Publications

Here is the list of my publications, ordered by category and by year. Many of them are dowloadable. Readers should be aware of some of the issues raised by the electronic dissemination of published papers. In particular, readers should know that:

The documents contained in these directories are included by the contributing authors as a means to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work on a non-commercial basis. Copyright and all rights therein are maintained by the authors and by other copyright holders, notwithstanding that they have offered their works here electronically. It is understood that all persons copying this information will adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. These works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.

My institutions' policy is to increase the use of open archives, in full respect of all copyright holders' right. I have  therefore progressively made my publications, first and foremost the most recent ones, available through HAL, a French platform partaker of the international Open Archives initiative. My papers are registered through the HAL-INRIA interface to HAL, but they are also accessible through the standard interface, of course. To find out about publisher copyright policies & self-archiving rules, I refer to the SHERPA/RoMEO service and do my best to comply with the publisher policies as deciphered by this service.

You can also check my publications registered through HAL, my publications referenced by DBLP, or my publications as seen by Google Scholar.

At the very end of this page, although these are publications of a very different nature, I have listed a few CESER (economic, social and environmental council) reports where I have been a significant contributor, as well as some blog articles I have written in the later years, on issues related to university policies and practices.

Refereed journal articles

Hilaire 06
X. Hilaire and K. Tombre. Robust and Accurate Vectorization of Line Drawings. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 28(6):890-904, June 2006. Copyright IEEE. Available here on IEEE CS Digital library. Open archive version available here.
Tabbone 03
S. Tabbone, L. Wendling and K. Tombre. Matching of graphical symbols in line-drawing images using angular signature information. International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 6(2):115-125, October 2003.
ftpPDF version of the article. Copyright Springer Verlag. The original publication is available at http://www.springerlink.com
Sánchez 02b
G. Sánchez, J. Lladós and K. Tombre. A mean string algorithm to compute the average among a set of 2D shapes. Pattern Recognition Letters, 23(1-3):203-213, January 2002.
ftpPDF version of pre-print of the article. Please note that this pre-print version does differ slightly from the published paper; see Elsevier Science's notice on copyright for an explanation. Original article available from ScienceDirect
Ah-Soon 01
C. Ah-Soon and K. Tombre. Architectural Symbol Recognition Using a Network of Constraints. Pattern Recognition Letters, 22(2):231-248, February 2001.
ftpPDF version of pre-print of the article. Please note that this pre-print version does differ slightly from the published paper; see Elsevier Science's notice on copyright for an explanation. Original article available from ScienceDirect
Dosch 00c
Ph. Dosch, K. Tombre, C. Ah-Soon and G. Masini. A complete system for analysis of architectural drawings. International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 3(2):102-116, December 2000.
ftpPDF version of the article. Copyright Springer Verlag. The original publication is available at http://www.springerlink.com
Dori 95
D. Dori and K. Tombre. From Engineering Drawings to 3-D CAD Models: Are We Ready Now? Computer-Aided Design, 27(4):243-254, April 1995. Revised version of [Dori 93b]. Available from ScienceDirect.
Tombre 95a
K. Tombre. Graphics Recognition - General Context and Challenges. Pattern Recognition Letters, 16(9):883-891, September 1995. IAPR pages. Available from ScienceDirect.
Vaxivière 92a
P. Vaxivière and K. Tombre. Celesstin: CAD Conversion of Mechanical Drawings. IEEE COMPUTER Magazine, 25(7):46-54, July 1992. Revised version of [Vaxivière 91]. Copyright IEEE. Available from IEEE Computer Magazine archives.

Other articles

Grasser 24
B. Grasser and K. Tombre. How Can the Synergies Between the Pillars of the Knowledge Square be Optimised? A Knowledge Spiral Approach in the Context of EURECA-PRO. Berg- und Hüttenmännische Monatshefte, February 2024. View-only version of the article. Available from Springer Link.
Tombre 17
K. Tombre, L. Quan, R. Horaud, P. Gros, C. Schmid, P. Sturm. In memoriam Roger Mohr. 1024 - Bulletin de la société informatique de France, numéro 11, septembre 2017, pp. 91-98.
Spitz 03
L. Spitz and K. Tombre. Special issue - selected papers from the ICDAR'01 conference. Editorial. International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 5(2-3):87, april 2003.
Belaïd 92c
A. Belaïd et K. Tombre. Le traitement de l'écriture et des documents écrits. Analyse de documents: de l'image à la sémantique. La Tribune des industries de la langue, 9:6-12, 1992. Version synthétique de [Belaïd 92a].
Colnet 89
D. Colnet, G. Masini, A. Napoli, K. Tombre et D. Léonard. La montée des langages à objets. Le Monde Informatique, 376, juillet 1989. Numéro spécial logiciel.

