ICFHR 2012 – CALL FOR COMPETITIONS

The 13th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition

Bari, Italy

September 18-20, 2012

http://www.icfhr2012.uniba.it/

The ICFHR 2012 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 for review by e-mail to the Competitions Chairs, Apostolos Antonacopoulos (A.Antonacopoulos@primaresearch.org) and Haikal El Abed (elabed@tu-bs.de), no later than December 20th, 2011. Proposals should include:

* The names, contact information, and brief CVs of the competition organizers, outlining previous experience in performance evaluation and/or organizing competitions.
* 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.

Notes:

1. Accepted competitions may run before or during ICFHR.
2. Datasets used in the competitions must be made available after the end of the competitions.
3. Evaluation methodologies and metrics used must be described in detail so that results can be replicated later.
4. The results of accepted competitions will be announced during a particular session of the conference.
5. Reports (full papers) on each competition will be reviewed and, if accepted (the competition run according to plan), will be published in the conference proceedings.

Important Dates:

* December 20th, 2011:* January 3rd, 2012: Submission of competition proposals.
* January 10th, 2012: Notification of acceptances.
* January 12th, 2012: Competitions open and publicised.
* April 30th, 2012: Deadline for submission (for review) of full papers describing the competitions. Papers must be sent directly to the Competition Chairs.
* May 15th, 2012: Camera ready papers describing the competitions.