============================================================================ IAPR-TC11 Newsletter April 2009 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ============================================================================ Message from the TC11 Chair and Vice Chair Call for Hosting Proposals - ICDAR 2013 Calls for Papers - AND 2009 - CBDAR 2009 - MOCR 2009 Call for Participation - ICDAR 2009 Book Structure Extraction Competition ============================================================================ ============================================================================ Message from the TC11 Chair and Vice Chair It is with great pleasure that we recently assumed leadership of IAPR IC11 ("Reading Systems"). We hope to continue the tradition of excellence established by past Chair Jianying Hu and Vice Chair Apostolos Antonacopoulos. We also owe them a debt of gratitude for their oversight these past four years. To a large measure, the ongoing success of our TC depends on the active involvement of the entire community. We look forward to seeing you at future TC11 events, including the ICDAR 2009 conference and its associated workshops in Barcelona this coming July. We apologize for the relative lateness of some of the Calls that are included in this newsletter -- we have just completed making the leadership transition. It's likely these events will not come as a surprise to anyone who is on the active ICDAR mailing list. It is our intention to provide regular email updates to the TC11 community via this newsletter of events and other items of general interest. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions, comments, or suggestions. With warm regards, Prof. Daniel Lopresti, IAPR-TC11 Chair lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu Prof. Koichi Kise, IAPR-TC11 Vice Chair kise@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp ============================================================================ ============================================================================ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION (ICDAR) CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO HOST ICDAR 2013 Deadline: June 1, 2009 Submission Method: email to lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ICDAR Advisory Board is seeking proposals to host the 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, to be held in 2013 (ICDAR 2013). ICDAR is the most important IAPR event in the field of Document Analysis and Recognition, attracting on average 300 to 500 participants. The aim of this conference is to bring together international experts to share their experiences and to promote research and development in all areas of Document Analysis and Recognition. Any consortium interested in making a proposal to host an ICDAR should first familiarise themselves with the "Guidelines for Organizing and Bidding to Host ICDAR" document which is available at: http://www.iapr-tc11.org/ICDAR2013_hosting.html The submission of a bid implies full agreement with the rules and procedures outlined in that document. The submitted proposal must define clearly the items specified in the Guidelines (Section 5.2). It has been the tradition that the location of ICDAR conferences follows a rotating schedule among different continents. ICDAR2009 will be held in Barcelona (Europe), and ICDAR2011 will be held in Beijing (Asia). Thus, for ICDAR2013, proposals from the Americas are strongly encouraged. However, high quality bids from other locations will also be considered. Proposals will be examined by the ICDAR Advisory Board. Valid bids will then be presented at the TC10/TC11 joint meeting held during ICDAR2009, where a ballot will be conducted to determine the winning bid. Proposals should be emailed to Dr. Daniel Lopresti at lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu by June 1, 2009. ICDAR Advisory Board: Prof. Wenyin Liu (Chair, TC10) Prof. Daniel Lopresti (Chair, TC11) Dr. Simone Marinai (Chair, IAPR C&M Committee) Prof. Andreas Dengel (Past Organiser) Dr. Apostolos Antonacopoulos (Past Organiser and Editor of ICDAR Guidelines) ============================================================================ ============================================================================ ***** CALL FOR PAPERS ***** Third Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (AND-09) July 23-24, 2009, Barcelona, Spain In conjunction with the Tenth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) ***** NOTE: SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 4 ***** The Third Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (AND-09) is devoted to issues arising from the need to contend with noisy inputs, the impact noise can have on downstream applications, and the demands it places on document analysis. AND 2009 will build on two previous successful AND workshops held in 2007 (in conjunction with the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) and in 2008 (in conjunction with the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference). Papers chosen for AND 2009 will appear in the ACM Digital Library, and selected papers from the workshop will be published in a special issue of IJDAR. For further details and for submission guidelines, see the workshop website at: http://and2009workshop.googlepages.com/ ============================================================================ ============================================================================ ***** CALL FOR PAPERS ***** CBDAR 2009 Third International Workshop on Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition July 25, 2009 (In conjunction with ICDAR 2009) Convention Center Hotel Serhs Campus, Bellaterra. Universitat Auto`noma de Barcelona. ******* New Submission Deadline: May 2 2009 ****** CBDAR is the international workshop with a special focus on camera captured documents. Presentation of up-to-date issues and techniques as well as discussions on future directions will boost research in this relatively new area. Participants will share experiences and problems in the area. In the past, the First CBDAR (2005) and the Second CBDAR (2007) were held at Seoul, Korea and Curitiba, Brazil, respectively, as a satellite conference of ICDAR. For up-to-date information see www.cbdar2009.org ============================================================================ ============================================================================ ***** CALL FOR PAPERS ***** International Workshop on Multilingual OCR 25th July, 2009 (In conjunction with ICDAR 2009) Convention Center Hotel Serhs Campus, Bellaterra. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. ******* Submission deadline extended to May 1 2009 ****** The workshop will explore methodologies for multilingual document analysis systems with particular focus on OCR. The scope of Multilingual OCR is defined to include systems that are capable of reading more than one language in the same document, as well as one-language-per-document systems that can be easily retargeted to new languages. The workshop will provide a forum for technical discussions on three important themes: * progress in the last decade in multilingual OCR * adaptation and repurposing of proven methods for multilingual OCR * hard open research problems and promising new approaches Workshop website: cubs.buffalo.edu/MOCR/ ============================================================================ ============================================================================ ***** Call for Participation ***** Book Structure Extraction Competition 2009 In conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2009), July 26-29, 2009, Barcelona, Spain http://users.info.unicaen.fr/~doucet/StructureExtraction2009/ The goal of the competition is to compare automatic techniques for deriving structural information from digitized books in order to build hyperlinked table of contents. Current digitization and OCR technologies produce the full text of digitized books with only minimal structure information. Pages and paragraphs are usually identified and marked up in the OCR, but more sophisticated structures, such as chapters, sections, etc., are not recognised. The task is to build hyperlinked table of contents for a sample collection of 1,000 digitized books of different genre and style, using information from the OCR (in DjVu XML format) or PDF image file. The generated table of contents may be used by an e-book reader system and presented to users as a hyperlinked hierarchy. Users expect to see the section titles as entries and should be able to click on an entry and jump to the start of the selected section in the book. The table of contents created by participants will be compared to a manually built ground-truth (from the PDF of a book), and will be evaluated using recall/precision like measures at different structural levels (i.e., different depths in the table of contents). May 1, 2009 Registration deadline *** Extended to May 8, 2009 *** For detailed information, please refer to http://users.info.unicaen.fr/~doucet/StructureExtraction2009/ For queries related to the competition, please contact Antoine Doucet: antoine.doucet@info.unicaen.fr ============================================================================