Books

Doermann 14
D. Doermann and K. Tombre (editors). Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition. Springer Verlag, may 2014. 1055 pages. ISBN: 978-0-85729-858-4 (Print) 978-0-85729-859-1 (Online). 
Tombre 98c
K. Tombre and A. K. Chhabra (editors). Graphics Recognition - Algorithms and Systems. Springer Verlag, april 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1389. Online version at SpringerLink.
Kasturi 96
R. Kasturi and K. Tombre (editors). Graphics Recognition - Methods and Applications. Springer Verlag, may 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1072. Online version at SpringerLink.
Masini 89a
G. Masini, A. Napoli, D. Colnet, D. Léonard et K. Tombre. Les langages à objets. InterEditions, Paris, 1989. 584 pages. Translated to Italian (Linguaggi per la Programmazione a Oggetti, Gruppo editoriale Jackson, 1991) and to English (Object-Oriented Languages, Academic Press, 1991).

Chapters in books

Baird 14
H. S. Baird and K. Tombre. The Evolution of Document Image Analysis. In D. Doermann and K. Tombre, editors,  Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition, vol. 1, chapter 3, pages 63-71. Springer Verlag, 2014.
Tombre 10
K. Tombre. Graphics Recognition - What Else? In J.-M. Ogier, J. Lladós and L. Wenyin, editors, Graphics Recognition: Achievements, Challenges, and Evolution. Selected papers from GREC'2009, pages 272-277. Springer Verlag, 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6020. Report from final panel discussion at GREC'09.
downloadPDF version of the article. Copyright Springer Verlag. The original publication is available at http://www.springerlink.com
Tombre 08a
K. Tombre. Is Graphics Recognition an Unidentified Scientific Object? In L. Wenyin, J. Lladós and J.-M. Ogier, editors, Graphics Recognition: Recent Advances and New Opportunities. Selected papers from GREC'2007, pages 329-334. Springer Verlag, 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5046. Report from final panel discussion at GREC'07.
downloadPDF version of the article. Copyright Springer Verlag. The original publication is available at http://www.springerlink.com
Tombre 06a
K. Tombre, S. Tabbone and Ph. Dosch. Musings on Symbol Recognition. In L. Wenyin, J. Lladós, editors, Graphics Recognition - Ten Years Review and Future Pespectives, pages 23-34. Springer Verlag, 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3926. Slightly revised version of [Tombre 05].
Copyright Springer Verlag. Access through open archive. The original publication is available at  SpringerLink.
Tombre 06b
K. Tombre. Graphics Recognition: The Last Ten Years and the Next Ten Years. In L. Wenyin, J. Lladós, editors, Graphics Recognition - Ten Years Review and Future Pespectives, pages 422-426. Springer Verlag, 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3926. Report from final panel discussion at GREC'05.
Copyright Springer Verlag. Access through open archive. The original publication is available at  SpringerLink
Clavier 04
E. Clavier, G. Masini, M. Delalandre, M. Rigamonti, K. Tombre and J. Gardes. DocMining: A Cooperative Platform for Heterogenous Document Interpretation According to User-Defined Scenarios. In J. Lladós, Y.B. Kwon, editors, Graphics Recognition - Recent Advances and Perspectives (selected papers from GREC'03), pages 13-24. Springer Verlag, 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3088. Revised version of [Clavier 03].
ftpPDF version. Copyright Springer Verlag. The original publication is available at http://www.springerlink.com/
Hilaire 02
X. Hilaire and K. Tombre. Improving the Accuracy of Skeleton-Based Vectorization. In D. Blostein and Y.-B. Kwon, editors, Graphics Recognition - Algorithms and Applications, pages 273-288. Springer Verlag, 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2390. Revised version of [Hilaire 01]
Sánchez 02a
