============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter May 2011 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - GREC 2011, Seoul, June 5 (extended!) * Call for Nominations: - ICDAR 2011 Awards (repost, deadline: June 15, 2011!) - IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize (deadline: April 6, 2012) * Call for Proposals to Host ICDAR 2015 (repost, deadline: June 1, 2011!) * Calls for Papers - AND 2011 (at ICDAR 2011), September 17 - GREC 2011, Seoul, September 15-16 (updated) - HIP 2011 (at ICDAR 2011), September 16-17 (updated) * Call for Participation - Historical Document Layout Analysis Competition at HIP and ICDAR2011 (includes extended deadline: registration May 27, submission June 3) * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the May edition of our TC-11 newsletter. As this year's key event for the TC-11 community, ICDAR 2011, is approaching, I would like to draw your attention to the Call for ICDAR Award nominations (deadline June 15) and the Call for Hosting proposals for ICDAR 2015 (deadline June 1). In conjunction with ICDAR quite a few workshops will be organized. For some of them (AND, GREC, HIP) you will find new or updated Calls for Papers in this edition. Please note, that GREC is the only workshop that will *not* be colocated with ICDAR (it will take place in Seoul, Korea) and that the deadline for submitting papers to GREC was extended to June 5. Furthermore, this newsletter also brings to you the Call for Nominations for IAPR's prestigious King-Sun Fu Prize. The Awards Committee will be chaired by last years recipient, Professor Horst Bunke. Last but not least, you will find below the Call for Participation for the Historical Document Layout Analysis Competition which will be jointly organized by ICDAR and HIP 2011. The submission deadline for this competition was extended to June 3. Best regards, Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * ICDAR 2011, Beijing September 18-21 --- (http://www.icdar2011.org/) - Doctoral Consortium: July 1 (http://www.icdar2011.org/EN/column/column39.shtml) * GREC 2011, Seoul September 15-16 June 5 (ext.) (http://grec2011.cau.ac.kr) * IJCB 2011, Washington, DC October 11-13 May 27 (http://www.cse.nd.edu/IJCB_11) * HIP 2011 (at ICDAR 2011) September 16-17 June 10 (http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~hdocp) * MOCR 2011 (at ICDAR 2011) September 17 June 10 (http://www.cubs.buffalo.edu/MOCR/) * AND 2011, (at ICDAR 2011) September 17 June 14 (http://sites.google.com/site/and2011workshop/) * CBDAR 2011, (at ICDAR 2011) September 22 June 15 (http://imlab.jp/cbdar2011/) * AFHA 2011, (at ICDAR 2011) September 17-18 June 15 (http://forensic.to/webhome/afha/) * DAS 2012, Gold Coast, Australia March 27-29, 2012 September 30 (http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/das2012) ============================================================================ ========== Call for Nominations: ICDAR 2011 Awards (repost) ================ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION (ICDAR) CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR ICDAR 2011 AWARDS Nominations Due: June 15, 2011 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The ICDAR Award Program is an established program designed to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of Document Analysis and Recognition in one or more of the following areas: o Research o Training of students o Research/Industry interaction o Service to the profession Every two years, two awards categories are presented. Namely, the IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award (less than 40 years old at the time the award is made), and the IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award. Each award will consist of a token gift and a suitably inscribed certificate. The recipient of the Outstanding Achievements award will be invited to give the opening key note speech at the current ICDAR conference, introduced by the recipient from the previous conference. Nominations are invited for the 2011 ICDAR Awards in both categories. The nomination packet should include the following: 1. A nominating letter (1 page) including a brief citation to be included in the certificate. 2. A brief vitae (2 pages) of the nominee highlighting the accomplishments being recognized. 3. Supporting letters (1 page each) from 3 active researchers from at least 3 different countries. A nomination is usually put forward by a researcher (preferably from a different Institution than the nominee) who is knowledgeable of the scientific achievements of the nominee, and who organizes letters of support. Submission procedure is strictly confidential, and self nominations are not allowed. Please send these, preferably as a single pdf file, to jean-marc.ogier@univ-lr.fr. Deadline for receipt of nominations is June 15th, 2011 but early submissions are strongly encouraged. For further information, please contact: Pr Jean-Marc Ogier email : jean-marc.ogier@univ-lr.fr Université de La Rochelle Pôle Sciences et Technologie Laboratoire L3i, Avenue Michel Crépeau 17042 La Rochelle cédex 1 FRANCE The final decision will be made by the Awards Committee which is composed of the following members : Jean-Marc Ogier, France (Chair) Fujisawa-san, Japan Horst Bunke, Switzerland Dave Doermann, USA