IAPR-TC11 Newsletter

                             December 18, 2006

                          http://www.iapr-tc11.org


Announcement
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- ICDAR2007 Competitions
    - Arabic handwriting recognition
    - Page segmentation
    - Handwriting segmentation
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Reminder
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- Call for Papers: ICDAR2007 (Deadline: 15 January 2007) 
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ICDAR2007 Competitions
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Registration is now open for the following competitions:

 1. ARABIC HANDWRITING RECOGNITION
    Organizers: Volker Märgner and Haikal El Abed

    Important Dates:
       Submission of system: March 1, 2007 
       Results: To be announced at ICDAR 2007 

    Website: www.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de/competition2007

 

 2. PAGE SEGMENTATION
    Organizers: Apostolos Antonacopoulos and Basilis Gatos 

    Important Dates:
       Submission of results: May 25, 2007 
       Results: During ICDAR 2007 

    Website: www.primaresearch.org/ICDAR2007_competition

 

 3. HANDWRITING SEGMENTATION
    Organizers: Basilis Gatos and Apostolos Antonacopoulos 

    Important Dates:
       Submission of results: May 25, 2007 
       Results: During ICDAR 2007 

    Website: www.iit.demokritos.gr/~bgat/HandSegmCont2007

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			Call for Papers

			   ICDAR2007

9th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition

		   September 23 -- 26, 2007
			Curitiba, Brazil
		 		      
       **Paper submission deadline: January 15, 2007**
   
                  http://www.icdar2007.org/ 

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With best wishes for the Christmas break and a happy and prosperous 2007,

Dr. Jianying Hu, IAPR-TC11 Chair
jyhu@us.ibm.com 

Dr. Apostolos Antonacopoulos, IAPR-TC11 Vice Chair
A.Antonacopoulos@salford.ac.uk 



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