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# IAPR TC-11 (READING SYSTEMS) NEWSLETTER<br>

## March, 2018

Online, phone-friendly version: [March 2018 Newsletter](<http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=IAPR_TC11_Newsletter_2018_3)
TC-11: [TC-11 Homepage](http://www.iapr-tc11.org)    Twitter: [iapr_tc11](https://twitter.com/iapr_tc11)

### TABLE OF CONTENTS

- Message from the Editor
- Dates and Deadlines
- Deadlines
- Upcoming Conferences
- Datasets
- ICFHR
- ICFHR 2018: Call for Papers (Deadline Extended)
- ICFHR 2018 Competitions: Call for Participation (repost)
- DAS 2018
- DAS 2018 Discussion Groups (repost)
- ICPR: Competitions
- ICPR 2018: Handwritten Texts for Personality Identification Competition (repost)
- ICPR 2018 Contest on Fraud Detection: Call for Participation (repost)
- IJDAR
- IJDAR Latest Issue (Vol. 20, Issue 4)
- IJDAR Discount for IAPR Members (repost)
- Careers
- Student Industrial Internship Opportunities (IAPR) - (repost)

Message from the Editor
=======================

Greetings from Rochester, New York, where the weather keeps threatening
to warm up, but never quite gets there.

The biggest piece of news this month is that the deadlines for the
International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
([ICFHR](http://icfhr2018.org)) have been extended: abstracts are due
this Friday (March 23rd), full papers next Friday (March 30th). There
are also have announcements regarding competitions being held for ICFHR
and ICPR.

We will update you soon regarding the TC10/TC11 summer school. Take care
until then!

Join us! If you are not already a member of the TC-11 community,
please consider joining the [TC11 mailing
list](https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=iapr-tc11&A=1).
Follow us on Twitter (iapr\_tc11): <https://twitter.com/iapr_tc11>

Richard Zanibbi, TC-11 Communications Officer
( <rxzvcs@rit.edu> )

Dates and Deadlines
===================

Deadlines
---------

- Mar. 23/30, 2018 (EXTENDED): ICFHR 2018 abstract/paper
submissions ([Call for Papers](http://icfhr2018.org/call.html))
- Mar. 29, 2018: ACM DocEng 2018 short papers and application note
submissions ([Call for Papers](https://doceng.org/doceng2018/cfp))

Upcoming Conferences
--------------------

2018

- [DAS 2018](https://das2018.caa.tuwien.ac.at). Vienna, Austria (24-27
April, 2018)
- [ICPRAI 2018](http://icprai2018.com). Montreal, Canada (May
14-17, 2018)
- [ICFHR 2018](https://icfhr2018.org). Niagara Falls, USA (August
5-8, 2018)
- [ICPR 2018](http://www.icpr2018.org). Beijing, China (August
20-24, 2018)
- [DocEng 2018](https://doceng.org/doceng2018). Halifax, Canada
(August 28-31, 2018)

2019 and Later

- [ICDAR 2019](http://www.icdar2019.org), Sydney, Australia (September
22-25, 2019)
- [ICFHR 2020](http://www.icfhr2020.org). Dortmund, Germany (September
8-10, 2020)

Datasets
========

TC-11 maintains a colletion of datasets that can be found online in the
[TC-11 Datasets
Repository](http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets).

If you have new datasets (e.g., from competitions) that you wish to
share with the research community, please contact the TC-11 Dataset
Curator (contact information is below).

Andreas Fischer (TC-11 Dataset Curator)
(<andreas.fischer@unifr.ch>)

ICFHR
=====

ICFHR 2018: Call for Papers (Deadline Extended)
---------------------------------------------------

The 16th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting
Recognition
August 5 - 8, 2018 - Niagara Falls, USA
Web page: [icfhr2018.org](http://icfhr2018.org)
PDF Version:
[ICFHR2018\_CFP.pdf](http://icfhr2018.org/pdf/ICFHR2018_CFP.pdf)

Important Dates (Deadline Extended!)

March 23, 2018 Paper abstract submission (extended)
March 30, 2018 Full paper submission (extended)
May 25, 2018 Author notifications
June 22, 2018 Camera-ready papers due

The International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
(ICFHR) is the flagship conference for handwriting recognition
research and applications. The conference brings together experts in
handwriting recognition from academia and industry to share their
experiences and promote research and development in all aspects of
handwriting recognition and handwriting applications.

This year's keynote speakers will be Dr. Kevin Knight and
Dr. Gregory R. Crane (biographies are available online:
http://icfhr2018.org).

Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited
to:

- Handwriting Recognition
- Cursive Script Recognition
- Symbol, Equation, Sketch and Drawing Recognition
- Handwritten Document Processing and Understanding
- Language Models in Handwriting Recognition
- Web-Based Applications
- 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
- Other Offline and Online Applications

Authors are invited to submit full-length papers of not more than six
(6) pages. Papers must describe original work, and paper reviews will
be double blind. Instructions for paper submission will be available on
the ICFHR 2018 web site ([icfhr2018.org](http://icfhr2018.org)).

Questions about paper submission should be directed to the Program
Chairs ( <pc@icfhr2018.org> ).

Richard Zanibbi, Co-Chair, ICFHR 2018
( <rxzvcs@rit.edu> )

ICFHR 2018 Competitions: Call for Participation (repost)
--------------------------------------------------------

Web: <http://icfhr2018.org/competitions.html>
Twitter:
[@IAPR_TC11](http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/IAPR-TC11:Reading\_Systems)
@@ICFHR2018 @@ICFHR2018competitions

Important Dates

1 June 2018: Full papers describing competitions due
29 June 2018: Accepted camera-ready papers due

ICFHR 2018 is hosting seven competitions in the following areas:

- Handwritten Document Image Binarization Contest
- Recognition of Historical Arabic Scientific Manuscripts
- Multi-script Writer Identification
- Vietnamese Online Handwritten Text Recognition using HANDS-VNOnDB
- Competition on Automated Text Recognition on a READ Dataset
- Document Image Analysis Tasks for Southeast Asian Palm Leaf
Manuscripts
- Thai Student Signature and Name Components Recognition and
Verification

Please visit the competitions [web
page](http://icfhr2018.org/competitions.html), and contact the
organizers through the available links. If you have any questions,
please contact the Competitions Chairs at <competitions@icfhr2018.org>.

Harold Mouchère and Nicholas Howe, ICFHR 2018 Competition Chairs
( <competitions@icfhr2018.org> )

DAS 2018
========

DAS 2018 Discussion Groups (repost)
-----------------------------------

13TH IAPR INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DOCUMENT ANALYSIS SYSTEMS
24-27 April, Vienna, Austria
<https://das2018.cvl.tuwien.ac.at>

According to a long-standing tradition at the DAS workshops, we will
hold small-group discussions on topics of special interest to attendees.
It is a nice opportunity to meet other researchers and discuss on
relevant topics for the community. Everyone is welcome to participate in
the discussions. Moreover, each group needs a moderator and a scribe.
Their roles are:

- The moderator encourages everyone to speak and helps to focus and
clarify the discussion.
- The scribe takes written notes of the discussion and summarizes the
results in a plenary session.

The moderator and the scribe will co-author a short summary report after
the workshop is over, which will be posted to the workshop website and
at the TC-11 website
(<http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/DAS-Discussion:Index>).
The names of the moderators and scribes will be also listed at the
website.

Please fill this form (<https://goo.gl/forms/11S842VWuvfIbAAB2>)
choosing the topics of your interest, and feel free to propose some.

We are looking forward to your participation! Please contact the
Discussion Groups coordinators with your suggestions and ideas:

Alicia Fornés (<afornes@cvc.uab.es>)
Marcus Liwicki (<marcus.liwicki@unifr.ch>)

ICPR: Competitions
==================

ICPR 2018: Handwritten Texts for Personality Identification Competition (repost)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Web: <http://chalearnlap.cvc.uab.es/challenge/27/description>

Important Dates

Feb. 20: Competition starts
Mar. 20: Release of evaluation data
Apr. 21: Code submission deadline
Apr. 22: Decryption key release
Apr. 24: End of competition
Apr. 27: Deadline for fact sheet submission
Apr. 30: Paper submisssion deadline
May 10: Release of verification results
Aug. 21: Workshop and award ceremony at ICPR

A Competition on <i>Multimedia Information Processing for Personality
and Social Networks Analysis</i> is being held as a part of ICPR 2018 by
members of IAPR TC-12. One task in particular may be of interest to the
TC-11 community:

Task 2 - HWxPI: Handwritten Texts for Personality Identification.
The corpus used in this task consists of handwritten Spanish essays from
undergraduates Mexican students. For each essay two files are available:
a manual transcript of the text and a scan image of the original sheet
where the subject hand-wrote the essay. The texts of manual
transcriptions have tags to mark some handwritten phenomena namely:

- FO (well-written word (misspelling)),
- D (description (drawing)),
- IN (insertion of a letter into a word),
- MD (modification of a word, that is a correction of a word),
- DL (elimination of a word),
- NS (when two words were written together; e.g. Iam instead of I am )
and,
- SB (syllabification).

