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Fakultät für Informatik

Pattern Recognition Group

Welcome to the homepage of the "Pattern recognition" group at TU Dortmund University! Our research focuses on the development and application of advanced pattern recognition algorithms and systems for a variety of domains, including document analysis, human activity recognition, remote sensing, natural language processing, and uncertainty quantification of neural networks. Our goal is to push the boundaries of what is currently possible in these fields, and to create innovative solutions that can have a real impact on society.

We are a highly interdisciplinary group, comprising researchers from a range of backgrounds, including computer science, electrical engineering, and mathematics. This diversity of expertise allows us to approach problems from a variety of angles, and to find creative solutions that might not be immediately obvious to researchers working in a single discipline.

If you are interested in our work, we encourage you to browse through our research papers, learn more about our current projects, and get in touch with us to discuss potential collaborations. We are always looking for new ways to collaborate and make a positive impact in the world, and we welcome inquiries from researchers and practitioners alike. Thank you for visiting our homepage, and we hope to hear from you soon!


06/17/2025

Two Papers Accepted at ICDAR 2025

We’re thrilled to announce that two of our research papers have been accepted at the prestigious ICDAR 2025 conference in Wuhan, China.
04/01/2025

Project group "AI meets Archives" begins the project phase.

The project group "AI meets Archives" begins the project phase.
11/08/2024

Prof. Dr. Alicia Fornes gives talk

Alicia Fornes gives talk about "Recognition of Historical Handwritten Documents in Low Resource Scenarios"
Prof. Dr. Alicia Fornes
11/07/2024

Fabian Wolf successfully defended his PhD thesis

Fabian Wolf has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Self-training for Handwritten Word Recognition and Retrieval".
01/26/2024

Project group "XAI" wins the Alumni Informatik prize worth 1000 euros

The students of the "XAI" project group won the Alumni Informatik prize worth 1000 euros.
Presentation of the Alumni Award to the XAI project group.
05/22/2023

Project group "HistWeb" submits final report

Students from the project group "HistWeb" successfully completed their work on an interactive website for analyzing and managing historical newspapers
Detail view of a single newspaper page
07/29/2020

Pattern Recognition Group Wins Nakano Award

This year the Nakano Award honouring the best paper was awarded to Fabian Wolf and Gernot A. Fink.
An award form showing the authors names and the title of the paper.
06/30/2020

Unleashing Big Data of the Past – Europe builds a Time Machine

The European Commission has chosen Time Machine as one of the six proposals retained for preparing large scale research initiatives.
Two kids from different centuries.
08/08/2018

Pattern Recognition Group Wins Best Student Paper Award at ICFHR 2018

This year, the IAPR Best Student Paper Award goes to Eugen Rusakov, Leonard Rothacker, Hyunho Mo, and Gernot A. Fink.
Eugen Rusakov at the award ceremony.
08/01/2018

German Research Foundation (DFG) Funds Collaborative Project for the Analysis of Cuneiform Tablets

In the context of the project "Computer-assisted Cuneiform Analysis" (CuKa), the German Research Foundation (DFG) funds a collaboration between the…
Cuneiform tablet with highlighted signs