ICDAR 2011 Doctoral Consortium
(More information on the website of IAPR TC-11)
September 18, 1:40pm - 5:40pm
Room #2 of Building 8, Beijing Friendship Hotel (see the page of Venue for maps)
On-site registration at the Room #2 from 1:10pm.
The leaderships of IAPR TC-10 (“Graphics Recognition”) and TC-11 (“Reading Systems”) have organized a Doctoral Consortium in conjunction with ICDAR 2011. The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to create an opportunity for Ph.D. students to test their research ideas, present their current progress and future plans, and receive constructive criticism and insights related to their future work and career perspectives. A mentor (a senior researcher who is active in the field) has been assigned to each student to provide individual feedback. In addition, students will have the opportunity to present an overview of their research plan during a special poster session. A Best Poster Presentation Award will be given at the end of the day.
Through an open call for participation which has already concluded, a total of 21 Ph.D. students will be participating in the first-ever ICDAR Doctoral Consortium. Thanks to a generous sponsorship provided by Raytheon BBN Technologies, there is no registration charge for the Ph.D. students who have been selected or their assigned mentors to attend the Doctoral Consortium. The event will take place the day before the main ICDAR conference, on the afternoon of Sunday, Sept. 18. The schedule is as follows:
1:40 pm – 2:10 pm: Welcome and short talk: “Advice for a Successful Ph.D. Experience”
2:10 pm – 3:10 pm: Brief oral introductions to student research plans
3:10 pm – 3:25 pm: Coffee break
3:25 pm – 5:25 pm: Student poster session with discussion and feedback
5:25 pm – 5:40 pm: Concluding remarks and Best Poster Presentation Award presentation
A Doctoral Consortium overview booklet will be made available at the event containing a summary of each student's research activities along with his/her resume.
The list of participating Ph.D. students is as follows:
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Name
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Research Topic
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University
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Country
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Olivier Augereau
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Document Image Classification
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Université Bordeaux
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France
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Su Bolan
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Document Image Enhancement
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National University of Singapore
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Singapore
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Klaus Broelemann
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Automatic Understanding of Sketch Maps
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University of Muenster
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Germany
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Syed Saqib Bukhari
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Generic Layout Analysis of Diverse Collection of Documents
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Technical University of Kaiserslautern
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Germany
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Bin Chen
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Effects of Artificial Sample Generation Models for On-line Handwritten Japanese Character Recognition
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Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
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Japan
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Jin Chen
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Exploiting Metadata in Off-line Handwritten Documents: Modeling and Applications
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Lehigh University
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USA
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Lluís-Pere de las Heras
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Syntactic Model for Semantic Document Analysis
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Spain
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Jing Fang
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Table Recognition and Evaluation in PDF Documents
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Peking University
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China
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David Hebert
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Investigations on the Use of Linear-Chain CRF Based Method to Segment Old Newspapers
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Universite de Rouen
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France
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Lei Hu
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Recognition and Retrieval of Handwritten Mathematical Expressions
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Rochester Institute of Technology
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USA
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Le Kang
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Touching Text Segmentation and Shape Analysis
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University of Maryland College Park
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USA
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Muna Khayyat
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Learning-Based Word Spotting for Arabic Handwritten Documents Using Hierarchical Classifier
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Concordia University
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Canada
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Iuliu Konya
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Adaptive Methods for Robust Document Image Understanding
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Fraunhofer IAIS, University of Bonn
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Germany
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Jayant Kumar
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Segmentation and Labeling of Mixed-type Noisy Handwritten Documents
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University of Maryland College Park
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USA
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Xiaoyan Lin
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Mathematical Formula Recognition and Retrieval in PDF Documents
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Peking University
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China
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Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman
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Efficient Indexing and Retrieval of Graphs Using Techniques for Embedding Graphs in Real-Valued Feature Spaces
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Université François Rabelais de Tours
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France
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Nibal Nayef
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Geometric-based Symbol Spotting, with Application to Symbol Retrieval in Document Image Databases
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T U Kaiserslautern
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Germany
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Weihan Sun
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Copyright Protection of Manga Using Content-based Image Retrieval Methods
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Osaka Prefecture University
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Japan
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Rabeux Vincent
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Document Image Quality Evaluation
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Université Bordeaux
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France
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Song Wang
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Part-Based Method of Character Recognition
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Kyushu University
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Japan
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Liang Xu
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Segmentation and Recognition of Touching Characters in Offline Unconstrained Chinese Handwriting
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Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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China
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In addition, we wish to thank the mentors who have volunteered their time to work with the students:
Henry Baird
Elisa Barney Smith
Abdel Belaid
Jean-Christophe Burie
Marcus Liwicki
Gernot A. Fink
Masakazu Iwamura
Dimosthenis Karatzas
Koichi Kise
Bart Lamiroy
Rafael Lins
Cheng-Lin Liu
Josep LLadós
Daniel Lopresti
Jean-Marc Ogier
Faisal Shafait
Palaiahnakote Shivakumara
Liu Wenyin
Richard Zanibbi
The ICDAR Doctoral Consortium is intended to be an event for Ph.D. students and their assigned mentors. A small number of additional outside participants will be permitted by paying the appropriate registration fee listed below. Please understand that it may be necessary for us to close the registration for outside participants without notice so that we can guarantee a first-rate experience for the students who have been accepted into the Doctoral Consortium. For this reason, pre-registration by sending email to Dr. Xinwen Hou (xwhou@nlpr.ia.ac.cn) is strongly encouraged. Payment for registrations should be made on-site – it is not possible to pay for the Doctoral Consortium using the online registration system.
$50: Advisors of PhD students who are not also serving as Doctoral Consortium mentors,
$50: Ph.D. students who did not apply to the Doctoral Consortium but still would like to attend (note: these students may attend but will not be allowed to present their own work)
$100: Other full-time faculty members
$200: All other attendees (e.g., company representatives)
Any additional registration fees collected beyond those needed to pay for the expenses for the event will be used to fund future ICDAR Doctoral Consortium activities.
Ph.D. students who have been accepted into the Doctoral Consortium and their assigned mentors do not have to register for the Doctoral Consortium. There is no charge for you to attend, and we already have the necessary information in the system.
ICDAR 2011 Doctoral Consortium Organizing Committee
• TC-11 Chair: Prof. Daniel P. Lopresti (Lehigh University, USA)
• TC-10 Chair: Prof. Jean-Marc Ogier (Université de La Rochelle, France)
• Prof. Jean-Christophe Burie (Université de La Rochelle, France)
• Prof. Masakazu Iwamura (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
• Prof. Gernot A. Fink (TU Dortmund University , Germany)
• Dr. Dimosthenis Karatzas (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain)
• Prof. Koichi Kise (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
• Prof. Bart Lamiroy (Nancy Université, France)
• Prof. Rafael Lins (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
• Prof. Josep Lladós (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
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