============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter January 2015 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - ICDAR 2015, Gammarath, Tunisia January 31 (extended!) * New and Recently Published Datasets * Announcement - ICDAR 2015 Doctoral Consortium Gammarath, Tunisia, August 23, 2015 * Call for Papers - 6th Int. Workshop on Camera Based Document Analysis and Recognition (CBDAR 2015), in conjunction with ICDAR 2015, August 22 * Call for Participation - ICDAR 2015 Robust Reading Competition - Document Recognition and Retrieval XXII (DRR 2015), San Francisco, February 11-12, 2015 * Call for Dataset Submissions * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the first edition of our newsletter in 2015. This edition brings good news to all prospective ICDAR authors: The deadline for paper submission has been extended until January 31. Enclosed you will find the first announcement of the ICDAR Doctoral Consortium which will be jointly organized by IAPR TC-10 and TC-11 in conjunction with ICDAR 2015. This edition also brings to you the first Call for Papers for the 6th Int. Workshop on Camera Based Document Analysis and Recognition (CBDAR 2015) - also a satelite event of ICDAR. Furthermore, you will find below the Calls for Participation for the ICDAR Robust Reading Competition and for the 22nd Document Recognition and Retrieval Conference (DRR 2015) to be held in San Francisco roughly three weeks from now (February 11-12). Gernot A. Fink, IAPR TC-11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * ICDAR 2015, Gammarath, Tunisia August 23-26, 2015 January 31, ext. (http://2015.icdar.org/) - Doctoral Consortium: August 23 May 15 * CBDAR 2015 in conjunction with ICDAR August 22 May 15 (http://www.cvc.uab.es/CBDAR2015) * BTAS 2015, Washington, DC area, USA September 8 - 11 April 1 (http://www.btas2015.org/) * ICCV 2015, Santiago, Chile December 13-16, 2015 April 30 (http://pamitc.org/iccv15/) * ACPR 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia November 3-6, 2015 June 1 (http://acpr2015.org/) * DRR 2015, San Francisco, USA February 11-12, 2015 - passed - (http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/drr2015) * CVPR 2015, Boston, United States June 8-10, 2015 - passed - (http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr15/) ============================================================================ ========== 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 ============================================================================ ========== Announcement: ICDAR 2015 Doctoral Consortium ==================== In 2011 the Leadership Teams of TC-10 and TC-11 agreed to jointly organize the first Doctoral Consortium in conjunction with ICDAR 2011 which lead to a successor event that took place in conjunction with ICDAR 2013. Given the great success of these initial events the tradition of Doctoral Consortiums as satelite events to ICDAR conferences will be continued. The goal of the ICDAR 2015 Doctoral Consortium is to create an opportunity for Ph.D. students to test their research ideas, present their current progress and future plans, and receive constructive criticism and insights related to their future work and career perspectives. A mentor (a senior researcher who is active in the field) will be assigned to each student to provide individual feedback. In addition, students will have the opportunity to present an overview of their research plan during a special poster session. Participation in the ICDAR 2015 Doctoral Consortium will be be limited to 25 students. Prospective participants are encouraged to submit their application by May 15 (submission procedure to be announced). The Doctoral Consortium Chairs will then review all applications received. Preference will be given to students who are at a stage in their studies most likely to benefit (i.e., they have identified a research direction and published some initial results, but the thesis is not yet set in stone). As in previous years, the event will be organized such that the registration fees for participating students will be minimal. The ICDAR 2015 Doctoral Consortium will take place the day before the main conference, i.e., on August 23. The important dates are: Submission deadline: May 15 Acceptance notification and Mentor assignment: May 31 Final material due: July 10 Doctoral Consortium: August 23 We are looking forward to your participation! Alicia Fornés & Gernot A. Fink ICDAR 2015 Doctoral Consortium Chairs ============================================================================ ========== CBDAR 2015: First Announcement ================================== 6th Int. Workshop on Camera Based Document Analysis and Recognition ------------------------------------------------------------------- The 6th International Workshop on Camera Based Document Analysis and Recognition (CBDAR 2015) will be held in Gammarth, Tunisia, on August 22nd 2015 in conjunction with ICDAR 2015. http://www.cvc.uab.es/CBDAR2015 The pervasiveness and widespread availability of camera phones, hand-held digital still/video cameras and more recently wearable