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Lecture Session by Asst. Professor Dipankar Majumdar on 3rd July,09 Person Specific Recognition of Handwritten Text from Unconstrained Document Images

Since early times people have been keen for recognition of text. This is so because passing of information was and still is only possible through text documents, be it handwritten or printed. Recognition of printed text is much easier where as the recognition of handwritten text is comparatively much difficult. This is so because of a number of reasons. The main reason is due to the inconsistency and ambiguity that exists in human writing. Manual recognition is still easy because human intelligence can be applied for the purpose. But for huge mass of task, manual recognition becomes infeasible. Therefore we have taken up the problem of automated recognition of handwritten text. We have kept the scope of our work limited to person specific domain i.e. training and recognition is applied to the handwriting of a specific person. We have developed and applied our own segmentation methodology and achieved 91.80% accuracy. Thereafter we have applied the Weighted K Nearest Neighbor Algorithm for training clustering. In this domain we have achieved 84% accuracy. Our work is expected to open up a new domain of research and is also expected to be highly effective for practical person specific character recognition for digital storage.

College Foundation Day Celebration

The 10th Foundation Day of the B.P.Poddar Institute of Management and Technology was celebrated on 11th Sept 2008 in the college premises with much pomp and grandeur. The occasion was graced by the presence of dignitaries like the Honorable Chairman, Sri Arun Poddar, the Vice Chairman, Sri Ayush Poddar, the Director Dr. Subir Choudhury and others. The programme began with a lamp-lighting ceremony and an invocation to Late Badri Prasad Poddar, the founder of the B.P.Poddar Group. After the principal’s welcome address, the Chairman and the Director addressed the gathering. This was followed by a prize distribution ceremony where student toppers from the academic session 2007-2008 were awarded medals and certificates by the Chairman. Next was a felicitation ceremony of faculty and staff members who have been serving the institute since its inception in 1999.The vote of thanks was delivered by the Dean of Academics Prof. B.N.Chatterjee.A colourful and scintillating Cultural Programme was next in line with enigmatic performances by Wg Cdr Rajat S Sen, the Registrar, faculty, staff and students of the Institute. The celebrations ended with a grand sumptuous lunch for all.