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### TABLE OF CONTENTS

- Message from the Editor
- Dates and Deadlines
- Deadlines
- Upcoming Conferences and Events
- Open Call for Organizing DAR Events (repost)
- Job Postings
- Postdoctoral Position in Multi-modal Foundation Models for Document Understanding at the CVC, Barcelona
- PhD offer: Scalable Indexing and Retrieval in Multimedia and Geospatial Contents - France
- Postdoctoral Position in Document Analysis at the CVC, Barcelona (repost)
- Call for ICDAR-IJDAR Journal Track (repost)
- Call for Workshops – ICDAR 2026 (repost)
- ICPR 2026 Calls for Papers, Workshops, Tutorials and Competitions (repost)
- ICPRAI 2026: Call for Papers (repost)
- Datasets
- TC11 Datasets Repository
- Recently published datasets (repost)
- Where to share datasets

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

Dear TC11 members,

Find in this newsletter issue multiple interesting job postings for
post-doc and PhD researchers.

This issue also has reposts of calls for papers for the ICDAR-IJDAR
journal track (of ICDAR 2026) and ICPR, ICPRAI conferences, along with
several important calls for proposals for workshops, competitions and
tutorials. Have a look at the section of dates and deadlines that may
help you plan your submissions and/or trips.

A reminder is posted on the new dataset for handwritten mathematical
expression recognition named "CROHME Contextual Dataset".

Nibal Nayef, TC11 Communication Officer
( <n.nayef@gmail.com> )

Join us! If you are not already a member of the TC11 community,
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Dates and Deadlines
===================

Deadlines
---------

2025

- Nov 14 ICDAR-IJDAR journal track (of ICDAR 2026) paper
submission
- Nov 28 ICDAR Tutorial proposals due
- Nov 30 ICPR Workshop proposals due
- Dec 20 ICPR paper submission
- Dec 22 ICDAR Workshop proposals due

2026

- Jan 15 ICPRAI paper submission
- Feb 13 ICDAR abstracts submission
- Feb 27 ICDAR full papers submission
- Feb 28 ICPR Tutorial proposals due

Upcoming Conferences and Events
-------------------------------

2025

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

2026

- [ICPRAI 2026](https://icprai2026.com/). Montréal, Québec, Canada
(June 15-18, 2026)
- [ICPR 2026](https://icpr2026.org/index.html). Lyon, France (August
17-21, 2026)
- [ICDAR 2026](https://icdar2026.org/). Vienna, Austria (August 30 -
September 4, 2026)

Open Call for Organizing DAR Events (repost)
==============================================

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 <kc.santosh@usd.edu> and
<andreas.fischer@unifr.ch>, in order to receive feedback and support for
preparing a proposal.

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

Job Postings
============

Postdoctoral Position in Multi-modal Foundation Models for Document Understanding at the CVC, Barcelona
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We are seeking a postdoc to join the Vision, Language and Reading group
(http://vlr.cvc.uab.es/) at the Computer Vision Center (CVC), in
Barcelona, Spain.

The position is initially for 3 years and linked to the European project
"European Large Open Multi-Modal Foundation Models For Robust
Generalization On Arbitrary Data Streams" (ELLIOT,
https://www.elliot-ai.eu/). The project targets the development of the
next generation of open Multimodal Foundation Models and further
adapting them for specific downstream tasks.

The successful candidate is expected to participate in large-scale
training efforts, research on finetuning methods, and applications on
the specific use case of Document Understanding.

More information and application: https://lnkd.in/dMeTgWZR

Application Deadline: Until a suitable candidate has been hired.
Applications will be regularly reviewed.

Contact: Dimosthenis Karatzas (dimos\@cvc.uab.es) or Ernest Valveny
(ernest\@cvc.uab.es)

PhD offer: Scalable Indexing and Retrieval in Multimedia and Geospatial Contents - France
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

- PhD Topic: Scalable indexing and retrieval in multimedia and
geospatial contents
- Affiliation: LASTIG Lab / IGN and Gustave Eiffel University
- Location: Great Paris area, France
- All the details:
https://www.umr-lastig.fr/vgouet/News/PhD\_Thesis\_proposal25-DALEAS.pdf

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Keywords: Information retrieval, Indexing and Retrieval, Machine
Learning, Multimodal Large Language Models, 3D Point Clouds,
Geolocalization, Big Data, Apache Spark.

At a Glance
Within the DALEAS project, the PhD will tackle the core challenge of
content-based indexing and retrieval in multimedia contents at large
scale. The multimedia contents considered, such as images, text, and 3D
point clouds, illustrate or document the territory (a city, street,
monument, etc.). The research will consist of designing efficient,
flexible representations and indexing strategies that enable fast and
accurate retrieval, depending on the data available in the query as well
as in the georeferenced database queried. Here, retrieval will enable
the identification of documents linked to a common geographical area,
with the objective of geolocating the query.

