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== August, 2025 ==
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* Message from the Editor
* Dates and Deadlines
** Deadlines
** Upcoming Conferences and Events
* Open Call for Organizing DAR Events *(repost)*
* ICPRAI 2026: Call for Papers
* Postdoctoral position in Document Analysis at the CVC, Barcelona
* Datasets
** TC11 Datasets Repository
*** Where to share datasets

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Dear TC11 members,

I hope you all have had a nice summer, and for those going to ICDAR 2025 in Wuhan; enjoy your trip and the conference.

In this issue, find a call for papers for the 5th edition of ICPRAI 2026 whose tracks include topics in document analysis, handwriting and language processing.

Please also find and forward; a very interesting job offer for a postdoctoral researcher in document analysis (handwriting recognition) at the CVC, Barcelona.

'''Nibal Nayef, TC11 Communication Officer''' 
( [mailto:n.nayef@gmail.com n.nayef@gmail.com] )

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

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== Deadlines ==

'''2025'''

* '''December''' (tentative) ICPR paper submission

'''2026'''

* '''Jan 15''' ICPRAI paper submission

== Upcoming Conferences and Events ==

'''2025'''

* [https://www.icdar2025.com/ ICDAR 2025]. Wuhan, Hubei, China (September 16-21, 2025) 

* [https://acpr2025.com/ ACPR 2025]. Gold Coast, Australia (November 10-13, 2025)

'''2026'''

* [https://icprai2026.com/ ICPRAI 2026]. Montréal, Québec, Canada (June 15-18, 2026) 

* [https://icpr2026.org/index.html ICPR 2026]. Lyon, France (August 17-21, 2026)

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The IAPR technical committees on graphics recognition (TC10) and reading systems (TC11) are regularly organizing scientific events for the Document Analysis and Recognition (DAR) community, including the ICDAR flagship conference.

In addition to specific calls for bids to host one of the events, we encourage teams to announce their interest in organizing one of the following events:

* '''ICDAR''': International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (annually; next possibility in '''2029''')
* '''DAS''': International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (satellite event of ICDAR in even years; next possibility in '''2026''')
* '''HIP''': International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (satellite event of ICDAR; next possibility in '''2026''')
* '''GREC''': International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (satellite event of ICDAR in odd years; next possibility in '''2027''')
* '''SSDA''': Summer School on Document Analysis (biannually in odd years; next possibility in '''2027''')

You may find the details of each specific call in the previous or future issues of this newsletter or in the respective websites of each event.

Anyone interested in hosting one of these events is invited to announce their interest via email to [mailto:kc.santosh@usd.edu kc.santosh@usd.edu] and [mailto:andreas.fischer@unifr.ch andreas.fischer@unifr.ch], in order to receive feedback and support for preparing a proposal.

'''KC Santosg (Chair, TC10)''' 
'''Andreas Fischer (Chair, TC11)'''

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The CENPARMI (Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence) of Concordia University is organizing the 5th edition of the international conference on Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence ([https://icprai2026.com/ ICPRAI]) to be held on June 15-18, 2026 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

'''''Track 1:''''' Recognition of different types of patterns, handwriting, document, text, face, fingerprint, iris, brain, and strategic objects and targets.

'''''Track 2:''''' Computer vision and image processing, biomedical analysis, 2D and 3D images, tomography, graphics, robotics, and multimedia applications.

'''''Track 3:''''' Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, deep learning and classification techniques, speech and language processing semantic analysis, computational linguistics, e-learning and innovative teaching methods.

'''''Track 4:''''' Security and forensic studies, mobile applications, big data, small sample size, data mining and performance evaluation, intelligent systems and various applications.

'''Notes:''' 
1. Best papers will be selected for a Special Issue in the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence., 
2. Papers of general interest will be considered for a new book in the Book Series of Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Intelligent Systems (http://www.worldscientific.com/series/scpl). 
3. The conference proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Scopus-indexed)

'''Important Dates:''' 
Note: All times are in Eastern Standard Time (GMT-04:00)

* Special Session Proposal Deadline: October 1, 2025
* Special Session Notification of Acceptance: November 1, 2025
* Paper Submission: January 15, 2026 

* Acceptance notification: March 7, 2026 

* Camera ready papers & Copyright Form: March 13, 2026 

* Early Registration: until April 30, 2026 

* Regular Registration: May 1 - June 18, 2026 

* Conference: June 15-18, 2026

'''Important Links:'''

Website: https://icprai2026.com/ 
Paper Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icprai2026 
Contact Secretariat: icprai26@encs.concordia.ca

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Postdoctoral position in Document Analysis (Handwriting Recognition) at the Computer Vision Center (CVC), Barcelona, Spain.

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The Document Analysis group is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to collaborate on Handwriting Recognition. The objective is to explore methodologies suitable for historical documents in low resource scenarios (when training data is scarce), such as self-supervised learning, continual learning, synthetic data generation, etc. Architectures can be based on deep learning models and/or Spiking Neural Networks.

This position is linked to the project “DESCRYPT: Echoes of History: Analysis and Decipherment of Historical Writings”, financed by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. More info at: https://www.descrypt.org/

'''Starting date:''' As soon as possible.

'''Info. and Application:'''

The details of the position and how to apply can be found in this webpage:

https://www.cvc.uab.es/blog/2025/07/31/postdoctoral-position-for-the-document-analysis-research-group-at-computer-vision-center/.

'''Application Deadline:''' The vacancy will remain open until a suitable candidate has been hired. Applications will be regularly reviewed.

'''Contact:''' Alicia Fornés, afornes@cvc.uab.es

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== TC11 Datasets Repository ==

=== Where to share datasets ===

Did you know it? We have two official places for datasets: 
- Our historical platform for storage and listing: http://datasets.iapr-tc11.org

* A Zenodo community (if you choose to submit your datasets there): https://zenodo.org/communities/iapr-tc11

TC11 maintains a collection of datasets that can be found online in the [http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets TC11 Datasets Repository].

If you have new datasets (e.g., from competitions) that you wish to share with the research community, please use the [http://tc11.cvc.uab.es/upload/ online upload form]. For questions and support, please contact the TC11 Dataset Curator (contact information is below).

'''Joseph Chazalon (TC11 Dataset Curator)''' 
( [mailto:joseph.chazalon@epita.fr joseph.chazalon@epita.fr] )
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