Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:29:10 +0000

From: Lambert Schomaker 

To: tc-11

Subject: Newsletter TC11/2000#03 ICDAR CFP & Misc.



Dear TC-11 researcher,



here are four items of potential interest:



   1* ICDAR 2001 CFP

   2* Algoval: invitation to participate in OCR benchmark process

   3* postdoc position

   4* source-code dispatch



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  ICDAR 2001

  6th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition

  September 10-13, 2001, Seattle, Washington, USA

                                     

  Submission of papers: February 15, 2001



  Instructions for Authors: Manuscripts submitted for review shall be 12 pt

  double spaced and be in A4 or letter size. All submissions must be in

  Portable Document Format (.pdf), preferably, or PostScript (.ps). They

  must be uploaded to the ICDAR program committee page

  http://icdar01.loria.fr/



  ICDAR Home Page: http://isl.ee.washington.edu/IAPR/ICDAR01



  ICDAR Program Committee Home Page: http://icdar01.loria.fr/

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2* 

  Algoval: invitation to participate



  Simon Lucas has set up a Java-based OCR competition

  and is now inviting participants.



  Full invitation: http://hwr.nici.kun.nl/iapr/tc-11/algoval.html



  For more details go to http://algoval.essex.ac.uk



         Contact: Dr. Simon Lucas

                  Department of Computer Science/University of Essex/UK

                  Email: sml@essex.ac.uk

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3*

  A post-doctoral research position in the field of content based image

  retrieval is available at Universite' de Sherbrooke, Canada. Contact:

  Djemel Ziou (Djemel.Ziou@dmi.usherb.ca)

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4* 

  The TC-11 software-source page is regularly updated. There are 

  notable blind spots in the area of preprocessing and segmentation...

  Feel free to contribute: 

            http://hwr.nici.kun.nl/iapr/tc-11/software.html

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This concludes the current TC-11 Newsletter.

I will keep you updated, best regards,



Lambert Schomaker