Katrin Franke, Norway Koichi Kise, Japan Josep Llados, Spain Dan Lopresti, USA Umapada Pal, India Liu Wenyin, China For the ICDAR 2011 Awards Committee, Jean-Marc Ogier (TC 10 Chair) Dan Lopresti (TC 11 Chair) ============================================================================ ========== Call for Nominations: IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize ==================== The King-Sun Fu Prize The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the King-Sun Fu Prize in honor of the memory of Professor King-Sun Fu. (Professor Fu's biography appeared in the IEEE Trans. PAMI, May 1986 and is also available in pdf form at http://dataclustering.cse.msu.edu/KSFu_Biography.pdf .) Professor Fu was instrumental in the founding of IAPR, served as its first president, and is widely recognized for his extensive contributions to the field of pattern recognition. This biennial prize is given to a living person in recognition of an outstanding technical contribution to the field of pattern recognition, and consists of a cash amount and a suitably inscribed certificate. The prize is derived from interest income from a special fund set up for this purpose. The nomination must be made by a member of a national member society of IAPR and by endorsement of at least five members, representing at least two member societies different from that of the nominator. The prize recipient shall be selected by the Prize Committee, subject to approval by the IAPR Governing Board. Members of the IAPR Executive Committee, as well as of the Prize Committee, shall be ineligible for the prize and may not serve as nominators or endorsers. The 2012 prize will be presented at the 21th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) Tsukuba Science City, Japan November 11 - 15, 2012 The nomination must be made on special nomination and endorsement forms, and must be received by the Prize Committee Chairman no later than April 6, 2012. Completed and signed nomination and endorsement forms must be submitted in electronic form. The nominator as well as endorsers should send their completed forms by email to the chairman of the Prize Committee: Prof. Horst Bunke Chair, K-S. Fu Prize Committee University of Bern, Switzerland email: bunke@iam.unibe.ch Endorsement and Nomination Forms can be retrieved from http://www.iapr.org/fellowsandawards/awards_kingsunfu.php Past winners of the K.-S. Fu Prize: - 2010 (Istanbul): Professor Horst Bunke - 2008 (Tampa): Professor Anil K. Jain - 2006 (Hong Kong): Professor Josef Kittler - 2004 (Cambridge, U.K.): Professor J. K. Aggarwal - 2002 (Quebec City): Professor Thomas S. Huang - 2000 (Barcelona): Professor Theo Pavlidis - 1998 (Brisbane): Professor Jean-Claude Simon - 1996 (Vienna): Professor Teuvo Kohonen - 1994 (Jerusalem): Professor Herbert Freeman - 1992 (The Hague): Professor Leveen Kanal - 1990 (Atlantic City): Professor R.L. Kashyap - 1988 (Rome): Professor Azriel Rosenfeld ============================================================================ ========== Call for Proposals to Host ICDAR 2015 (repost) ================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION (ICDAR) CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO HOST ICDAR2015 Deadline: June 1, 2011 Submission Method: email to lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The ICDAR Advisory Board is seeking proposals to host the 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, to be held in 2015 (ICDAR2015). ICDAR is the premier IAPR event in the field of Document Analysis and Recognition with 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 on the TC10 and TC11 websites (www.iapr-tc10.org and www.iapr-tc11.org, respectively). A link to the most current version of the guidelines appears below: http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/images/ICDAR_Guidelines_2011_04_04.pdf 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. ICDAR2011 will be held in Beijing, China (Asia), and ICDAR2013 will be held in Washington, DC (the Americas). Hence, for ICDAR2015, proposals from Europe 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 ICDAR2011, 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, 2011. ICDAR Advisory Board Prof. Jean-Marc Ogier (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) ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: AND 2011 ======================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Fifth Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (AND 2011) In conjunction with 11th Int. Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) September 17th, 2011 Beijing, China Noisy unstructured text data is ubiquitous and abundant in real-world situations. Special handling of noise and noise-robust Information Retrieval (IR) and Knowledge Management (KM) techniques are essential to overcome these challenges. Contributions addressing the following areas (but not limited to) are invited: * Noise induced by document analysis techniques and its impact on downstream applications * Formal theory on characterization of noise * Genre recognition based on the type of noise * Robust parsing and Part of Speech (POS) tagging * Characterizing, modelling and accounting for historical language change * Methods for detecting and correcting errors in noisy text * Information extraction and retrieval from noisy text data * Automatic classification and clustering of noisy unstructured text data * Noise-invariant document summarization techniques * Machine Translation for noisy text * Analyzing very short communications like those on Twitter * Techniques for mining call-logs, transcribed calls, web logs, chat logs, emails, tweets * Business Intelligence (BI) applications dealing with noisy text data * Surveys relating to noisy text analytics Submission Guidelines --------------------- We invite papers up to 8 pages in length in the style specified at (http://and2011.cse.lehigh.edu/). Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. There will be an award for the best Student Paper at AND2011. Important Dates --------------- Abstract Submission: June 7th, 2011 Paper Submission: June 14th, 2011 Notification of Acceptance: July 25th, 2011 Camera-Ready papers due: August 8th, 2011 Chairs ------ Daniel Lopresti (lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu) Christoph Ringlstetter (ciskristof@googlemail.com) Shourya Roy (shourya.roy@xerox.com) Lipika Dey (lipika.dey@tcs.com) ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: GREC 2011 (updated) ============================ GREC 2011 9th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition Sep 15-16, 2011 Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea* http://grec2011.cau.ac.kr Download pdf version We are pleased to announce that the 9th International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC2011), organized by IAPR TC-10 (Technical Committeeon Graphics Recognition), will be held at the Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea on September 15-16, 2011, just before the 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2011). The GREC workshops provide an excellent opportunity for researchers and practitioners at all levels of experience to meet colleagues and to share new ideas and knowledge about graphics recognition methods. Graphics Recognition is a subfield of document image analysis that deals with graphical entities in engineering drawings, maps, architectural plans, musical scores, mathematical notation,tables,diagrams, etc. *Workshop Format* The program will be organized in a single-track 2-day workshop. It will comprise several sessions dedicated to specific topics. For each session, there will be an invited presentation describing the state of the art and stating the open questions for the session's topic, followed by a number of short presentations that will contribute by proposing solutions to some of the questions or presenting results of the speaker's work. Each session will be concluded by a panel discussion. *Topics* The topics of interest include, but are not limited to * Raster-to-vector techniques. * Recognition of graphical primitives. * Recognition of graphic symbols in charts, diagrams, and drawings. * Interpretation of engineering drawings, maps, tables, and other graphical documents. * Graphics-based information retrieval. * Historical graphic indexing. * 3-D models from multiple 2-D views (line drawings). * Digital ink processing. * Sketch recognition and understanding. * Description of complete systems for interpretation of graphic documents. * Performance evaluation in graphics recognition. * Authoring, editing, storing and presentation systems for graphics multimedia documents Extended abstracts or full paper have to be sent through the workshop web site (two column format maximum 4 pages). Afterwards, authors of accepted manuscript will be asked to send the full paper or revised paper. The full text of all contributed papers will be available in booklet distributed at the workshop. After the workshop, the program committee plans to publish revised versions of selected papers as an LNCS Volume, Springer Verlag or a IJDAR special issue. *Important Dates* Abstract Due: May 15, 2011 Acceptance Notification: June 20, 2011 Final Manuscript Due: July 24, 2011 *Location:* Seoul is the capital and largest city of Korea with its history dating back to 18BC. The University is located in the heart of the city, which can be easily accessed by bus, sub-way and other public transportation from the Incheon International Airport. *Flight and Transportation Information:* From Seoul (Korea) to Beijing (China), there are more than 10 direct flights daily with various carriers in order to go to ICDAR participants. Among them, Sky Team (www.skyteam.com ) or Star-Alliance (www.staralliance.com ) connections are recommended. For example, * Paris-Seoul-Beijing-Paris route is: Air France or Korean air combination (Sky Team) is possible. * New York-Seoul-Beijing-New York is: United-Asiana-United or Air China combination (Star Alliance) is possible. Note: The airfare is almost same prices with Beijing round trip !!. *Accomodations:* Very limited number of small-dorm rooms on campus are reserved for the workshop (around $35 per night) but the number of rooms are not enough - most of them will be given for student participants. Hotel rooms will be available on special rate for the workshop near the campus. (around $110 per night) Transportation from airport to hotel has a direct connection with a metro with 45 minutes. Free bus shuttle between workshop place to hotel will be provided. Contests : As at the past