Building on previous work on LiDAR-to-text representations performed in
LaSTIG, and on Multimodal Large Language Models in general, the
candidate will propose fusion and alignment strategies to integrate
heterogeneous data. Embedded in the Apache Spark™ infrastructure, this
work will advance large-scale search in multimedia collections, with
application to geospatial analysis of social network media in
partnership with France Télévisions, for the detection of
misinformation.

How to apply:
Before November 21th, 2025, please send to both contacts, in a
single PDF file, the following documents:

- A detailed CV
- A topic-focused cover letter
- Grades and ranks over the last 3 years of study
- The contact details of 2 referents who can recommend you

Candidatures which do not respect these instructions will not be
considered.
Applications will be accepted until November 21st, with interviews
conducted from November 24th to December 5th, and the decision released
by December 10th.

Contacts
Laurent Caraffa -- Laurent.Caraffa\@ign.fr
Researcher at LASTIG (PhD thesis supervisor), IGN, Gustave Eiffel
University

Valérie Gouet-Brunet -- Valerie.Gouet\@ign.fr
Research director at LASTIG (director of the PhD thesis), IGN, Gustave
Eiffel University

Postdoctoral Position in Document Analysis at the CVC, Barcelona (repost)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

Call for ICDAR-IJDAR Journal Track (repost)
=============================================

Following the tradition of previous ICDARs, ICDAR 2026 will once again
feature a Journal Track, combining the rapid turnaround and wide
visibility of a conference with the depth, length, and rigorous peer
review of an archival journal. The ICDAR--IJDAR Journal Track invites
high-quality original submissions in all areas of Document Analysis and
Recognition, suitable for both the International Conference on Document
Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) and the International Journal on
Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR). Accepted papers will be
published in a special issue of IJDAR and will be allocated an oral
presentation slot at ICDAR 2026.

Please note that journal versions of previously published conference
papers, as well as survey papers, will not be considered for this
special issue. Such papers should instead be submitted directly to IJDAR
through its regular submission process.

Authors submitting to the journal track commit to presenting their work
at ICDAR upon acceptance. Springer Nature, the publisher of IJDAR, will
make accepted journal track papers freely accessible during a four-week
window around the conference, in addition to their publication in the
archival journal.

Format:
Papers submitted to the journal track should follow the format of IJDAR
submissions and all of the standard guidelines.

Procedure and deadlines:
All authors must understand that the full journal review process is
required for all journal track submissions---there is no "short cut".
Papers submitted by the journal track paper submission deadline will
undergo review for the journal track. At the time of the initial journal
track decision, any paper requiring major revision can no longer be
considered for the journal track. In such cases, authors have two
options:

- Transfer the submitted paper to the regular IJDAR track to continue
the review process, or

- the submission and prepare a shorter version to be submitted as an
ICDAR conference paper. Please refer to the ICDAR 2026 website for
details on deadlines and submission procedures.

Questions regarding the status of a paper under review for the
IJDAR--ICDAR Journal Track should be directed to the Journal Editorial
Office via the Editorial Manager system. The guest editors retain full
authority to determine whether the journal review process can be
completed in time, and decline submissions that arrive too late. In such
cases, the authors will be notified immediately and may choose either to
keep the paper in the regular IJDAR review process or to withdraw the
manuscript from the journal.

Unlike the main ICDAR conference submission process, which is double
blind, the IJDAR journal uses a regular submission process where authors
must identify themselves on a paper at the time of submission.

Submit here: [Submission
link](https://link.springer.com/collections/hfhdadbjga)

Important Dates

- Journal track paper submission deadline: 14 November 2025
- Initial journal track decision announced to authors: 16 January
2026
- Revised journal track paper submission deadline: 1 April 2026
- Final journal track decision: 15 May 2026

Editors
This special issue is a joint initiative of the IJDAR editors and the
ICDAR 2026 PC chairs.

Program Chairs of ICDAR 2026:

- Gernot A. Fink
- Alicia Fornes
- Koichi Kise (liaison to IJDAR)
- Daniel Lopresti

Contact:
For any information about this initiative, please email to
pc-chairs\@icdar2026.org

Call for Workshops -- ICDAR 2026 (repost)
===========================================

The Workshop Chairs of the 20th International Conference on Document
Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2026) invite proposals for affiliated
workshops that will take place on September 3--4 (tentative), 2026,
following the main conference in Vienna, Austria.

More details about the workshops of ICDAR 2026 can be found here:
https://icdar2026.org/index.php/call-for-workshops/

Key Dates

- Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: December 22, 2025
- Workshop Approval Notification: February 13, 2025
- Tentative Workshop Dates: September 3--4, 2026 (post-conference
workshops)

Workshop proceedings, if desired, can be included in Springer's Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, coordinated by the main
conference organizers.

