The Hong Kong Institute of Education
Address : Room D3-2/F-01A, Block D3, HKIEd, 10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, Hong Kong
Phone: (852) 2948 7808 Fax : (852) 2948 8013
E-mail : llam@ied.edu.hk
Research Interest
L. Lam, R. Fan, Q.
Xu & C. Y. Suen. Segmentation of date field on bank cheques. Advances in
Statistical, Structural and Syntactical Pattern Recognition, eds. A. Amin,
F. J. Ferri, J. M. Ivesta & P. Pudil, Springer-Verlag, 163-172, 2000.
C. Y. Suen, Q. Xu & L. Lam. Automatic
recognition of handwritten data on cheques – fact or fiction? Pattern
Recognition Letters, 20: 1287-1295, 1999.
L. Lam & C. Y. Suen. Rejection versus error in
a multiple experts environment. Advances in Pattern Recognition, eds. A.
Amin, D. Dori, P. Pudil & H. Freeman, Springer-Verlag, 746-755, 1998.
L. Lam, J. Ding & C. Y. Suen. Differentiating
between oriental and European scripts by statistical features. Int. Journal
of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 12(1): 63-79, 1998.
L. Lam & C. Y. Suen. Classification of human
chromosomes – a study of correlated behavior in majority vote. Handbook on
Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, eds. C.H. Chen, L.F. Pau &
P.S.P. Wang, World Scientific, 567-578, 1998.
L. Lam & C. Y. Suen. Application of majority
voting to pattern recognition: An analysis of its behavior and performance. IEEE
Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 27(5): 553-568, 1997.
L. Lam, Y.-S. Huang & C. Y. Suen. Combination
of multiple classifier decisions for optical character recognition. Handbook
of Optical Character Recognition and Digital Image Analysis, eds. H. Bunke
& P. S. P. Wang, World Scientific, 79-101, 1997.
C. Y. Suen, L. Lam, D. Guillevic, N. Strathy, M.
Cheriet, J. N. Said and R. Fan. Bank cheque processing system. Int. J.
Imaging Systems and Technology, 7: 392-403, 1996.
L. Lam & C. Y. Suen. Majority vote of even and
odd experts in a polychotomous choice situation. Theory and Decision,
41: 13-36, 1996.
L. Lam & C. Y. Suen. An evaluation of parallel
thinning algorithms for character recognition. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis
and Machine Intelligence, 17(9): 914-919, 1995.
L. Lam & C. Y. Suen. Optimal combinations of
pattern classifiers. Pattern Recognition Letters, 16(9): 945-954, 1995.
L. Lam & C. Y. Suen. Automatic comparison of
skeletons by shape matching methods. Int. J. Pattern Recognition and
Artificial Intellelligence, 7(5): 1271-1286, 1993.
S.-W. Lee, L. Lam & C. Y. Suen. A systematic
evaluation of skeletonization algorithms. Int. J. Pattern Recognition and
Artificial Intelligence, 7(5): 1203-1225, 1993.
L. Lam, S.-W. Lee & C. Y. Suen. Thinning
methodologies – A comprehensive survey. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis &
Machine Intelligence, 14(9): 869-885, 1992. Reprinted in Document Image
Analysis, eds. L. O'Gorman and R. Kasturi, IEEE Computer Society Press,
61-77, 1995.
C. Y. Suen, C. Nadal, R. Legault, T. A. Mai &
L. Lam. Computer recognition of unconstrained handwritten numerals. Proceedings
of IEEE, 80(7): 1162-1180, 1992.
C. Y. Suen, C. Nadal, R. Legault, M. Cheriet &
L. Lam. Building a new generation of handwriting recognition systems. Pattern
Recognition Letters, 14: 303-315, 1992.
L. Lam & C. Y. Suen. Feature extraction and
classification of handwritten numerals. Heuristics, the Journal of Knowledge
Engineering, 4(1): 10-29, 1991.
L. Lam & C. Y. Suen. A dynamic shape preserving
thinning algorithm. Signal Processing, 22: 199-208, 1991.
L. Lam, Q. Xu & C. Y. Suen. Differentiation
between Alphabetic and Numeric Data Using NN Ensembles. Proc. 16th
Int. Conf. On Pattern Recognition, Quebec City, Canada, August 2002 (in
press).
