Richard Zanibbi

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Research Details

Research Interests
  • Theory and tools used to construct pattern recognition systems
  • Document recognition and retrieval
  • Optical character recognition (OCR)
  • Parsing diagrammatic notations (e.g. music, math)
  • CAPTCHAs (particularly video-based CAPTCHAs)

Personal Information

Contact Information
Teaching: rxzvcs a_t rit d_o_t edu
Other: rlaz a_t cs d_o_t rit d_o_t edu
Phone: (585) 475-5023
Office: 70-3551 (Golisano College)
Title and Degrees
PhD (Computer Science, Queen's University, Canada)
MSc (Computer Science, Queen's University)
BA (minor, Computer Science, Queen's University)
Bachelor of Music (Queen's University)
Personal Web Page
http://www.cs.rit.edu/~rlaz/

Publications

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

    Zanibbi, R.; Blostein, D., Recognition and Retrieval of Mathematical Notation, International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 15, 4, pp. 331-357 (2012)

    Heliotis, J.; Zanibbi, R., Moving Away from Programming and Towards Computer Science in the CS First Year., Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 26, 3, pp. 115-125 (2011)

    Zanibbi, R.; Blostein, D.; Cordy, J.R., A Survey of Table Recognition: Models, Observations, Transformations, and Inferences., International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 7, 1, pp. 1-16 (2004)

    Zanibbi, R.; Blostein, D.; Cordy, J.R., Recognizing Mathematical Expressions Using Tree Transformation, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 24, 11, pp. 1455-1467 (2002)


REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

    Zhu; Hu; Zanibbi, R., Rotation-robust math symbol recognition and retrieval using outer contours and image subsampling, Proc. Document Recognition and Retrieval XX, SPIE, SPIE EI/DRR, (to appear), San Francisco, CA, USA, February (2013)

    Zanibbi, R.; Mouchere; Viard-Gaudin, Evaluating structural pattern recognition for handwritten math via primitive label graphs, Proc. Document Recognition and Retrieval XX, SPIE, SPIE EI/DRR, (to appear), San Francisco, CA, USA (2013)

    Hu; Hart; Pospesel; Zanibbi, R., Baseline extraction-driven parsing of handwritten mathematical expressions, Proc. ICPR 2012, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, November (2012)

    Sasarak; Hart; Pospesel; Stalnaker; Hu; LiVolsi; Zhu; Zanibbi, R., min: A multimodal web interface for math search, Proc. Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Information Retrieval, ACM, HCIR 2012, Cambridge, MA, USA, October (2012)

    Schellenberg, T.; Zanibbi, R., Layout-based substitution tree indexing and retrieval for mathematical expressions, Proc. Document Recognition and Retrieval, SPIE, San Francisco, USA, pp. OI1-OI8, January (2012)

    LiVolsi; Zanibbi, R.; Bigelow, Collecting historical font metrics from Google Books, Proc. ICPR 2012, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Tsukuba Science City, Japan (2012)

    Zanibbi, R.; Yuan, B., Keyword and Image-Based Retrieval for Mathematical Expressions, Proc. Document Recognition and Retrieval XVIII, Electronic Imaging 2011, 7874, San Francisco, California, United States, pp. OI-1-OI-9, January (2011)

    Hu, L.; Zanibbi, R., HMM-Based Recognition of Online Handwritten Mathematical Symbols Using Segmental K-means Initialization and a Modified Pen-up/down Feature, Proc. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, IAPR, Beijing, pp. 457-462 (2011)

    Zanibbi, R.; Yu, L., Math Spotting: Retrieving Math in Technical Documents Using Handwritten Query Images, Proc. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Beijing, pp. 446-451 (2011)

    Zanibbi, R.; Pillay, A.; Mouchere, H.; Viard-Gaudin, C.; Blostein, D., Stroke-Based Performance Metrics for Handwritten Mathematical Expressions, Proc. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Beijing, pp. 334-338 (2011)

    Kluever, K.A.; Zanibbi, R., Balancing Usability and Security in a Video CAPTCHA, Proc. 5th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, ACM Int. Conf. , (10 pp), Mountain View, California, United States, July (2009)

    Zanibbi, R.; Blostein, D.; Cordy, J.R., White-Box Evaluation of Computer Vision Algorithms through Explicit Decision-Making, Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, LNCS 5815, Liege, Belgium, pp. 295-304 (2009)

    Zanibbi, R.; Blostein; Cordy, J.R., Historical Recall and Precision: Summarizing Generated Hypotheses, International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Seoul, South Korea, pp. 202-206, September (2005)

    Zanibbi, R.; Blostein; Cordy, J.R., The Recognition Strategy Language, International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Seoul, South Korea, pp. 565-569, September (2005)

    Zhang; Blostein; Zanibbi, R., Using Fuzzy Logic to Analyze Superscript and Subscript Relations in Handwritten Mathematical Expressions, International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Seoul, South Korea, pp. 972-976, September (2005)

    Handley; Namboodiri, A.; Zanibbi, R., Document Understanding System Using Stochastic Context-Free Grammars, International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Seoul, South Korea, pp. 511-515, September (2005)

    Zanibbi, R.; Blosterin; Cordy, J.R., Recognition Tasks are Imitation Games, Pattern Recognition and Data Mining, LNCS 3686, Bath, UK, pp. 209-218, August (2005)

