============================================================================ IAPR TC11 Newsletter November 2009 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - Less than two weeks from now: DAS 2010, December 1, 2009 (http://cubs.buffalo.edu/DAS2010/) * Special Session Announcement - DAS 2010: Special Session on Contributed Datasets * Calls for Papers - DocEng2010, Manchester, UK, September 21-24 - ICPR 2010, Istanbul, August 23-26 - BMVC 2010, Aberystwyth, UK, August 30-September 2 * Call for a New TC11 Logo (Repost) * Job Opportunities - Research Fellow in Document Image Analysis, CVC, Barcelona - Post-Doc Position in Document Analysis, Lehigh University * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the November edition of our TC11 newsletter. This edition brings to you an update of upcoming deadlines - the one for DAS 2010 (December 1st) is less than two weeks from now! - an announcement for a Special Session at DAS on Contributed Datasets, several new or updated calls for papers (DogEng 2010; ICPR 2010; BMVC 2010, which also includes a document track), and the announcement of two new job opportunities. Best regards, Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * DAS 2010, Cambridge, MA June 9-11 December 1, 2009 (http://cubs.buffalo.edu/DAS2010/) * ICPR 2010, Istanbul August 23-26 January 15, 2010 (http://www.icpr2010.org/) * ICFHR 2010, Kolkata November 16-18 February 15, 2010 (http://www.isical.ac.in/~icfhr2010/) * DocEng2010, Manchester, UK, September 21-24 April 2, 2010 (http://www.primaresearch.org/doceng2010) * BMVC 2010, Aberystwyth, UK August 30-September 2 April 30, 2010 (http://bmvc10.dcs.aber.ac.uk) * ICDAR 2011, Bejing September 18-21 March 1, 2011 (http://www.icdar2011.org/) ============================================================================ ========== Special Session Announcement ==================================== DAS 2010: Special Session on Contributed Datasets To encourage the continued development of datasets that are useful for supporting document analysis research, DAS 2010 will include a special session devoted to papers that involve contributed datasets. Such papers may be original research papers where the new dataset plays a key role, or papers that describe the design and development of a new dataset. Submissions may be full length papers (8 pages) or short papers (4 pages). The deadline for regular papers is Dec. 1, and the deadline for short papers is Jan. 1. To be considered in this category, the dataset in question must be made available to the document analysis community before the date of the DAS workshop by submitting it for inclusion on the IAPR TC-11 website (www.iapr-tc11.org) prior to May 1, 2010. For further details concerning dataset submission, please contact the IAPR IC-11 Dataset Curator, Dimos Karatzas at dimos@cvc.uab.es. ============================================================================ ========== Calls for Papers ================================================ DocEng2010 - 10th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering Manchester, UK, September 21-24, 2010 http://www.primaresearch.org/doceng2010 PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS The ACM Symposium on Document Engineering provides an annual international forum for presentations and discussions on principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage and maintain documents. Proceedings are available through the ACM Digital Library. TOPICS & TECHNOLOGIES * Document Representations - Standards (ODF, PDF), models, type representation, metadata (MPEG-7, RDF), Style Sheets (CSS, XSL), Markup Languages (SGML, XML), Multimedia (MPEG-4, SMIL, MHEG, NCL), Multilingual representations, temporal aspects * Document Manipulation - Document transformation (XSLT, XQuery), Adaptive Documents, Document presentation (typography, formatting, layout) * Document Systems - Workflow, cooperation, web services, social networking, engineering life cycle * Document System Components - Security, APIs (SAX, DOM), synchronization, System performance * Document collections - Databases: Storage, Indexing, Retrieval, Content Management Systems, E-books * Document Linking - Techniques (XLink, XPath, Xpointer), Blogs, Wikis, Integration with other digital artefacts * Document generation - authoring tools and systems, variable data printing, automatically generated documents * Document Analysis - structure, layout and content analysis, categorization, classification, character recognition IMPORTANT DATES Full papers & working sessions Abstracts due April 2, 2010 Papers due April 16, 2010 Acceptance notice by May 14, 2010 Short papers, posters & demos Abstracts due May 21, 2010 Papers due May 28, 2010 Acceptance notice by June 18, 2010 All papers Revised versions due July 2, 2010 ORGANISERS General Chair Apostolos Antonacopoulos, University of Salford, UK Program Chairs Michael Gormish, Ricoh Innovations, USA Rolf Ingold, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Local Arrangements Chair Stefan Pletschacher, University of Salford, UK Technical Organisation Christos Papadopoulos, University of Salford, UK CONTACT doceng2010@primaresearch.