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Researcher

Enrique Vidal Ruiz

Also known as Enrique Vidal-Ruis, Enrique Vidal

Enrique Vidal Ruiz is a researcher in pattern recognition whose AI work links speech translation with handwritten-text recognition and manuscript digitization. He earned a doctorate in physical sciences in 1985 and became a professor at Universitat Politècnica de València in 1990. His group led a speech-to-speech machine-translation project at ITI-UPV from 1996 to 2000, and IAPR named him a Fellow in 1996 for contributions to syntactic pattern recognition. He received the 2011 Premio Aritmel al informático del año for scientific contributions to engineering informatics and joined the team behind Transkriptorium, a 2020 UPV spin-off for AI-based manuscript transcription and indexing. As of October 2026, he is an emeritus professor at UPV and a founder of Transkriptorium.

Born
1949
Links
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Timeline

  1. 1949–1990

    A doctorate and UPV professorship

    He is born in 1949 and earns a doctorate in physical sciences in 1985. He becomes a professor at Universitat Politècnica de València in 1990.

  2. 1996

    An IAPR fellowship

    IAPR names him a Fellow in 1996 for contributions to syntactic pattern recognition.

  3. 1996–2000

    The EuTrans translation project

    His group at the Computer Science Institute of the Universitat Politècnica de València leads a speech-to-speech machine-translation project. Its first stage lasts six months in 1996, and its second runs from 1997 to 2000. The team develops methods for real tasks and three learning techniques for EuTrans prototypes.

  4. 2011

    The Aritmel informatics award

    He receives the 2011 Premio Aritmel al informático del año for scientific contributions to engineering informatics.

  5. 2020

    A Transkriptorium spin-off

    He is part of the team promoting Transkriptorium, formed as a UPV spin-off in 2020 to transcribe and index digitized handwritten documents. Its machine-learning and artificial-intelligence technology reaches content from thousands of old manuscript pages.

  6. 2026

    Handwriting recognition research

    In 2026, he coauthors “Simple handwritten text recognition techniques for highly accurate writer identification” with Alejandro Héctor Toselli, Alvaro Cuellar, Sonia Boadas and Joan Andreu Sánchez.

  7. As of October 2026

    Emeritus professor and founder

    He is an emeritus professor at UPV and a former co-director of PRHLT. He is a founder of Transkriptorium and works in machine learning and AI.

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Sources and credits

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  1. El catedrático de la UPV Enrique Vidal, Premio Nacional de Informática 2011 20minutos.es. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. Chronological List of IAPR Fellows – International Association for Pattern Recognition iapr.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. Speech-to-speech machine translation paginaspersonales.deusto.es. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. Noticia UPV: Nace una nueva spin-off en la Universitat Politècnica de València para transcribir e indexar documentos manuscritos | Universitat Politècnica de València upv.es. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. Enrique Vidal | PRHLT Research Center prhlt.upv.es. Checked 19 October 2026.
  6. About Us | tranSkriptorium transkriptorium.com. Checked 19 October 2026.