Student, professor win best paper award
Kenny Davila Castellanos ’13 MS (computer science), ’18 Ph.D. (computing and information sciences) and Richard Zanibbi, professor of computer science, received the Best Paper Award for “Visual Search Engine for Handwritten and Typeset Math in Lecture Videos and LaTeX Notes” at the International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2018) in August. The paper is based on Kenny’s Ph.D. dissertation.
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