Organizers

Chawki Djeddi is presently working as Associate Professor in the department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Larbi Tebessi University, Tebessa, Algeria. He received his PhD in 2014 from University of Badji Mokhtar-Annaba, Annaba, Algeria and specializes in document image analysis and recognition. His research interests include image processing and pattern recognition with applications to document image analysis, content based image retrieval, writer demographic classification and signature verification on disguised signatures and skilled forgeries. He has been regularly participating in the top conferences in areas of document analysis and handwriting recognition. He has also participated in several scientific competitions (nine in total) organised in conjunction with ICDAR and ICFHR conferences. Among these competitions, four of their submitted systems were ranked first. He has member of the organizers of the ICDAR2015 Competition on Multi-script Writer Identification and Gender Classification using QUWI Database. He has published more than 23 research papers in various international journals, conference proceedings and edited volumes. He also had the opportunity to participate in the organization of several National and International conferences held at Larbi Tebessi University. In addition, He has collaborated as a member on several research projects. Currently, he is a member of the Laboratory of Mathematics, Informatics and Systems (LAMIS) at Larbi Tebessi University. He is also member of several scientific associations including Groupe de Recherche en Communication Ecrite (French-speaking association on handwriting recognition), Association Française pour la Reconnaissance et l'Interprétation des Formes (IAPR representative French-speaking association), the International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). From 2010 onwards, he has also supervised a number of Masters Theses. As a part of his professional activities, in addition to teaching, he also takes up several administrative responsibilities as requested and when needed.

Somaya Al-Maadeed received a PhD in computer science from Nottingham University in 2004. Following her PhD, she worked as an assistant professor (Qatar University), where she did research in the areas of biometrics, writer identification, image processing, and document analysis. She has been awarded a number of grants and has published around fifty papers in the above general areas. She organized several competitions on the area of signature verification and writer identification. She is a visiting Fellow at Northumbria University, UK since 2012. She is a senior IEEE member and a member of different international computer science committee.

Abdeljalil Gattal was born in Algeria. He received his BS degree in Computer Science from University of Skikda (Algeria) in 2004, and MS degree in Computer Science "Information and knowledge systems" from Abbes Laghrour University of Khenchela (Algeria) in 2009. Currently, He is a PhD student at the Ecole nationale supérieure d'informatique (ESI-Algeria) in Computer Science. He is working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science in Larbi Tebessi University (Algeria) since 2009. He supervised many Master and License students. He has published a number of papers. His research interests include Image Analysis, Pattern Recognition and Recognition of handwriting.

Imran Siddiqi is presently working as Asstociate Professor in the department of Computer Science, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He received his PhD in 2009 from Paris Descartes University, Paris, France and specializes in document image analysis. His research interests include image processing and pattern classification with applications to document recognition, handwriting analysis and content based image and video retrieval.

Abdellatif Ennaji has been an associate professor at the University of Rouen since 1993. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rouen in the fields of machine learning and pattern recognition. His major scientific interest include incremental technics for statistical and hybrid machine learning, data analysis and clustering. The main applications of these activities concern pattern and image recognition problems and Arabic text mining and recognition. Dr Ennaji has coauthored over 80 publications.

Haikal El Abed is professional technical trainer at the TTC Riyadh managed by the GIZ GmbH. He is responsible for design and training of Learning Programs in Vocational Disciplines and ICT fields. He was a Senior Research Engineer at the Braunschweig Technical University, Germany. Since 2001, he has been working at the Institute for Communications Technology (IfN), Department of Signal Processing for Mobile Information Systems. He has specialized in image and signal processing, document analysis systems design and configuration, and Arabic/Latin manuscripts recognition. He coordinated different national and international research projects and is one of the developers of the IfN/ENIT-Database (used by more than 100 research groups from more than 30 countries). He organized several competitions in these research fields. He has organized different special sessions with the topics Arabic\Latin handwriting\printed recognition technologies on international conferences and was invited for different talks. He has more than 90 papers, including journal papers and book chapters. He is a member of IEEE, DAGM, IAPR (TC-10 and TC-11), and VDE/VDI and a frequent reviewer for international journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and Pattern Recognition Letters. He is a member of the program committee of different international conferences and workshops.