============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter September 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) October 2 * New and Recently Published Datasets * Call for Papers: - 5th Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR2016) October 23-26, 2016, Shenzhen, China April 30, 2016 - IEEE Trans. on Human-Machine Systems: Special Issue on "Drawing and Handwriting Processing for User-Centered Systems" October 15 - 12th IAPR Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2016) April 11-14, Santorini, Greece (repost) * Call for Hosting Proposals for the TC10/TC11 Summer School (repost) => Deadline Extended to October 15 * Call for Dataset Submissions * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the September edition of our newsletter. After having returned from a successful ICDAR 2015 in Nancy, and having seen the presentations for ICDAR 2017 in Kyoto as well as ICDAR 2019 in Brisbane, some of you might have wondered why they stumbled across an announcement of some ICDAR 2016. First of all let me assure you: this is not the real thing. Secondly, however, it is not just a simple error or joke but seems to be an intentional fraud which also happened to other major conferences from which some people seem to steal not only the name and acronym but also the program committee (without the people actually knowing) in order to make money wity fake versions of the real conferences. Therefore, always consult your TC-11 newsletter and you will be informed about the conferences and events that *really* matter to the research community concerned with Reading Systems. In this September edition you will find the Calls for Papers for ICFHR 2016 which will be held in Shenzhen, China and for the Special Issue on "Drawing and Handwriting Processing for User-Centered Systems" of the IEEE Trans. on Human-Machine Systems. Furthermore, I would like to again draw your attention to the Call for Papers for DAS 2016 and the Call for Hosting Proposals for the TC10/TC11 Summer School. 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) October 2 * CVPR 2016, Las Vegas, United States June 26-July 1, 2016 November 6 (http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr16/) * ICFHR 2016, Shenzen, China October 23-26, 2016 April 30, 2016 (http://www.nlpr.ia.ac.cn/icfhr2016) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * 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/) * DRR 2016, San Francisco, USA Feb 15-18, 2016 - passed - (http://drr2016.loria.fr) ============================================================================ ========== 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: ICFHR 2016 ===================================== 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2016) Shenzhen, China October 23-26, 2016 http://www.nlpr.ia.ac.cn/icfhr2016 The International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), formerly called International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR), is the most important event in the field of handwriting recognition. The aim of this conference is to bring together international experts from academia and industry to share their experiences and to promote research and development in all aspects of handwriting recognition and applications. ICFHR is a major event sponsored by the IAPR Technical Committee TC11 (Reading Systems). The series of the ICFHR conferences is a continuation of the ten IWFHRs (Montreal 1990, Chateau de Bonas 1991, Buffalo 1993, Taipei 1994, Colchester 1996, Taejon 1998, Amsterdam 2000, Niagara on the Lake 2002, Tokyo 2004, La Baule 2006). Previous ICFHR conferences were held in Montreal 2008, Kolkata 2010, Bari 2012, and Crete 2014. The 15th ICFHR (ICFHR2016) is to be held in Shenzhen, China, and be co-hosted by the Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) and the Shenzhen Graduate School of Tsinghua University. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Character and Handwriting Recognition - Online Handwriting Recognition - Symbol, Equation, Sketch and Drawing Recognition - Handwritten Document Processing and Understanding - Language Models in Handwriting Recognition - Handwritten Databases and Digital Libraries - Information Extraction & Retrieval - Document Characterization - Form Processing - Word Spotting - Bank-Check Processing - Historical Document Processing - Forensic Studies and Security Issues - Writer Verification and Identification - Performance Enhancement and System Evaluation - Electronic Ink and Pen-Based Systems - Web-Based Applications Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit full-length paper of not more than Six (6) pages in IEEE conference format. Papers must describe original work on any of the ICFHR related topics. The papers should be submitted via the online submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfhr2016 Important Dates: Paper submission: April 30, 2016 Acceptance notification: July 15, 2016 Camera-ready submission: August 15, 2016 Committees Honorary Chair: Ching Y. Suen (Canada) General Chairs: Cheng-Lin Liu (China) Youbin Chen (China) Program Chairs: Umapada Pal (India) Mohamed Cheriet (Canada) Simone Marinai (Italy) Tutorial&Workshop Chairs: Michael Blumenstein (Australia) Marcus Liwicki (Germany) Competition Chairs: Apostolos Antonacopoulos (UK) Volker Märgner (Germany) Publicity Chairs: Seiichi Uchida (Japan) Venu Govindaraju (USA) Jean-Marc Ogier (France) Organizing Chair: Zhenhua Guo (China) Publication Chair: Xu-Yao Zhang (China) Secretariat: icfhr2016@nlpr.ia.ac.cn ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: IEEE THMS Special Issue ======================== CALL FOR PAPERS of SPECIAL ISSUE on "Drawing and Handwriting Processing for User-Centered Systems" IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems There has been significant progress in the automatic processing of handwriting and drawing, especially in computational models to generate, analyze and recognize pen tip and gesture trajectories in various applications. While it was thought that manuscript production would decrease with the dissemination of computers, today the trend is reversed with the boom of new touch and pen-based interactive devices. Progress in automatic processing of handwriting and drawing, both on-line and off-line, opens real opportunities to produce a true "graphonomics" continuum from paper to digital practices. One key challenge is to bring pattern recognition into reality with applications, taking advantage of the implicit or explicit human-machine interactions. In this special issue, we invite new and original scientific work taking into account the user in the drawing and handwriting processes in terms of usability, efficiency, collaboration, interaction, cross-learning, and related topics. Consequently, papers are solicited that cross the various communities studying these important and complex human-machine relationships in "graphonomics" fields: pattern recognition, humanities, neuroscience, arts " by considering human centered point of views to design, model and test new advances in these research areas. TOPICS OF INTEREST include (but are not limited to): * Pen and touch-based human-machine interactions with gesture or drawing interpretation. * Human-machine cooperation in education: semi-automated handwriting evaluations; teaching and learning handwriting based on children-machine interaction. * Adaptive, incremental, evolving learning approaches for: handwriting recognition (off-line and on- line), writer identification and recognition, signature verification. * Document processing based on human-machine interaction loop: historical document, sketches * Human-machine cooperation in medical applications based on handwriting analysis, motor control, learning and adaptation of writing and drawing movements in neuroscience * Usability, efficiency, collaboration, interaction experiments for applications to evaluate human- machine cooperation in the graphonomics field. * Interaction with mobile devices using drawing and handwriting. * Multi-language handwriting processing. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission due date October 15, 2015 Completion of first round of reviews January 15, 2016 Revised manuscript due date April 1, 2016 Final decision notification May 1, 2016 Final version of the manuscript due June 1, 2016 Papers should be submitted to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/thms with a cover letter including the statement "This manuscript is submitted for the special issue on Drawing and Handwriting Processing for User-Centered Systems". For detailed submission information, please refer to "Information for Authors" at http://www.ieee-smc.org/publications/thms-info-for-authors.pdf GUEST EDITORS: Eric Anquetil, IRISA Laboratory, INSA de Rennes, eric.anquetil@irisa.fr Giuseppe Pirlo, Universita degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", giuseppe.pirlo@uniba.it Rejean Plamondon, Laboratoire Scribens, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, rejean.plamondon@polymtl.ca ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: DAS 2016 ======================================= 12th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems DAS 2016 April 11-14, Santorini, Greece http://www.primaresearch.org/das2016 DAS 2016 is the 12th edition of the 100% participation single-track IAPR sponsored workshop focusing on system-level issues and approaches in document analysis and recognition. The workshop comprises invited speaker presentations, oral, poster, tutorial and demo sessions as well as working group discussions. DAS 2016 will be organized on the island of Santorini, Greece. Santorini was created from a volcanic eruption that left it with volcanic cliffs overlooking a black and red coast, dazzling against the turquoise Mediterranean. Santorini is one of the most popular, beautiful and unique islands in the world since it combines a cosmopolitan atmosphere, spectacular scenery of deep blue sea and whitewashed houses, breathtaking sunsets, ancient sites, world-class restaurants and an active volcano. SUBMISSION TYPES DAS2016 will include both long and short papers, posters and demonstrations of working or prototype systems. All submissions will undergo a rigorous review process with a minimum of 3 reviews considering the originality of work, the quality of research or analysis of experience, the relevance to document analysis systems, and quality of presentation of ideas. **Full Papers** Full papers should describe complete works of original research. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered in another forum, up to 6 pages length. **Short Papers** Short papers provide an opportunity to report on research in progress, to present novel positions on document analysis systems. Authors may submit short papers (up to 2 pages in length). Short papers will also undergo review and will appear in an extra booklet, not in the official DAS2016 proceedings. **Demonstrations** DAS2016 seeks public demonstrations of novel systems, to be presented to the workshop as a whole during breaks between paper sessions. Prospective demonstrators should submit a two-page summary of the system to be demonstrated. Demonstration proposals will undergo review and summaries of accepted demonstrations will appear in the extra DAS2016 booklet, as in the case of short papers. IMPORTANT DATES **Tutorials proposals** Proposals due Sep 04, 2015 **Regular Papers** Abstracts due Sep 25, 2015 Papers due Oct 02, 2015 Decision notification Dec 07, 2015 Camera ready due Jan 08, 2016 Early registration Jan 08, 2016 **Short Papers** Papers due Jan 08, 2016 Decision notification Feb 08, 2016 Camera ready due Feb 22, 2016 TOPICS & TECHNOLOGIES * Algorithms for graphics recognition * Applications * Authoring, annotation, and presentation systems * Camera-based document image analysis * Document analysis for digital humanities * Document analysis for mobile devices * Document analysis for the internet * Document analysis systems for libraries and archives * Document databases and digital libraries * Document image analysis (DIA) systems * Document image watermarking * Document retrieval systems * Document understanding * Forensic document analysis * Historical document analysis * Information extraction from document images * Multilingual document analysis * Multimedia document analysis * Page layout analysis * Pen-based user interface * Performance evaluation COMMITTEES **General Chairs** Apostolos Antonacopoulos, UK Basilis Gatos, Greece **Program Chairs** Michael Blumenstein, Australia Josep LLadós, Spain Dan Lopresti, USA **Tutorial Chairs** Dimosthenis Karatzas, Spain Cheng-Lin Liu, China **Publicity Chairs** Gernot A. Fink, Germany Marco Büchler, Germany Clemens Neudecker, Germany **Publications Chair** Stefan Pletschacher, UK **Organising Committee** Christian Clausner, UK George Louloudis, Greece Christos Papadopoulos, UK Nikolaos Stamatopoulos, Greece **Program Committee** [see the DAS 2016 website] CONTACT das2016@primaresearch.org ============================================================================ ========== Call for Hosting Proposals: TC-10 / TC-11 Summer School 2016 ==== ** Deadline EXTENDED to October 15 ** Call for Hosting Proposals for the TC10/TC11 Summer School ---------------------------------------------------------- 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_B idding_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: Dimosthenis Karatzas, TC-11 Vice Chair, dimos@cvc.uab.es and Alicia Fornes, TC-10 Education Officer afornes@cvc.uab.es The deadline for submitting written proposals is October 15. ============================================================================ ========== 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 ============================================================================