JET POSTE'93 - Provisional program
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Article 12,
Volume 12, Issue 9
From: michel@srtp.srt-poste.fr (Michel Gilloux)
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J E T P O S T E ' 9 3
1st European Meeting on Postal Technologies
Nantes, France, June 14-16, 1993
Organized by La Poste
The 1st European meeting on Postal Technologies (JET POSTE'93) is scheduled for
June 14-16, 1993 at the Nantes (France) Congress Hall. The meeting is designed
to be an exchange of ideas among active researchers and practitioners from a
variety of specialities with interest in technologies which might be applied in
the domains of mail, parcel, and bank services.
General chairman
J.-J. Viard (La Poste, France)
Co-chairman
J. Guitonneau (La Poste/SRTP, France)
Program chairman
J.-C. Burbaud (La Poste, SRTP, France)
Program committee
D. Barba (Univ. de Nantes, France)
M. Dannawi (Ecole centrale de Nantes, France)
B. Dolphin (Univ. d'Amiens, France)
M. Feuillas (SRTP, France)
F. Fogelman-Soulie (Univ. de Paris-Orsay, France)
T. Fritz (Deutsche Bundespost, Allemagne)
M. Gilloux (SRTP, France)
M. Grolee (Alisa, France)
J. Helard (SRTP, France)
G. Lorette (Univ. de Rennes, IRISA, France)
O. Palmieri (Ministere des P. et T., Italie)
K. Phillips (Royal Mail, Angleterre)
M. Sandrin (La Poste, France)
D. Scapin (INRIA, France)
L. Simonet (SRTP, France)
V. Uzylevsky (Technopost, Russie)
W. Veenstra (PTT Research, Hollande)
Organization
D. Heitz
SRTP
10, Rue de l'ile Mabon
F-44038 Nantes Cedex 01, France
Tel. : +33.40.69.98.78
Fax: +33.40.89.60.00
PROVISIONAL PROGRAM
10h00-10h30 Opening
Monday june 14th, 1993
10.30am-12.30am RECONNAISSANCE DE CARACTERES/CHARACTER RECOGNITION
State of the art of handwritten numeral recognition in Japan (Toshihiro
Matsui, Ikuo Yamashita, Toru Wakahara, Makoto Yoshimuro Institute for
Posts and Telecommunications Policy - Japan)
Handwritten Kanji character recognition by neighborhood feature
similarity method for Japanese kanji address readers (Toru Homma,
Yoshikatu Nakamura, Bunpei Irie, Haruo Asada - Toshiba Corporation -
Japan)
Pooling decisions in multi-expert recognition systems (O.A. Basir, H.C.
Shen - University of Waterloo - Canada)
Automatic reading of handwritten postal codes in boxes (Rob J.N.
Kalberg - PTT Research - The Netherlands)
Observations concerning handwriting character recognition modus
operandi (Leon A. Pintsov - Pitney Bowes - USA)
10.30am-12.30am IDENTIFICATION : TECHNIQUES/IDENTIFICATION: TECHNIQUES
Codification et identification automatique (Michel Grolie - Alisa -
France)
Area scanning for postal bar code applications (Roger C.Palmer -
Intermec Corporation - France)
Radio labels: A postal application (Piet C. Van Der Kraan - PTT
Research - The Netherlands)
Etiquette ilectronique pour caissettes de tri postal (Yves Thorigni, R.
Reitter - SEPT - France)
Ink jet printing for high volume postal applications (R. Mitchell, A.
Lecheheb, B. Rock, M. Fox - Domino Amjet - UK)
A jet print stamp cancellation machine (A.R. Lane - Royal Mail R&D -
UK)
10.30am-12.30am MANUTENTION/HANDLING
Descriptif sommaire d'une installation rialisie pour la Poste (Alain
Marchive - Samovie - France)
Supervision multi robots mobiles (Christophe Cadic - La Poste/SRTP -
France)
Gestion de lois horaires d'une flotte de chariots autonomes (P. Wenger,
H. Thomas - Ecole Centrale de Nantes - France)
Transmission de donnies par voie hertzienne pour le pilotage d'un
chariot de transport automatisi (Christophe Plot, Pierre Castagna,
Georges Javel - Laboratoire Nantais de Ginie Industriel - France)
2pm-3pm Invited lecture
3pm-5.45pm RECONNAISSANCE DE L'ECRITURE MANUSCRITE/HANDWRITING RECOGNITION
Global cursive postal code recognition using hidden Markov models (Jean-
Michel Bertille - SRTP - France)
An OCR for reading zip codes when character segmentation is not
possible (Mark O'Hair - US AIR FORCE - USA)
A toolbox recognition of varied handwritten script (R.K. Powalka, N.