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Istanbul Convention & Exhibition Centre (ICEC), Istanbul, Turkey 23-26 Aug 2010 www.icpr2010.org ICPR 2010 is the twentieth conference of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). ICPR 2010 will be an international forum for discussions on recent advances in the fields of Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning; Signal, Speech, Image and Video Processing; Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction; Multimedia and Document Analysis, Processing and Retrieval; Medical Imaging and Visualization. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for workshop proposals Nov 16, 2009 Workshop proposal acceptance notification Dec 15, 2009 Deadline for paper submission Jan 15, 2010 Deadline for receipt of workshop call for papers Jan 15, 2010 Deadline for tutorial proposals Feb 15, 2010 Notification of acceptance Mar 30, 2010 Notification of acceptance of tutorials Mar 30, 2010 Deadline for the overview paper of the contest Apr 30, 2010 End of early bird registration period May 14, 2010 Camera ready papers May 15, 2010 Deadline for advance registration Aug 16, 2010 Workshop on S+SSPR 2010 Aug 18, 2010 ICPR 2010 workshops - full day Aug 22, 2010 ICPR 2010 Aug 23-26, 2010 TRACKS Track I: Computer Vision Track II: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Track III: Signal, Speech, Image and Video Processing Track IV: Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction Track V: Multimedia Analysis, Processing and Retrieval Track VI: Medical Imaging and Visualization CONTACT INFORMATION TeamCon Congress Services Worldwide Halaskargazi Cad. Alp Palas No. 25/1 34371 Harbiye - Istanbul / TURKEY Phone : +90 212 343 80 03 Fax : +90 212 343 80 23 www.teamcon.com.tr E-mail : secretariat@icpr2010.org Aytul Ercil Conference Chair ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2010 Aberystwyth (Wales, UK), 30 August - 2 September 2010 ===================================================== First call for papers The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) is one of the major international conferences on machine vision and related areas. Organized by the British Machine Vision Association, the 21st BMVC will be held in Aberystwyth. Authors are invited to submit full-length high-quality papers in image processing and machine vision. Papers covering theory and/or application areas of computer vision are invited for submission. Submitted papers will be refereed on their originality, presentation, empirical results, and quality of evaluation. All papers will be reviewed *doubly blind*, normally by three members of our international programme committee. Please note that BMVC is a single track meeting with oral and poster presentations and will include two keynote presentations and and a tutorial to be announced soon. Topics include, but are not limited to: Statistics and machine learning for vision Stereo, calibration, geometric modelling and processing Person, face and gesture tracking Motion, flow and tracking Segmentation and feature extraction Model-based vision Image processing techniques and methods Texture, shape and colour Video analysis Document processing and recognition Vision for quality assurance, medical diagnosis, etc. Vision for visualization and graphics Also, proposals for a workshop to be held on the 2nd September are invited -- please contact the organizers. Important dates: Paper registration deadline: 17:30 GMT 23rd April 2010 Submission deadline: 17:30 GMT 30th April 2010 Notification of acceptance: 14th June 2010 Camera ready papers: 13th July 2010 Conference: 30th August-2nd September 2010 General chair: Fred Labrosse (Aberystwyth University) Publicity chair: Yonghuai Liu (Aberystwyth University) Technical programme chair: Reyer Zwiggelar (Aberystwyth University) Tutorial and workshop chair: Peter Bunting (Aberystwyth University) Local organizing committee: Meinir Davis, Alan Woodland, Ran Song. Further information BMVC 2010 Website: http://bmvc10.dcs.aber.ac.uk Contact email: bmvc2010@aber.ac.uk Conference venue: Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth University, Ceredigion SY23 3DB (Wales, United Kingdom). The Penglais campus is located within 15 minutes' walk to the east of the coastal town of Aberystwyth. ============================================================================ ========== Call for a