Robert Sablatnig

@tuwien.ac.at

Faculty of Informatics, Institute of Visual Computing & Human Centered Technology, Computer Vision Lab
TU Wien

Robert Sablatnig


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Robert Sablatnig, was born in Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria, in 1965. He re¬ceived his B.Sc. de¬gree in Computer Science in 1988, his M.Sc. de¬gree (Diplom Ingenieur) in Computer Science (Computer Graphics, Pat¬tern Recognition & Image Processing) in 1992, his Ph.D. degree in Com¬¬puter Science in 1997, and the “venia docendi” (habilitation) in Applied Computer Science in 2003, all from the TU Wien.

From 1992 to 2003, he was an assistant professor (, and from 2003 to 2010, an associate professor (ao of computer vision at the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Group. From 2005 to 2017, he was the head of the Institute for Computer Aided Automation. Since 2010 he has been heading the Computer Vision Lab, part of 2018 founded Institute of Visual Computing & Human-Centered Technology, which he has been leading since 2019. His research interests are 3D Computer Vision, including Range Finder, Stereovision, Shape from X, Registration, Calibration, Robot Vision,

EDUCATION

1997 - 2003 TU Wien: Habilitation
Thesis title: Shape-Based Machine Vision
1992 - 1997 TU Wien: Ph.D. (with honors)
Thesis Title: A Highly Adaptable Concept for Visual Inspection,
Advisor: Prof. Walter Kropatsch.
1988 - 1992 TU Wien: Computer Science (Pattern Recognition & Image Processing), Graduation: Diplom Ingenieur (MS- Computer Science)
Thesis Title: “Das Lichtschnittverfahren, ein Verfahren zur Erfassung archäologischer Fundgegenstände” (Shape from structured light, a
method for the acquisition of archaeological finds), Advisor: Prof. Axel Pinz.
1984 - 1988 TU Wien: Computer Science, Graduation: BS