Sherkat, R.J. Whitrow - The Nottingham Trent University - UK)
Recognition of handwritten words in a limited dynamic vocabulary (Michel
Gilloux, Jean Michel Bertille, Manuel Leroux - La Poste/SRTP - France)
Design of a system for off-line recognition of handwritten word images
(T. Caesar, J.M. Gloger, E. Mandler - Daimler Benz Reserch Center, Ulm
- Germany)
3pm-5.45pm MACHINES DE TRI/SORTING MACHINES
Buffer sorting for mail sequencing (Zef. T.W. Damen - PTT Research -
The Netherlands)
Sweeping robots for letters sorting machines (Guido De Leo - Elsag
Bailey Spa - Italy)
Carrier sequence bar code sorter (Pierre Advani - CGA - France)
Le tri des objets plats : La TOP de CGA (Francois Gillet - CGA -
France)
Manutention, Transfert d'objets plats ` haute cadence. L'expirience et
les risultats de Bertin & Cie (B. Roth, J. Roch, M. Liotard - Bertin -
France)
Real time singulation of postal parcels using a sensor based robot
system (A.J. Baerveldt - Institute of Robotics ETH Zurich -
Switzerland)
3pm-5.45pm GESTION INFORMATIQUE DE LA PRODUCTION/COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING
Real time production control in a mail processing and distribution
facility (Richard J. Harris, Brent A. Raney, Frederick R. Glickman,
Harvey M. Donaldson - USPS - USA)
Starsort: Just in time mail production (Ronald Sansone, William Hunt,
Je Oh - Pitney Bowes - USA)
Application of computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) Techniques to
mail processing operations (Roy M. Salzman - Arthur D. Little - USA)
Integrated IT solutions for freight handling (Eric Michonnet - Siemens
Nixdorf - France)
Computerised routing for automated mail processing (CRAMP) (Kevin Smith
- Royal Mail R&D - UK)
Integrated counter service retail terminal system (Yukinobu Tokunaga -
Ministry of Post and Telecom - Japan)
Tuesday june 15th, 1993
9am-10am Invited lecture
10.30am-12.30am SYSTEMES D'INFORMATION CLIENTS/SUBSCRIBERS INFORMATION SYSTEMS
A system approach to the mailer/Post interface (Richard A. Connell,
Leon A. Pintsov, Ronald P. Sansone, Alfred C. Schmidt- Pitney Bowes -
USA)
What is the right incentive for mailers? Modeling mailers response to
postal incentives (T. Biasi, L. Pintsov, E. Zemelman - Pitney Bowes -
USA)
Machines ` affranchir et statistiques (Claude Tetard - Neopost Industrie
- France)
Smart post: A new approach to postage revenue management and control
(Christian Delestre - Pitney Bowes - Germany)
2D symbologies. The tracing and tracking of documents and goods (Norm
Weiland - Pitney Bowes - Germany)
10.30am-12.30am SYSTEMES DE LECTURE AUTOMATIQUE/AUTOMATIC READING SYSTEMS
Determining delivery point codes on handwritten addresses (Sargur N.
