IAPR TC11 Newsletter March 17, 2005 Announcements ======================================== - Call for Nominations: ICDAR2005 Awards - Call for Participation: WDA2005 - ICDAR2005 Competitions - Job openings: INRIA - Call for Papers: DAS2006 ======================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION (ICDAR) CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR ICDAR 2005 AWARDS Nominations Due: May 1, 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- An ICDAR Award Program has been established 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 Young Researcher Award (less than 40 years old at the time the award is made), and the Outstanding Achievement Award. Each award will consist of a token gift and a suitably inscribed certificate. Nominations are invited for the 2005 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 the Chair of the Awards Committee, Josep Llados. Deadline for receipt of nominations is May 1st, 2005 but early submissions are strongly encouraged. For further information, please contact: Dr. Josep Lladós Computer Vision Center Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Edifici O 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain Tel: +34 935 812 403 Fax: +34 935 811 670 E-mail: josep@cvc.uab.es The final decision will be made by the Awards Committee. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation Third International Workshop on Web Document Analysis WDA2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: August 28, 2005 Place: Seoul, Korea (co-located with ICDAR2005) Submission deadline: ** Short Papers due April 15, 2005 ** For details check http://wda2005.blogspot.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ICDAR2005 Competitions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Three competitions will be held in conjunction with ICDAR2005: Arabic Hand-Written Word Recognition Competition ------------------------------------------------ http://ifn40.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de/ Organizers Volker Märgner and Mario Pechwitz (Technical Univ. Braunschweig, Germany) Important Dates - Submission: April 30, 2005 - Results: announced at ICDAR2005 Page Segmentation Competition ----------------------------- www.primaresearch.org/ICDAR2005_competition/ Organizers Apostolos Antonacopoulos (Univ. of Salford, UK) and Bassilis Gatos (NCSR Demokritos, Greece) Important Dates - Register now - Submission: April 30, 2005 - Results: announced at ICDAR2005 Robust Reading Competitions --------------------------- http://algoval.essex.ac.uk:8080/icdar2005/index.jsp Organizer Simon M. Lucas (ICDAR2005 Competition Chair, UK) Important Dates - Register now - Submission: April 30, 2005 - Result will be announced at ICDAR2005 web site ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Job Openings ============ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- INRIA proposes 120 one-year post-doctoral positions for young graduates. See http://www.inria.fr/travailler/opportunites/postdoc/postdoc.en.html for more details. More specifically, we have a possible post-doctoral position available at the QGAR team of LORIA. The research topic is the definition of symbolic and graphical invariants for the analysis of historical documents. See http://www.loria.fr/jobs/postdoc_inria/postdoc_inria?set_language=en&id=35&cl=en for details of the position. Application deadline: April 22, 2005 Candidates can contact Prof. Karl Tombre at Karl.Tombre@loria.fr for further details. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Seventh IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems DAS2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dates: 13 - 15 February 2006 Place: Nelson, New Zealand Submission deadlines: ** Regular papers: 15 Sep 2005 ** ** Extended Abstracts: 15 Oct 2005 ** For details check: www.iam.unibe.ch/das06 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Jianying Hu, IAPR-TC11 Chair jyhu@us.ibm.com Dr. Apostolos Antonacopoulos, IAPR-TC11 Vice Chair A.Antonacopoulos@salford.ac.uk =