G. Sánchez, J. Lladós and K. Tombre. An Error-Correction Graph Grammar to Recognize Textured Symbols. In D. Blostein and Y.-B. Kwon, editors, Graphics Recognition - Algorithms and Applications, pages 128-138. Springer Verlag, 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2390. Revised version of [Sánchez 01a]
Tombre 00c
K. Tombre, C. Ah-Soon, Ph. Dosch, G. Masini and S. Tabbone. Stable and Robust Vectorization: How to Make the Right Choices. In A. K. Chhabra and D. Dori, editors, Graphics Recognition - Recent Advances, pages 3-18. Springer Verlag, september 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1941. Slightly revised version of [Tombre 99a]. Available on SpringerLink
Dosch 99a
Ph. Dosch, C. Ah-Soon, G. Masini, G. Sánchez and K. Tombre. Design of an Integrated Environment for the Automated Analysis of Architectural Drawings. In S.-W. Lee and Y. Nakano, editors, Document Analysis Systems: Theory and Practice. Selected papers from DAS'98, pages 295-309. Springer Verlag, 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1655. Revised and extended version of [Dosch 98].
Tombre 98e
K. Tombre. Analysis of Engineering Drawings: State of the Art and Challenges. In K. Tombre and A. K. Chhabra, editors, Graphics Recognition - Algorithms and Systems, pages 257-264. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1389, Springer Verlag, April 1998. Available on SpringerLink. Slightly revised version of [Tombre 97b].
Tombre 97c
K. Tombre and D. Dori. Interpretation of Engineering Drawings. In H. Bunke and P. S. P. Wang, editors, Handbook of Character Recognition and Document Image Analysis, chapter 17, pages 457-484. World Scientific, 1997.
Baumann 95
S. Baumann and K. Tombre. Report of the Line Drawing and Music Recognition Working Group. In A. L. Spitz and A. Dengel, editors, Document Analysis Systems, pages 462-464. World Scientific, 1995. Working group held during DAS'94, Kaiserslautern, october 1994.
Tombre 95b
K. Tombre and J.-C. Paul. Document analysis: A way to integrate existing paper information in architectural databases. In A. Koutamanis, H. Timmermans and I. Vermeulen, editors, Visual Databases in Architecture, chapter 3, pages 43-52. Avebury, 1995. Slightly revised version of [Tombre 94b].
Vaxivière 95
P. Vaxivière and K. Tombre. Knowledge Organization and Interpretation Process in Engineering Drawing Interpretation. In A. L. Spitz and A. Dengel, editors, Document Analysis Systems, pages 307-317. World Scientific, 1995. Slightly revised version of [Vaxiviere 94a].
Vaxivière 94b
P. Vaxivière and K. Tombre. Subsampling: A Structural Approach to Technical Document Vectorization. In D. Dori and A. Bruckstein, editors, Shape, Structure and Pattern Recognition , pages 323-332. World Scientific, august 1995. First presented at International Workshop on Syntactic and Structural Pattern Recognition, Nahariya (Israel), october 1994.  PDF version.
Antoine 92
D. Antoine, S. Collin and K. Tombre. Analysis of Technical Documents: The REDRAW System. In H.S. Baird, H. Bunke and K. Yamamoto, editors, Structured Document Image Analysis, pages 385-402. Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg, 1992. Revised version of [Antoine 90].
Tombre 90
K. Tombre and D. Antoine. Analysis of Technical Documents using a priori Knowledge. In R. Mohr, T. Pavlidis and A. Sanfeliu, editors, Structural Pattern Analysis, volume 19 of Series in Computer Science, pages 229-241. World Scientific, 1990. Revised version of [Tombre 88b].
Kronert 87
G. Krönert, G. Lauber, J. Lörscher, E. Meynieux, W. Postl, U. Schneider, S. Seisen and K. Tombre. Document Editing and Entry Based on the Standardised Office Document Architecture. In ESPRIT'86: Results and Achievements, pages 107-126. North-Holland, Bruxelles, 1987.
Meynieux 87
E. Meynieux, W. Postl, S. Seisen and K. Tombre. Office Paper Document Analysis. In G. Bracchi and D. Tsichritzis, editors, Office Systems: Methods and Tools, pages 267-285. North-Holland, Pisa, 1987. Revised version of [Meynieux 86a].

