============================================================================ IAPR TC11 Newsletter February 2010 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Message from the TC-11 Chair: "New IAPR TC-11 Logo Unveiled" * Dates 'n' Deadlines - ICFHR 2010, February 28, 2010 (deadline extended!!) * Call for Papers - J.UCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science: Special Issue on Advances in Document Engineering * Calls for Participation / Contests - ICFHR 2010: Bangla Handwriting Recognition Competition - ICFHR 2010: Forensic Signature Verification Competition * Job Opportunities - Research Fellow in Document Image Analysis, CVC, Barcelona (deadline: 1.3.) * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the February edition of our TC11 newsletter. The most important news to spread is that TC-11 has a new logo! Read more about the outcome of the logo contest in the message of the TC-11 Chair below and see for yourself at http://www.iapr-tc11.org/. This edition also brings good news to those who did not yet manage to send a paper to ICFHR 2010 - the deadline was extended to February 28! Additionally, you will find below a call for papers for a speciall issue on Advances in Document Engineering in J.UCS and to calls for participation for contests to be held in conjunction with ICFHR 2010 in Kolkata - one on Bangla Handwriting Recognition and another on Forensic Signature Verification. Best regards, Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Message from the TC-11 Chair ==================================== New IAPR TC-11 Logo Unveiled ---------------------------- Our open call for a new logo for TC-11 resulted in an excellent contribution provided by Eloisa Alquati from Barcelona, Spain. We are pleased to announce that the leaders of TC-11 have selected her entry as the new logo for our TC. Eloisa's design captures some of the key technical aspects of our research field in an elegant and artistic way. We encourage you to view the new logo at TC-11's website: http://www.iapr-tc11.org/ Our thanks to Eloisa! Daniel P. Lopresti, IAPR-TC11 Chair lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * ICFHR 2010, Kolkata November 16-18 February 28, 2010 (new!) (http://www.isical.ac.in/~icfhr2010/) * FAHR 2010, Istanbul August 22 March 19, 2010 (http://fahr2010.cs.tu-dortmund.de/) * DocEng2010, Manchester, UK, September 21-24 April 2, 2010 (http://www.primaresearch.org/doceng2010) * BMVC 2010, Aberystwyth, UK August 30-September 2 April 30, 2010 (http://bmvc10.dcs.aber.ac.uk) * ICDAR 2011, Bejing September 18-21 March 1, 2011 (http://www.icdar2011.org/) ============================================================================ ========== Calls for Papers ================================================ J.UCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science Call-for-papers for the Special Issue on Advances in Document Engineering ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- J.UCS - The Journal of Universal Computer Science - is a high-quality open access electronic publication that deals with all aspects of computer science. J.UCS has been appearing monthly since 1995 and is thus one of the oldest electronic journals with uninterrupted publication since its foundation. J.UCS also appears in an annual printed archive edition. The publication volume comprises more than 1100 peer-reviewed articles. J.UCS is published by the Verlag der Technischen Universita"t Graz, Austria, in cooperation with Know-Center, Graz, Austria, and IICM, Graz University of Technology, Austria, and is supported by Campus 02. J.UCS is happy to announce a special issue in Advances of Document Engineering. Document Engineering is a 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. These are the main areas of concern in Document Engineering: - Algorithms and systems for machine-printed and handwritten character and word recognition, especially for degraded documents (e.g., faxes); - Character and word segmentation techniques; - Identification and analysis of tables or equations; - Page segmentation, including hierarchical decomposition of documents into text regions, colored/textured background, halftones, line-art, etc; - Logical structure analysis, linguistic representation of structure and syntax-directed recognition of logical structure; - Raster-to-vector conversion of line-art, maps, and technical drawings; - Filtering and enhancement techniques for document