Dorothea Blostein, Queen’s University
Computing
Professor
Kingston, Ontario
blostein@cs.queensu.ca
Office:
(613) 533-6000 ext. 36537
Expert In
Bio/Research
Dorothea Blostein's main research goal is to smooth the interface between paper and electronic versions of documents. This includes development of computer technology to read, write, and edit diagram notations, such as music notation, math notation, maps, schematics, and architectural drawings. T...
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Bio/Research
Dorothea Blostein's main research goal is to smooth the interface between paper and electronic versions of documents. This includes development of computer technology to read, write, and edit diagram notations, such as music notation, math notation, maps, schematics, and architectural drawings. The text portions of scanned documents can be analyzed with OCR (Optical Character Recognition), but further processing is required to extract the information contained in diagram notations. Dr. Blostein and her students are investigating the use of techniques such as graph transformation and tree transformation, in order to construct an interpretation of the 2D arrangement of symbols in a diagram. Dr. Blostein is interested in exploring and exploiting the relationship between diagram recognition and diagram generation.
Other projects include classification of document pages (particularly for biomedical documents) and the use of internet searches to validate document recognition results.
Dr. Blostein has coauthored Lime, an editor for music notation. Both Macintosh and IBM PC versions are available for trial use.
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Other projects include classification of document pages (particularly for biomedical documents) and the use of internet searches to validate document recognition results.
Dr. Blostein has coauthored Lime, an editor for music notation. Both Macintosh and IBM PC versions are available for trial use.
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