    Blostein; Lank; Rose; Zanibbi, R., User Interfaces for On-Line Diagram Recognition, Graphics Recognition: Algorithms and Applications, GREC 2001, LNCS 2390, Kingston, ON, Canada, pp. 92-103 (2002)

    Blostein; Cordy, J.R.; Zanibbi, R., Applying Compiler Techniques to Diagram Recognition, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Quebec City, Canada, pp. 123-126 (2002)

    Zanibbi, R.; Blostein; Cordy, J.R., Baseline Structure Analysis of Handwritten Mathematics Notation, International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Seattle, Washington, United States, pp. 768-773 (2001)

    Zanibbi, R.; Novins; Arvo, Aiding Manipulation of Handwritten Mathematical Expressions through Style-Preserving Morphs, Graphics Interface, Ottawa, Canada, pp. 127-134 (2001)

    Blostein; Lank; Zanibbi, R., Treatment of Diagrams in Document Image Analysis., Theory and Applications of Diagrams, LNCS 1889, pp. 330-344 (2000)


CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

    Viard-Gaudin; Zanibbi, R., Proceedings of SPIE Document Recognition and Retrieval XIX (2011) (editors), Proceedings of SPIE Document Recognition and Retrieval XIX (2011) , SPIE, SPIE EI/DRR, San Francisco, CA, USA, January (2012)

    Ouyang; Zanibbi, R., Identifying Layout Classes for Mathematical Symbols using Layout Context, IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Western New York Image Processing Workshop, Rochester, New York, United States, September (2009)

    Kluever, K.A.; Zanibbi, R., Video CAPTCHAs: Usability vs. Security, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Proc. Western New York Image Processing Workshop, Rochester, New York, United States, September (2008)

    Zanibbi, R.; Blostein; Cordy, J.R., Decision-Based Specification and Comparison of Table Recognition Algorithms, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Prof. Western New York Image Processing Workshop, Rochester, New York, United States, September (2006)

    Blostein; Zanibbi, R.; Nagy; Harrap, Document Representations, Proc. Fifth IAPR Int'l, Work. Graphics Recognition, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, pp. 3-13 (2003)

    Zanibbi, R.; Blostein; Cordy, J.R., Directions in Recognizing Tabular Structures of Handwritten Mathematics Notation, Fourth International, IAPR Work., Graphics Recognition, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, pp. 493-499 (2001)

    Zanibbi, R.; Blostein; Cordy, J.R., Directions in Recognizing Tabular Structures of Handwritten Mathematics Notation, Fourth International, IAPR Work., Graphics Recognition, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, pp. 493-499 (2001)


BOOK CHAPTERS

    Blostein, D.D.; Zanibbi, R.R., Processing Mathematical Notation, Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition, Springer-Verlag, (to appear), Berlin, , Germany (2012)

    Zanibbi, R.; Blostein, D.; Cordy, J.R., Decision-Based Specification and Comparison of Table Recognition Algorithms, Machine Learning in Document Analysis and Recognition, S. Marinai and H. Fujisawa, Springer-Verlag, Springer Studies in Computational Intelligence, Berlin, Berlin, Germany (2008)


SEMINAR ABSTRACTS

    Zanibbi, R., Video CAPTCHA: Balancing Usability and Security, Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science Seminar Series, January (2009)


PATENTS

    Handley, J.; Rahgozar, A.; Venable, D.; Spiteri; Namboodiri, A.; Zanibbi, R., System and Method for Identifying and Labeling Fields of Text Associated with Scanned Business Documents, 7,965,891, issued to Xerox Corporation, June (2011)

    Handley, J.; Rahgozar, A.; Venable, D.; Spiteri; Namboodiri, A.; Zanibbi, R., System and Method for Identifying and Labelling Fields of Text Associated with Scanned Business Documents, 7,689,036, issued to Xerox Corporation (2010)

    Handley; Rahgozar, A.; Venable, D.; Spiteri; Namboodiri, A.; Zanibbi, R., System and Method for Identifying and Labelling Fields of Text Associated with Scanned Business Documents, 7,860,312, issued to Xerox Corporation (2010)


CONFERENCE PRESENTATION (NO PROCEEDINGS)

    LiVolsi; Bigelow; Zanibbi, R., Google Books, readability and culturomics, School of Print Media, RIT, Reading Digital, Rochester, NY, USA, April (2012)

    Ouyang; Zanibbi, R., Handwritten Mathematical Symbol Classification Using Layout Context, , International Workshop on Pen-Based Mathematical Computation, Grand Bend, ON, Canada, July (2009)

    Pillay, A.; Zanibbi, R., Intelligent Combination of Structural Analysis Algorithms: Application to Mathematical Expression Recognition, , International Workshop on Pen-Based Mathematical Computation, Grand Bend, ON, Canada (2009)

    Yu; Zanibbi, R., Math Spotting in Technical Document Using Handwritten Queries, , International Workshop on Pen-Based Mathematical Computation, Grand Bend, ON, Canada (2009)


POSTERS

    Pillay, A.; Zanibbi, R., Work-In-Progress: Combining Math Expression Structure Recognizers Using Graph Transformer Networks., Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences (CEIS), University Technology Annual Showcase, Rochester, NY, USA, February (2010)

    Zanibbi, R.; Ma; Chen; Pichora, D.R.; Ellis, R.E., Planning Correction of Distal Radial Fractures Using ICP, , Third Ann. Meet. Int’l Soc. Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery, Marbella, Andalucia, Spain (2003)