============================================================================ IAPR TC11 Newsletter March 2010 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - FAHR 2010, April 1, 2010 (deadline extended!!) - DocEng2010, April 2, 2010 * Call for Papers - FAHR 2010 (updated) - DocEng2010 (updated) - DDR 2011, January 23-27, 2011, San Francisco * Calls for Authors - Pattern Recognition, Machine Intelligence and Biometrics * Call for Participation - NIST Open Handwriting Recognition and Translation Evaluation * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the March edition of our TC11 newsletter. This edition brings good news for people working in the field of Arabic Handwriting Recognition aiming at a trip to Istanbul as the paper submission deadline for FAHR 2010 has been extended to April 1. Below you will find the updated Call for Papers. Additionally, in this newsletter you will find Calls for Papers for DocEng2010 (updated) and DDR 2011, a Call for Authors for a new book on "Pattern Recognition, Machine Intelligence and Biometrics", and a Call for Participation in the first "Open Handwriting Recognition and Translation Evaluation" (OpenHaRT 2010) organized by NIST. Best regards, Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * FAHR 2010, Istanbul August 22 April 1, 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) * DDR 2011, San Francisco January 23-27 June 28, 2010 (http://www.cs.iit.edu/~drr2011/) * ICDAR 2011, Bejing September 18-21 March 1, 2011 (http://www.icdar2011.org/) ============================================================================ ========== Calls for Papers ================================================ 1st International Workshop on Frontiers in Arabic Handwriting Recognition -- FAHR 2010 -- in conjunction with 20th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) Istanbul, Turkey, 22nd August 2010 ** Co-Chairs: Thomas Ploetz, Newcastle University, UK -- t.ploetz@ncl.ac.uk Gernot A. Fink, TU Dortmund, Germany -- gernot.fink@udo.edu Sabri A. Mahmoud, KFUPM Dhahran, Saudi Arabia -- smasaad@kfupm.edu.sa Szilard Vajda, TU Dortmund, Germany -- szilard.vajda@udo.edu ** Program committee A. S. E. Ahmed, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt A. S. Al-Salman, KSU, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia A. Belaid, LORIA, Nancy, France N. Ben Amara, ENISO, Sousse, Tunesia D. Doermann, University of Maryland, USA V. Govindaraju, SUNY Buffalo (CUBS), USA A. Kundu, MITRE, USA L. Likforman-Sulem, Telecom ParisTech, France V. Maergner, TU Braunschweig, Germany P. Natarajan, BBN Technologies, USA U. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India S. Srihari, CEDAR, USA Arabic script is of substantial influence for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Numerous applications in different areas of automated document processing require robust recognition techniques for the analysis of Arabic handwriting. Substantial challenges lie in the high variance in character appearance, the highly idiosyncratic omittance of vowels, common ambiguities in writing, or the omnipresence of touching characters. For robust Arabic handwriting recognition, massive research efforts are demanded. In order to provide a place to meet and discuss current issues related to Arabic handwriting recognition, FAHR 2010 -- the 1st International Workshop on Frontiers in Arabic Handwriting Recognition -- will be held in conjunction with ICPR 2010. It aims at bringing together researchers -- both from academia and industry -- as well as practitioners in the field of Arabic handwriting recognition. Given its unique location within the city of Istanbul, Turkey, at the border between the Arabian and the western world, researchers working in the field are invited to participate in FAHR 2010. ** Topics FAHR2010 seeks original, unpublished contributions, that are not currently under review by another conference or journal, in all areas related to Arabic handwriting recognition, including (but not limited to) the following: - Preprocessing - Script identification - Line segmentation - Word segmentation - Recognition strategies - Feature extraction - Writing models - Language modelling - Systems - Datasets and evaluation - Relation between OCR and handwriting recognition ** Submission Guideline Prospective authors should prepare full papers with a maximum length of six pages (double column, IEEE style, PDF). Manuscripts will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Printed proceedings will be distributed to the participants together with electronic copies on CDROM. All accepted papers will be published electronically as Open Access by the library service of TU Dortmund University (https://www.ub.tu-dortmund.de/Eldorado/index.html). ** Important Dates Manuscript submission: 1.4.2010 (deadline extended!) Authors notification: 30.4.2010 Submission of camera-ready papers: 14.5.2010 End of early bird registration: 14.5.2010 Workshop: 22.8.2010 ** Contact, further information Thomas Ploetz, t.ploetz@ncl.ac.uk http://fahr2010.cs.tu-dortmund.