Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition

The center was established with funding from the United States Postal Service[1] and National Institute of Justice.

Work at CEDAR, with Sargur Srihari as principal investigator, led to the first handwritten address interpretation system in the world.

[3] CEDAR-FOX, the first system for automatic comparison of handwriting for the purpose of forensic analysis, was developed at CEDAR.

Known as HWAI, it was first deployed by the United States Postal Service through its contractor Lockheed-Martin in Tampa, Florida during the holiday December season in 1997.

This was due to the large volume of mail that the US Postal Service processes and the cost of labor involved.

Method used for exploiting contextual information in the first handwritten address interpretation system developed by Sargur Srihari and Jonathan Hull.