Alicia Fornés received the B.S. degree from the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) in 2003 and the M.S. degree from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2005. She obtained the Ph.D. degree on writer identification of old music scores from the UAB in 2009. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the UAB and the Computer Vision Center, and member of the AERFAI (Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition Spanish Association, a member society of the IAPR). She has published several papers in international conferences and journals. Her research interests include document analysis, historical documents, symbol recognition, music scores, handwriting analysis and writer identification.

Anjan Dutta received the MCA degree in Computer Applications from the West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India in the year 2009. He also completed the MS in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Computer Vision Centre of Barcelona under the supervision of Dr. Josep Lladós and Dr. Umapada Pal. His main research interests include Graphics Recognition, Structural Pattern Recognition using graph matching technique.

Albert Gordo received his BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Engineering and Intelligent Systems from the University Jaume I in Castellón, Spain, in 2007 and 2009 respectively. He also holds a degree in Computational Math obtained in 2007. He is currently pursuing his PhD in the Computer Vision Center of Barcelona, Spain in collaboration with the Xerox Research Centre Europe in Grenoble, France, under the supervision of Dr. Ernest Valveny and Dr. Florent Perronnin. His main research interests include document image analysis, document retrieval and large scale.

Josep Lladós received the degree in Computer Sciences in 1991 from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and the PhD degree in Computer Sciences in 1997 from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) and the Université Paris 8 (France). Currently he an Associate Professor at the Computer Sciences Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and a staff researcher of the Computer Vision Center (CVC), where he is also the director. He is the head of the Pattern Recognition and Document Analysis Group (2009SGR-418). His current research fields are document analysis, graphics recognition and structural and syntactic pattern recognition. He has been the head of a number of Computer Vision R+D projects and published several papers in international conferences and journals. J. Lladós is an active member of the Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition Spanish Association (AERFAI), a member society of the IAPR. He is currently the chairman of the IAPR-ILC (Industrial Liaison Committee). Formerly he served as chairman of the IAPR TC-10, and also he is a member of the IAPR TC-11 and IAPR TC-15. He serves on the Editorial Board of the ELCVIA (Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis) and the IJDAR (International Journal in Document Analysis and Recognition). He was the general chair of the ICDAR2009 Conference held in Barcelona in July 2009. He was the recipient of the IAPR-ICDAR Young Investigator Award in 2007. Josep Lladós has also experience in technological transfer and in 2002 he created the company ICAR Vision Systems, a spin-off of the CVC-UAB working on Document Image Analysis.