Theses

Tombre 96b
K. Tombre. Quelques contributions à l'interprétation de documents techniques. Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université Henri Poincaré Nancy I, 2 février 1996.
Tombre 87c
K. Tombre. La saisie automatisée de documents composites : reconnaissance, codage et interprétation des parties graphiques. Thèse de doctorat, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, juin 1987.
Tombre 83
K. Tombre. Essai de classification des algorithmes en traitement d'image. Rapport de DEA, Université de Nancy I, Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy, 1983.

Invited conference and workshop talks

Tombre 08b
K. Tombre and B. Lamiroy. Pattern recognition methods for querying and browsing technical documentation. Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications - Proceedings of 13th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, Havana (Cuba), pages 504-518, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5197, Springer Verlag, september 2008.
downloadPDF version of the article. Copyright Springer Verlag. The original publication is available at http://www.springerlink.com
Tombre 03
K. Tombre and B. Lamiroy. Graphics Recognition - From Re-engineering to Retrieval. Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Edinburgh (Scotland, UK), pages 148-155, august 2003.
ftpPDF file ftp Slides of my presentation (Powerpoint, 3.3 Mb)
Tombre 00a
K. Tombre and S. Tabbone. Vectorization in Graphics Recognition: To Thin or not to Thin. Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Barcelona (Spain), volume 2, pages 91-96, september 2000.
ftpPDF file ftp Slides of my presentation (pdf)
Tombre 98b
K. Tombre. Ten Years of Research in the Analysis of Graphics Documents: Achievements and Open Problems. In Proceedings of 10th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Lisbon, Portugal, pages 11-17, march 1998. Also presented at 10th Image Processing and Image Understanding Workshop, Cheju, Korea, january 1998.
Tombre 96c
K. Tombre. Structural and Syntactic Methods in Line Drawing Analysis: To which Extent do they Work? In Advances in Structural and Syntactical Pattern Recognition (Proceedings of SSPR'96, Leipzig, Germany), pages 310-321, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1121, Springer Verlag, August 1996. Copyright Springer Verlag. The original publication is available at SpringerLink
Tombre 92
K. Tombre. Technical Drawing Recognition and Understanding: From Pixels to Semantics. In Proceedings of IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications, Tokyo, Japan, pages 393-402, December 1992.

International conferences with program committee

Ogier 06
J.-M. Ogier and K. Tombre. Madonne: Document Image Analysis Techniques for Cultural Heritage Documents. Accepted for presentation at International Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage, Vienna (Austria), September 2006. Access through open archive.
Tabbone 01
S. Tabbone, L. Wendling and K. Tombre. Indexing of Technical Line Drawings Based on F-Signatures. In Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Seattle, Washington (USA), pages 1220-1224, september 2001. Available here through IEEE CS Digital Library.
ftpSlides of our presentation at ICDAR'01 (pdf)
Dosch 00a
Ph. Dosch, G. Masini and K. Tombre. Improving Arc Detection in Graphics Recognition. Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Barcelona (Spain), volume 2, pages 243-246, september 2000.
ftpPDF file
Tombre 98d
K. Tombre, C. Ah-Soon, Ph. Dosch, A. Habed and G. Masini. Stable, Robust and Off-the-Shelf Methods for Graphics Recognition. In Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Brisbane, Australia, pages 406-408, August 1998.
ftpPDF file
Ah-Soon 97a
C. Ah-Soon and K. Tombre. Variations on the Analysis of Architectural Drawings. Proceedings 4th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Ulm (Germany), pages 347-351, august 1997.
Ah-Soon 95a
C. Ah-Soon and K. Tombre. A Step Towards Reconstruction of 3-D CAD Models from Engineering Drawings. Proceedings 3rd International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Montréal (Canada), pages 331-334, 1995.
Tombre 94b
K. Tombre and J.-C. Paul. Document Analysis: A Way to Integrate Existing Paper Information in Architectural Databases. In Second International Conference on Design and Decision Support Systems, Vaals, the Netherlands, August 1994. Special session on visual databases in architecture. Slightly revised version published in [Tombre 95b].
Collin 93
S. Collin, K. Tombre and P. Vaxivière. Don't Tell Mom I'm Doing Document Analysis; She Believes I'm in the Computer Vision Field. In Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Tsukuba Science City (Japan), pages 619-622, October 1993.
Dori 93a
D. Dori and K. Tombre. Paper Drawings to 3-D CAD: A Proposed Agenda. In Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Tsukuba Science City (Japan), pages 866-869, October 1993.
Vaxivière 92b
P. Vaxivière and K. Tombre. CELESSTIN IV: Knowledge-Based Analysis of Mechanical Engineering Drawings. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems Engineering, pages 242-245, Kobe, Japan, September 1992.
Batouche 91a
M. Batouche, K. Tombre and P. Leduc. Towards an Automatic System for Diagnosing Spinal Deformations. In Proceedings of 7th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Aalborg, Denmark, volume 1, pages 562-569, 1991.
Habacha-Hamada 91
A. Habacha-Hamada and K. Tombre. Structural Symbol Recognition. In Proceedings of 7th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Aalborg, Denmark, volume 1, pages 486-493, 1991.
Tombre 91b
K. Tombre and P. Vaxivière. Structure, Syntax and Semantics in Technical Document Recognition. In Proceedings of First International Conference on Document Analysis, Saint-Malo, France, volume 1, pages 61-69, 1991.
Masini 90
G. Masini and K. Tombre. Discrete Relaxation Applied to Interpretation of Technical Documents. In Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Atlantic City, NJ, USA, volume 1, pages 706-708, 1990.
Collin 89
S. Collin and K. Tombre. Image Segmentation Using Connected Components for Document Analysis. In Proceedings of IFACS-IMACS-IFORS International Symposium on Advanced Information Processing in Automatic Control, Nancy, France, pages 166-170, 1989.
Tombre 87a
K. Tombre. Finding and Coding Graphics in a Composite Document. In Proceedings of 5th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Stockholm, Sweden, pages 589-596, 1987.
Meynieux 86b
E. Meynieux, S. Seisen and K. Tombre. Bilevel Information Recognition and Coding in Office Paper Documents. In Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Paris, pages 442-445, 1986.

