============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter October 2013 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - ICPR 2014, Stockholm, Sweden December 20 * New and Recently Published Datasets * Survey: Topics for TC 11 Summer Schools on Document Analysis and Recognition (Repost) * Call for Proposals - ICFHR 2014: Call for Tutorial Proposals - ICFHR 2014: Call for Competitions * Call for Dataset Submissions * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the October edition of our TC-11 newsletter. This edition brings to you the Call for Tutorial Proposals for ICFHR 2014 and the Call for Competitions for the same conference. Proposals to both calls are due November 1. Furthermore, I would like to again draw your attention to our current survey on potential topics for TC-11 Summer Schools. We would be very happy to receive your feedback. Therefore, please take a few minutes to fill out the short survey form (4 questions) that can be found here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BWG6GVT Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * ACPR 2013, Okinawa, Japan November 5-8 2013 -passed- (http://www.am.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/ACPR2013/) * DAS 2014, Tours, France April 7-10 2014 -passed- (http://das2014.univ-tours.fr/) * Int. Conf. on Natural Sciences and December 4-6, 2013 -passed- Technology in Manuscript Analysis Hamburg, Germany (http://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/register_natural_sciences.html) * 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/ - Tutorial Proposals November 1 - Competition Proposals November 1 ============================================================================ ========== 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 ============================================================================ ========== Survey: Topics for TC 11 Summerschool =========================== Following the success of the TC11 endorsed "International Document Image Processing School" (IDIPS 2013) this year (see & ), and given that a possible second edition of IDIPS is currently under consideration, TC11 would like to receive some feedback from the community that will help us better manage future proposals for similar educational activities. In order to ensure that such future educational activities are accessible to the majority of TC11 members, and that the scientific programme of such activities is as interesting and useful as possible, TC11 would like to seek the views of the research community with regard to the topics to be covered by TC 11 summer schools and possible dates for their organisation. We therefore invite you to participate to an online survey that you can access at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BWG6GVT The survey comprises 4 questions, and should not take more than a couple of minutes to complete. Looking forward to your feedback! The TC11 leadership team ============================================================================ ========== ICFHR 2014: Call for Turtorial Proposals ======================== ICFHR 2014 - CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS The 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2014) Hersonissos, Crete Island, Greece September 1-4, 2014 http://www.icfhr2014.org/ The ICFHR 2014 Organizing Committee invites proposals for Tutorials to be held prior to the main conference at Crete in Greece. 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 research area. Proposals should contain the following information: a. A brief description of the tutorial. b. A detailed outline of the tutorial, including preferred length of tutorial either 3 hours (1/2 day)or 6 hours (1 day). c. Characterization of the potential target audience for the tutorial including prerequisite knowledge. d. A description of why the tutorial topic would be of interest to a substantial part of the ICFHR audience. e. 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. f. The name and e-mail address of the corresponding presenter. Proposal should be submitted by electronic mail to the ICFHR-2014 Tutorial Chairs: 1. Michael Blumenstein, Griffith University, Australia (m.blumenstein@griffith.edu.au) 2. Marcus Liwicki, DFKI, Germany (marcus.liwicki@dfki.de) The evaluation of the proposal will take into account its general interest for ICFHR attendees (e.g., a tutorial on object-oriented inheritance will not be appropriate), 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 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. Important Dates: 01 November 2013: Submission of proposals for tutorials. 25 January 2013: Notification of acceptance. If you have any query, please contact the ICFHR-2014 Tutorial Chairs. ============================================================================ ========== ICFHR 2014: Call for Competitions =============================== ICFHR 2014 - CALL FOR COMPETITIONS The 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2014) Hersonissos, Crete Island, Greece September 1-4, 2014 http://www.icfhr2014.org/ The ICFHR 2014 Organizing Committee invites proposals for competitions to be held under the framework of the Conference in September 2014. Competitions should aim at evaluating the performance of algorithms and methods for a particular task of handwriting recognition. Proposals should contain the following information: (a) The names, contact information, and brief CVs of the competition organizers, outlining previous experience in performance evaluation and/or organizing competitions. (b) A brief description of the competition, including which is the particular task under evaluation and why this competition could be of interest to the ICFHR community. (c) A draft of the outline of the competition describing which data is planned to be used, how will the submitted methods be evaluated and which performance measures will be used. Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to the Competitions Chairs: · Apostolos Antonacopoulos (A.Antonacopoulos@primaresearch.org ) · Umapada Pal (umapada@isical.ac.in ) · Volker Märgner (Maergner@ifn.ing.tu-bs.de ) The following rules shall apply to the accepted Competitions: · All competitions must run well in advance of the conference. · Datasets used in the competitions must be made available after the end of the competitions. · Evaluation methodologies and metrics used must be described in detail so that results can be replicated later. · Reports (full papers) on each competition will be reviewed and, if accepted (the competition run according to plan and is appropriately described), will be published in the ICFHR2014 conference proceedings. · The results of accepted competitions will be announced during a dedicated session of the conference. · Participants should be encouraged to present their algorithms (if not already done) in a conference paper at ICFHR 2014. Important Dates: 01 November 2013: Submission of competition proposals. 25 January 2014: Notification of acceptance. 01 February 2014: Competitions publicised and open to participants. 21 April 2014: Deadline for submission for review of full papers describing the competitions. Papers must be sent directly to the Competition Chairs. 10 May 2014: Camera-ready papers reporting on the competitions for inclusion in the proceedings. If you have any query, please contact the ICFHR-2014 Competition Chairs. ============================================================================ ========== 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 . 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