TC-11 newsletter, September 2003 Dear TC-11 member, I have four items of possible interest for you: #1 Special IJDAR issue on Camera-based Text and Document Recognition #2 Feature-selection benchmark organized by Isabelle Guyon #3 Informal Competition for the Recognition of On-line Words (ICROW'2003) #4 Do you have ICDAR'2003 or other conference photos you would like to share with the TC-11 community? Best regards, Lambert ......................................................................... #1 This is to announce a Special Issue of the International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition on the topic of Camera-based Text and Document Recognition For further details please see either http://ijdar.cfar.umd.edu/ or http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~majid/SI-IJDAR/SI-IJDAR04.html Dr Majid Mirmehdi Email: M.Mirmehdi@cs.bris.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #2 Dear pattern recognition researcher, We are organizing a benchmark of feature selection methods on pattern classification problems, see: http://www.nipsfsc.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ Deadline: December 1st, 2003. Discussion of the benchmark results will take place at a one-day NIPS 2003 workshop on feature extraction (December 11-13, 2003, Whistler, British Columbia, CA), see http://clopinet.com/isabelle/Projects/NIPS2003/. Good luck! Isabelle Guyon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #3 Informal Competition for the Recognition of On-line Words: The Unipen-ICROW-03 benchmark set Version 0.0 Lambert Schomaker / International Unipen Foundation The ICROW suite of test files for the recognition of isolated on-line free-style (handprint, mixed and cursive) words has been composed. Different tablets, nationalities and languages are involved. Only the ASCII set is used within word labels. The set contains: 13119 written words 884 unique lexical word entries 72 writers Language: Dutch, English, Italian. Nationalities: Dutch, Irish, Italian, + mixed The benchmark test is a good estimator for "walk-up" recognition performance. http://www.ai.rug.nl/~lambert/unipen/icdar-03-competition/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #4 Do you have ICDAR 2003 or conference/workshop photos you would like to share? The TC-11 web site has space available for our common conference memories: (cf. http://www.ai.rug.nl/iapr/tc-11/conf/ http://www.ai.rug.nl/iapr/tc-11/conf/icdar/2003/) Just send your: -JPG photo -annotation text (event, date) and -photographer's name to: schomaker@ai.rug.nl I will put them on the TC-11 site, for posterity. Lambert ------------------------------------------------------------------------