Sidra H. Hanif

I work at alwaysAI as a ML engineer. Recently, I developed a Bring Your Own Architecture (BYOA) software with my team at alwaysAI. Previously, I defended by PhD dissertation in Computer Science at Temple University , Philadelphia. During my PhD, I was advised by Dr. Longin Jan Latecki. My disserttation... [Read More]

Handwriting Stroke Trajectory Recovery (STR) facilitates the tasks such as handwriting recognition and synthesis. For English handwriting, the previous STR algorithms deal only with line-level text. Moreover, the existing STR datasets provide only line-level or page-level annotations with missing word-level annotations. However, the hand- written text does not always constitute... [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]