============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter November 2011 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - ICFHR 2012, Bari, Italy, February 28, 2012 * Call for Tutorial Proposals - ICFHR 2012, Bari, Italy, March 15, 2012 * Report: - Informal survey on "When is a problem solved?" * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the November edition of our TC-11 newsletter. This edition brings to you the Call for Tutorial Proposals for ICFHR 2012, which will be held in Bari, Italy, in September next year. Furthermore, you will find below a short report on the results of an informal survey initiated by Daniel Lopresti and George Nagy on the topic of "When is a problem solved?". Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * ICFHR 2012, Bari, Italy September 18-20, 2012 February 28 (http://www.icfhr2012.uniba.it) - Call for Tutorial Proposals March 15 * ICPR 2012, Tsukuba, Japan November 11-15, 2012 March 31 (http://www.icpr2012.org) ============================================================================ ========== Call for Tutorial Proposals: ICFHR 2012 ========================= CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSAL The 13th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2012) Bari, Italy September 18-20, 2012 http://www.icfhr2012.uniba.it/ The ICFHR2012 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial to be held on September 17, 2012 at Bari, Italy. Tutorials should serve one or more of the following objectives: * Introduce students and newcomers to major topics of ICFHR research. * Provide instruction on established practices and methodologies. * Survey a mature area of ICFHR research and/or practice. * Motivate and explain an ICFHR topic of emerging importance. * Introduce expert non-specialists to an ICFHR subarea. Proposals should be of around three pages in length, and should contain the following information: * A brief description of the tutorial. * A detailed outline of the tutorial, including preferred length of tutorial (1/2 or 1 day). * Characterization of the potential target audience for the tutorial including prerequisite knowledge. * A description of why the tutorial topic would be of interest to a substantial part of the ICFHR audience. * A brief resume of the presenter(s), which should include name, postal address, e-mail address, background in the tutorial area, any available example of work in the area (ideally, a published tutorial-level article on the subject), evidence of teaching experience (including references that address the proposer's presentation skills), etc. * The name and e-mail address of the corresponding presenter. Proposal should be submitted to the ICFHR-2012 Tutorial Chairs: 1. Umapada Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India (umapada@isical.ac.in) 2. Michael Blumenstein, Griffith University, Australia (m.blumenstein@griffith.edu.au) The evaluation of the proposal will take into account its general interest for ICFHR attendees (e.g., a tutorial on object-oriented inheritance will be hardly accepted), the quality of the proposal (e.g., a tutorial that simply lists a set of concepts without any apparent rationale behind them will not be approved) as well as the expertise and skills of the presenters. We emphasize that the primary criteria for evaluation will be whether a proposal is interesting, well-structured, and motivated, rather than the perceived experience/standing of the proposer. Last but not the least, the tutorial should attract a meaningful audience. Those submitting a proposal should keep in mind that tutorials are intended to provide an overview of the field; they should present reasonably well established information in a balanced way. Tutorials should not be used to advocate a single avenue of research, nor should they promote a product. All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to the ICFHR-2012 Tutorial Chairs no later than 15 March 2012. Feedback, comments and/or suggestions would be provided within four weeks of receiving the proposal. Final acceptance (or rejection) would be decided by 15th April, 2012. Proposals for tutorials with objectives different from those reported in above could be also taken into account by the tutorial chairs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ICFHR-2012 Secretariat Department of Computer Science via E. Orabona, n. 4 University of Bari "Aldo Moro" 70125 Bari -BA- ITALY (ITALIA) -IT- ============================================================================ ========== Report: Survey "When is a problem solved?" ====================== Dan Lopresti and George Nagy have updated their ICDAR 2011 slides to include the results of an informal, unscientific community survey regarding the question "When is a problem solved?" They regard these results as much for entertainment purposes as for enlightenment. That said, the survey respondents expressed a variety of opinions, but seem to generally believe that "net improvement" over past results is an appropriate success measure for our work, while "publishability" is not. There is also a belief that we should consider a problem solved when further improvement no longer helps the intended application. There is less consensus on the level of proof that should be necessary before we consider a problem solved, although there are strong opinions focused on open publication of a method, and open availability of an implementation. Finally, there appears to be a belief that a number of suggested problems are "mostly solved", although few are "completely solved" -- perhaps this is because we can always imagine hard cases that we believe no known method can handle. (provided by Daniel P. Lopresti) More information on the survey and the results can be found on the slides available here: http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~lopresti/Talks/2011/ICDAR11_ProblemSolved.pdf ============================================================================ ========== 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 conferences 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. 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 ============================================================================