International workshops with program committee

Rendek 06
J. Rendek, B. Lamiroy and K. Tombre. A Few Step Towards On-the-Fly Symbol Recognition with Relevance Feedback. In Document Analysis Systems VII: Proceedings of 7th International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Nelson (New Zealand), pages 604-615, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3872, Springer Verlag, february 2006. Copyright Springer Verlag. The original publication is available at SpringerLink. Preprint through open archive
Tombre 05
K. Tombre, S. Tabbone and Ph. Dosch. Musings on Symbol Recognition. In Proceedings of 6th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition, Hong Kong, pages 25-34, august 2005. Revised version to appear in LNCS volume [Tombre 06a]
ftpPDF version.
Adam 04
S. Adam, M. Rigamonti, E. Clavier, J.-M. Ogier, E. Trupin and K. Tombre. DocMining: A Document Analysis System Builder. In Document Analysis Systems VI - Proceedings of 6th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis System, Florence (Italy), pages 472-483, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3163, Springer Verlag, september 2004.
ftpPDF version of the article. Copyright Springer Verlag. The original publication is available at http://www.springerlink.com
Rendek 04b
J. Rendek, G. Masini, Ph. Dosch and K. Tombre. The search for genericity in graphics recognition applications: Design issues of the Qgar software system. In Document Analysis Systems VI - Proceedings of 6th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis System, Florence (Italy), pages 366-377, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3163, Springer Verlag, september 2004.
ftpPDF version of the article. Copyright Springer Verlag. The original publication is available at http://www.springerlink.com
Clavier 03
E. Clavier, G. Masini, M. Delalandre, M. Rigamonti, K. Tombre and J. Gardes. DocMining: A Cooperative Platform for Heterogenous Document Interpretation According to User-Defined Scenarios. Proceedings of Fifth IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition, Barcelona (Spain), pages 21-32, july 2003.
ftpPDF version.
Revised version published in "Graphics Recognition - Recent Advances and Perspectives" [Clavier 04].
Tombre 02a
K. Tombre, S. Tabbone, L. Pélissier, B. Lamiroy and Ph. Dosch. Text/Graphics Separation Revisited. In Proceedings of 5th International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (Princeton, New Jersey, USA), pages 200-211, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2423, Springer Verlag, august 2002.
ftpPDF version of the article. Copyright Springer Verlag. The original publication is available at http://www.springerlink.com
ftpSlides of my presentation at the workshop (pdf)
Hilaire 01
X. Hilaire and K. Tombre. Improving the Accuracy of Skeleton-Based Vectorization. In Proceedings of 4th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (Kingston, Ontario, Canada), pages 281-394, september 2001. ftpPDF file.
Revised version published in ``Graphics Recognition - Algorithms and Applications'' [Hilaire 02]
Sánchez 01a
G. Sánchez, J. Lladós and K. Tombre. An Error-Correction Graph Grammar to Recognize Textured Symbols. In Proceedings of 4th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (Kingston, Ontario, Canada), pages 135-146, september 2001. ftpPDF file.
Revised version published in ``Graphics Recognition - Algorithms and Applications'' [Sánchez 02a]
Tombre 99a
K. Tombre, C. Ah-Soon, Ph. Dosch, G. Masini and S. Tabbone. Stable and Robust Vectorization: How to Make the Right Choices. In Proceedings of Third IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (Jaipur, India), pages 3-16, september 1999. Slightly revised version published in ``Graphics Recognition - Recent Advances'' [Tombre 00c]
Ah-Soon 98
C. Ah-Soon and K. Tombre. Network-Based Recognition of Architectural Symbols. In Advances in Pattern Recognition (Proceedings of Joint IAPR Workshops SSPR'98 and SPR'98, Sydney, Australia), pages 252-261, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1451, August 1998. ftp10 pages, PDF format.
Dosch 98
Ph. Dosch, C. Ah-Soon, G. Masini, G. Sánchez and K. Tombre. Design of an Integrated Environment for the Automated Analysis of Architectural Drawings. In Proceedings of Third IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (Nagano, Japan), pages 366-375, November 1998. Revised version published in ``Document Analysis Systems: Theory and Practice'', Springer Verlag [Dosch 99a].
Tombre 97b
K. Tombre. Analysis of Engineering Drawings: State of the Art and Challenges. In Proceedings of Second IAPR Workshop on Graphics Recognition, Nancy, France, pages 54-61, August 1997. Slightly revised version published in «Graphics Recognition - Algorithms and Systems» [Tombre 98e].
Vaxivière 94a
P. Vaxivière and K. Tombre. Knowledge Organization and Interpretation Process in Engineering Drawing Interpretation. In Proceedings of IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Kaiserslautern (Germany), pages 313-321, October 1994. Available here. Slightly revised version published in ``Document Analysis Systems'', World Scientific, [Vaxiviere 95].
Antoine 90
D. Antoine, S. Collin and K. Tombre. Analysis of Technical Documents: The REDRAW System. In Pre-Proceedings of Workshop on Syntactic and Structural Pattern Recognition, Murray Hill, NJ (USA), pages 1-20, 1990. Revised version published in ``Structured Document Image Analysis'', Springer Verlag [Antoine 92].
Vaxivière 90
P. Vaxivière and K. Tombre. Interpretation of Mechanical Engineering Drawings for Paper-CAD Conversion. In Proceedings of IAPR workshop on Machine Vision Applications, Tokyo, Japan, pages 203-206, 1990.
Tombre 88b
K. Tombre and D. Antoine. Analysis of Technical Documents using a priori Knowledge. In Proceedings of IAPR Workshop on Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition, Pont-à-Mousson, France, pages 178-189, 1988.
Meynieux 86a
E. Meynieux, W. Postl, S. Seisen and K. Tombre. Office Paper Document Analysis. In Proceedings of IFIP Workshop on Office Automation, Pisa, Italy, 1986.
Tombre 85a
K. Tombre. Segmentation and Line Extraction for Recognition and Coding of Graphical Parts in a Document. In Proceedings of International Seminar on Symbol Recognition, Oslo, Norway, pages 37-51, 1985.

