In order to apply Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to historical printings of Latin script
fully automatically, we report on our efforts to construct a widely-applicable polyfont …

Generic programming is a paradigm whose wide adoption by the C++ community is quite
recent. In this scheme most classes and procedures are parameterized, leading to the …

Classical (unbounded) genericity in Cpp03 defines the interactions between generic data
types and algorithms in terms of concepts. Concepts define the requirements over a type (or …

C++ is a multi-paradigm language that enables the initiated programmer to set up efficient
image processing algorithms. This language strength comes from several aspects. C++ is …

New trends in programming languages present a new challenge to researchers,
productivity. One trend focuses on providing programmers with more productive languages …

This paper presents an ongoing research on the behavior and performance of LISP with
respect to C in the context of scientific numerical computing. Several simple image …

Abstract Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on historical printings is a challenging task
mainly due to the complexity of the layout and the highly variant typography. Nevertheless …

Programming languages have a dual role in the construction of software. The language is
both our substrate (the stuff we make software from), and our tool (what we use to construct …

This article reports the results of an ongoing experimental research on the behavior and
performance of CLOS, the COMMON-LISP Object System. Our purpose is to evaluate the …

In the context of software engineering for image processing (IP), we consider the notion of
reusability of algorithms. In many software tools, an algorithm's implementation often …