============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter August 2013 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - DAS 2014, Tours, France September 30 * New and Recently Published Datasets * Announcements - TC 10 and TC 11 joint meeting during ICDAR 2013 (repost) - Bid to host ICDAR 2017 in Kyoto, Japan, available from TC-11 website - HP Labs India Indic Handwriting Datasets available * Call for Dataset Submissions * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the August edition of our TC-11 newsletter. First, I would like to remind you of the TC 10 and TC 11 joint meeting that will be held during ICDAR 2013 and during which the location for ICDAR 2017 will be decided. A bid to host ICDAR 2017 in Kyoto, Japan, is available from the TC-11 website: http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/images/ICDAR2017Proposal_Kyoto.pdf Furthermore, this edition brings to you an announcement of new Indic Handwriting Datasets that are available from HP Labs India. Looking forward to meeting you at ICDAR! Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * DAS 2014, Tours, France April 7-10 2014 September 30 (http://das2014.univ-tours.fr/) * ICPR 2014, Stockholm, Sweden August 24-28 2014 December 20 (http://www.icpr2014.org/) * ICFHR 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece September 1-4 2014 February 10 (http://www.icfhr2014.org/ ============================================================================ ========== New and Recently Published: TC-11 Datasets ====================== Name/Source of Dataset: Main Purpose: Published: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LRDE DBD Document Binarization Dataset (LRDE DBD) 05/2013 http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/LRDE_Document_Binarization_Dataset_(LRDE_DBD) PHIBD 2012 Persian Heritage Image Binarization Dataset 05/2013 http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Persian_Heritage_Image_Binarization_Dataset_(PHIBD_2012) For a list of all datasets available visit: http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets_List ============================================================================ ========== TC 10 and TC 11 joint meeting during ICDAR 2013 (repost) ======== It is our pleasure to announce the organization of the joint meeting between TC10 and TC 11 during the next session of ICDAR Conference (http://www.icdar2013.org), which will be held in one month in Washington. This joint meeting will be held on Monday, 26th August 2013 from 5:50PM till 7:00PM. The room is to be determined and will be announced at the conference. The agenda of this meeting will be the following : 17:50 - 17:55 welcome message from TC 10 and TC 11 chairs : Jean-Marc Ogier and Koichi Kise 17:55 - 18:00 DAS2014 report (5 min) : Jean-Yves Ramel, Marcus Liwicki 18:00 - 18:05 ICFHR2014 report (5 min) : Basilis Gatos, Vassilis Katsouros, and Ioannis Pratikakis 18:05 - 18:10 ICDAR 2017 Bid (5 min) : Koichi Kise 18:10 - 18:35 ICDAR 2015 report (25 min) : Adel Alimi 18:35 - 18:45 TC10 report (10 min) : Jean-Marc Ogier & TC 10 management team 18:45 - 18:55 TC11 report (10 min) : Koichi Kise & TC 11 management team 18:55 - 19:00 closing We would like to invite you to consult TC 10 and TC 11 websites, especially in order to analyze ICDAR 2017 bid. Looking forward to meeting you four this important event for our community, Best regards Jean-Marc Ogier (TC 10 Chair) and Koichi Kise (TC 11 Chair) ============================================================================ ========== Bid for ICDAR 2017 Available ==================================== A bid to host ICDAR 2017 in Kyoto, Japan, has been uploaded to the TC11 website and it is available at http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/images/ICDAR2017Proposal_Kyoto.pdf ============================================================================ ========== HP Labs India Indic Handwriting Datasets ======================== HP Labs India is pleased to announce the availability of datasets for online and offline handwriting recognition: http://lipitk.sourceforge.net/hpl-datasets.htm The word datasets are the ones referred in the paper: Bharath, A.; Madhvanath, S., "HMM-Based Lexicon-Driven and Lexicon-Free Word Recognition for Online Handwritten Indic Scripts", IEEE Transactions on Pattern +Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol.34, no.4, pp. 670-682, April 2012 Soon these datasets will also be submitted for archival. Sriganesh Madhvanath HP Printing and Personal Systems R&D ============================================================================ ========== 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 Marcus Liwicki, the TC11 dataset curator, for any doubts you might have on the process. Marcus Liwicki, TC-11 Dataset Curator liwicki@dfki.uni-kl.de ============================================================================ ========== 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. 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