Iuliu Vasile Konya

Welcome to my page! At the moment I am pursuing my Ph.D. on Robust Methods for Document Analysis at the Fraunhofer IAIS in the NetMedia department. My research interests lie in the area of Document Analysis, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning and Evolutionary Computation.

Short Bio

• Since Jan 2009: Doctoral candidate at the Fraunhofer IAIS.
• Dec 2006 - Dec 2008: Research fellow at the Fraunhofer IAIS, NetMedia in the Document Analysis group.
• Oct 2004- Dec 2006: M.Sc. degree in media informatics at the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (B-IT).
• Oct 2003- Jun 2004: M.Sc. degree in intelligent systems at the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
• Oct 1999- Jun 2003: B.Sc. in computer science at the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Selected Publications

Konya, I. and Eickeler, S. and Seibert, C.: Fast Seamless Skew and Orientation Detection in Document Images. Submitted to ICPR 2010.

Konya, I. and Seibert, C. and Eickeler, S.: Fraunhofer Newspaper Segmenter - A Modular Document Image Understanding System. In: IJDAR - expected publication in 2010.

Konya, I. and Seibert, C. and Eickeler, S. and Glahn, S.: Constant-Time Locally Optimal Adaptive Binarization. In: Proc. ICDAR, 2009.

Konya, I. and Seibert, C. and Glahn, S. and Eickeler, S.: A Robust Front Page Detection Algorithm for Large Periodical Collections. In: Proc. ICPR, 2008.

Selected Awards

Winner of the 2009 Page Segmentation Competition (held within ICDAR 2009), as part of the NetMedia Doc.Analysis Team (C. Seibert, S. Eickeler).