An Historic Letter

An historic meeting.

An Interoperable Portal for the Historic Environment

Research into the Historic Environment is particularly concerned with the search for information resources using spatial and chronological attributes. A recent pilot project between the Computing Laboratory of the University of Kent at Canterbury (UKC) and the Archaeology Data Service (ADS) at the University of York has successfully developed a Portal that provides Z39.50 enabled searching of a...

An OCR Concept for Historic Prints

We present a new concept for the recognition of single characters, the core component of every OCR-System. The recognition is organized as pattern matching with on-the-fly generated patterns corresponding to the glyphs of a given computer font. Thereby, the set of currently considered fonts can be chosen and exchanged arbitrarily which allows a flexible adaption of the software to each specific...

Letter-Phoneme Alignment: An Exploration

Letter-phoneme alignment is usually generated by a straightforward application of the EM algorithm. We explore several alternative alignment methods that employ phonetics, integer programming, and sets of constraints, and propose a novel approach of refining the EM alignment by aggregation of best alignments. We perform both intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation of the assortment of methods. We sh...

Making Bertha Drive - An Autonomous Journey on a Historic Route

125 years after Bertha Benz completed the first overland journey in automotive history, the Mercedes Benz S-Class S 500 INTELLIGENT DRIVE followed the same route from Mannheim to Pforzheim, Germany, in fully autonomous manner. The autonomous vehicle was equipped with close-toproduction sensor hardware and relied solely on vision and radar sensors in combination with accurate digital maps to obt...