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Acknowledgements
This work would not have been possible without the support of many people. I
wish to express my sincere gratitude to all those who gave me the possibility to
complete this thesis.
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First of all, I would like to thank my supervisor, Prof. Laurent Najman, for
helping me realize this project and for his guidance during the course of this
work.
I would like to appreciate Dr. Xavier Hilaire, who provided me with valuable
technical feedback and suggestions, as well as pointing out mistakes and
carefully reviewing many versions of this thesis. I am deeply indebted to him
for more than three years of scientific help.
I would also like to thank Dr. Apostolos Antonacopoulos for granting access
to datasets for ICDAR2009 and ICDAR2011 competitions and I also thank
Christian Clausner for his answers to many of my emails regarding Prima Layout
Evaluation and Altheia and his help for debugging some bugs that I encountered
during the course of performance evaluation of our method.
No words can express my gratitude toward my parents who helped me night
and day through difficult times, and for all the support and care they provided.
Finally I would like to thank members of the jury including Prof. Dr. PAS-
SAT Nicolas, Prof. Dr. GERAUD Thierry and the president of the jury,
Prof. Dr. WENDLING Laurent, for their time and consideration to review
this manuscript.
This PhD thesis has been funded by Conseil Général de Seine-Saint-Denis,
through the FU16 project Demat-Factory, lead by Safig SA.
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