============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter October 2014 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - CVPR 2015, Boston, United States November 14 * New and Recently Published Datasets * Call for Hosting Proposals: - DAS 2016, [in a nice place] November 30 (proposal for hosting) * Job Advertisement - PostDoc at Osaka Prefecture University * Call for Dataset Submissions * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the October edition of our TC-11 newsletter. With this edition I would like to again draw your attention to the open Call for Hosting Proposals for DAS 2016. The newsletter also brings to you the advertisement for a PostDoc position at the Institute of Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) in Athens. Gernot A. Fink, IAPR TC-11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * CVPR 2015, Boston, United States June 8-10, 2015 November 14 (http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr15/) * ICDAR 2015, Gammarath, Tunisia August 23-26, 2015 January 15, 2015 (http://2015.icdar.org/) * ACPR 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia November 3-6, 2015 June 1, 2015 (http://acpr2015.org/) * ACCV 2014, Singapore November 1-5 - passed - (http://www.accv2014.org/) * IWRR 2014, Singapore November 2 - passed - (http://imlab.jp/iwrr2014/) * DRR 2015, San Francisco, USA February 11-12, 2015 - passed - (http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/drr2015) ============================================================================ ========== 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 Hosting Proposals: DAS 2016 ========================== Dear all, We have still in our memory the wonderful and productive days in Tour during DAS 2014, organized by our colleagues Jean-Yves Ramel and Marcus Liwicki. Once again, many thanks to them as well as to the program chairs, Jean-Marc Orgier, Koichi Kise, and Ray Smith. More than 100 members of the international research community met in the Loire Valley for the 11th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems in April this year. The DAS workshop has become one of the signature events for TC-11, and DAS 2014 builds on the tradition established by past DAS workshops held in Kaiserslautern, Germany (1994), Malvern, PA (1996), Nagano, Japan (1998), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2000), Princeton, NJ (2002), Florence, Italy (2004), Nelson, New Zealand (2006), Nara, Japan (2008), Boston, MA (2010), and Gold Coast, Australia (2012). Individuals and groups who are interested in Document Analysis Systems are now invited to submit proposals for organizing and hosting DAS 2016. The event should preferably take place in late summer/fall, but is not limited to this period. The call is now open! The submission deadline is November 30th, 2014. If you already know whether you are interested in preparing a proposal, please send me your expression of interest. Note that an expression of interest is not a commitment to make a formal proposal nor an official bid. If you need further information concerning DAS, please feel free to contact me. The final selection among competing proposals will be made short after the deadline by the DAS Steering Committee, which is composed of all those who have themselves organized or contributed substantially to past DAS workshops. I look forward to many bids. Best regards, Andreas Dengel ============================================================================ ========== Job Advertisement: PostDoc in Athens ============================ Post-doctoral position in the field of Document Image Analysis and Handwriting Recognition The Institute of Language and Speech Processing (ILSP - http://www.ilsp.gr/en) of the "Athena" Research and Innovation Center (http://www.athena-innovation.gr/en.html) announces a position for experience researchers in the area of Document Image Analysis and Handwriting Recognition. The position is opened in the context of the LangTERRA project (www.langterra.eu) which is co-funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union (Grant Agreement No. 285924 FP7-REGPOT-2011-1). LangTERRA represents ILSP's strong commitment to continuously reinforcing its excellence and strengthening its capacities and potential to excel at a European level in language technologies and related fields. Detailed information about the position can be found at http://www.ilsp.gr/el/news/75-jobs2/262-handwriting . Applications must be submitted by 24th October 2014. ******************************************************** Vassilis Katsouros Institute for Language and Speech Processing Athena Research and Innovation Centre Athens - GREECE ============================================================================ ========== 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 ============================================================================