============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter April 2012 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - DRR 2013, San Francisco, USA, July 23 * Call for Papers: - Document Recognition and Retrieval XX (DRR 2013), San Francisco, USA, February 5-7, 2013 * Announcement: - CLEF-IP "Flowchart Recognition Task" open for participation * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the April edition of our TC-11 newsletter. This rather compact edition brings to you the Call for Papers for DRR 2013 which will be held in San Francisco in February 2013. Additionally, I would like to inform you that the CLEF-IP "Flowchart Recognition Task" is open for participation. Best regards, Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * DRR 2013, San Francisco, USA February 5-7, 2013 July 23, 2012 (http://www.cs.rit.edu/~drr2013) ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: DRR 2013 ======================================= Document Recognition and Retrieval XX (2013) http://www.cs.rit.edu/~drr2013 San Francisco, USA Feb. 5-7, 2013 ** Paper Submission Deadline: July 23, 2012 (11:59 PST) ------------------------------------------------------ Document Recognition and Retrieval (DRR) is one of the leading international conferences devoted to current research in document analysis, recognition and retrieval. The 20th Document Recognition and Retrieval Conference is being held as part of SPIE Electronic Imaging, from Feb. 5-7, 2013 in San Francisco, California, USA. The conference venue and hotel will be the Hyatt Regency near the San Francisco Airport (SFO). The Conference Chairs and Program Committee invite all researchers working on document recognition and retrieval to submit original research papers. Papers are presented in oral and poster sessions at the conference, along with invited talks by leading researchers. Accepted papers will be published by the SPIE in the conference proceedings. At the conference a Best Student Paper Award will be presented. Papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the areas below. Document Recognition * Text recognition: machine-printed, handwritten documents; paper, tablet, camera, and video sources * Writer/style identification, verification, and adaptation * Graphics recognition: vectorization (e.g. for line-art, maps and technical drawings), signature, logo and graphical symbol recognition, figure, chart and graph recognition, and diagrammatic notations (e.g. music, mathematical notation) * Document layout analysis and understanding: document and page region segmentation, form and table recognition, and document understanding through combined modalities (e.g. speech and images) * Evaluation:performance metrics, and document degradation models * Additional topics: document image filtering, enhancement and compression, document clustering and classification, machine learning (e.g. integration and optimization of recognition modules), historical and degraded document images (e.g. fax), multilingual document recognition, and web page analysis (including wikis and blogs) Document Retrieval * Indexing and Summarization: text documents (messages, blogs, etc.), imaged documents, entity tagging from OCR output, and text categorization * Query Languages and Modalities: Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) for documents, keyword spotting, non-textual query-by-example (e.g. tables, figures, math), querying by document geometry and/or logical structure, approximate string matching algorithms for OCR output, retrieval of noisy text documents (messages, blogs, etc.), cross and multi-lingual retrieval * Evaluation: relevance and performance metrics, evaluation protocols, and benchmarking * Additional topics: relevance feedback, impact of recognition accuracy on retrieval performance, and digital libraries including systems engineering and quality assurance Important Dates * 23 July, 2012: Paper submission deadline * Late August, 2012: Author notifications * 26 November, 2012: Final paper submission deadline * 5-7 February, 2013: Conference dates * Paper Submission* All paper submissions should be between 8-12 pages in length, using the SPIE LaTeX template (available from conference web pages). For accepted papers, final submissions will also be 8-12 pages in the same format. Papers should clearly identify the problem addressed in the paper, identify the original contribution(s) of the paper, relate the paper to previous work, and provide experimental and/or theoretical evaluation as appropriate. Submissions should be uploaded through the conference web site (http://www.cs.rit.edu/~drr2013/submission.html). Questions may be addressed to: drr2013@cs.rit.edu. -- Richard Zanibbi Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, USA http://www.cs.rit.edu/~rlaz/ ============================================================================ ========== Announcement ==================================================== Within the CLEF-IP framework - Information Retrieval in the Intellectual Property Domain - the "Flowchart Recognition Task" is now open for participation. Please visit the CLEF-IP website for more information on the task, the data used, and the rules for participants: http://ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~clef-ip/index.html Excerpt from the CLEF-IP website: "Flowchart Recognition Task: The topics in this third task are patent images representing flow-charts. Participants in this task will be asked to extract the information in these images and return it in a predefined textual format." ============================================================================ ========== 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 . 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