IAPR-TC11 Newsletter November 7, 2007 http://www.iapr-tc11.org Report ============================================================================ - ICDAR2007 ============================================================================ Announcements ============================================================================ - Call for Papers: ICFHR2008 - New book on Character Recognition ============================================================================ Job ============================================================================ - Postdoctoral Researcher in Handwriting Recognition (Irisa/Inria, Rennes, France) ============================================================================ ICDAR2007 was a great success! We include in this newsletter an excerpt from the report on the conference from the organisers. The full report can be accessed at the conference web site: http://www.icdar2007.org/ On behalf of TC11, we would like to thank Conference Co-Chairs, Prof. Flavio Bortolozzi and Prof. Robert Sabourin, and Local Organization Chair, Dr. Luiz S. Oliveira, and his colleagues for a superb job! ============================================================================ Conference Report: ICDAR 2007 9th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil 23-26 September 2007 ICDAR is co-sponsored by the IAPR Technical Committees TC10 (Graphics Recognition) and TC11 (Reading Systems). ICDAR 2007 was organized by Flavio Bortolozzi (Brazil) and Robert Sabourin (Canada). The event was a real success with 307 participants coming from seven continents (37 countries). The distribution of participants among academic and industry is quite interesting. 25% of the attendees came from the industry, 30 were registered as students and 45% as academics. The huge number of industrial researchers demonstrates the maturity of the DAR area. Two IAPR/ICDAR awards were presented this year. The IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award was presented at the end of the opening session to Dr. Hiromichi Fujisawa for outstanding contributions to industrial document analysis and to the ICDAR community. Moreover, the IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award was presented during the banquet to Prof. Josep Llados for his outstanding service to the ICDAR community and his innovative research in graphics recognition. During the joint TC10/TC11 meeting, a proposal for ICDAR 2011 was presented by Dr. Cheng-Lin Liu and accepted by all participants. Hence, ICDAR 2011 will be hosted by Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing, China! A detailed report on the conference is available at the ICDAR2007 web site: http://www.icdar2007.org/ Conference Chairs Flavio Bortolozzi Robert Sabourin Local Organization Chair Luiz S. Oliveira ============================================================================ ============================================================================          Call for Papers: ICFHR 2008  http://www.icfhr2008.ca   1st International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition                      (Formerly IWFHR)                      Montreal, Canada                     August 19-21, 2008 TECHNICAL SPONSOR:  IAPR IMPORTANT DATES:        Submission deadline: January 31, 2008                         Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2008                         Camera-ready paper: May 15, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------          We are pleased to announce the new ICFHR established from IWFHR as a natural promotion after ten intensive and productive editions held around the world: Montreal, Chateau de Bonas, Taipei, Colchester, Taejon, Amsterdam, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Tokyo and La Baule. This time it will take place on August 19-21, 2008 in Montreal, Quebec. The ICFHR/IWFHR series of conferences/workshops provide a forum to researchers in the areas of on-line and off-line recognition of handwriting, pen-based interface systems for the processing of multilingual handwritten documents and forms. The program committee invites the submission of papers for inclusion in the Conference. All accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings, and the authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work in the form of oral presentations or posters. All papers and presentations will be in English.  Following are some topics of interest: - Handwriting Recognition Techniques - Preprocessing & Segmentation Techniques - Classifiers and their Combinations - Multiple Sources & Multiple Experts - Innovative Approaches in Handwriting Recognition - Soft Computing for Handwriting Processing and Understanding - Computational Linguistics & Information Integration - Systems and Architectures - Error Reduction & Performance Enhancement - Writer Verification and Identification - Motor Models for Writing and Drawing - Human Reading Models & Psychological Aspects - Document and Image Retrieval Techniques - Handwritten Annotations in Documents - Forensic Studies and Security Issues - Multimedia Systems - Color Information Utilization - WWW Applications - PDA and Remote Applications Details are available at: www.icfhr2008.ca Contact Address:  ICFHR Secretariat                   CENPARMI, Suite EV 3.403                   Concordia University, Montreal Quebec, H3G 1M8                   Canada Email:            icfhr@cenparmi.concordia.ca Organizers Chair:      Ching Y. Suen, Cenparmi, Concordia University Co-Chair:    Mohamed Cheriet, LIVIA, École de technologie supérieure / University of Quebec ============================================================================ ============================================================================ New Textbook on Character Recognition ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A new textbook titled "Character Recognition Systems: A Guide for Students and Practitioners", co-authored by our colleagues Prof. M. Cheriet, Prof. N. Kharma, Dr. C.L. Lin and Prof. C. Suen has just been published by Wiley-Interscience ( http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471415707.html?cid=RSS_WILEY2_COMPUTING ). The book will be of great value to: - People interested in handwriting recognition techniques, and more specifically in feature extraction and selection; classification engines and their combinations; and building systems around real case studies: postal courier, dates on cheques, etc... - People working in Image Processing and Vision in general, particularly where decision theory is a central issue. ============================================================================ ============================================================================ Postdoctoral position at Irisa/Inria (Rennes, France) on off-line/on-line handwriting recognition ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A one year postdoctoral position is available with immediate effect in the area of indexing archive documents with an off-line handwriting recognition system, using handwriting knowledge to reconstruct the drawing order. Full details of this post can be found at: http://www.irisa.fr/imadoc/postdoc/postdoc.pdf For further information, please contact: Bertrand Couasnon , Tel: +33 2 99 84 74 11 ============================================================================ With warm regards, Dr. Jianying Hu, IAPR-TC11 Chair jyhu@us.ibm.com Dr. Apostolos Antonacopoulos, IAPR-TC11 Vice Chair A.Antonacopoulos@primaresearch.org