cameras have led the community to recognize camera captured images as a promising and growing field of research for document analysis and recognition. Document digitization techniques are gradually getting closer to camera based solutions, offering certain advantages (e.g. for scanning large scale or fragile documents), and presenting interesting new challenges and open problems which cannot be directly resolved by traditional techniques. Building on the success of the previous five CBDAR workshops in 2005 (Seoul, Korea), 2007 (Curitiba, Brazil), 2009 (Barcelona, Spain), 2011 (Beijing, China), and Washington DC (USA), CBDAR 2015 will be held in Gammarth, Tunisia in conjunction with ICDAR 2015. The aim of the workshop is to provide a natural link between document image analysis and the wider computer vision community by attracting cutting edge research on the topic. Topics of Interest: - camera based acquisition of written information - restoration of camera captured documents (dewarping, deblurring, etc.) - image degradation models for camera captured characters/documents - document image quality analysis - character segmentation / recognition from scene images - layout analysis for camera captured documents - text in video - document image retrieval - devices and algorithms for camera-based document analysis and recognition - device constrained techniques and algorithms - performance evaluation and metrics - applications such as translation, reading text for the blind, etc - human-document interaction Workshop Chairs: Dr Dimosthenis Karatzas (Computer Vision Centre - Spain) Dr Faisal Shafait (University of Western Australia -Australia) Program Committee: TBA Workshop Format: CBDAR is a 100% participation, one-day, single-track workshop featuring keynote talks, oral/poster presentations, a demo session, and a panel discussion. Publications: Electronic copies of the workshop proceedings containing all contributed papers will be distributed at the workshop. After the workshop, revised versions of selected papers will be published in Springer LNCS series as post-proceedings. Submission Information: CBDAR 2015 invites the submission of original, previously unpublished work and welcomes, with some restrictions, submissions which are closely related to work submitted to ICDAR 2015. This workshop employs single-blind review, in which referees remain anonymous for the authors throughout the process. Papers should not exceed 6 printed pages in IEEE CS format. Full details of the formatting instructions, a sample document and templates for LaTeX and MS-Word users will be available at the CBDAR 2015 homepage soon. Important Dates: Paper submission due: May 15, 2015 Author Notification: June 25, 2015 Camera-ready paper due: July 8, 2015 ============================================================================ ========== ICDAR 2015 Robust Reading Competition: Call for Participation === ICDAR 2015 Robust Reading Competition ------------------------------------- http://rrc.cvc.uab.es "Robust Reading" refers to the research area dealing with the interpretation of written communication in unconstrained settings. Robust Reading is at the meeting point between camera based document analysis and scene interpretation. The ICDAR Robust Reading Competition is organized around challenges selected to cover a wide range of real-world situations, which are in turn set up around different research tasks. The ICDAR 2015 Robust Reading competition will build upon the success of the previous editions and will introduce two key changes. First, a new "end-to-end" task is introduced aiming at simultaneous word localisation and recognition in images and videos. Second, a Challenge on incidental text is introduced based on a new large dataset (in the thousands of images), the focus of this challenge is on text that appears in the scene without the user having taken any specific prior action to cause its appearance or improve its positioning / quality in the image. Participation is welcome in any Task and Challenge in an open mode (submission of results over a provided test set). Lead Organizers: Dimosthenis Karatzas (Computer Vision Centre, Barcelona, Spain) Seiichi Uchida (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan) Masakazu Iwamura (Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan) Faisal Shafait (University of Western Australia) Collaborators: Vijay Chadrasekhar (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Jiri Matas (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic) Lukas Neumann (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic) Lu Shijan (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Lluis Gomez (Computer Vision Centre, Barcelona, Spain) Suman Ghosh (Computer Vision Centre, Barcelona, Spain) Anguelos Nicolaou (Computer Vision Centre, Barcelona, Spain) Ernest Valveny (Computer Vision Centre, Barcelona, Spain) Important Dates: - Registration of interest: until 31 March - Datasets available: 28 February - Submission of results due: 31 March - Method descriptions due: 3 April - Announcement of Results: 22 August ============================================================================ ========== Call for Participation: DRR 2015 =============================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION --------------------------------------------------- Document Recognition and Retrieval XXII (DRR 2015) --------------------------------------------------- http://spie.org/EI/conferencedetails/document-recognition-retrieval San Francisco, February 11-12, 2015 Document Recognition and Retrieval (DRR) is one month away. Come join us in San Francisco for one of the leading international conferences devoted to current research in document analysis, recognition and retrieval. The 22nd Document Recognition and Retrieval Conference is being held as part of the IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Symposium taking place in San Francisco, California, USA at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square in the heart of town. The Conference Chairs and Program Committee invite all researchers interested in document recognition and retrieval to attend for the presentation of original research papers and invited talks by Dan Klein of the University of California, Berkeley, and Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive. INVITED TALKS Dan Klein's talk on Wednesday, Feb. 11 is titled "Printing presses and polyphonic pianos: unsupervised transcription for documents and music". Brewster Kahle's talk on Thursday, Feb. 12 is titled: "The internet archive: challenges and solutions for large scale document repositories". PROGRAM = Session 1: Document Layout Analysis and Understanding "Ground truth model, tool, and dataset for layout analysis of historical documents " Author(s): Kai Chen, Ecole d'ingénieurs et d'architectes de Fribourg (Switzerland); Mathias Seuret, Hao Wei, Univ. de Fribourg (Switzerland); Marcus Liwicki, Univ. de Fribourg (Switzerland), Technische Univ. Kaiserslautern (Germany); Jean Hennebert, Univ. de Fribourg (Switzerland), Haute Ecole Spécialisée de Suisse occidentale (Switzerland); Rolf Ingold, Univ. de Fribourg (Switzerland) "Use of SLIC superpixels for ancient document image enhancement and segmentation " Author(s): Maroua M. Mehri, Univ. de La Rochelle (France); Nabil Sliti, Univ. de Sousse (Tunisia); Pierre Héroux, Univ. de Rouen (France); Petra Gomez-Krämer, Univ. de La Rochelle (France); Najoua Essoukri Ben Amara, Univ. de Sousse (Tunisia); Rémy Mullot, Univ. de La Rochelle (France) "Software workflow for the automatic tagging of medieval manuscript images (SWATI)" Author(s): Swati Chandna, Danah Tonne, Thomas Jejkal, Rainer Stotzka, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (Germany); Celia Krause, Technische Univ. Darmstadt (Germany); Philipp Vanscheidt, Hannah Busch, Univ. Trier (Germany); Ajinkya Prabhune, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (Germany) = Session 2: Document Structure Semantics, Forms, and Tables "Math expression retrieval using an inverted index over symbol pairs" Author(s): David Stalnaker, Richard Zanibbi, Rochester Institute of Technology (United States) "Min-cut segmentation of cursive handwriting in tabular documents" Author(s): Brian L. Davis, William A. Barrett, Scott D. Swingle, Brigham Young Univ. (United States) "Cross-reference identification within a PDF document" Author(s): Sida Li, Liangcai Gao, Zhi Tang, Yinyan Yu, Peking Univ. (China) "Intelligent indexing: a semi-automated, trainable system for field labeling" Author(s): Robert Clawson, William A. Barrett, Brigham Young Univ. (United States) = Session 3: Text Analysis "Re-typograph phase I: a proof-of-concept for typeface parameter extraction from historical documents" Author(s): Bart Lamiroy, Univ. de Lorraine (France); Thomas Bouville, Atelier National de Recherche Typographique (France); Blégean Julien, Hongliu Cao, Salah Ghamizi, Univ. de Lorraine (France); Romain Houpin, Univ. de Lorraine (France); Matthias Lloyd, Univ. de Lorraine (France) "Clustering of Farsi sub-word images for whole-book recognition" Author(s): Mohammad Reza Soheili, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH (Germany); Ehsanollah Kabir, Tarbiat Modares Univ. (Iran, Islamic Republic of); Didier Stricker, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH (Germany) "Gaussian process style transfer mapping for historical Chinese character recognition" Author(s): Jixiong Feng, Liangrui Peng, Tsinghua Univ. (China); Franck Lebourgeois, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (France) "Boost OCR accuracy using iVector based system combination approach" Author(s): Xujun Peng, Huaigu Cao, Raytheon BBN Technologies (United States); Premkumar Natarajan, The Univ. of Southern California, Marina del Rey (United States) = Session 4: Handwriting I "Exploring multiple feature combination strategies with a recurrent neural network architecture for off-line handwriting recognition" Author(s): Luc Mioulet, Univ. de Rouen (France), Airbus Defence and Space (France); Gautier Bideault, Univ. de Rouen (France); Clément Chatelain, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rouen (France); Thierry Paquet, Univ. de Rouen (France); Stephan