Sidra H. Hanif

I am a fifth year PhD studenty in Dr. Longin Jan Latecki’s research group in Temple University, Philadelphia. My raesrch is primarily focuses on building and analyzing computer vision angorithms for analyzing handwritten documents. Our work has resulted into developing a word detection algorithm from handwritten images. We also have... [Read More]

Recently, handwritten text has gain much attention from research community. Word detection form handwritten text is inevitable to build very useful business applications. One such application is handwriting (word) detection from personalized messages on greeting cards. The message writing on greeting cards makes the experience personalized for the customers and... [Read More]

Commercial image search applications like eBay and Pinterest allow users to select the focused area as bounding box over the query images, which improves the retrieval accuracy. The focused area image retrieval strategy motivated our research, but our system has three main advantages over the existing works. (1) Given a... [Read More]