============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter February 2013 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - IDIPS 2014, Fourni Island, Greece April 30 * New and Recently Published Datasets * Invitation to Sign Up for the IAPR-TC6 newsletter * Call for Participation - ICFHR 2014 Competition on Recognition of Handwritten Mathematical Expressions (ICFHR 2014 CROHME) - 2nd Int. Document Image Processing Summer School (IDIPS 2014, repost) * Call for Papers: IJDAR Special Issue on Robust Reading (repost) * Call for Dataset Submissions * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the February edition of our TC-11 newsletter. This edition brings to you an Invitation to sign up for the IAPR-TC6 newsletter by Marcus Liwicki, the newsletter editor of TC-6 "Computational Forensics". In addition, you will find below the Call for Participation for the Fourth International Competition on Handwritten Math Expression Recognition (CROHME) which will be held in conjunction with this year's ICFHR. 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 - passed - (http://das2014.univ-tours.fr/) * IDIPS 2014, Fourni Island, Greece May 26-30 April 30 (http://samosweb.aegean.gr/idips2014/) (max. 40 part.) * ICPR 2014, Stockholm, Sweden August 24-28 - passed - (http://www.icpr2014.org/) * ICFHR 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece September 1-4 - passed - (http://www.icfhr2014.org/) ============================================================================ ========== New and Recently Published: TC-11 Datasets ====================== Dataset: Main Purpose: Published: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * CROHME Recognition of Online HW Math Expressions 2/2014 (more than 10k expressions from 100s of writers) http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/CROHME:_Competition_on_Recogntion_of_Online_Handwritten_Mathematical_Expressions ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For a list of all datasets available visit: http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets_List ============================================================================ ========== Invitation to Sign Up for the IAPR-TC6 newsletter =============== The IAPR TC on Computational Forensics (IAPR-TC6) is active again. We would like to invite you to subscribe for the newsletter of this committee. This newsletter will inform you about the recent development of the IAPR technical committee on computational forensics. We plan to update you regularly every 3-4 months with news, information about upcoming and previous conferences and other activities related to the IAPR-TC6. The newsletter is organized in form of a mailing list at Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/compfor/join The current issue features the following news items: * Message from the IAPR-TC6 Committee * Important Dates - IWCF 2014 submission deadline: March 14, 2014 - AFHA 2014 submission deadline: May 1, 2014 * IWCF 2014 http://www.isical.ac.in/~iwcf2014/ * IWCF Shared Task on Recognition of Android Malware Patterns (RAMP) * AFHA 2014 http://www.dfki.de/afha/2014/ All information of IAPR-TC6 can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/compforgroup/ For any issues regarding the TC, please contact the current chair: Utpal Garain: utpal@isical.ac.in If you have items for the IAPR TC-6 newsletter, please contact: Marcus Liwicki: marcus.liwicki@dfki.de ============================================================================ ========== Call for Participation: ICFHR 2014 CROHME ======================= ICFHR 2014 Competition on Recognition of Handwritten Mathematical Expressions (ICFHR 2014 CROHME) We are pleased to announce the Fourth International Competition on Handwritten Math Expression Recognition (CROHME), being held as part of the upcoming International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition. Details of the last three competitions were published in the proceedings of ICDAR 2013, ICFHR 2012 and ICDAR 2011. A summary of tasks, important dates, file formats and available tools are provided below. Additional information is available from the competition web pages (* http://www.isical.ac.in/~crohme/ *). Important Dates ----------------- Feb. 15, 2014 Release of training data Mar. 1, 2014 Participant registration deadline [Available online: http://www.isical.ac.in/~crohme/] Apr. 15, 2014 Final systems due Tasks ----- This year the competition will be organized with 3 tasks: 1. Isolated math symbol recognition (new) 2. Full expression recognition (as in the previous competitions) 3. Full expression recognition with matrices (new) The task 1 (isolated symbols) aims to compare state of the art recognizer (feature extraction + classification). Rejection of wrong segmented symbols capability will be tested. Open-source solutions will be highlighted. The task 2 (full expressions) will use exactly the same grammar and symbol set as in CROHME 2013. The task 3 (matrices) is an experimental benchmark to introduce a new level of difficulty in the competition with data and suitable evaluation tools. The final ranking of the competition will be computed on the task 2. More information on-line. File Formats and Tools ------------------------ Training data will be provided in the same InkML format used in previous competitions. Outputs will be Comma-Separated Variable (CSV) format representing a labeled graphs (LG). Libraries for conversion between InkML and LG formats, along with tools for evaluation and visualization are available on-line. Please forward this email to any researchers, companies or students that may be interested in the competition. Sincerely, *The ICFHR 2014 CROHME Organizing Committee * *Utpal Garain (Indian Statistical Institute, India)* *Harold Mouche`re (University of Nantes, France)* *Christian Viard-Gaudin (University of Nantes, France)* *Richard Zanibbi (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)* ============================================================================ ========== Call for Participation: IDIPS 2014 ============================== 2nd Internationdal Document Image Processing Summer School (IDIPS2014) Fourni Island, Greece - May 26-30, 2014 http://samosweb.aegean.gr/idips2014/ SPONSORING TCs IAPR TC10 & IAPR TC11 After the successful first Summer School on Document Image Processing (IDIPS2013), (http://www.iapr.org/docs/newsletter-2013-03.pdf p.13-14) the second Summer School on Document Image Processing (IDIPS2014) aims to provide both an objective overview and an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art of the Document Analysis Systems (DAS) and their current open issues. The courses will be delivered by world-renowned researchers in the field and relevant companies, covering both theoretical and practical aspects of real problems of Document Analysis Systems, as well as examples of successful applications. This year, the school aims to provide an attractive opportunity for 40 young researchers, post-graduate and PhD students. The participants will benefit from direct interaction and discussions with the renowned speakers and practice on real problems. The Summer School registration (400 Euro) will cover attendance, dinners, coffee breaks, social events and transfer from Samos airport and back. Important Dates APPLICATION: 1/1/14 - 30/4/14 or up to 40 persons (13/1/2014: 29 positions left) Acceptance Notification: 10 days after the application Local Arrangements Information available by: 15 May 2014 Summer School: 26-30 May 2014 Organization Apostolos Antonacopoulos , PRImA, University of Salford David Doermann , University of Maryland Ergina Kavallieratou , University of the Aegean Josep Llados , CVC, University Autonoma de Barcelona Daniel Lopresti , Lehigh University Jean-Marc Ogier , Universite de La Rochelle Ioannis Pratikakis , Democritus University of Thrace Efstathios Stamatatos , University of the Aegean Irini Stathi , University of the Aegean ============================================================================ ========== 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 ============================================================================