Each essay is labelled with five values corresponding to 5 personality
traits in the Big Five Model of Personality. The traits are
Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional stability, and
Openness to experience. The range of the value for each trait is 1 to 7.

For additional details, please contact Dr. Dimos Karatzas, who can
direct you to the competition organizers.

Dimosthenis Karatzas, ICPR Contest Co-Chair
(<dimos@cvc.uab.es>)

ICPR 2018 Contest on Fraud Detection: Call for Participation (repost)
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Web Page: <http://findit.univ-lr.fr>

Important Dates

Feb.: Training dataset available
Mar. 30: Registration deadline
Apr. 5: Evaluation dataset is available
Apr. 10: Result submission deadline
Apr. 15: Submitted description of methods
Aug. 20-24: Conference

We are pleased to announce the Fraud Detection Contest in conjunction
with ICPR 2018.

In recent decades, the explosion of the volume of digital documents
images and development of easy-to-use consumer tools to edit these
images has led to a huge increase in the number of corrupted documents.
The development of many tools and methods to detect modifications has
also increased but their evaluation remains a challenge.

Forensics research is a sensitive topic. Datasets are often private or
unlabeled and most related works are evaluated based on undisclosed
datasets. This restriction has two major consequences: results cannot be
reproduced and no benchmarking can be done between approaches.

This contest was conceived in order to address these drawbacks:

- First, a public image and text dataset of French shopping receipts
containing no private information was designed so that it can be
disclosed and used with no constraints.
- Second, the contest should finally presents a benchmark on major
works developed over many years, both for image and text processing
methods.

The contest is open to all researchers and engineers working on
detection of forgery within documents, images or texts, coming from
different domains (forensics, document analysis, data mining...).

-- Tasks --
Task 1: The detection of modified documents. The provided dataset
will contain both genuine and modified documents. The first task aims at
discovering which ones are forged.
Task 2: The spotting of this or these falsification(s) in the
document (many falsifications can occur in one document), with methods
applied to the image or text, or both.

Additional Information and Registration may be found on the competition
web page:

<http://findit.univ-lr.fr>

Jean-Marc Ogier, Competition Organizer
( <jean-marc.ogier@univ-lr.fr> )

IJDAR
=====

IJDAR Latest Issue (Vol. 20, Issue 4)
-------------------------------------

Table of Contents

Click on the links to go directly to the Springer Link page for each
article.

[A restoration method for distorted comics to improve comic contents
identification.](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10032-017-0291-9)
Authors:Sang-Hoon Lee, Doyoung Kim, Sagar Jadhav, Sanghoon Lee

[Character segmentation and transcription system for historical Japanese
books with a self-proliferating character image
database.](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10032-017-0292-8)
Authors: Chulapong Panichkriangkra, Liang Li, Takaaki Kaneko, Ryo Akama,
Kozaburo Hachimura

[Recognition of handwritten Lanna Dhamma characters using a set of
optimally designed moment
features.](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10032-017-0290-x)
Authors: Papangkorn Inkeaw, Phasit Charoenkwan, Hui-Ling Huang,
Sanparith Marukatat, Shinn-Ying Ho, Jeerayut Chaijaruwanich

IJDAR Discount for IAPR Members (repost)
----------------------------------------

IAPR is pleased to announce a partnership agreement with Springer, the
publisher of IJDAR, the International Journal on Document Analysis and
Recognition. This new agreement will allow IAPR members to receive a
subscription to the electronic version of IJDAR at a discount of nearly
50%. For additional details, see the links below:

- <http://www.iapr.org/publications/intjournal.php>
- [http://www.iapr.org/publications/intjrnlsub.php](http://www.iapr.org/publications/intjournal.php)

Koichi Kise, Daniel Lopresti and Simone Marinai, IJDAR
Editors-in-Chief
( <kise@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp>, <lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu>,
<simone.marinai@unifi.it> )

Careers
=======

Student Industrial Internship Opportunities (IAPR) - (repost)
-------------------------------------------------------------

[IAPR's Industrial Liaison
Committee](http://www.iapr.org/committees/committees.php?id=5&subid=53)
is pleased to announce the opening of its Company Internship Brokerage
List.

The web page lists internship opportunities for students at different
levels of education and specialism. We expect many additional internship
opportunities to be listed here as the community becomes more aware of
the site.

IAPR Company Internship Brokerage List:

<http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/IAPR/INDUSTRIAL>

Bob Fisher, Chair, IAPR Industrial Liason Committee
( <rbf@inf.ed.ac.uk> )

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