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IAPR TC11 Newsletter
January 2010
http://www.iapr-tc11.org
========== Contents ========================================================
* Message from the Editor
* Dates 'n' Deadlines
- ICPR 2010, January 25, 2010 (deadline extended!!)
* Calls for Papers
- FAHR 2010 (in conjunction with ICPR 2010), August 22, Istanbul (update)
- ICFHR 2010, November 16-18, Kolkata (2nd)
* Call for Tutorials
- ICFHR 2010, November 16-18, Kolkata
* Job Opportunities
- Research Fellow in Document Image Analysis, CVC, Barcelona (deadline: 1.3.)
* Call for Contributions
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========== Message from the Editor =========================================
Welcome to the first edition of our TC11 newsletter in 2010. This edition
brings to you updates on two calls for papers (FAHR 2010 and ICFHR 2010)
and a call for tutorials to be held at ICFHR 2010.
Below you will also find an updated version of the Dates 'n' Deadlines
section. Note that the submission to ICPR is still open until January 25!
All the best for a successfull New Year!
Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor
Gernot.Fink@udo.edu
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========== Dates 'n' Deadlines =============================================
Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission):
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* ICPR 2010, Istanbul August 23-26 January 25, 2010 (ext.!)
(http://www.icpr2010.org/)
* ICFHR 2010, Kolkata November 16-18 February 15, 2010
(http://www.isical.ac.in/~icfhr2010/)
* FAHR 2010, Istanbul August 22 March 19, 2010
(http://fahr2010.cs.tu-dortmund.de/)
* 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/)
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========== Calls for Papers ================================================
1st International Workshop on
Frontiers in Arabic Handwriting Recognition
-- FAHR 2010 --
in conjunction with
20th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
Istanbul, Turkey, 22nd August 2010
** Co-Chairs:
Thomas Ploetz, Newcastle University, UK -- t.ploetz@ncl.ac.uk
Gernot A. Fink, TU Dortmund, Germany -- gernot.fink@udo.edu
Sabri A. Mahmoud, KFUPM Dhahran, Saudi Arabia -- smasaad@kfupm.edu.sa
Szilard Vajda, TU Dortmund, Germany -- szilard.vajda@udo.edu
** Program committee
A. S. E. Ahmed, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt
A. M. Alimi, ENIS, Sfax, Tunisia
A. S. Al-Salman, KSU, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
A. Belaid,LORIA, Nancy, France
N. Ben Amara, ENIS, Sousse, Tunisia
D. Doermann, University of Maryland, USA
V. Govindaraju, SUNY Buffalo (CUBS), USA
A. Kundu, MITRE, USA
L. Likforman-Sulem, Telecom ParisTech, France
V. Maergner, TU Braunschweig, Germany
P. Natarajan, BBN Technologies, USA
U. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India
S. Srihari, CEDAR, USA
Arabic script is of substantial influence for hundreds of
millions of people worldwide. Numerous applications in
different areas of automated document processing require robust
recognition techniques for the analysis of Arabic handwriting.
Substantial challenges lie in the high variance in character
appearance, the highly idiosyncratic omittance of vowels,
common ambiguities in writing, or the omnipresence of
touching characters. For robust Arabic handwriting recognition,
massive research efforts are demanded.
In order to provide a place to meet and discuss current issues
related to Arabic handwriting recognition, FAHR 2010 -- the
1st International Workshop on Frontiers in Arabic Handwriting
Recognition -- will be held in conjunction with ICPR 2010.
It aims at bringing together researchers -- both from academia
and industry -- as well as practitioners in the field of Arabic
handwriting recognition. Given its unique location within the
city of Istanbul, Turkey, at the border between the Arabian
and the western world, researchers working in the field are
invited to participate in FAHR 2010.
** Topics
FAHR2010 seeks original, unpublished contributions, that are
not currently under review by another conference or journal, in
all areas related to Arabic handwriting recognition, including
(but not limited to) the following:
- Preprocessing
- Script identification
- Line segmentation
- Word segmentation
- Recognition strategies
- Feature extraction
- Writing models
- Language modelling
- Systems
- Datasets and evaluation
- Relation between OCR and handwriting recognition
** Submission Guideline
Prospective authors should prepare full papers with a maximum
length of six pages (double column, IEEE style, PDF). Manuscripts
will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee.
Printed proceedings will be distributed to the participants together
with electronic copies on CDROM. All accepted papers will be
published electronically as Open Access by the library service of
TU Dortmund University
(https://www.ub.tu-dortmund.de/Eldorado/index.html).
** Important Dates
Manuscript submission: 19.3.2010
Authors notification: 30.4.2010
Submission of camera-ready papers: 14.5.2010
End of early bird registration: 14.5.2010
Workshop: 22.8.2010
** Contact, further information
Thomas Ploetz, t.ploetz@ncl.ac.uk
http://fahr2010.cs.tu-dortmund.de
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========== 2nd Call for Papers =============================================
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ICFHR 2010
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 12th International Conference On Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
Kolkata, INDIA
November 16-18, 2010
http://www.isical.ac.in/~icfhr2010
The 12th International Conference On Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
(ICFHR 2010) sponsored by the IAPR will be organized in Kolkata, the cultural
capital of India, during 16-18 Nov., 2010. ICFHR established from IWFHR as a
natural promotion after ten intensive and productive editions held around the
world. The ICFHR / IWFHR series of conferences/workshops provide a forum to
researchers in the areas of on-line and off-line handwriting recognition.
