In this three year project, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) and based at the Swedish Labour Movement’s Archives and Library, I have been focusing on Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) of the notes. Paper Exploring Handwritten Document Collections: An EPSC-Based Approach for Feature Extraction and Similarity Analysis.Anders Hast, Örjan Simonsson.In the Proceedings of the 21st Conference on … Continue reading The Labour’s Memory Project
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The Astrid Lindgren Code Project
In this three-year project (2020–2022), the focus was on automatic handwritten text transcription, and strike through removal, of the short hand (stenography) of the famous Swedish children author Astrid Lindgren. It resulted in one PhD thesis, five papers and two master thesis project. I was acting as supervisor for, but not co-author of two papers. … Continue reading The Astrid Lindgren Code Project
Presentation at MIRAI2.0 in Umeå
I participated in the MIRAI2.0 meeting and gave a short presentation during the "Implications of AI" seminar, chaired by Markus Liwicki (right), called "Impact of AI on the fields of palaeography and History".
Meetings about Handwritten Text Recognition
Lately I have had very fruitful discussion meeting with ArkivDigital and Riksarkivet about Handwritten Text Recognition and also Face Recognition, on historical materials. Therefore, I plan several master thesis during 2024, so please get in touch with me if you are interested!
The InfraVis workshop ”Introduction to GIS”
I participated in a workshop about QGIS held at CDHU the 2:nd of November, arranged by InfraVis and CDHU.
Anders Hast 