L. Lam. Statistics Education in Hong Kong. Proc.
6th Int. Conf. On the Teaching of Statistics, Cape Town, South
Africa, July 2002 (in press).
Q. Xu,, J. H. Kim, L. Lam
& C. Y. Suen. Recognition of Handwritten Month Words on Bank Cheques. Proc.
8th Int. Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition,
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, August 2002 (in press).
Q. Xu, L. Lam & C. Y. Suen. A knowledge-based segmentation system
for handwritten data on bank cheques. Proc. 6th Int. Conf. On
Document Analysis and Recognition, Seattle, USA, Sept. 2001, 384-388.
L. Lam. Theory and application of majority vote –
from Condorcet Jury Theorem to pattern recognition. Proc. Int. Conference
on Mathematics for Living, Amman, Jordan, Nov. 2000, 177-182.
L. Lam. Classifier combinations: implementations
and theoretical issues. Proc. 1st Int. Workshop on Multiple
Classifier Systems, Cagliari, Italy, June 2000, 77-86.
C. Y. Suen & L. Lam. Multiple classifier
combination methodologies for different output levels. Proc. 1st
Int. Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, Cagliari, Italy, June 2000,
52-66.
C. Y. Suen, J. Kim, K. Kim,, Q. Xu & L. Lam.
Handwriting recognition – the last frontiers. Proc. 15th Int.
Conf. on Pattern Recognition, Barcelonia, Spain, Sept. 2000, IV: 1-10.
L. Lam. Applications of mathematics to
artificial intelligence. Proc. Mathematics 2000 Festival, Melbourne,
Australia, Jan. 2000, 91-100.
J. Ding, L. Lam & C. Y. Suen. Classification of
Oriental and European scripts using characteristic features. Proc. Fourth
International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Ulm,
Germany, August 1997, 1023-1027.
J. Ding, L. Lam & C. Y. Suen. Differentiation
between Oriental and European Scripts. Proc. International Conference on the
Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, Hong Kong, April 1997, 35-40.
R. Fang, L. Lam and C. Y. Suen. Processing of date
information on cheques. Proc. 5th International Workshop on Frontiers in
Handwriting Recognition, Essex, UK, Sept. 1996, 207-212.
L. Lam, C. Y. Suen, D. Guillevic, N. Strathy, M.
Cheriet, K. Liu & J. N. Said. Automatic processing of information on
cheques. Proc. 1995 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics,
Vancouver, Canada, Oct. 1995, 2353-2358.
L. Lam & C. Y. Suen. Increasing experts for
majority vote in OCR: Theoretical considerations and strategies. Proc. 4th
Int. Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec.
1994, 245-254.
L. Lam & C. Y. Suen. A theoretical analysis of
the application of majority voting to pattern recognition. Proc. 11th IAPR
Conf. on Pattern Recognition, Jerusalem, Israel, Oct. 1994, II: 418-420.
L. Lam & C. Y. Suen. Evaluation of thinning
algorithms from an OCR viewpoint. Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Document Analysis
& Recognition, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, Oct. 1993, 287-290.
J. Franke, L. Lam, R. Legault, C. Nadal & C. Y.
Suen. Experiments with the CENPARMI data base combining different classifier
approaches. Pre-Proc. 3rd Int. Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting
Recognition, Buffalo, New York, May 1993, 305-311.
L. Lam & C. Y. Suen. Automatic evaluation of
skeleton shapes. Proc. 11th IAPR Conf. on Pattern Recognition, The
Hague, Netherlands, Aug. 1992, B: 342-345.
C. Y. Suen, R. Legault, C. Nadal, M. Cheriet &
L. Lam. Stretching the limits of handwriting recognition systems. Proc. 2nd
IPTP Conf. on Postal Processing Systems in the 21st Century and Character
Recognition, Tokyo, Japan, Jan 1992, 97-109.
S.-W. Lee, L. Lam & C. Y. Suen. Performance
evaluation of skeletonization algorithms for document image processing. Proc.
1st Int. Conf. on Document Analysis & Recognition, Saint-Malo, France,
Sept. 1991, 260-271.