============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter June 2015 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - DAS 2016, Santorini, Greece September 25 (http://www.primaresearch.org/das2016) * New and Recently Published Datasets * Call for Hosting Proposals: - TC-10 / TC-11 Summer School 2016 July 15 (ext.!) * Open Positions - Open PhD Studentship in Mutual Context for Robust Reading Systems, Computer Vision Centre at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona * Call for Dataset Submissions * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the June edition of our newsletter. With this edition I would like to draw your attention to the Call for Proposals for hosting the joint TC-10 / TC-11 Summer School 2016. The deadline for submitting proposals has been extended until July 15. Furthermore, you will find below the advertisement for a PhD position in robust reading at the CVC in Barcelona. Gernot A. Fink, IAPR TC-11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * DAS 2016, Santorini, Greece April 11-14, 2016 September 25 (http://www.primaresearch.org/das2016) (abstract) * CVPR 2016, Las Vegas, United States June 26-July 1, 2016 November 6 (http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr16/) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * ICDAR 2015, Gammarath, Tunisia August 23-26, 2015 - passed - (http://2015.icdar.org/) - Doctoral Consortium: August 23 - passed - * CBDAR 2015 in conjunction with ICDAR August 22 - passed - (http://www.cvc.uab.es/CBDAR2015) * AFHA 2015 in conjunction with ICDAR August 21-22 - passed - (http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/afha2015) * HIP 2015 in conjunction with ICDAR August 22 - passed - (http://hip2015.irisa.fr) * BTAS 2015, Arlington, Virginia , USA September 8 - 11 - passed - (http://www.btas2015.org/) * ACPR 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia November 3-6, 2015 - passed - (http://acpr2015.org/) * ICCV 2015, Santiago, Chile December 13-16, 2015 - passed - (http://pamitc.org/iccv15/) ============================================================================ ========== 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: TC-10 / TC-11 Summer School 2016 ==== Call for Hosting Proposals for the TC10/TC11 Summer School ---------------------------------------------------------- *** Submission Deadline extended! *** Part of the mission of IAPR TC11 and TC10 is to promote high quality educational activities related to Reading Systems and Graphics Recognition. Responding to this need, TC10 and TC11 are soliciting proposals for the organisation of the first "IAPR TC10/TC11 Summer School" during 2016. The "IAPR TC10/TC11 Summer School" is intended to become the prime educational activity of IAPR TC11 (Reading Systems) and TC10 (Graphics Recognition). The School is meant to be a training activity where participants are exposed to the latest trends and techniques of Reading Systems and Graphics Recognition. The aim of the School is to provide both an objective and clear overview and an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art research in selected topics of Reading Systems and Graphics Recognition. The School should aim to provide a stimulating opportunity for young researchers and Ph.D. students in the field. Individuals and groups who are interested in Reading Systems and Graphics Recognition are invited to submit proposals for organizing and hosting the 2016 IAPR TC10 / TC11 Summer School. It is expected that proposers familiarise themselves with the guidelines for organising the School first, to fully plan their bid. The Guidelines can be found at the TC11 Web site: http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Guidelines_for_Organising_and_Biddi ng_to_Host_the_TC10_/_TC11_Summer_School The submission of a bid implies full agreement with the rules and procedures for organising the School. Proposals should be sent to: Koichi Kise, TC-11 Chair, kise@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp Rafael Lins, TC-10 Chair, rdl@ufpe.br Dimosthenis Karatzas, TC-11 Vice Chair, dimos@cvc.uab.es The (extended) deadline for submitting written proposals is July 15. ============================================================================ ========== Open Positions: PhD Student, CVC, UAB =========================== Open PhD Studentship in Mutual Context for Robust Reading Systems *** The deadline for receiving applications is June 29 2015, at 15.00 *** The Position The Computer Vision Centre at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), is offering a 4 year PhD studentship on Robust Reading Systems for Scene Interpretation. The position is linked to the Document Analysis and the Learning and Machine Perception research groups. The aim of the project is to devise efficient camera based methods for scene text recognition (robust reading) that exploit various types of visual, linguistic, textual and user context within a wider scene interpretation framework. A primary goal of the project is the improvement of scene text recognition in wearable camera application scenarios. The successful candidate will research the potential of inference over graphical models for holistic scene interpretation incorporating multimodal sources of information. Candidates must accredit that they hold university-awarded Masters degree or equivalent at the time of signing the contract (October 2015, anticipated). Candidates cannot already hold a doctoral degree. The duration of the position is 4 years (48 months). The funding for each contract will be of EUR 20.500,00 (minimum gross salary for each candidate: EUR 16.422,00). For those candidates defending their thesis during the 3rd year, the funding for the fourth year contract will be EUR 25.000,00 (minimum gross salary for each candidate: EUR 19.000,00). The grant includes EUR 4.750 funding for research stays carried out during the pre-doctoral stage and EUR 1.500,00 funding for PhD tuition fees. The foreseen starting date of the studies is October, 1st 2015. Workplace The successful candidate will join the research staff of the Computer Vision Centre ( http://www.cvc.uab.es/). The Computer Vision Centre (CVC) is an internationally renowned centre devoted to research and applications of computer vision. The CVC is home to over 120 staff members and PhD students, and is a member of the Catalan Association of Research Centres (CERCA) and one of the recognised centres TECNIO of the Catalan government. The thesis will be supervised by Dr. Dimosthenis Karatzas and Dr. Andrew D. Bagdanov . Applicant Profile Applicants should possess university-awarded Masters degree or equivalent. We are looking for students who have recently completed or expect very soon to complete a MSc or equivalent degree in computer science, electrical/electronic engineering, applied mathematics, applied physics, or a related discipline. Experience in some or all of the following or related fields will be highly valued: signal processing, image processing, computer vision, machine learning, and pattern recognition. The successful applicant will have: * good programming skills * curiosity and analytical skills * the ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team * motivation to meet deadlines * an affinity with the relevant social science research * good oral and written communication skills * an interest in communicating their research results to a wider audience * proficiency in English Further Information For further information about the position, contact Dr. Dimosthenis Karatzas ( dimos@cvc.uab.es). The official call (in Spanish) is available on the MINECO website. Application Procedure The formal application process is as follows: * Submit your application electronically through this link (note that the Web form is in Spanish but the studentship is NOT limited to Spanish residents, if you are interested in applying get in contact with us for assistance with the application procedure) https://sede.micinn.gob.es/ayudaspredoctorales/ * Select the project with ID: TIN2014-52072-P (Title: "Reading in the Wild: Exploiting Text-User-Scene mutual context for reading and scene understanding") * Finish the process with an electronic signature or with a handwritten signature. In this last case, it is necessary to print the documents generated, sign and send to the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad) during the application period. For those candidates residing outside Spain, they must send the documents through the Spanish diplomatic offices or Spanish consulates before the deadline. Please contact us if you are interested in applying. Application deadline June 29 2015, at 15.00. ============================================================================ ========== 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. 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