workshops, we plan to continue some kinds of contests on graphics recognition at GREC'2011. This year, 3 contests are oganized : Event/Web Submission Due ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Arc Segmentation on GREC 2011 May 31 (submission) (http://www.cs.usm.my/arcseg2011/) * Symbol Recognition on GREC 2011 May 29 (pre-regist), Jul 22 (submission) (http://iapr-tc10.univ-lr.fr/index.php/symbol-contest-2011) * Music Scores on GREC/ICDAR 2011 May 15 (submission) (http://dag.cvc.uab.es/cvcmuscima/competition/) ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: HIP 2011 (updated) ============================= Call for Papers: First International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP) Beijing, China, Sept. 16-17, 2011, (at ICDAR 2011) (http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~hdocp) HIP seeks to bring together archivists, curators and researchers, from private industry, government, and academia, who are involved in all aspects of imaging, collection and processing of historical documents. The workshop will feature a keynote by Mr. ZHANG Zhiqing, Deputy Director of the National Library of China (NLC) (http://www.nlc.gov.cn/en/service/acbooks.htm) Workshop attendees will also participate in a post-workshop visit to the NLC to view a variety of special collections. HIP topics of interest include: * Imaging and Image Acquisition * Digital Archiving Considerations * Historical Collections * Document Restoration/Improving readability * Content Extraction * Family History Documents and Genealogies * Automated Classification, Grouping and Hyperlinking of Historical Documents See http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~hdocp for full details. Authors should submit original work using guidelines found at http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~hdocp/. Accepted papers will be published in the printed conference proceedings, available to participants at the workshop, and electronically as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. Important Dates: June 10, 2011 Manuscripts due July 10, 2011 Acceptance notification August 10, 2011 Camera-ready manuscript due August 10, 2011 Advance registration due Registration: Full Registration USD $100 Student Registration USD $50 General Chairs: William A. Barrett (Brigham Young University) Michael S. Brown (National University of Singapore) Program Chair: R. Manmatha (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA) Organizing Chair: Jake Gehring (Manager, FamilySearch Data Operations, USA) Ms. Long Wei (Research Librarian, National Library of China) Program Committee: Apostolos Antonacopoulos* Josep Lladós Mohamed Cheriet Shijian Lu Xiaoqing Ding Simone Marinai David Doermann Heath Nielson Scott Eldredge Liangrui Peng Basilis Gatos Alexandra Psarrou Venu Govindaraju Jack Reese C.J. Jawahar Eric Ringger LianWen Jin Zhixin Shi George Landon Chew Lim Tan Cheng-Lin Liu Eugene Walach Competition: Historical Document Layout Analysis* For details visit: http://www.primaresearch.org/ICDAR2011_competition ============================================================================ ========== Call for Participation: Hist. Doc. Layout Analysis Competition == Historical Document Layout Analysis Competition at HIP and ICDAR2011 ** Deadline Extension ** The Historical Document Layout Analysis Competition follows the successful running of all previous ICDAR Page Segmentation competitions (2001 to 2009). The current competition focusses on historical documents, making use of a new dataset created by the IMPACT project (http://www.impact-project.eu/). Historical documents are of particular interest as they pose a number of challenges and, at the same time, represent a very large proportion of printed documents in existence. With the increasing number of digitisation projects initiated by libraries world-wide, the problem of layout analysis of these documents is very topical. The target of the competition is to evaluate existing approaches using a realistic dataset and an objective performance analysis system. Following the endorsement of the competition by the ACM International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing - HIP (http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~hdocp/) as well as ICDAR2011, the organisers have decided to amend the schedule in order to allow more people to participate. Please be advised that: - The registration deadline has been extended to May 27, 2011 and - The submission deadline has been extended to June 3, 2011. Registering for the competition will give you access to the resources available for interested participants, which include: - Instruction on what format your submission should be in, accompanied by example class files you could incorporate to your system - A number of example images and groundtruth files (expected results) - A viewer for the groundtruth files provided - The full evaluation set, comprising of 100 images representing both the main libraries' holdings and the challenges they present For more information and registration for the competition, visit http://www.primaresearch.org/ICDAR2011_competition. If you have any further questions, we would be happy to hear form you at: icdar2011-competition@primaresearch.org. 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