National conferences and workshops

Rendek 04a
J. Rendek, Ph. Dosch, G. Masini et K. Tombre. Principes et mise en oeuvre de l'interopérabilité dans le système d'analyse de documents Qgar. 4e Colloque International Francophone sur l'Écrit et le Document, La Rochelle (France), pages 91-96, juin 2004.
ftpPDF file (available through HAL)
Sánchez 01b
G. Sánchez, J. Lladós and K. Tombre. An Algorithm to Recognize Graphical Textured Symbols using String Representations. Proceedings of 9th Spanish Symposium on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Benicàssim (Castellón, España), vol. 1, pages 203-208, may 2001.
ftpPDF file
Belaïd 92a
A. Belaïd et K. Tombre. Analyse de documents: de l'image à la sémantique. In Bigre 80 - Actes de CNED'92: Traitement de l'écriture et des documents, pages 3-29, Nancy, 1992. Version synthétique parue dans [Belaïd 92c].
Batouche 91b
M. Batouche, K. Tombre et P. Leduc. Un système de vision pour le dépistage des gibbosités chez l'enfant. In Actes 8ème Congrès AFCET de Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle, Lyon, volume 3, pages 1365-1373, 1991.
Antoine 88
D. Antoine et K. Tombre. Vers l'interprétation automatique de documents techniques. In Actes du congrès MICAD 88, Paris, pages 363-376, 1988.
Dosch 87
J.C. Dosch, F. Ghedjati, J.P. Haton, P. Mariot, K. Tombre, P. Vesoul, A. Wackenheim et G. Zöllner. ORFEVRE (Outil de Reconnaissance des Formes et d'Expertise sur les Vertèbres pour le RadiologistE). Système expert et image. In Actes 6ème Congrès AFCET de Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle, Antibes, pages 403-417, novembre 1987.

