============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter November 2012 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - ICDAR 2013, Washington, USA February 1, 2013 * New and Recently Published Datasets * Invitation: TC-10 / TC-11 Joint Meeting at ICPR 2012 * Announcements - CROHME Mathematical Expression Recognition Dataset available - MSRA Text Detection 500 Dataset available * Call for Dataset Submissions * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the November edition of our TC-11 newsletter. This edition brings to you the invitation to join the TC-10 / TC-11 Joint Meeting at ICPR 2012 next week in Tsukuba, Japan. Below you will also find the announcements of two new datasets on mathematical expression recognition and text detection that are now available from the TC-11 website. 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 2013, Washington, USA August 25-28, 2013 February 1, 2013 (http://www.icdar2013.org/) * ACPR 2013, Okinawa, Japan November 5-8, 2013 June 10, 2013 (http://www.am.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/ACPR2013/) ============================================================================ ========== New and Recently Published: TC-11 Datasets ====================== Name/Source of Dataset: Main Purpose: Published: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * MSRA 500 Database Text Detection NEW! http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/MSRA_Text_Detection_500_Database_(MSRA-TD500) * CROHME Recognition of Online NEW! HW Math Expressions http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/CROHME:_Competition_on_Recognition_of_Online_Handwritten_Mathematical_Expressions * Street View Text Dataset Text detection/ 10/2012 Word spotting http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/The_Street_View_Text_Dataset * ICFHR 2010 and 2012 Signature Signature Verification 6/2012 Verification Datasets (4NSigComp2010 and 4NSigComp2012) For a list of all datasets available visit: http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets_List ============================================================================ ========== TC-10 / TC-11 Joint Meeting at ICPR 2012 ======================== We would like to welcome you to the TC10/11 joint meeting at ICPR2012 in Tsukuba. Anyone who is interested in graphics recognition (TC10) and reading systems (TC11) is invited to attend the meeting. Date: November 14, 2012 Time: 13:45-14:30 Room: Meeting room 402 Topics: Past Activities (web, datasets, newsletter, etc.), Future Plans and Requests. Koichi Kise, TC-11 Vice-Chair, kise@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp ============================================================================ ========== Announcement: CROHME Dataset Available ========================== We are pleased to announce that the "CROHME: Competition on Recognition of Online Handwritten Mathematical Expressions" is now available through the TC11 Web site. The dataset provides 2170 mathematical expressions handwritten by 347 writers from 3 different countries and it also includes evaluation software. http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/CROHME:_Competition_on_Recognition_of_Online_Handwritten_Mathematical_Expressions Dimosthenis Karatzas, TC-11 Dataset Curator dimos@cvc.uab.es ============================================================================ ========== Announcement: MSRA Text Detection 500 Dataset Available ========= We are pleased to announce that the "MSRA Text Detection 500 Dataset" is now available through the TC11 Web site. The MSRA Text Detection 500 Database (MSRA-TD500) contains 500 natural images, which are taken from indoor (office and mall) and outdoor (street) scenes using a pocket camera. It provides text location ground truth at the text line level. In contrast to most related datasets rotated bounding boxes are defined making the dataset a good choice for text detection in arbitrary orientations. http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/MSRA_Text_Detection_500_Database_(MSRA-TD500) Dimosthenis Karatzas, TC-11 Dataset Curator dimos@cvc.uab.es ============================================================================ ========== Call for Dataset Submissions ==================================== We would like to remind you that the TC10 and TC11 welcome contributions of new datasets or other resources related to the community. We would like to particularly encourage authors of articles that introduce new datasets, software or other material to submit such material to TC11 for hosting. Please check the TC11 site on information about how to submit datasets for archiving ( http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets) also feel free to contact Dimosthenis Karatzas, the TC11 dataset curator, for any doubts you might have on the process. Dimosthenis Karatzas, TC-11 Dataset Curator dimos@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 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 ============================================================================