Programme
The global program of ICDAR 2026 and its workshops can be found here: https://icdar2026.org/
First Session: 9:00 - 10:30
Welcome and Introduction: 9:00 - 9:15
Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello and Hussein Mohammed
P1: 9:15
Title: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Symbol Spotting in Historical Encrypted Manuscripts
Authors:
Giuseppe De Gregorio (Computer Vision Center)
Alicia Fornés (Computer Vision Center)
Lei Kang (Computer Vision Center)
Beáta Megyesi (Stockholm University)
P2: 9:40
Title: Evaluating Hierarchy-Aware Deep Learning for the Recognition of Tironian Notes
Authors:
Yule Kang (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Thomas Gorges (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Janne van der Loop (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Franziska Marske (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Nikolaus Weichselbaumer (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)
Tino Licht (Universität Heidelberg)
Vincent Christlein (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
P3: 10:05
Title: ANACD: Synthetic Data for Neo-Assyrian Cuneiform Sign Detection via Physically Plausible Diffusion Conditioning
Authors:
George Argirov (HSE University)
Innokentiy Humonen (AXXX)
Maksim Golyadkin (AXXX; Trusted AI Research Center, RAS)
Ilya Makarov (AXXX; Trusted AI Research Center, RAS)
First Coffee Break: 10:30 - 11:00
Second Session: 11:00 - 12:30
Flash presentations of the posters: 11:00
Authors of Extended Abstracts:
Authors: Mauricio Maia Vinhas de Azevedo, Carlos Henrique Marcondes
Title: Automatic Transcription of Brazilian Manuscripts: a preliminary study
Extended Abstract: https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.19204
Authors: Michael R. Zeng, Herman Chau, Paul S. Atkins
Title: A Jibo-Labeled Classical Hiragana Image Dataset for Computational Paleography: Bootstrapped Variant Annotation at Scale
Extended Abstract: https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.19202
Authors: Simona Stoyanova, Miguel Arana-Catania,
Title: Automating annotation and classification of palaeographic types in ancient Sicilian Inscriptions
Extended Abstract: https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.19208
Authors: Anna Michalcová, Jan Odstrčilík
Title: What transcription approach HTR should learn? HTR, Normalization, and Editorial Tradition in Medieval Manuscript Studies
Extended Abstract: https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.19255
Authors: Serena Carlamaria Crespi, Ambra Stefanello, Carlos-Emiliano González-Gallardo,
Title: Computational Palaeography and Early Modern Italian Scripts: Methods and Workflows for Letterform Analysis
Extended Abstract: https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.19226
Authors: So Miyagawa
Title: Bluepond: A Local-First, Browser-Based OCR/HTR Workflow for Historical Manuscripts
Extended Abstract: https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.19210
Authors: Konstantinos Palaiologos, Basilis Gatos
Title: Visual Explainability for Writer Identification through Connected Component Similarity Mapping
Extended Abstract: https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.19228
Authors: Elena Chepel, Anton Repushko
Title: Transformer-based OCR and LLM Post-Correction for Greek Cursive Papyri
Extended Abstract: https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.19224
Poster session: 11:40
Lunch Break: 12:30 - 13:30
Third Session: 13:30 - 15:10
P4: 13:30
Title: A Hybrid Deep Learning Pipeline for Text Recognition on Greek Squeezes
Authors:
Monika Radhakisan Chavan (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Pratiksha Manik Patil (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Vineetha Mulamoottil Mathews (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Thomas Gorges (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Janne van der Loop (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Vincent Christlein (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
P5: 13:55
Title: Reading the Spiral: Deep Feature Clustering for Exploratory Script Typology in Aramaic Incantation Bowls
Authors:
Nour Atamni (Ben-Gurion University)
Boraq Madi (The Academic College of Tel Aviv–Yaffo)
Said Naamneh (Ben-Gurion University)
Jihad El-Sana (Ben-Gurion University)
P6: 14:20
Title: Timeline Embedding for Papy-Date, a new Dataset of Greek Papyri dated to the Year
Authors:
Dinh Dung Van (University of Basel)
Rodrigo Cerqueira Gonzalez Pena (University of Basel)
Lavinia Ferretti (Università degli Studi di Torino)
Giuseppe De Gregorio (CVC Computer Vision Center - UAB)
Olga Serbaeva Saraogi (University of Basel)
Pedro Garcia-Baro (University of Basel)
Fischer Andreas (University of Fribourg)
Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello (University of Basel)
P7: 14:45
Title: Evidence-Aware Recognition of Paleo-Hebrew Seal Inscriptions: Structured Sign Hypotheses, Visual Hints, and Deployable Review
Authors:
Alex Gorbulev (ThetaHat; GigaCode; Yandex School of Data Analysis)
Innokentiy Humonen (AXXX)
Maksim Golyadkin (AXXX; Trusted AI Research Center, RAS)
Ilya Makarov ( AXXX; Trusted AI Research Center, RAS)
Second Coffee Break: 15:10 - 15:30
Fourth Session: 15:30 - 16:20
P8: 15:30
Title: Within the Hands of Amitāyus: Line-Level Self-Supervised Encoders for Intra-Style Scribal Identification
Authors:
Colin Brisson (EPHE)
P9: 15:55
Title: TextileNet: Towards Zero-shot Text-style Segmentation of Manuscripts
Authors:
Anguelos Nicolaou (University of Graz)
Antonella Ambrosio (Universita Di Napoli II)
Desiree Di Donato (Universita di Napoli II)
Georg Vogeler (Unigraz)