Call for Competitions

ICFHR 2010

Kolkata, INDIA

November 16-18, 2010

http://www.isical.ac.in/~icfhr2010/

The ICFHR 2010 Organizing Committee invites proposals for competitions to be held in the framework of the Conference. Competitions should aim at evaluating the performance of algorithms and methods for a particular task of Handwriting Recognition.

Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Competitions Chairs, Volker Maergner, Michael Blumenstein, and Haikal El Abed (ICFHR2010-CompetitionsChairs), no later than March 1st, 2010. Proposals should include:

• The names, contact information, and brief CVs of the competition organizers.
• A brief description of the competition, including which is the particular task under evaluation and why this competition could be of interest to the ICFHR community.
• A first draft of the outline of the competition: which data is planned to be used, how will the methods be tested (before/during the conference), which performance measures will be used.

The competitions may run before or during ICFHR. In either case, a report on each competition will be published in the conference proceedings and the results will be announced during a particular session of the conference. The deadline for submitting the competition reports will be June 10th, 2010.

Important Dates:

• March 1st, 2010: Registration of competitions
• June 10th, 2010: deadline for submission of competition reports
• June 23rd, 2010: Camera ready competition reports

Competition Chairs:

• Volker Maergner (v.maergner (at) tu-bs.de)
• Michael Blumenstein (m.blumenstein (at) griffith.edu.au)
• Haikal El Abed (elabed (at) tu-bs.de)