Explore the PRASA 2002 symposium archive — 30 papers on speech, document analysis, computer vision, and biometrics from a time when SVMs ruled and deep learning was a decade away.
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Inside the PRASA 2001 Digital Archive: A Time Capsule of Pattern Recognition Research
Explore the hand-coded HTML archive of the 2001 Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa symposium, featuring 28 papers on language identification, digit recognition, and more.
Table of Contents in HTML: How Mid-2000s Researchers Structured Digital Proceedings
How the humble HTML table of contents enabled navigation of early digital conference proceedings in pattern recognition, speech, and computer vision research.
Karin van Wyk and the Contacts 3 Organising Committee: A Mid-2000s Milestone
Explore the role of Karin van Wyk on the organising committee of the 2006 Contacts 3 workshop, a milestone for speech technology in under-resourced African languages.
John Morkel and the 3rd Contacts Workshop: How a Small Gathering Shaped Low-Resource Speech Technology
The 2006 Contacts workshop in Stellenbosch, chaired by John Morkel, brought together speech and vision researchers to focus on under-resourced African languages. Learn about the committee’s decisions and technical highlights.
The Contacts 3 Workshop: How a Small 2006 Conference Shaped Applied Pattern Recognition
Inside the Contacts 3 workshop in Cape Town (2006): Fred Nicolls’ committee that bridged speech, vision, and biometrics, and its lasting impact on open science and low-resource AI.
How Contact Image Sensors Reshaped Document Processing and Biometrics in the Mid-2000s
The rise of CIS technology in flatbed scanners and fingerprint readers forced algorithm innovations in OCR, banding removal, and contactless capture—a look at the hardware-driven changes of the 2000s.
The Humble Contact Page: How Mid-2000s Researchers Structured HTML for Academic Collaboration
Exploring the role of simple HTML contact pages in fostering collaboration among pattern recognition and speech researchers in the mid-2000s.
Contact Microphones and Noise-Robust Speech in the 2000s
How contact microphones helped mid-2000s speech recognition systems handle noisy environments, with applications in low-resource languages and biometrics.
The Hand-Coded Committee Pages That Shaped Early Conference Management
How mid-2000s pattern recognition conferences built and maintained static HTML committee pages, and why those clunky tables still matter for research history.