Technical research reports

Sánchez 00
G. Sánchez, J. Lladós and K. Tombre. A mean string algorithm to compute the average amount of a set of 2D shapes. CVC Technical Report 38, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, february 2000.
Ah-Soon 97b
C. Ah-Soon and K. Tombre. Variations on the Analysis of Architectural Drawings. Rapport interne 97-R-037, Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, mai 1997. Long version of [Ah-Soon 97a]. 
Ah-Soon 95b
C. Ah-Soon and K. Tombre. A Step Towards Reconstruction of 3-D CAD Models from Engineering Drawings. Rapport interne 95-R-100, Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, juin 1995. Long version of [Ah-Soon 95a].
Dori 93b
D. Dori and K. Tombre. From Engineering Drawings to 3-D CAD Models: Are We Ready Now? Rapport interne 93-R-142, Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy, 1993. Revised version published in Computer-Aided Design [Dori 95].
Vaxivière 91
P. Vaxivière and K. Tombre. CELESSTIN: A System for Conversion of Mechanical Engineering Drawings into CAD Format. Rapport interne, Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, 1991. Revised version published in IEEE COMPUTER Magazine [Vaxivière 92a].
Masini 89c
G. Masini et K. Tombre. La relaxation discrète pour l'interprétation de documents techniques. Rapport interne 89-R-065, Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy, 1989.
Tombre 89a
K. Tombre and P. Vaxivière. Paper to CAD Conversion for Mechanical Engineering Drawings. Rapport interne 89-R-191, Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, 1989.
Tombre 89b
K. Tombre, P. Vaxivière et E. Buhagiar. Un système de conversion papier-CAO pour dessins industriels de type mécanique. Rapport interne 89-R-189, Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, 1989.
Colnet 86
D. Colnet, G. Masini, A. Napoli, Y. Noiret et K. Tombre. Les langages orientés objets. Rapport interne 86-R-077, Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy, 1986.
Tombre 85b
K. Tombre et B. Wrobel. Extraction de points contours dans une image. Rapport interne 85-R-096, Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy, 1985.

Contract deliverables

Fritz 07a
L. Fritz, B. Lamiroy, J.-P. Salmon, K. Tombre and L. Wendling. Final report on symbol recognition with evaluation of performances. Deliverable D.2.4.2, FRESH project (EU project FP6-516059), January 2007.
Fritz 06
L. Fritz, J.-P. Salmon, B. Lamiroy, K. Tombre and L. Wendling. Symbol recognition---Intermediate report with first interactive prototype. Deliverable D.2.4.1, FRESH project (EU project FP6-516059), October 2006.
Salmon 06a
J.-P. Salmon and K. Tombre. Justification file for the knowledge DB. Deliverable D.2.6.1, FRESH project (EU project FP6-516059), February 2006.
Salmon 06b
J.-P. Salmon, B. Lamiroy and K. Tombre. Intermediate report and enriched semantic knowledge base. Deliverable D.2.6.2, FRESH project (EU project FP6-516059), October 2006.
Tombre 06d
K. Tombre and A. Barbeyron. Processing tool and method for human intervention. Deliverable D.2.3.2, FRESH project (EU project FP6-516059), July 2006.
Tombre 06c
K. Tombre, J-P. Salmon, L. Wendling and B. Lamiroy. Consideration on recognition for "dynamic-sized" equipment component. Deliverable D.2.2.4, FRESH project (EU project FP6-516059), February 2006.
Tombre 02c
K. Tombre. Livrable phase 1 - méthodes et outils. Projet RNTL DOCMINING, décembre 2002.
Tombre 02b
K. Tombre et al. Contributions à l'analyse et la reprise de plans de réseaux. Rapport final du contrat EDF-LORIA/INPL I24/E25706/0/MTI0066, décembre 2002.
Vaxivière 02
P. Vaxivière et K. Tombre. Cahier des charges - Réingénierie et extension du module XF. Rapport d'étape - accord-cadre FS2I-INRIA, décembre 2002
Dosch 01
Ph. Dosch, B. Lamiroy, L. Pelissier, S. Tabbone et K. Tombre. Segmentation texte/graphique et extraction de chaînes de caractère. Rapport final sur la tâche 1, Contrat EDF-LORIA/INPL I24/E25706/0/MTI0066, août 2001
Amet 99
H. Amet, M.-C. Portmann et K. Tombre. Calepinage PRM. Rapport de fin d'étude de la convention FS2I-INRIA 199F-375-00-51511-122, octobre 1999.
Dosch 99b
Ph. Dosch, K. Tombre, C. Ah-Soon et G. Masini. Reconstruction 3D de bâtiments à partir de leurs plans architecturaux. Rapport final du contrat CNET-INRIA 96 1B 277, INRIA Lorraine, décembre 1999.
Salque 99
B. Salque, L. Alonso et K. Tombre. Calepinage complexe. Rapport de fin d'étude de la convention FS2I-INRIA 199F-077-00-51511-122, octobre 1999.
Berger 95
M.-O. Berger, C. Inglebert, K. Tombre et V. Tzitron. Contrôle qualité de commande par vision artificielle. Rapport de fin de contrat INRIA - CERP Lorraine, septembre 1995.
Voinnet 88
D. Voinnet, R. Mohr et K. Tombre. Automatisation par traitement d'images d'un contrôle métallographique de qualité de soudures. Rapport de fin de contrat avec la société Technicatome, INPL - CRIN, 1988.
Tombre 87b
K. Tombre. Graphics Recognition. Deliverable TR 2.9, Subtask 2.6, HERODE, ESPRIT Project 121, 1987.

