============================================================================ IAPR TC11 Newsletter September 2009 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - Upcoming: DAS 2010, December 1, 2009 (http://cubs.buffalo.edu/DAS2010/) * Call for a New TC11 Logo * New Calls for Papers - ICFHR 2010, November 16-18, Kolkata, * Job Opportunities - Post-Doc in Document Image Analysis, Computer Vision Centre, Barcelona * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the September edition of our TC11 newsletter. Currently, the overhaul of the TC11 web site is making good progress and we hope to be able to present you the first version of the new "look and feel" soon. A new look is, as we think, also necessary for the TC11 logo. Therefore, the TC11 Leadership Team decided to issue a "Call for a New TC11 Logo" to the community (see the details below). Furthermore, this newsletter brings you the first Call for Papers of ICFHR 2010 in Kolkata and a Post-Doc job opportunity at CVC in Barcelona. Finally, I would like to remind you that this newsletter is in constant need of interesting news to the community for which I also need your participation and input. Best regards, Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * DAS 2010, Cambridge, MA June 9-11 December 1, 2009 (http://cubs.buffalo.edu/DAS2010/) * ICPR 2010, Istanbul August 23-26 January 15, 2010 (http://www.icpr2010.org/) * ICFHR 2010, Kolkata November 16-18 February 15, 2010 (http://www.isical.ac.in/~icfhr2010/) * ICDAR 2011, Bejing September 18-21 March 1, 2011 (http://www.icdar2011.org/) ============================================================================ ========== Call for a New TC11 Logo ========================================= In line with its efforts to revive TC11 activities and give TC11 related content a fresh "look and feel", the TC11 Leadership Team is seeking a new logo design for TC11. This logo should firstly show a modern design suitable for representing an association of professional scientists and engineers working at the forefront of research and development. Secondly, it would be highly desirable that the logo could be easily associated with professionals working in the area of Reading Systems by, e.g., incorporating - potentially abstract - references to typical objects or attributes of our profession (as achieved nicely in the logo of the IEEE Signal Processing Society). Though the logo's primary use will be on the web site of TC11 the design should also be suitable for use in print publications. Please send design proposals for the new TC11 logo before December 31, 2009 to the TC11 Chair Daniel P. Lopresti (lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu) in a suitable digital format (bitmap[s] with resolutions appropriate for web and print publications, PDF, or a commonly used vector graphics format). The TC11 Leadership Team will then review the received logo proposals and select a winning proposal. The TC11 Leadership Team reserves the right to extend the deadline and/or discontinue the contest if no suitable logo is submitted within the indicated time frame. The creator of the winning proposal will be receiving an award consisting of a certificate and a small cash prize. NOTE: By making a design proposal the proposer certifies that the proposed logo is his/her own work and does not violate intellectual property rights or copyrights of some third party. Furthermore she/he explicitly accepts that the logo design thereafter becomes the sole property of TC11 and that the only compensation to the creator of the design will be the award presented by TC11 and the recognition of his/her achievement by the wider community. ============================================================================ ========== New Calls for Papers ============================================ ********************* ICFHR 2010 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ********************* The 12th International Conference On Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition Kolkata, INDIA November 16-18, 2010 http://www.isical.ac.in/~icfhr2010 The 12th International Conference On Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2010) sponsored by the IAPR will be organized in Kolkata, the cultural capital of India, during 16-18 Nov., 2010. ICFHR established from IWFHR as a natural promotion after ten intensive and productive editions held around the world. The ICFHR/IWFHR series of conferences/workshops provide a forum to researchers in the areas of on-line and off-line handwriting recognition. We invite original, significant and technically sound research papers for ICFHR, 2010. All papers will be peer reviewed and the accepted papers will be considered for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press or other famous publishing house. The authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work in the form of oral / poster presentation. The papers should be written and presented in English only. