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IAPR TC11 Newsletter
May 2009
http://www.iapr-tc11.org
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Message from the TC11 Chair and Vice Chair
Call for Hosting Proposals
- ICDAR 2013
Calls for Papers
- Ninth ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng2009)
- Document Recognition and Retrieval XVII (DRR XVII)
- Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 09)
Job Opportunities
- Research Assistant in Document Image Analysis
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Message from the TC11 Chair and Vice Chair
Welcome to the May edition of our TC11 newsletter. As we work through our
backlog of Calls for Papers and Proposals, we encourage you to inform us of
other upcoming conferences and meetings that may be of interest to members of
the TC11 community. Note the approaching deadline for ICDAR 2013 hosting
proposals. If you are curious or have questions, please contact the ICDAR
Advisory Board (see the announcement below).
Information on managing your subscription to the TC11 mailing list is
included at the end of this message. If you know of colleagues in the field
who are not on our list, we encourage you to have them sign up.
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
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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
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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)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
ACM 9th Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng2009),
Munich, Germany, 15-18 September 2009
Web site:
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Document engineering is the computer science discipline that
investigates systems for documents in any form and in all media. It is
concerned with principles, tools and processes that improve our
ability to create, manage and maintain documents. The ACM Symposium on
Document Engineering is an annual
meeting of researchers active in document engineering.
DocEng 2009 is the ninth edition, after previous annual meetings at Sa~o
Paulo (Brazil), Winnipeg (Canada), Amsterdam (NL), Bristol (UK),
Milwaukee-WI (USA), Grenoble (France), McLean-VA (USA) and Atlanta-GA
(USA). All DocEng Proceedings are available at the ACM Digital Library.
Important Dates
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Submission of: Short Papers & Posters & Demos
Abstract due: May 17 23:59 GMT
Papers due: May 24 23:59 GMT
Acceptance notice by: June 15, 2009
Revised versions due: July 06, 2009
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***** CALL FOR PAPERS *****
Document Recognition and Retrieval XVII,
Part of the IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging
19-21 January 2010
San Jose Marriott and San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California, USA
The 17th Document Recognition and Retrieval Conference (DRR) will be held on
19-21 January 2010, in San Jose, CA, USA. DRR is an international conference
focusing on state-of-the-art research in document recognition and retrieval.
The conference is part of the IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Symposium, a
multiconference bringing together researchers from a variety of backgrounds
relating to electronic imaging, image processing, and image analysis. The
conference will include oral/poster presentations and invited talks. Accepted
papers will be published in DRR Proceedings. For the fourth year, the Best
Student Paper will be selected among papers whose first authors are full-time
students.
Additional details can be found at http://www.tsi.enst.fr/drr2010/
Important dates:
. 22 June 2009 Abbreviated papers due
. August 2009 Acceptance notice
. 9 November 2009 Manuscripts and Final Summaries due
. 19-21 January 2010 Conference Dates (San Jose, California)
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***** CALL FOR PAPERS *****
Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 09)
September 28-30, 2009
Crystal City, MD, USA
The IEEE Third International Conference on Biometrics: Theory,
Applications and Systems (BTAS 09) is the premier research meeting
focused on biometrics. Its broad scope includes advances in
fundamental pattern recognition techniques relevant to biometrics,
new algorithms and / or technologies for biometrics, analysis of
specific applications, and analysis of the social impacts of
biometrics technology. Areas of coverage include biometrics based
on voice, fingerprint, iris, face, handwriting, gait and other
modalities, as well as multi-modal biometrics and new biometrics
based on novel sensing technologies.
Submissions will be rigorously reviewed, and should clearly make the
case for a documented improvement over the existing state of the art.
Experimental results for contributions in established areas such as
voice, face, iris, fingerprint, and gait are encouraged to use the
largest and most challenging existing publicly available datasets.
Papers examining the usability of and social impact of biometrics
technology are encouraged.
Paper submission: May 31.
Decisions to authors: July 17.
For additional information:
http://www.cse.nd.edu/BTAS_09
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***** Job Opportunity *****
Research Assistant in Document Image Analysis (2 Posts) (CSE/173)
School of Computing, Science and Engineering
University of Salford
Greater Manchester, UK
Closing Date: 15 May 2009
Grade: 6 (Salary: 27,183 - 28,839)
INFORMATICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Fixed term for 2 years
Two Research Assistant positions are available for a 2 year period in
connection with a large-scale EU-funded project on Document Digitisation for
Digital Libraries (IMPACT: Improving Access to Text -- www.impact-project.eu
). This is a rare opportunity to work in partnership with some of the worldfs
greatest libraries in developing robust image analysis and recognition
methods to improve all steps towards the extraction of textual information
from scanned printed documents of (primarily) the last three centuries.
The successful applicants will join one of the UKfs most active and
internationally well-known research teams in Document Analysis and
Recognition: the PRImA (Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis) group which
is based at the School of Computing, Science & Engineering and operates
within the Informatics Research Institute (IRIS) which was ranked 2nd in the
UK for quality and impact of research. For more information about PRImA
activities visit www.primaresearch.org
Candidates must hold a good honours degree in a relevant science or
engineering subject -- a PhD would be desirable. In addition they must have
direct experience in Image Processing and Analysis. Software design skills
and development experience in Visual Studio C++ are essential requirements,
while background knowledge of document analysis and recognition techniques is
desirable.
Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr Apostolos Antonacopoulos, Email:
A.Antonacopoulos@primaresearch.org
For more information (job description and person specification) and to apply,
visit https://jobs.salford.ac.uk/vacancies.php?id=3074
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