Invited seminars and other talks

Tombre 07a
K. Tombre. Graphics recognition for querying and browsing technical documentation. Invited talk at Symposium on Machine Learning in Image and Document, held for the 10th Anniversary of LIAMA (Sino-French Laboratory for Computer Science, Automation and Applied Mathematics), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China), January 2007.
Tombre 00b
K. Tombre. De la reconnaissance de graphiques en général et de l'analyse de plans architecturaux en particulier. Conférence au laboratoire PSI, université de Rouen, 22 juin 2000.
Tombre 98a
K. Tombre. Images for Virtual and Augmented Reality in Architectural Applications. Invited seminar at Yonsei University, Seoul, and at SERI, Taejon (Korea), january 1998.
Tombre 97a
K. Tombre. Analyse de documents techniques : acquis, espoirs et défis. Conférence invitée à la journée thématique du GRCE, Paris, 2 avril 1997.
Tombre 94a
K. Tombre. The automated conversion of engineering drawings to CAD format. In Proceedings of 5th Microcomputer School, Computer Vision and Graphics, Zakopane (Poland), pages 143-158, February 1994. Invited lecture.
Tombre 91a
K. Tombre. Vectorisation et interprétation d'images de documents techniques. Conférence invitée au cycle de conférences EDF-GDF ``Les documents électroniques'', Issy-lès-Moulineaux, 1991.
Tombre 88a
K. Tombre. Automated Input of Technical Documents. In International Summer School ``Programming '88'', Varna, Bulgary, pages 38-45, May 1988. Invited paper.

Miscellaneous

Tombre 08c
K. Tombre. Graphics Recognition. Tutorial given at 13th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, Havana (Cuba), september 2008
Antoine 94-98
J.-M. Antoine, J.-M. Hufflen, D. Roegel et K. Tombre. Guide local (La)TeX du site LORIA. Rapport interne 94-R-256, Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, décembre 1994. Millésime 1995, novembre 1995, rapport technique 95-Q-198. Millésime 1996, décembre 1996, rapport technique 96-Q-176. Millésime 1998, septembre 1998, rapport technique 98-R-214. Disponible en ligne.
Belaïd 92b
A. Belaïd and K. Tombre. Document Analysis and Character Recognition. Tutorial, conference INFORMATIQUE'92: Interface to Real & Virtual Worlds, Montpellier, France, March 1992.
Leduc 91
P. Leduc, M. Batouche et K. Tombre. Automatisation du dépouillement des images du dos obtenues par la technique du moiré. Rapport présenté au Conseil Scientifique du Centre de Médecine Préventive de Nancy, 16-17 septembre 1991.
Masini 89b
G. Masini, A. Napoli, D. Colnet, D. Léonard et K. Tombre, rédacteurs. Les Mardis Objets du CRIN (20 octobre 1987 - 31 mai 1988), Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, 1989. Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy.

Educational documents

Tombre 00-03
K. Tombre.Introduction à la programmation (voir aussi version pdf). Polycopié de cours, première année, tronc commun, École des Mines de Nancy. Héritier d'un polycopié beaucoup plus succinct réalisé dans les années 1998 et 1999. Version 1.0 (2000), 135 pages. Version 1.1 (2001), 141 pages. Version 1.2 (2002), 155 pages. Version 1.3 (2003), 167 pages. Les sources Java des exemples donnés dans le polycopié sont téléchargeables.
Tombre 99-06
K. Tombre. Une courte introduction à C++ (voir aussi version pdf). Polycopié de cours, deuxième année, axe informatique, École des Mines de Nancy. Version 1.0 (1999), 18 pages. Version 2.0 (2001), 49 pages. Version 2.1 (2003), 51 pages.Version 2.2 (2005), 53 pages. Version 2.3 (2006), 53 pages.
Liquori 99
L. Liquori and K. Tombre. On C++ Compilers. Polycopié de cours, deuxième année, axe informatique, École des Mines de Nancy, 1999. Intégré en 2001 dans le polycopié de C++ [Tombre 99b].
Belaïd 92-98
A. Belaïd et K. Tombre. Reconnaissance de l'écriture et analyse de documents. Cours à l'École Internationale d'Informatique AFCET, Pointe à Pitre (Guadeloupe), juillet 1992. Ce cours a aussi été donné dans diverses formations d'ingénieurs, et remis à jour régulièrement de 1992 à 1998.
Tombre 86
K. Tombre. Petit guide du langage C. 1986.

CESER reports to which I have significantly contributed


Blog articles


Karl Tombre