images; - Document image compression; - Document degradation models; - Video and camera based OCR; - Applications of document recognition to the WWW and digital libraries; - Techniques to support spoken language access to document text (audio browsing of document databases); - Multilingual character recognition; - Other topics relating to document analysis and character recognition; - Impact of recognition accuracy on retrieval effectiveness; - Recovery and use of logical structure for retrieval; - Relevance feedback techniques for document retrieval; - Cross-language and multi-lingual retrieval; - Categorization and summarization of text documents and imaged documents; - Keyword spotting in document images; - Approximate string matching algorithms for OCR text; - Non-textual retrieval methods; - Image and multimedia search; - Interfaces for retrieval; - Benchmarking and evaluation issues; - Other topics relating to the retrieval of documents and document images. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers in all areas of document engineering. All submissions should be made electronically to the guest editor, Rafael Lins via e-mail: rdl@ufpe.br . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: April 8, 2010: Paper submissions. June 15, 2010: Author notification. July 30, 2010: Revised version due. August 30, 2010: Final notification. September 30, 2010: Camera Ready Copy. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Board of Reviewers: All submissions to this special issue will be refereed by three of experts in the different fields of Document Engineering listed below: - Adel M. Alimi (University of Sfax, Tunisia) - Angelo Marcelli (University of Salerno, Italy) - Apo'stolos Antonacopoulos (Univ. of Salford,UK ) - Alejandro C. Frery (UFAL, Brazil) - Andreas Dengel (Kaiserslautern Univ., Germany) - Antony Wiley (Hewlett Packard Labs., Bristol, UK) - Brian Lawler (Cal Poly, USA) - Cinthia Freitas (PUC-Parana', Brazil) - Daniel P. Lopresti (Lehigh University, USA) - David S. Doermann (University of Maryland, USA) - Elisa Barney Smith (Boise State Univ., USA) - Ergina Kavallieratou (Univ. of the Aegean, Greece) - Ethan Munson (U of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA) - Fa'bio Gianetti (HP Labs., P.Alto, USA ) - Fla'vio Bortolozzi (CESUMAR, Brazil) - F.Heron de Carvalho Jr (Univ. Fed. Ceara', Brazil) - F.Ma'rio Martins (Universidade do Minho em Braga, Portugal) - George Cavalcante (U.F.PE., Brazil) - Graham Leedham (Nanyang Tech.U., Singapore) - Henry S. Baird (Lehigh University, USA) - Hirobumi Nishida (Ricoh SW R. Center, Japan) - J.Caldas Pinto (Inst. Superior Te'cnico, Portugal) - Jacques Facon (PUC Parana', Brazil) - Jean-Marc Ogier (U. de la Rochelle, France) - Jin H. Kim (Computer Science Dept., Korea) - Jian Fan (HP Labs, USA) - Jian Liang (Media Management Tech, USA); - Joa~o Marques de Carvalho (U.F.CG, Brazil) - Jonathan J. Hull. (Ricoh California, USA) - Josep Llados (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) - Juan Paz (U. Central de las Villas, Cuba) - Kazem Taghva (University of Nevada, USA) - Lawrence O'Gorman (Avaya Labs, USA) - Liu Wenyin (City Univ. of Hong Kong, China) - Luis Corte-Real (Univ. do Porto, Portugal) - Luis Eduardo Oliveira (U.F.PR, Brazil) - Louisa Lam (The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong) - Majid Mirmehdi (University of Bristol, England) - Marco Gori (Universita` di Siena, Italy) - Maria Feldgen (Univ. Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Mohamed Cheriet (ETS, Canada) - Nasser Sherkat (The Nottingham Trent U., UK) - Nelson Mascarenhas (Universidade de Sa~o Paulo, Brazil) - Nicole Vincent (Universite' Paris 5, France) - Olac Fuentes (U.Texas at El Paso, USA) - Pedro Rangel Henriques (Universidade do Minho em Braga, Portugal) - Pedro Quelhas (Univ. do Porto, Portugal) - Pertti Vakkari. (University of Tampere, Finland) - Qian Lin (Hewlett Packard Labs., P.Alto, USA) - Ricardo Queiroz (Univ. Brasi'lia, Brazil) - Robert Sabourin (ETS, Canada) - Rolf Ingold (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) - Salvatore Tabbone (Univ. of Nancy 2, France) - Sargur Srihari (State U. NY at Buffalo, USA) - Seiichi Uchida (Kyushu University, Japan) - Seong-Whan Lee (Korea University, Korea) - Steven J. Simske (HP Labs., USA ) - Tan Chew Lim (NUS, Singapore) - Thierry Paquet (Universite' de Rouen, France) - Thomas Breuel (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany) - Thomas