This is the home page of the Image Understanding and Pattern Recognition group at the University of Kaiserslautern. The group was headed from 2004-2014 by Prof. Dr. Thomas Breuel. 

Prof. Breuel started working at Google in 2014, but still supervising several students in the department.

Publications of the research group from 2004-2014 can be found on the Publications Page.

From the Summer semester 2014 on Vertr.-Prof. Dr. Marcus Eichenberger-Liwicki is heading the group now as a substitute.

In case you still want to take an exams with Prof. Dr. Thomas Breuel for the lectures "Neural Systems (Computation) and Self Organisation" or "Foundations and Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence" please contact Ingrid Romani on secretary@iupr.com.

For all other exams please contact the "Fachberater" for Intelligent Systems, Prof. Dr. Andreas Dengel.

Most inquiries should be directed to the Department of Computer Science; they will be able to give you additional contact information.

• OCRopus OCR An open source OCR system with competitive recognition performance. Written in Python and C/C++. Currently handles Latin script and Fraktur
• Image Understanding Library (iulib) A C++ library for image processing from the late 80's and early 90's.
• Decapod A system for 3D book capture using stereo vision, dewarping, and conversion to PDF.
• PyOpenFST A Python wrapper around the OpenFST library.
• PyTess A Python wrapper around the Tesseract OCR system.