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Handwritten Text Recognition * Preprocessing and Segmentation * Classifier and their Combinations * Multiple Sources & Multiple Experts * Language Models in Handwriting Recognition * Machine Learning Approaches for Handwriting Analysis * Classifier Fusions & Information Integration * Systems and Architectures * Error Reduction & Performance Enhancement * Theoretical Issues * Data Generation and Annotation * Handwritten Gesture Recognition * Motor Models for Writing & Drawing * Handwritten Drawing and Diagram Processing * Forensic Studies & Security Issues * Writer Verification and Identification * Human Reading Models & Psychological Aspects * Document & Image Retrieval Techniques * Handwritten Annotations in Documents * Multimedia Systems * WWW, PDA, & Remote Applications * Historical Document Processing * Biometric Applications * Handwritten Document Information Retrieval * Writer Adaptation System ******************* IMPORTANT DEADLINES ******************* Paper submission : 15 February, 2010 Acceptance notification : 31 May, 2010 Camera Ready paper due : 23 June, 2010 ******* CONTACT ******* ICFHR 2010 Secretariat Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, INDIA Email:- icfhr2010@isical.ac.in ***************** SUBMISSION FORMAT ***************** Details about paper format and submission procedure will soon be posted in the Conference website http://www.isical.ac.in/~icfhr2010 General Chairs: B. B. Chaudhuri, ISI, India S. N. Shrihari, SUNY Buffalo, USA L. Schomaker, Rijksuniversiteit, The Netherland Programe Chairs: J. H. Kim, KAIST, South Korea M. Sridhar, Univ. of Michigan-Dearborn, USA E. Anquetil, IRISA, France F. Kimura, Mie-Univ, Japan Organizing Chairs: Umapada Pal, ISI, India Ujjwal Bhattacharya, ISI, India Sponsorship and Exhibition Chairs: L. Heutte, Univ. of Rouen, France H. Sako, Hitachi Ltd., Japan R. Sabourin, ETS, Canada Finance Chair: S. K. Parui, ISI, India Publication Chairs: M. Nasipuri, JU, India U. Garain, ISI, India Publicity Chairs: D. Doermann, Univ. of Maryland, USA. A. Antonacopoulos, Univ. of Salford, U.K. C. L. Liu, CAS, China Competition Chairs: S. M. Lucas, Univ. of Essex, UK S. Madhvanath, HP Labs, India Tutorial Chairs: V. Govindaraju, Univ. of Buffalo, USA B. Chanda, ISI, India Program Committee: A. M. Alimi (Tunisia) T. Artieres (France) D. K. Basu (India) A. Belaid (France) M. Blumenstein (Australia) H. Bunke (Switzerland) M. Cheriet (Canada) M. El Yacoubi (USA) M. Fairhurst (UK) G. Fink (Germany) K. Franke (Norway) H. Fujisawa (Japan) B. Gatos (Greece) M. Gilloux (France) G. Houle (USA) J. Hu (USA) S. Impodevo (Italy) S. Jaeger (China) L. W. Jin (China) K. C. Jung (Korea) S. H. Kim (Korea) K. Kise (Japan) A. Koerich (Brazil) P. M. Lallican (France) L. Likforman-Sulem (France) M. Liwicki (Germany) J. Llados (Spain) V. Margner (Germany) P. Nagabhushan (India) M. Nakagawa (Japan) S. Naoi (Japan) P. Natarajan (USA) I. S. Oh (Korea) S. Omachi (Japan) L. E. S. Oliveira (Brazil) T. Paquet (France) R. Plamondon (Canada) G. Pirlo (Italy) G. Rigoll (Germany) N. Sherkat (UK) C. L. Tan (Singapore) S. Uchida (Japan) C. Viard-Gaudin (France) N. Vincent (France) L. Vuurpijl (The Netherlands) T. Wakahara (Japan) K. Yamamoto (Japan) ============================================================================ ========== Job Opportunities =============================================== The Pattern Recognition and Document Analysis group at the Computer Vision Centre (www.cvc.uab.es), Barcelona, Spain, offers one postdoctoral research position in the area of Document Image Analysis. The successful applicant will join an ongoing European project and will be the main responsible for a 12-month work package on text-graphics separation on administrative documents. A PhD degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics or related discipline is required. Applicants will be expected to have experience in at least one of the following areas: Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Document Analysis. The positions are initially available for a period of 1 year, with possibility for extension. The candidate will be expected to start before June 2010. Please see the Web site of the CVC or contact Dr Dimosthenis Karatzas for further information: Email: dimos@cvc.uab.es Web: http://www.cvc.uab.es ============================================================================ ========== Call for Contributions ========================================== This newsletter needs your support in order to provide useful information to the TC11 community. Therefore, please contribute relevant news by sending a short notice to the newsletter editor Gernot A. Fink . Such news could be the obvious announcements of confereces and workshops, job opportunities, reports on past conferences, book reviews, or anything that might be of interest to a wider audience involved in the construction of reading systems. ============================================================================ ========== Subscription Information ======================================== This newsletter is sent to subscribers of the IAPR TC11 mailing list. 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