Mandl (Univ. of Hildeshein, Germany) - Tin Kam Ho (Bell Laboratories, USA) - Tsang Ing Ren (U.F.PE, Brazil) - Umapada Pal (Indian Statistical Institute, India) - Utpal Garain (Indian Statistical Inst., India) - Venu Govindaraju (State U. NY at Buffalo, USA) - Weiler Finamore (P UC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - Xiaoqing Ding (Tsinghua University, China) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact For further information please contact this issue guest editor: Rafael Dueire Lins Departamento de Eletro^nica e Sistemas Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Recife - PE - BRAZIL Phone: + 55 81 2126-8210 Fax: + 55 81 2126-8215 E-mail: rdl@ufpe.br ============================================================================ ========== Calls for Participation / Contests ============================== On the occasion of ICFHR 2010, the Indian Statistical Institute and Jadavpur University, Kolkata will jointly organize a Bangla Handwriting Recognition Competition. The details of this competition are available at http://www.isical.ac.in/~icfhr2010/BanglaHandwritingRecognitionCompetition.html Registration : ------------ All researchers willing to participate in the competition are requested to register themselves by sending an email (with Cc: icfhr2010@isical.ac.in) to any or both the contacts given below. Important Dates: ---------------- Deadline for registration : February 28, 2010 Deadline for submission of systems: April 15, 2010 Contacts: --------- Utpal Garain: utpal@isical.ac.in, utpal.garain@gmail.com Nibaran Das: nibaran@cse.jdvu.ac.in, nibaran@gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the occasion of ICFHR 2010, a Forensic Signature Verification Competition with two different forensic scenarios will be organized. The details of this competition are available at http://www.isical.ac.in/~icfhr2010/CallforParticipation4NSigComp2010.html Registration : ------------ All researchers willing to participate in the competition are requested to register themselves by sending an email (with Cc : icfhr2010@isical.ac.in) to the contact person given below. In the subject of your email please indicate whether you want to register to Scenario 1, Scenario 2 or both. Important Dates: ---------------- Deadline for registration (to receive training datasets): March 31, 2010 Datasets will be made available : April 15, 2010 Deadline for submission of systems: May 14, 2010 4NSigComp2010 Competition Organizing Committee : ------------------------------------------------------ 1. Marcus Liwicki, Senior Researcher, DFKI - German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany 2. Michael Blumenstein, Associate Professor and Head of the School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University - Gold Coast, Australia 3. Bryan Found, Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Forensic Expertise Profiling Laboratory, School of Human Biosciences at Latrobe University in Melbourne, Australia 4. Miguel A. Ferrer Associate Professor at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain 5. Elisa van den Heuvel Forensic scientist at Netherlands Forensic Institute, Netherlands Contacts: -------- Elisa van den Heuvel: e.van.den.heuvel@nfi.minjus.n ============================================================================ ========== Job Opportunities (repost) ====================================== The Pattern Recognition and Document Analysis group at the Computer Vision Centre (www.cvc.uab.es), Barcelona, Spain, offers one research fellow 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 administrative document analysis. A PhD degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics or related discipline is required. Applicants will be expected to have a minimum of 4 years research experience in at least one of the following areas: Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Document Analysis. Previous experience with handwritten document recognition would be highly valued. 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. Minimum net salary will be at the level of EUR 35000 negotiable depending upon background and experience. A mobility allowance will be available according to the particular needs of the successful candidate. The deadline for receiving applications is March 1st, 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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