• Human Computer Interfacing

Research Interests

• Content Based Image Retrieval
• Document Image Processing

• GRAPHEM: Computerized Analysis of medieval manuscripts to help palaeographers in their understanding of the evolution of writing forms. The project was funded by the National Research Agency(ANR), France. My specific contribution to the project was Classification of writing styles

• (Urdu) Keyword based Indexing and Retrieval of Digital Multimedia Content

• Siddiqi, I., Cloppet, F. and Vincent, N.: Contour Based Features for the Classification of Ancient Manuscripts, In IGS’09: Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the International Graphonomics Society, 13th–16th September 2009, Dijon, France.
• Siddiqi, I. and Vincent, N.: Combining Contour Based Orientation and Curvature Features for Writer Recognition, In CAIP’09: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, 2nd–4th September 2009, Münster, Germany
• Siddiqi, I. and Vincent, N.: A Set of Chain Code Based Features for Writer Recognition. In ICDAR '09: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 26th–29th July 2009, Barcelona, Spain
• Khurshid, K., Siddiqi, I., Faure, C. and Vincent, N.: Comparison of Niblack Inspired Binarization Methods for Ancient Documents, In DRR’09: Proceedings of the 16th Document Recognition and Retrieval Conference, 21st–22nd January 2009, San Jose, CA, USA
• Siddiqi, I. and Vincent, N.: Stroke Width Independent Feature for Writer Identification and Handwriting Classification. In ICFHR '08: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, 19th– 21st August 2008, Montreal, Canada.
• Siddiqi, I. and Vincent, N.: Combining Global and Local Features for Writer Identification. In ICFHR '08: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, 19th–21st August 2008, Montreal, Canada.
• Siddiqi, I. and Vincent, N.: How to Define Local Shape Descriptors for Writer Identification and Verification. In PRIS'08: 8th Int'l workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems, 12th–13th June 2008, Barcelona, Spain
• Siddiqi, I. and Vincent, N.: Writer Identification in Handwritten Documents. In ICDAR '07: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 23rd–26th September 2007, Curitiba, Brazil.
• Qazi, A.A., Siddiqi, I. and Hussain, S.: Text Detection and Recognition for Video Indexing, In ICSES ’04: Proceedings of 26th IEEE International Conference on Signals and Electronic Systems, 13th–15th September, 2004, Poland