Brunessaux, Airbus Defence and Space (France) "Spotting handwritten words and REGEX using a two stage BLSTM-HMM architecture" Author(s): Gautier Bideault, Luc Mioulet, Univ. de Rouen (France); Clément Chatelain, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rouen (France); Thierry Paquet, Univ. de Rouen (France) "A comparison of 1D and 2D LSTM architectures for the recognition of handwritten Arabic" Author(s): Mohammad Reza Yousefi, Mohammad Reza Soheili, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH (Germany); Thomas M. Breuel, Technische Univ. Kaiserslautern (Germany); Didier Stricker, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH (Germany) "Aligning transcript of historical documents using dynamic programming" Author(s): Irina Rabaev, Rafi Cohen, Jihad A. El-Sana, Klara Kedem, Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev (Israel) "Offline handwritten word recognition using MQDF-HMMs" Author(s): Sitaram N. Ramachandrula, Hewlett-Packard Labs. India (India); Mangesh Hambarde, Hewlett-Packard India Sales Pvt Ltd. (India); Ajay Patial, Hewlett Packard India Sales Pvt Ltd. (India); Dushyant Sahoo, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (India); Shaivi Kochar, Jamia Millia Islamia Univ. (India) = Session 5: Quality and Compression "Separation of text and background regions for high performance document image compression" Author(s): Wei Fan, Jun Sun, Satoshi Naoi, Fujitsu Research and Development Center Co., Ltd. (China) "Metric-based no-reference quality assessment of heterogeneous document images" Author(s): Nibal Nayef, Jean-Marc Ogier, Univ. de La Rochelle (France) = Session 6: "Graphics and Structure" "Clustering header categories extracted from web tables" Author(s): George Nagy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (United States); David W. Embley, Brigham Young Univ. (United States); Mukkai Krishnamoorthy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (United States); Sharad Seth, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln (United States) "A diagram retrieval method with multi-label learning" Author(s): Songping Fu, Xiaoqing Lu, Peking Univ. (China); Lu Liu, Jingwei Qu, Institute of Computer Science & Technology, Peking University (China); Zhi Tang, Institute of Computer Science & Technology, Peking University (China), State Key Laboratory of Digital Publishing Technology, Beijing (China) "Detection of electrical circuit elements from documents images" Author(s): Paramita De, Sekhar Mandal, Amit Kumar Das, Indian Institute of Engineering & Technology, Shibpur (India); Bhabatosh Chanda, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (India) = Session 7: Handwriting II "Missing value imputation: with application to handwriting data" Author(s): Zhen Xu, Sargur N. Srihari, Univ. at Buffalo (United States) Accepted papers are by the SPIE in the conference proceedings. Papers will also be indexed by DBLP. At the conference a Best Student Paper Award will be presented. For more information visit http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/drr2015 . Questions concerning the conference may also be addressed to: drr2015@googlegroups.com SPONSORS * Google * A9 CONFERENCE CHAIRS * Eric K. Ringger, Brigham Young Univ. (United States) * Bart Lamiroy, Université de Lorraine & LORIA (France) PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Gady Agam, Illinois Institute of Technology (United States) * Sameer K. Antani, National Library of Medicine (United States) * Elisa H. Barney Smith, Boise State Univ. (United States) * William A. Barrett, Brigham Young Univ. (United States) * Kathrin Berkner, Ricoh Innovations, Inc. (United States) * Bertrand Coüasnon, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes (France) * Hervé Déjean, Xerox Research Ctr. Europe Grenoble (France) * Xiaoqing Ding, Tsinghua Univ. (China) * David S. Doermann, Univ. of Maryland, College Park (United States) * Jianying Hu, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr. (United States) * Ergina Kavallieratou, Univ. of the Aegean (Greece) * Christopher Kermorvant, A2iA SA (France) * Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Telecom ParisTech (France) * Xiaofan Lin, A9.com, Inc. (United States) * Marcus Liwicki, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH (Germany) * Daniel P. Lopresti, Lehigh Univ. (United States) * Umapada Pal, Indian Statistical Institute (India) * Sargur N. Srihari, Univ. at Buffalo (United States) * Venkata Subramaniam, IBM India Research Lab. (India) * Kazem Taghva, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas (United States) * George R. Thoma, National Library of Medicine (United States) * Christian Viard-Gaudin, Univ. de Nantes (France) * Berrin Yanikoglu, Sabanci Univ. (Turkey) * Pingping Xiu, Microsoft (United States) * Richard Zanibbi, Rochester Institute of Technology (United States) * Jie Zou, National Library of Medicine (United States) ============================================================================ ========== 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. 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