1. Best Paper Awards

2. Announcement of IAPR/ICDAR 2011 Awards Recipients

3. Call for IAPR/ICDAR2011 Awards

1. Best Paper Awards

The ICDAR 2011 will present awards to the authors of selected papers of high quality in four categories. The awards will be announced and presented at the closing ceremony.

• IAPR Best Paper Award 

The Best Paper Award is intended for the paper of best overall quality in respect of the originality, significance and presentation. In addition to the writing quality, the quality of presentation and question answering at the conference will be taken into account in evaluation.

Awardee:  Marçal Rusiñol, David Aldavert, Ricardo Toledo and Josep Llados, Browsing Heterogeneous Document Collections by a Segmentation-free Word Spotting Method

• IAPR Best Poster Award 

The Best Poster Award is selected from all the poster papers presented at the conference. The design of poster and the presentation at the conference will be taken into account in evaluation.

Awardee: Da-Han Wang and Cheng-Lin Liu, Dynamic Text Line Segmentation for Real-Time Recognition of Chinese Handwritten Sentences

• ITESOFT Best Student Paper Award

The Best Student Paper Award is selected from papers with the first-author being a student (PhD level or lower). The overall paper quality and the presentation at the conference will be taken into account in evaluation.

Awardee: Adam Coates, Blake Carpenter, Carl Case, Sanjeev Satheesh, Bipin Suresh, Tao Wang and Andrew Ng, Text Detection and Character Recognition in Scene Images with Unsupervised Feature Learning

• Nuance Best Industrial Paper Award 

The Best Industrial Paper Award is selected from papers that address techniques with high industrial potential, preferably authored or co-authored by industry researchers.

Awardee: Ray Smith, Limits on the Application of Frequency-based Language Models to OCR

 

2. Announcement of IAPR/ICDAR 2011 Awards Recipients
(Updated: 2011-07-14)

The IAPR Technical Committees on Graphics Recognition (TC10) and Reading Systems (TC11) are pleased to announce the recipients of the IAPR/ICDAR 2011 Awards.

The IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award is presented to Prof. Sargur Srihari for his outstanding and continued contributions to research and education in handwriting recognition and document analysis, and services to the community.

Prof. Srihari will deliver the Opening Keynote Speech at ICDAR2011 in Beijing on “Probabilistic Graphical Models in Machine Learning”.

The IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award is presented to Masakazu Iwamura for his outstanding contributions to camera-based document analysis and document image retrieval.

Congratulations to the awardees!

3. Call for IAPR/ICDAR2011 Awards
(Updated: 2011-04-25)

The IAPR/ICDAR Award Program is an established program designed to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of Document Analysis and Recognition in one or more of the following areas:

o  Research
o  Training of students
o  Research/Industry interaction
o  Service to the profession

Every two years, two awards categories are presented. Namely, the IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award (less than 40 years old at the time the award is made), and the IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award. Each award will consist of a token gift and a suitably inscribed certificate. The recipient of the Outstanding Achievements award will be invited to give the opening key note speech at the current ICDAR conference, introduced by the recipient from the previous conference.

Nominations are invited for the 2011 ICDAR Awards in both categories.

The nomination packet should include the following:

1. A nominating letter (1 page) including a brief citation to be included in the certificate.
2. A brief vitae (2 pages) of the nominee highlighting the accomplishments being recognized.
3. Supporting letters (1 page each) from 3 active researchers from at least 3 different countries.

A nomination is usually put forward by a researcher (preferably from a different Institution than the nominee) who is knowledgeable of the scientific achievements of the nominee, and who organizes letters of support.

Submission procedure is strictly confidential, and self nominations are not allowed.

Please send these, preferably as a single pdf file, to jean-marc.ogier@univ-lr.fr.  Deadline for receipt of nominations is June 15th, 2011 but early submissions are strongly encouraged. For further information, please contact:

Pr Jean-Marc Ogier
email : jean-marc.ogier@univ-lr.fr

Université de La Rochelle
Pôle Sciences et Technologie
Laboratoire L3i,
Avenue Michel Crépeau
17042 La Rochelle cédex 1   FRANCE

The final decision will be made by the Awards Committee which is composed of the following members:

Jean-Marc Ogier, France (Chair)
Hiromichi Fujisawa, Japan
Horst Bunke, Switzerland
Dave Doermann, USA
Katrin Franke, Norway
Koichi Kise, Japan
Josep Llados, Spain
Daniel Lopresti, USA
Umapada Pal, India
Liu Wenyin, China