Srihari, Venu Govindaraju - SUNY Buffalo - USA)
Recognition and verification of handwritten Bristish postcodes using
address features (A.C. Downton, C.G. Leedham - University of Essex -
UK)
The state of the art in handwriting recogntion for automated mail
processing (Gerardo L. Garcia - Arthur D. Little - USA)
Address verification in structured documents for automatic mail
delivery (M. Malburg, A. Dengel - German Research Center - Germany)
Reconnaissance des formes et vision artificielle (Gilles Arcas-Luque -
CGA - France)
10.30am-12.30am ORGANISATION/ORGANIZATION
Scinario prospectif d'acheminement ` J + 1 (Jean Claude Burbaud - La
Poste/SRTP - France)
Schima directeur du traitement du courrier (Paul Chaillou - La Poste
Direction du Courrier - France)
Optimisation (Alain Martin - P.E.A. - France - Laurent Gaillard - La
Poste Direction du courrier - France)
Productivity management in advanced postal administrations (Anura de
Silva, Donald Marks - Planmatics - USA)
Quality management in postal services (Diethelm Rtzel - AEG - Germany)
2pm-3.30pm VIDEOCODAGE/VIDEO ENCODING
Image processing in the B&H Image system 4000 (Raymond Lee, Atish Ghosh
- Bell & Howell - USA)
Remote coding installation for automatic letter sorting and letter
distribution (Karl Reich - AEG Electrocom Gmbh - Germany)
Vidhiocodage - Procidures et interfaces de codage (Emmanuel Miette, Jane
Dillon - CGA - France)
Mail processing in the western nassau IPSS pilot site (Raymond Lee,
Athis Ghosh - Bell & Howell - USA)
2pm-3.30pm LOCALISATION DE BLOCS D'INFORMATION/INFORMATION BLOCK LOCATION
The development and evaluation of a prototype real time address block
location and line finding module for a mail sorter (Alexandre Lehar -
Ektron Applied Imaging - USA)
A two step procedure to find the destination address block on postal
parcels (F. ade, A.J. Baerveldt, J. Wen - ETH Zurick - Switzerland)
A CCD camera-based bar code finder algorithm (N. Normand, C.
Viard-Gaudin, D. Barba - LATI/IRESTE - France)
Localisation automatique d'informations sur des formules de chhques (O.
Bougeois, P. Pontevia, T. Prat, A. Sicsu, J.V. Moreau - MATRA MS2i -
France)
2pm-3.30pm MANUTENTION/HANDLING
Automated material handling systems in Osaka Letter Post office and
Osaka Parcel Post Office (Thoshiro Ono, Takamasa Shima, Masuo Yoshioka
- Ministry of posts and Telecommunications - Japan)
Conception et rialisation du systhme de tri de la plate-forme routihre de
Roubaix-Carihem : une dimarche originale (Jean Michel Cour - B.A.
Systmes - France - Michel Cerisier - La Poste Roubaix - France)
An anlysis of the postal automated staging and retrieval system (PASRS)
for the sacramento California General mail facility (John C. Weller -
USPS - USA)
4pm-5.45pm VIDEOCODAGE/VIDEO ENCODING
Ergonomics activities related to remote bar coding systems (RBCS)
(Soraya Noland - USPS - USA
Video coding of mail - Development of a video coding stategy (Graham
Chamberlain, Jane Dillon - Royal Mail R&D - UK)
Video coding of mail - A study of critical factors in keyer performance
(Jane Dillon, Graham Chamberlain - Royal Mail R&D - UK)
Vidiocodage du courrier (Mauricette Feuillas - SRTP - France)
Enhancing postal address data bases for improved address matching (Bob
Deaton - TRW Financial System - USA)
4pm-5.45pm RESEAUX NEURONAUX/NEURAL NETWORKS
Radial basis function network for handwritten digit recognition
(Bernard Lemarii - La Poste/SRTP - France)
Evaluation of a neural system for handwritten digits recognition
(Isabelle Pottier, Gilles Burel - Thomsom CSF - France)
Handwritten digit recognition (Hazem Bouattour, Eric Julien - Mimetics
- France)
Statistical combination of multiple classifiers adapted on image parts
(Jurgen Franke - Daimler Benz - Germany)
A postal application study at France Telecom Handwritten digit
recognition with neural networks (Y. Idan, N. Darbel, R. Chevallier, B.
Dorizzi- Tilicom Paris - France J.M. Auger - France Tilicom, INT - France)
4pm-5.45pm IDENTIFICATION : APPLICATIONS/IDENTIFICATION: APPLICATIONS
L'identification automatique par codes-barres (Alain Macaigne -
Intermec Systmes - France)
Counting mail pieces in batches using a bar code scanner (Freek W.
Bomhof - PTT Research - The Netherlands)
Amiliorer les flux physiques par une gestion automatique fiable (B.