Application Instructions
See the [ICDAR 2026
website](https://icdar2026.org/index.php/call-for-workshops/) for the
full workshop call and details on submission procedure.

Submit your workshop proposal via email to the ICDAR 2026 Workshop
Chairs:

Email: workshops-chairs\@icdar2026.org

Please include ICDAR 2026 Workshop in the subject line.

We look forward to receiving your proposals and to a vibrant workshop
program in Vienna! For questions or support, please contact the Workshop
Chairs directly.

Workshop chairs:
- Jihad El-Sana, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
- Elisa Barney Smith, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
- George Retsinas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

ICPR 2026 Calls for Papers, Workshops, Tutorials and Competitions (repost)
============================================================================

The International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) is the
leading event of the International Association for Pattern Recognition,
recognized as a top conference in the field. It encompasses a wide range
of topics where Pattern Recognition methods are applied in fields
including Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Image Processing, Speech
and Natural Language Processing, and Sensor Pattern Processing. The 28th
ICPR, to be held in 2026, offers an excellent platform for students,
academics, and industry researchers to foster new ideas and
collaborations.

Main topics of interest:

- Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
- Computer and Robot Vision
- Image, Speech, Signal and Video Processing
- Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction
- Document Analysis and Recognition
- Biomedical Imaging and Bioinformatics

The main call for papers for ICPR 2026 can be found
[here](https://icpr2026.org/calls.html).

The ICPR 2026 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops,
competitions and tutorials in conjunction with the 28th International
Conference on Pattern Recognition, which will be held at Lyon, France,
during August 17-21, 2026. In the following, you may find the
information on each type of event and links to the full calls.

Workshops:
Members from all segments of the ICPR community are invited to submit
workshop proposals on the topics mentioned above. Workshops are expected
to provide a forum for the active exchange of ideas and experiences on a
specific topic or application. Each proposal will be assessed based on
its scientific merit, proposed structure, overall relevance, and how it
complements the main conference.

All details related to ICPR workshops and submission guidelines can be
found [here](https://icpr2026.org/callWorkshops.html).

Competitions
You are cordially invited to submit proposals for competitions that aim
at evaluating the performance of algorithms and methods related to
pattern recognition. The submission guidelines, rules for accepted
competitions etc. can be found
[here](https://icpr2026.org/callCompetitions.html).

Tutorials
The ICPR 2026 Organizing Committee seeks tutorials on emerging research
topics, core techniques, and application areas that are of interest
within the ICPR community. An effective and informative tutorial should
provide a broad introduction to the chosen research area as well as
in-depth coverage of selected advanced topics.

Proposals that focus exclusively on the presenters' own work or
commercial presentations are not acceptable.

Submission guidelines and other important information related to
tutorials are detailed [here](https://icpr2026.org/callTutorials.html).

Important Dates (CET times)

- Competition proposals Due: November 1, 2025
- Workshop proposals due : November 30, 2025
- Conference paper submission : December 20, 2025
- Tutorial proposals due: February 28, 2026
- Early bird registration deadline: July 31, 2026
- Workshop dates: August 21 and 22, 2026
- ICPR Main Conference dates: August 17-20, 2026

Contacts
ICPR 2026 Workshop Co-Chairs:

- Umapada Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. Emails:
umapada\@isical.ac.in, umapada\_pal\@yahoo.com
- Lu Shijian, NTU, Singapore, Email: Shijian.Lu\@ntu.edu.sg
- Ida-Maria Sintorn, Uppsala University, Sweden. Email:
ida.sintorn\@it.uu.se

ICPRAI 2026: Call for Papers (repost)
=======================================

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 ([ICPRAI](https://icprai2026.com/)) 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

Datasets
========

TC11 Datasets Repository
------------------------

### Recently published datasets (repost)

CROHME Contextual Dataset: This dataset supports CROHME2019 and
CROHME2023 Testset with contextual information. It provides aligned
LaTeX expressions extracted from source documents, along with
surrounding textual context, to facilitate formula recognition
experiments. The paper is publised in ICDAR 2025 M3RD Workshop. More
details on the dataset can be found at the URL below.

The dataset contains two main components: the original source files and
processed JSON data aligned with CROHME test sets.

- Contributed: 2025-09-16
- Keywords: Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition,
Mathematical Contextual Reasoning, CROHME datasets
- URL: https://zenodo.org/records/17122781

### 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
[TC11 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 use the [online upload
form](http://tc11.cvc.uab.es/upload/). For questions and support, please
contact the TC11 Dataset Curator (contact information is below).

Joseph Chazalon (TC11 Dataset Curator)
( <joseph.chazalon@epita.fr> )

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