Research on papal documents between international networking and digitization: New approaches to the history of writing and chanceries), Munich, 24.03.2014, pp. 1-8, 2015 (BiBTeX, Who cited this?)
Christlein, Vincent; Bernecker, David; Hönig, Florian; Angelopoulou, Elli
Writer Identification and Verification Using GMM Supervectors
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (2014 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)), Steamboat Springs, CO, 24-26.03.2014, pp. 998-1005, 2014 (BiBTeX, Who cited this?)