Jeanneau - Sollac - France)
L'identification automatique de la Poste francaise (Daniel Gouineau - La
Poste/SRTP - Guy Halftermeyer - La Poste - France)
Secure postage payment system (Lon Pintsov - Pitney Bowes - USA)
Wenesday june 16th, 1993
9am-10am Invited lecture
10.30am-12.30am FACTEURS HUMAINS/HUMAN FACTORS
Ergonomics and computer technologies: the human factor (Jerome I. Nadel
- Unisys - USA)
Analyse ergonomique du tri manuel des facteurs distributeurs (Claudine
De Jonghe - Santi et Travail SMI - Belgium)
Mithode du banc d'essai pour l'ivaluation ergonomique d'une messagerie
ilectronique internationale (Raymond Lucongsang - ILS CCI Bayonne -
France)
Royal mail's center of excellence - Changing work practices in a mail
processing centre (Joe Langford, Mije Hall - Royal Mail R&D - UK)
A quality standard for maintenance manuals (R.H. Whitton , Martin
Bontoft - Royal Mail R&D - UK)
10.30am-12.30am OPTIMISATION/OPTIMIZATION
Graphical route inspection planning system (GRIP) (Eric Schnadig -
Kenan System Corporation - USA)
Using geographic modeling to adjust carrier routes (B. J. Walsh, H.M.
Donaldson, F.R. Glickman - USPS - USA)
Canada post's experience in applying computerized techniques to
redesigning mail delivery routes (Jim Anderton - Canada Post
Corporation - Canada)
Optimized labor schedules in a mail processing model (Eric Schnadig -
Kenan System Corporation - USA)
Optimisation de l'utilisation des machines de traitement automatique de
courrier avec les techniques de programmation par contraintes (P.
Baptiste, C. Houberdon, B. Legeard - Laboratoire Automatique de Besancon
- H. Cantelou - La Poste, Direction du Courrier - France)
10.30am-12.30am LECTURE AUTOMATIQUE DES CHEQUES/AUTOMATIC READING OF CHEQUES
Les algorithmes de reconnaissance des images de lignes peuvent-ils jtre
robustes? (Jean Claude Simon - LAFORIA/CNRS & A2IA - France)
Traitement automatique des montants numiriques des chhques (E. Lethelier,
J.-F. Couthouis, M. Leroux - La Poste/SRTP - France)
Recognition of cursive script amounts on postal cheques (Michel
Gilloux, Manuel Leroux - La Poste/SRTP - France)
Reconnaissance de la signature manuscrite sur les chhques postaux (Marie
Josephe Revillet - SEPT - France)
Authentification de signatures on line par analyse de la vitesse
curviligne ` l'aide de riseaux de type diabolo (M. Milgram, A.C. Doux -
Universiti de Paris VI - France)
2pm-3.30pm SYSTEMES ELECTRONIQUES/ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS
Technology and business overview of the scandinavian Post service (Per
Juul Nielsen - Postal Service - Denmark)
Development of future electronically-based postal products and services
at Canada Post (Fred Johns - Canada Post Corporation - Canada)
L'automatisation du nodal bureaufax de la Poste (V. Libirati - La
Poste/SRTP - P. Fourmond - SEPT - P. Bienfait, P. Hoel - SAGEM -
France)
2pm-3.30pm MODELISATION/MODELLING
Optimisation de l'organisation interne des centres de traitement du
courrier (Alain Martin - Productive Edge Associates SA - France)
Mail production operations: A modeling approach (Je Oh - Pitney Bowes -
USA)
Remote installation for automatic letter sorting and letter
distribution (Karl Reich - AEG Electrocom Gmbh - Germany)
Potential subject areas: Mail processing scenarios handling simulation
(Francis T. Korosec - IBM Federal System Company - USA)
Tri des objets plats : Approche systhme - Flat mail system analysis
(Franois Gillet - CGA - France)
2pm-3.30pm ARCHITECTURES DE MACHINES/COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES
Strutured design of scalable parallel processors for real time
handwriting recognition (A.C. Downton, R.W. Tregidgo - University Essex
- UK)
New pipelined-parallel OCR engine architecture (Yasuharu Itamoto,
Kimihisa Sudo, Ichirou Kaneko, Yasuo Nishijima Kazunari Egami - NEC
Corporation - Japan)
Pritraitement et reconnaissance des codes postaux par machine
multi-processeur ` grain multiple (A. Thipaut, J. Le Drezen, G. Ouvradou,
J.-D. Laisne - TELECOM Bretagne - France Y. Autret - Universiti de
Bretagne - France)
Parallel architecture for computation intensive tasks in postal
applications (Bruno Conterno, Giorgio Musso - Elsag Bailey Spa - Italy)
A parallel engine for real-time handwriting and optical character
recognition (N. Sherkat, R.K. Powalka, R.J. Whitrow - The Nottingham
Trent University - UK)
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