Competitions

Call for Competitions

The ICFHR2016 Organizing Committee invites proposals for competitions to be held within the framework of the Conference. Competitions should aim at evaluating the performance of individual methods and systems related to different tasks in handwriting recognition.

 

Proposals must contain the following information:

1.      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. If a similar competition has been held in a previous edition of ICFHR, the novel additions of the proposed one must be clearly explained.

2.  A draft of the outline of the competition describing which data is planned to be used (and how it will be made publicly available), how will the submitted methods be evaluated and which performance measures will be used.

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

Submission

Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to the ICFHR2016 Competitions Chairs:

Apostolos Antonacopoulos (A.Antonacopoulos@primaresearch.org)

Volker Märgner (Maergner@ifn.ing.tu-bs.de)

Rules

The following rules will apply to the accepted competitions:

• All competitions must run well in advance of the conference.

• Datasets used in the competitions must be made available after the end of the competitions.
• Evaluation methodologies and metrics used must be described in detail so that results can be replicated later.
• The name of the competition must be standardized by starting with "ICFHR2016" e.g. "ICFHR2016 Competition on ..."
• Reports (full papers) on each competition will be reviewed and, if accepted (the competition run according to plan and is appropriately described), will be published in the ICFHR2016 conference proceedings.
• The results of accepted competitions will be announced during a dedicated session of the conference.
• Participants should be encouraged to present their algorithms (if not already done) in a conference paper at ICFHR 2016.
• Competitions must have sufficient number of participants to be able to draw meaningful conclusions.

Important Dates
15 January 2016: Submission of competition proposals.
08 February 2016: Notification of acceptance.
22 February 2016: Competitions published on ICFHR2016 website and open to participants.
01 July 2016: Deadline for submission for review of full papers describing the competitions. Papers must be sent directly to the Competitions Chairs.
15 August 2016: Accepted camera-ready papers reporting on the competitions for inclusion in the proceedings.

If you have any query, please contact the ICFHR2016 Competitions Chairs.