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DocEng2010 - 10th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering Manchester, UK, September 21-24, 2010 http://www.primaresearch.org/doceng2010 CALL FOR PAPERS The ACM Symposium on Document Engineering provides an annual international forum for presentations and discussions on principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage and maintain documents. Proceedings are available through the ACM Digital Library. TOPICS & TECHNOLOGIES - Document Representations - Standards (ODF, PDF), models, type representation, metadata (MPEG-7, RDF), Style Sheets (CSS, XSL), Markup Languages (SGML, XML), Multimedia (MPEG-4, SMIL, MHEG, NCL), Multilingual representations, temporal aspects - Document Manipulation - Document transformation (XSLT, XQuery), Adaptive Documents, Document presentation (typography, formatting, layout) - Document Systems - Workflow, cooperation, web services, social networking, engineering life cycle - Document System Components - Security, APIs (SAX, DOM), synchronization, System performance - Document collections - Databases: Storage, Indexing, Retrieval, Content Management Systems, E-books - Document Linking - Techniques (XLink, XPath, Xpointer), Blogs, Wikis, Integration with other digital artefacts - Document generation - authoring tools and systems, variable data printing, automatically generated documents - Document Analysis - structure, layout and content analysis, categorization, classification, character recognition IMPORTANT DATES Full papers & working sessions Abstracts due April 2, 2010 Papers due April 16, 2010 Acceptance notice by May 14, 2010 Short papers, posters & demos Abstracts due May 21, 2010 Papers due May 28, 2010 Acceptance notice by June 18, 2010 All papers Revised versions due July 2, 2010 ORGANISERS General Chair Apostolos Antonacopoulos, University of Salford, UK Program Chairs Michael Gormish, Ricoh Innovations, USA Rolf Ingold, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Local Arrangements Chair Stefan Pletschacher, University of Salford, UK Technical Organisation Christos Papadopoulos, University of Salford, UK CONTACT doceng2010@primaresearch.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Document Recognition and Retrieval XVIII, Part of the IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 23-27 January 2011, San Francisco, California USA http://www.cs.iit.edu/~drr2011/ **** Important dates: 28 June 2010: Abbreviated papers due 9 August 2010: Acceptance notice 15 November 2010: Final manuscripts due **** Papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas: Document Recognition . document segmentation and layout analysis . machine-printed and handwritten text recognition . identification and recognition of tables or equations . processing of degraded documents (e.g.faxed) or historical documents . processing of multilingual documents . filtering, enhancement, and compression techniques for document images . performance metrics . document degradation models . web document analysis (including wikis and blogs) . video-, camera-, and mobile phone-based OCR . recognition of text from natural scene images . graphics recognition (line-art, maps, and technical drawings) . symbol, signature, and logo recognition . document style recognition, writer identification . document analysis and synthesis for digital publishing (template reuse and layout generation for new contents) . system engineering, algorithms, and quality assurance methods towards large-scale digital libraries . information extraction from forms . document analysis techniques for electronic voting systems Document Retrieval . keyword spotting in document images . approximate string matching algorithms for OCRA^Led text . summarization of text documents and imaged documents . text categorization from imaged documents . entity tagging using OCRed text . retrieval of noisy text documents (messages, blogs, etc.) . recovery and use of logical structure for retrieval . cross-language and multi-lingual retrieval . benchmarking and evaluation issues . relevance feedback techniques for document retrieval . impact of recognition accuracy on retrieval effectiveness Submissions to Document Recognition and Retrieval XVIII should contain abbreviated papers (5-7 pages). Submissions should be informative, describe the problem that is addressed by the paper, the original contribution in the paper, the way it relates to existing work, and provide experimental/theoretical evaluation. Final manuscripts to be published in the proceedings are expected to be 8-12 pages long. For the fifth year, the Best Student Paper will be selected among papers whose first authors are full-time students. For questions and more information concerning the conference please check the conference website: http://www.cs.iit.edu/~drr2011/ **** Conference Chairs: Gady Agam, Illinois Institute of Technology Christian Viard-Gaudin, Univ. of Nantes (France) Program Committee: Apostolos Antonacopoulos, Univ. of Salford (United Kingdom) Elisa H. Barney Smith, Boise State Univ. Kathrin Berkner, Ricoh Innovations, Inc. Xiaoqing Ding, Tsinghua Univ. (China) David S. Doermann, Univ. of Maryland/College Park Oleg Golubitsky, Univ. of Western Ontario (Canada) Jianying Hu, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr. Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Telecom ParisTech (France) Daniel P. Lopresti, Lehigh Univ. Marcus Liwicki, DFKI (Germany) Lambert Schomaker, Univ. of Groningen (Netherlands) Xiaofan Lin, Vobile Inc. Hiroshi Sako, Hitachi (Japan) Sargur N. Srihari, SUNY/Univ. at Buffalo Venkata Subramaniam, IBM India Res. Lab. (India) Kazem Taghva, Univ. of Nevada/Las Vegas George R. Thoma, National Library of Medicine Alessandro Vinciarelli, IDIAP Research Institute (Switzerland) Berrin Yanikoglu, Sabanci Univ. (Turkey) Jie Zou, National Library of Medicine ============================================================================ ========== Call for Authors ================================================ Pattern Recognition, Machine Intelligence and Biometrics --- Expanding Frontiers Editor Patrick S.P. Wang, to be published by High Education Press (HEP) and Springer, January 2011 Invitation and Information for Authors 1. The first inauguration issue of this series of books has been planned to be published in memory of the late Prof. King-Sun Fu, pioneer of Pattern Recognition and founding President of IAPR who was born October 2, 1930 and passed away in April 29, 1985. 2011 will be his 81th birthday anniversary. Contributors to this first issue are now invited. 2. This book will be similar to the Springer/HEP edition in book style and format. Potential authors are encouraged to read the books about the format and style. More detailed manuscript formats are available from the following Springer web site: http://www.springer.com/authors/book+authors?SGWID=0-154102-12-417900-0 The final manuscript delivery should be in Word file (preferred) or Latex. 3. The book will include chapters with suggested 25 - 35 printed pages in average for each paper. 4. This book will cover both background and introductory information of the topic and the major research results and/or applications. The book is to be published for wider audience and readerships including those in academia, industry, government laboratories, hospital doctors, commercial businessmen and entrepreneurs. 5. The deadlines are as follows. July 15, 2010 for the 1st draft, October 15, 2010 for the full manuscript, and the camera ready final manuscripts will be delivered to the publisher by December 1, 2010. An early response from authors is appreciated. 6. Authors are responsible to obtain permission for using copyrighted materials. 7. Please direct any question of the book to: Prof. Patrick S.P. Wang, IAPR and ISIBM Fellow, patwang@ieee.org, or pwang@acm.org The following is a tentative table of contents. Preface Part 1 Basic Methods in Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Part 2 Basic Methods in Machine Vision and Image Processing Part 3 Fundamentals of Biometrics: fingerprint, handwriting, voice, face, iris, palm, modal, etc Part 4 Machine Vision, Pattern Recognition and Biometrics in Life Sciences, Security and Human ID Part 5. System , Technology, Modeling and Simulation ---------- Please reply by April 20, 2010 : to patwang@ieee.org [ ] I accept your invitation with proposed authors/chapter topic: [ ] I cannot accept your invitation but I suggest my colleague to write the chapter. Name(s):_______________________, Affiliation: ____________________, Tel: _______________________, Email: ______________________, Paper Title/author(s)________________________________________ ============================================================================ ========== Call for Participation ========================================== NIST Open Handwriting Recognition and Translation Evaluation 2010 The Multimodal Information Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, is pleased to announce a new public NIST evaluation that focuses on technologies that convert document image to text toward the goal of document understanding. The first Open Handwriting Recognition and Translation evaluation (OpenHaRT'10) will concentrate on recognition and translation technologies of document images containing primary Arabic handwritten script. The 2010 evaluation will occur in the Summer 2010 with a follow-up workshop in the Fall 2010. The evaluation is described in detailed in the OpenHaRT'10 evaluation plan, available on the NIST OpenHaRT'10 website: http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/hart2010.cfm Important dates: + June 15, 2010: Registration deadline + July 19 - August 4, 2010: Evaluation period + September 16, 2010: Post-evaluation workshop in the Baltimore/Washington DC area If you like to receive future updates about OpenHaRT, please consider joining the NIST OpenHaRT mailing list. Send requests to hart_poc@nist.gov to join. You can also contact us at the same email if you have any questions. Feel free to pass this announcement to those who might be interested in participating in this evaluation. 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