New TC11 Logo (Repost) =============================== In line with its efforts to revive TC11 activities and give TC11 related content a fresh "look and feel", the TC11 Leadership Team is seeking a new logo design for TC11. This logo should firstly show a modern design suitable for representing an association of professional scientists and engineers working at the forefront of research and development. Secondly, it would be highly desirable that the logo could be easily associated with professionals working in the area of Reading Systems by, e.g., incorporating - potentially abstract - references to typical objects or attributes of our profession (as achieved nicely in the logo of the IEEE Signal Processing Society). Though the logo's primary use will be on the web site of TC11 the design should also be suitable for use in print publications. Please send design proposals for the new TC11 logo before December 31, 2009 to the TC11 Chair Daniel P. Lopresti (lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu) in a suitable digital format (bitmap[s] with resolutions appropriate for web and print publications, PDF, or a commonly used vector graphics format). The TC11 Leadership Team will then review the received logo proposals and select a winning proposal. The TC11 Leadership Team reserves the right to extend the deadline and/or discontinue the contest if no suitable logo is submitted within the indicated time frame. The creator of the winning proposal will be receiving an award consisting of a certificate and a small cash prize. NOTE: By making a design proposal the proposer certifies that the proposed logo is his/her own work and does not violate intellectual property rights or copyrights of some third party. Furthermore she/he explicitly accepts that the logo design thereafter becomes the sole property of TC11 and that the only compensation to the creator of the design will be the award presented by TC11 and the recognition of his/her achievement by the wider community. ============================================================================ ========== Job Opportunities =============================================== The Pattern Recognition and Document Analysis group at the Computer Vision Centre (www.cvc.uab.es), Barcelona, Spain, offers one research fellow position in the area of Document Image Analysis. The successful applicant will join an ongoing European project and will be the main responsible for a 12-month work package on administrative document analysis. A PhD degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics or related discipline is required. Applicants will be expected to have a minimum of 4 years research experience in at least one of the following areas: Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Document Analysis. Previous experience with handwritten document recognition would be highly valued. The positions are initially available for a period of 1 year, with possibility for extension. The candidate will be expected to start before June 2010. Minimum net salary will be at the level of EUR 35000 negotiable depending upon background and experience. A mobility allowance will be available according to the particular needs of the successful candidate. Please see the Web site of the CVC or contact Dr Dimosthenis Karatzas for further information: Email: dimos@cvc.uab.es Web: http://www.cvc.uab.es ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post-Doc Position Available in Document Analysis Research Department of Computer Science and Engineering Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA Applications are sought for a post-doc position in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University. We seek individuals with a demonstrated record of success in one or more areas of document image analysis, including layout analysis and offline handwriting recognition. This position could start immediately and will extend through December 2010. Lehigh is a mid-sized private university located in a beautiful setting in the northeastern United States. We are less than two hours from New York City and Philadelphia by car, and three hours from Washington, DC. See http://www.lehigh.edu for further details. For more information, please contact Professor Henry Baird (baird@cse.lehigh.edu) or Professor Dan Lopresti (lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu). ============================================================================ ========== Call for Contributions ========================================== This newsletter needs your support in order to provide useful information to the TC11 community. Therefore, please contribute relevant news by sending a short notice to the newsletter editor Gernot A. Fink . 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