============================================================================ IAPR TC11 Newsletter June 2009 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ============================================================================ Message from the TC11 Chair and Vice Chair Announcement of IAPR/ICDAR 2009 Awards Calls for Papers - Document Recognition and Retrieval XVII (Deadline Extended to July 1) - 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Document Engineering Track Call for Participation - W3C Workshop on Using Ink in Multimodal Applications ============================================================================ ============================================================================ Message from the TC11 Chair and Vice Chair Welcome to the June edition of our TC11 newsletter. As always, we include reminders of upcoming Calls for Papers and other news of interest to the community. We also encourage you to inform us of other conferences and meetings that may be of interest to members of IAPR TC11. While the deadline for ICDAR 2013 hosting proposals has already passed, we encourage anyone who is planning to make a proposal to contact the ICDAR Advisory Board immediately. Once again, the "Guidelines for Organizing and Bidding to Host ICDAR" document can be found at: http://www.iapr-tc11.org/ICDAR2013_hosting.html By tradition, we will discuss bids for ICDAR 2013 at our upcoming TC11 meeting at the ICDAR conference in Barcelona in July. A vote on the location for the 2013 event will take place at that time. On a different note, one of our goals for TC11 is to support the community and its research activities. To this end, we are pleased to announce that the following TC members have volunteered to join our leadership team: Prof. Masa Iwamura -- Webmaster, responsible for the content of the TC-11 website, including helping to investigate new functionality to support the research community (http://www.iapr-tc11.org/). Dr. Dimos Karatzas -- Dataset curator, responsible for managing the datasets on the website, including tracking down new datasets, investigating distribution issues, and providing additional annotation as needed. Prof. Gernot Fink -- Newsletter editor, responsible for working with the TC Chair to produce the monthly TC-11 newsletter, including soliciting information of interest to the community. We offer our thanks to these volunteers. At the same time, we also encourage members of the community to help by telling us what you would like to see on the website and in the newsletter, and perhaps even to volunteer to assist the TC in some specific way yourself. 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 ============================================================================ ============================================================================ The IAPR Technical Committees on Graphics Recognition (TC10) and Reading Systems (TC11) are pleased to announce the recipients of the IAPR/ICDAR 2009 Awards. * The IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award is presented to Prof. Horst Bunke for his outstanding and continued contributions to research and education in handwriting recognition and document analysis, and services to the community. Prof. Bunke will deliver the Opening Keynote Speech at ICDAR2009 in Barcelona on July 27, 2009. * The IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award is presented to Prof. Katrin Franke for her outstanding contributions to handwriting analysis and computational forensics. Congratulations to the awardees! The awards ceremony will be held during ICDAR2009 in Barcelona, Spain. ============================================================================ ============================================================================ ***** CALL FOR PAPERS (DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 1) ***** 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: . 1 July 2009 Abbreviated papers due (deadline extended) . August 2009 Acceptance notice . 9 November 2009 Manuscripts and Final Summaries due . 19-21 January 2010 Conference Dates (San Jose, California) ============================================================================ ============================================================================ ***** CALL FOR PAPERS ***** 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Document Engineering Track 22 -- 26 March 2010, Sierre, Switzerland For the past twenty-four years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2010 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and is hosted by University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland (HES-SO) and Ecole Polytechnique fe'de'rale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Document Engineering is the branch of computer science that investigates systems for documents in any form and in all media. Document engineering is concerned with principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage, store, compact, access and maintain documents. The fields of document recognition and retrieval have grown rapidly in recent years. This development has been fueled by the emergence of new application areas such as the World Wide Web (WWW), digital libraries, and video- and camera-based OCR. The use of OCR is spreading from high-volume, niche domains to more general tasks, including the processing of noisy "real-world" documents, photocopies, and faxes. Additional details can be found at http://www.telematica.ee.ufpe.br/sac2010/index.htm IMPORTANT DUE DATES Sept. 8, 2009: Paper submission 08 Sep 2009 : Papers submissions 19 Oct 2009 : Author notification 02 Nov 2009 : Camera-Ready Copy ============================================================================ ============================================================================ ***** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***** W3C Workshop on Using Ink in Multimodal Applications ----------------------------------------------------- Ink Markup Language (InkML) is an XML language for ink traces which provides a range of features to support real-time ink streaming, multi-party interactions and richly annotated ink archival. Applications may make use of as much or as little information as required, from minimalist applications using only simple traces to more complex problems, such as signature verification or calligraphic animation, requiring full dynamic information. W3C now invites people to participate in a "Workshop on using Ink in Multimodal Applications within the W3C's Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces", on 10-11 July 2009 in Grand Bend, Ontario (Canada), hosted by the University of Western Ontario. The goal of the Workshop is to help the Multimodal Interaction Working Group integrate handwriting modality components (Ink Modality Components) into the MMI Architecture and clarify what should be added to the Multimodal specifications to enable applications to adapt to various modality combinations including Ink. Attendees will discuss requirements for changes, extensions and additions to Ink standards especially in Multimodal Applications developed based on the W3C's MMI Architecture as a means of making InkML more useful in current and emerging markets. Call for Participation: http://www.w3.org/2009/03/ink/cfp.html W3C Ink Markup Language (InkML): http://www.w3.org/TR/InkML/ W3C MMI Architecture: http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-arch/ ============================================================================ ============================================================================ This newsletter is sent to subscribers of the IAPR TC11 mailing list. To manage your subscription, please visit the mailing list homepage at: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=IAPR-TC11 The homepage for IAPR TC11 is http://www.iapr-tc11.org ============================================================================