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Arts and Humanities
187

Scopus Publications

5950

Scholar Citations

40

Scholar h-index

140

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Semantically Stable Image Composition Analysisvia Saliency and Gradient Vector Flow Fusion
    A Dadras, R Sablatnig, F Proksa, M Seidl
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.16500 , 2026
    2026
  • SeaClips: A Video Dataset for Maritime Object Detection.
    F Denk, C Rankl, S Almouahed, D Moser, R Sablatnig
    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer … , 2026
    2026
  • ClapperText: A Benchmark for Text Recognition in Low-Resource Archival
    T Lin, M Peer, F Kleber, R Sablatnig
    Document Analysis and Recognition–ICDAR 2025 Workshops: Wuhan, China … , 2026
    2026
  • Near Real Time Explainable Detection of Small Objects in Remote Sensing
    M Burges, R Sablatnig
    Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition, 33-47 , 2025
    2025
  • Few-shot connectivity-aware text line segmentation in historical documents
    R Sterzinger, T Lin, R Sablatnig
    Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition, 100-114 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Rule-of-Thirds Detection with Interpretable Geometric Features
    A Dadras, T Lin, R Sablatnig, M Seidl
    Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on analySis, Understanding and … , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • DGME-T: Directional Grid Motion Encoding for Transformer-Based Historical Camera Movement Classification
    T Lin, A Dadras, F Kleber, R Sablatnig
    Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on analySis, Understanding and … , 2025
    2025
  • A quantitative performance comparison of Google Coral TPU and NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano in image processing applications
    P Diem, O Sluciak, E Bodenstorfer, P Meyer-Heye, R Sablatnig
    EMVA Forum 2025 , 2025
    2025
  • Camera Movement Classification in Historical Footage: A Comparative Study of Deep Video Models
    T Lin, A Dadras, F Kleber, R Sablatnig
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.14713 , 2025
    2025
  • ClapperText: A Benchmark for Text Recognition in Low-Resource Archival Documents
    T Lin, M Peer, F Kleber, R Sablatnig
    International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 329-346 , 2025
    2025
  • Few-Shot Segmentation of Historical Maps via Linear Probing of Vision Foundation Models
    R Sterzinger, M Peer, R Sablatnig
    International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 425-442 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Towards the Influence of Text Quantity on Writer Retrieval
    M Peer, R Sablatnig, F Kleber
    International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 129-145 , 2025
    2025
  • Visual Heritage: Visual Analytics and Computer Vision Meet Cultural Heritage (doc. funds. connect)
    W Aigner, S Miksch, F Proksa, R Sablatnig, M Seidl, W Manuela, ...
    Abstractband: 18. Forschungsforum der österreichischen Fachhochschulen, 558-559 , 2025
    2025
  • Interactive object detection for tiny objects in large remotely sensed images
    M Burges, S Zambanini, R Sablatnig
    2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV … , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 4
  • Advances in Machine Learning for the Automated Analysis of Manuscripts
    F Kleber, M Peer, R Sablatnig
    Written Heritage, New Challenges and Perspectives, 355-377 , 2025
    2025
  • Advancing Handwritten Text Detection by Synthetic Text
    M Muth, M Peer, F Kleber, R Sablatnig
    International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 122-136 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • Fusing forces: deep-human-guided refinement of segmentation masks
    R Sterzinger, C Stippel, R Sablatnig
    International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 154-169 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • Kairacters: character-level-based writer retrieval for Greek papyri
    M Peer, R Sablatnig, O Serbaeva, I Marthot-Santaniello
    International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 73-88 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 5
  • Making Archives Searchable: Vision-Language Models for Classification of Historical Aerial Imagery
    M Burges, S Zambanini, R Sablatnig
    Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Searching … , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • Maximizing Data Efficiency of HTR Models by Synthetic Text
    M Muth, M Peer, F Kleber, R Sablatnig
    International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 295-311 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Cvl-database: An off-line database for writer retrieval, writer identification and word spotting
    F Kleber, S Fiel, M Diem, R Sablatnig
    2013 12th international conference on document analysis and recognition, 560-564 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 353
  • Transforming scholarship in the archives through handwritten text recognition: Transkribus as a case study
    G Muehlberger, L Seaward, M Terras, S Ares Oliveira, V Bosch, M Bryan, ...
    Journal of documentation 75 (5), 954-976 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 291
  • Writer identification and retrieval using a convolutional neural network
    S Fiel, R Sablatnig
    International conference on computer analysis of images and patterns, 26-37 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 176
  • A novel image retrieval based on visual words integration of SIFT and SURF
    N Ali, KB Bajwa, R Sablatnig, SA Chatzichristofis, Z Iqbal, M Rashid, ...
    PloS one 11 (6), e0157428 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 136
  • Word beam search: A connectionist temporal classification decoding algorithm
    H Scheidl, S Fiel, R Sablatnig
    2018 16th International conference on frontiers in handwriting recognition … , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 131
  • Writer identification and writer retrieval using the fisher vector on visual vocabularies
    S Fiel, R Sablatnig
    2013 12th International conference on document analysis and recognition, 545-549 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 124
  • Hierarchical classification of paintings using face-and brush stroke models
    R Sablatnig, P Kammerer, E Zolda
    Proceedings. Fourteenth International Conference on Pattern Recognition (Cat … , 1998
    1998
    Citations: 119
  • 3D MURALE: A multimedia system for archaeology
    J Cosmas, T Itegaki, D Green, E Grabczewski, F Weimer, L Van Gool, ...
    Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Virtual reality, archeology, and … , 2001
    2001
    Citations: 115
  • Architectural style classification of building facade windows
    G Shalunts, Y Haxhimusa, R Sablatnig
    International Symposium on Visual Computing, 280-289 , 2011
    2011
    Citations: 109
  • Writer retrieval and writer identification using local features
    S Fiel, R Sablatnig
    2012 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 145-149 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 105
  • Automated identification of tree species from images of the bark, leaves or needles
    S Fiel, R Sablatnig
    na , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 87
  • Image retrieval by addition of spatial information based on histograms of triangular regions
    N Ali, KB Bajwa, R Sablatnig, Z Mehmood
    Computers & Electrical Engineering 54, 539-550 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 86
  • A robust SIFT descriptor for multispectral images
    S Saleem, R Sablatnig
    IEEE signal processing letters 21 (4), 400-403 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 85
  • ICDAR 2013 competition on handwritten digit recognition (HDRC 2013)
    M Diem, S Fiel, A Garz, M Keglevic, F Kleber, R Sablatnig
    2013 12th international conference on document analysis and recognition … , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 76
  • Binarization-free text line segmentation for historical documents based on interest point clustering
    A Garz, A Fischer, R Sablatnig, H Bunke
    2012 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, 95-99 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 75
  • Rule based system for archaeological pottery classification
    M Kampel, R Sablatnig
    Pattern Recognition Letters 28 (6), 740-747 , 2007
    2007
    Citations: 67
  • Automatic reading of analog display instruments
    R Sablatnig, WG Kropatsch
    Proceedings of 12th international conference on pattern recognition 1, 794-797 , 1994
    1994
    Citations: 67
  • A survey of techniques for document and archaeology artefact reconstruction
    F Kleber, R Sablatnig
    2009 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition … , 2009
    2009
    Citations: 61
  • ICFHR 2014 competition on handwritten digit string recognition in challenging datasets (HDSRC 2014)
    M Diem, S Fiel, F Kleber, R Sablatnig, JM Saavedra, D Contreras, ...
    2014 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition … , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 59
  • Model-based registration of front-and backviews of rotationally symmetric objects
    R Sablatnig, M Kampel
    Computer Vision and Image Understanding 87 (1-3), 90-103 , 2002
    2002
    Citations: 58

Industry, Institute, or Organisation Collaboration

2004 - 2010 Founding Chair of IAPR-TC19: TC19: Computer Vision for Cultural Heritage Applica¬tions concerned with design methods for Cultural Heritage documentation systems and components, 3D reconstruction of cultural heritage objects and fragments, Reassembly of artifacts from fragments, 3D architectural site reconstruction or representation from imagery and other data, Shape representation for free-form modeling (statues, bones, etc.), Automated trench recordings from video, Shape matching/indexing in large databases (for a single site and across multiple sites), Automated architectural drawing.
Since 2012 Member of the Governing Board of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).

STARTUP

2021 - 2023 Co-founder and partner of RockDoc GmbH
2011 - Co-founder and partner of app-informatics Ziviltechnik GmbH