============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter December 2013 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - ICFHR 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece February 10 * New and Recently Published Datasets * Call for Papers: IJDAR Special Issue on Robust Reading * Call for Dataset Submissions * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the December edition of our TC-11 newsletter. This edition brings to you the Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR) devoted to Robust Reading with a deadline on June 1, 2014. I would like to wish you all a quiet and peaceful time during the upcoming Christmas season and all the best for a happy and successful New Year! 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 -passed- (http://das2014.univ-tours.fr/) * ICPR 2014, Stockholm, Sweden August 24-28 2014 -passed- (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 ====================== For a list of all datasets available visit: http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets_List ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: IJDAR Special Issue on Robust Reading ========== Special Issue on Robust Reading - International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition Aims and Scope ------------------------ Document Image Analysis (DIA) was established to address the need for the automated analysis of scanned paper documents, but has evolved to incorporate a great variety of text containers including digital-born (Web and email) images, scene images, and video sequences. These types of text containers introduce a range of new challenges for document image analysis, stemming from perspective distortions, a large variety of fonts and backgrounds, anti-aliasing, and compression artefacts. Addressing the need of reading textual content in such domains entails a paradigm shift in the document analysis field that calls for a change in the definition of "document" to include complex unconstrained text containers, as opposed to the traditional scanned paper document. The IJDAR Special Issue on Robust Reading invites original work on topics related to the detection, extraction and recognition of textual content in such complex unconstrained text containers. Topics of Interest ------------------------ The list of topics includes but is not limited to: - Scene text localisation, segmentation, and recognition - Reading scene and/or overlaid text in video sequences - Text localisation, segmentation, and recognition in born-digital images - Restoration of camera captured documents (dewarping, deblurring, etc.) - Quality estimation and degradation modelling of camera-captured text - Performance evaluation and metrics - Applications such as translation, reading text for the blind, etc - Graphical content interpretation in complex settings Submission Process ------------------------ Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. All submissions will be peer reviewed subject to the standards of the journal. Manuscripts based on previously published conference papers must be extended substantially. Manuscripts should be submitted to: http://www.editorialmanager.com/ijda/. All submissions are strictly limited to 15 pages in IJDAR format. Detailed instructions are available on the IJDAR website. Please select "S.I.: Robust Reading" in the menu "Choose Article Type" after clicking on "Submit new manuscript". The submission site will open on 1st May, 2014. Important Dates ------------------------ Paper submission (hard deadline) 01 Jun 2014 First notifications 01 Aug 2014 Submission of revised papers 01 Oct 2014 Acceptance notifications 01 Nov 2014 Camera ready papers due 15 Nov 2014 Issue published Mar 2015 Guest Editors ------------------------ Faisal Shafait, The University of Western Australia, Australia (faisal.shafait@uwa.edu.au) Dimosthenis Karatzas, Computer Vision Centre, Spain (dimos@cvc.uab.es) Seiichi Uchida, Kyushu University, Japan (uchida@ait.kyushu-u.ac.jp) Masakazu Iwamura, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan (masa@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp) ============================================================================ ========== 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. 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 ============================================================================