============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter December 2015 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - DAS 2016, Santorini, Greece January 8, 2016 (http://www.primaresearch.org/das2016) (short paper) - ICFHR 2016, Shenzen, China April 30, 2016 (http://www.nlpr.ia.ac.cn/icfhr2016) * New and Recently Published Datasets * Call for Short Papers - 12th IAPR Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems January 8, 2016 (DAS 2016), April 11-14, Santorini, Greece * Call for Competitions: - 15th Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR-2016), 23-26 October, Shenzhen, China. January 15, 2016 * Job Advertisements - 3 Postdoctoral Fellow Positions at the CVC (Barcelona) (repost) * Call for Dataset Submissions * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the December edition of our newsletter. This edition brings to you the Call for Short Papers (up to 2 pages) for the 12th IAPR Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2016) which will be held on the island of Santorini, Greece in April 2016. With a deadline on January 8 this will be the first opportunity for you to submit your most recent research results in the area of Reading Systems in the next year. Furthermore, you will find below the Call for Competitions for ICFHR 2016 with a deadline for proposal submissions on January 15. For the upcoming Christmas Season, I would like to wish you all a quiet and peaceful time and all the best for a happy and successful New Year! 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 January 8, 2016 (http://www.primaresearch.org/das2016) (short paper) * ICFHR 2016, Shenzen, China October 23-26, 2016 April 30, 2016 (http://www.nlpr.ia.ac.cn/icfhr2016) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * 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) * Int. Conf. on Nat. Sci. Tech. in February 29 - - passed - Manuscript Analysis, Hamburg, Germany - March 2, 2016 (http://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/natural_sciences_2016.html) * CVPR 2016, Las Vegas, United States June 26-July 1, 2016 - passed - (http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr16/) ============================================================================ ========== 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 Short Papers: DAS 2016 ================================= Call for Short 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. IMPORTANT DATES **Short Papers** Papers due Jan 08, 2016 Decision notification Feb 08, 2016 Camera ready due Feb 22, 2016 Short papers (up to 2 pages in length) provide an opportunity to report on research in progress, to present novel positions on document analysis systems. A Short Paper can also describe the system associated with a demo that the authors wish to present at DAS2016. Subject to successful reviews, Short Papers will be distributed to delegates at the workshop in the form of the DAS2016 Short Papers booklet. Access the submission system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=das2016 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 LLados, Spain Dan Lopresti, USA **Tutorial Chairs** Dimosthenis Karatzas, Spain Cheng-Lin Liu, China **Publicity Chairs** Gernot A. Fink, Germany Marco Buchler, 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 http://www.primaresearch.org/das2016] CONTACT das2016@primaresearch.org ============================================================================ ========== Call for Competitions: ICFHR 2016 =============================== The 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR-2016) will take place on 23-26, October, 2016 in Shenzhen, China. More information can be found at http://www.nlpr.ia.ac.cn/icfhr2016/ Call for Competitions The ICFHR2016 Organizing Committee invites proposals for competitions to be held within the framework of the Conference. Competitions should aim at evaluating the performance of individual methods and systems related to different tasks in handwriting recognition. Proposals must contain the following information: 1. A brief description of the competition, including which is the particular task under evaluation and why this competition could be of interest to the ICFHR community. If a similar competition has been held in a previous edition of ICFHR, the novel additions of the proposed one must be clearly explained. 2. A draft of the outline of the competition describing which data is planned to be used (and how it will be made publicly available), how will the submitted methods be evaluated and which performance measures will be used. 3. The names, contact information, and brief CVs of the competition organizers, outlining previous experience in performance evaluation and/or organizing competitions. Submission Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to the ICFHR2016 Competitions Chairs: Apostolos Antonacopoulos (A.Antonacopoulos@primaresearch.org) Volker Märgner (Maergner@ifn.ing.tu-bs.de) Rules The following rules will apply to the accepted competitions: - All competitions must run well in advance of the conference. - Datasets used in the competitions must be made available after the end of the competitions. - Evaluation methodologies and metrics used must be described in detail so that results can be replicated later. - The name of the competition must be standardized by starting with "ICFHR2016" e.g. "ICFHR2016 Competition on ..." - Reports (full papers) on each competition will be reviewed and, if accepted (the competition run according to plan and is appropriately described), will be published in the ICFHR2016 conference proceedings. - The results of accepted competitions will be announced during a dedicated session of the conference. - Participants should be encouraged to present their algorithms (if not already done) in a conference paper at ICFHR 2016. - Competitions must have sufficient number of participants to be able to draw meaningful conclusions. Important Dates 15 January 2016: Submission of competition proposals. 08 February 2016: Notification of acceptance. 22 February 2016: Competitions published on ICFHR2016 website and open to participants. 01 July 2016: Deadline for submission for review of full papers describing the competitions. Papers must be sent directly to the Competitions Chairs. 15 August 2016: Accepted camera-ready papers reporting on the competitions for inclusion in the proceedings. If you have any query, please contact the ICFHR2016 Competitions Chairs. ============================================================================ ========== Jobs: Postdoctoral Positions at the CVC ============= (repost) == THREE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW POSITIONS AT THE COMPUTER VISION CENTER (BARCELONA) The project P-SPHERE, coordinated by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and with participation of UAB-CIE member centers, has received funding from the latest COFUND-2014 call. The COFUND program is part of the European Commission´s Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions. The Computer Vision Center (CVC), as part of the UAB-CIE sphere, offers 3 post-doc positions in the following research lines. * Holistic interpretation of urban scene imagery * Ultimate color descriptor including multiple light effects * Human pose recovery and behavior analysis The call will be open from November 2nd 2015 to February 2nd 2016. For the position on "Holistic interpretation of urban scene imagery", of particular interest is the interplay between visual and textual content in a scene image, and to what extent such modalities can work synergistically towards urban scene imagery interpretation. For more information and to submit your application, please visit the official website. http://www.uab.cat/psphere/ ============================================================================ ========== 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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