Research Focus

• Pattern Recognition
• Segmentation based and holistic handwriting recognition
• Statistical model based synthetesis of handwriting samples
•  Document analysis
• Optical 3D Surface Inspection
• Realtime analysis of facial expressions (in the context of human-robot interaction)

Publications

• Dinges, L.; Al-Hamadi, A.; Elzobi, M. & and A. Nürnberger, Automatic Recognition of Common Arabic Handwritten Words based on OCR and N-grams, in International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2017, Beijing, China, September 17-20, pp. 3625–3629, 2017
• Dinges, L.; Al-Hamadi, A.; Elzobi, M.; El etriby, S. & Ghoneim, A. ASM based Synthesis of Handwritten Arabic Text Pages, Scientific World Journal, 2015
• Dinges, L.; Al-Hamadi, A.; Elzobi, M. & El-etriby, S. Synthetic based Validation of Segmentation of Handwritten Arabic Words, Manuscript Cultures, 2015, 1, 10-18
• Dinges, L.; Al-Hamadi, A. & Elzobi, M. A Locale Group Based Line Segmentation Approach for Non Uniform Skewed and Curved Arabic Handwritings International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2013, 803-806
• Dinges, L.; Al-Hamadi, A. & Elzobi, M. An Approach for Arabic Handwriting Synthesis based on Active Shape Models International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2013, 1292-1296
• Dinges, L.; Al-Hamadi, A. & Elzobi, M. An Active Shape Model based approach for Arabic Handwritten Character Recognition The 11th International Conference on Signal Processing ( ICSP'2012), 2012, 1194-1198
• Dinges, L.; Al-Hamadi, A.; Elzobi, M.; Al-Aghbari, Z. & Mustafa, H. Offline Automatic Segmentation based Recognition of Handwritten Arabic Words International Journal of Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (IJSIP), 2011, 4, 131-144
• Dinges, L.; Elzobi, M.; Al-Hamadi, A. & Al-Aghbari, Z. Synthizing Handwritten Arabic Text Using Active Shape Models Image Processing and Communications Challenges 3, Springer, 2011, 102, 401-408
• Handrich, S.; Dinges, L.; Saxen, F. & A. Al-Hamadi, Simultaneous Prediction of Valence / Arousal and Emotion Categories in Real-time, in IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications (ICSIPA), 2019
• Elzobi, M.; Al-Hamadi, A. & Dinges, L. A Hidden Markov Model-based Approach with an Adaptive Threshold Model for Off-line Arabic Handwriting Recognition International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2013, 945-949
• Elzobi, M.; Al-Hamadi, A.; Al Aghbari, Z. & Laslo, D. IESK-ArDB: a database for handwritten Arabic and optimized topological segmentation approach International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, Springer, 2012
• Elzobi, M.; Al-Hamadi, A.; Laslo Dinges & Michaelis., B. A structural feature based segmentation for off-line handwritten Arabic text 5th International Symposium on Image/Video Communication over Fixed and Mobile Networks, ISIVC 2010 . - IEEE, 2010, 1-4

Projects

• IESK-arDB: A database for off-line handwritten Arabic words
• Synthesis of Arabic Handwritings

Previous Bachelor/Master Theses

• "Fast and Precise Binary Instance Segmentation of 2D Objects for Automotive Applications", Master Thesis at OvGU Magdeburg (practical part at CMORE AUTOMOTIVE GMBH), 2019

Lectures

• Automatic Recognition of Arabic handwriting, part of "Angewandte Bildverarbeitung" (applied image processing), Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Al-Hamadi
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