We invite original, significant and technically sound research papers for
ICFHR, 2010.
All papers will be peer reviewed and the accepted papers will be considered for
inclusion in the Conference Proceedings to be published by the IEEE Computer
Society Press. The authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their
work in the form of oral / poster presentation. The papers should be written
and presented in English only.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Handwritten Text Recognition
* Preprocessing and Segmentation
* Classifier and their Combinations
* Multiple Sources & Multiple Experts
* Language Models in Handwriting Recognition
* Machine Learning Approaches for Handwriting Analysis
* Classifier Fusions & Information Integration
* Systems and Architectures
* Error Reduction & Performance Enhancement
* Theoretical Issues
* Data Generation and Annotation
* Handwritten Gesture Recognition
* Motor Models for Writing & Drawing
* Handwritten Drawing and Diagram Processing
* Forensic Studies & Security Issues
* Writer Verification and Identification
* Human Reading Models & Psychological Aspects
* Document & Image Retrieval Techniques
* Handwritten Annotations in Documents
* Multimedia Systems
* WWW, PDA, & Remote Applications
* Historical Document Processing
* Biometric Applications
* Handwritten Document Information Retrieval
* Writer Adaptation System
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IMPORTANT DEADLINES
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Paper submission : 15 February, 2010
Paper acceptance notification : 31 May, 2010
Camera Ready paper : 23 June, 2010
Tutorial proposal : 30 April, 2010
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CONTACT
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ICFHR 2010 Secretariat
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit
Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, INDIA
Email:- icfhr2010@isical.ac.in
Phone:- +91 33 2575 2850
Fax:- +91 33 2578 1832
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SUBMISSION OF PAPER
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Deatails of paper submission are available at
http://www.isical.ac.in/~icfhr2010/SubmissionOfPaper.html
General Chairs:
B. B. Chaudhuri, ISI, India
S. N. Shrihari, SUNY Buffalo, USA
L. Schomaker, Rijksuniversiteit, The Netherland
Programe Chairs:
J. H. Kim, KAIST, South Korea
M. Sridhar, Univ. of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
E. Anquetil, IRISA, France
F. Kimura, Mie-Univ, Japan
Organizing Chairs:
Umapada Pal, ISI, India
Ujjwal Bhattacharya, ISI, India
Sponsorship and Exhibition Chairs:
L. Heutte, Univ. of Rouen, France
H. Sako, Hitachi Ltd., Japan
R. Sabourin, ETS, Canada
Finance Chair:
S. K. Parui, ISI, India
Publication Chairs:
M. Nasipuri, JU, India
U. Garain, ISI, India
Publicity Chairs:
D. Doermann, Univ. of Maryland, USA.
A. Antonacopoulos, Univ. of Salford, U.K.
C. L. Liu, CAS, China
Competition Chairs:
V. Maergner, IfN, Germany
M. Blumenstein, Griffith University, Australia
H. El Abed, IFN, Germany
Tutorial Chairs:
V. Govindaraju, Univ. of Buffalo, USA
B. Chanda, ISI, India
Program Committee:
A. M. Alimi (Tunisia)
T. Artieres (France)
D. K. Basu (India)
A. Belaid (France)
M. Blumenstein (Australia)
H. Bunke (Switzerland)
M. Cheriet (Canada)
M. El Yacoubi (USA)
M. Fairhurst (UK)
G. Fink (Germany)
K. Franke (Norway)
H. Fujisawa (Japan)
B. Gatos (Greece)
M. Gilloux (France)
G. Houle (USA)
J. Hu (USA)
S. Impodevo (Italy)
S. Jaeger (China)
L. W. Jin (China)
K. C. Jung (Korea)
S. H. Kim (Korea)
K. Kise (Japan)
A. Koerich (Brazil)
P. M. Lallican (France)
L. Likforman-Sulem (France)
M. Liwicki (Germany)
J. Llados (Spain)
V. Margner (Germany)
P. Nagabhushan (India)
M. Nakagawa (Japan)
S. Naoi (Japan)
P. Natarajan (USA)
I. S. Oh (Korea)
S. Omachi (Japan)
L. E. S. Oliveira (Brazil)
T. Paquet (France)
R. Plamondon (Canada)
G. Pirlo (Italy)
G. Rigoll (Germany)
N. Sherkat (UK)
C. L. Tan (Singapore)
S. Uchida (Japan)
C. Viard-Gaudin (France)
N. Vincent (France)
L. Vuurpijl (The Netherlands)
T. Wakahara (Japan)
K. Yamamoto (Japan)
Organizing Committee:
Subhadip Basu, JU, India (Jt. Convener)
Debotosh Bhattacharjee, JU, India (Jt. Convener)
Nibaran Das, JU, India
Sarbani Palit, ISI, India
Kaushik Roy, WBSU, India
Ram Sarkar, JU, India
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========== Call for Tutorials ==============================================
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ICFHR 2010
CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSAL
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The 12th International Conference On Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
Kolkata, INDIA
November 16-18, 2010
http://www.isical.ac.in/~icfhr2010
The ICFHR2010 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial
Programme, to be held immediately before the technical conference on
November 16-18, 2010. ICFHR2010 at Kolkata, India. Tutorials should
serve one or more of the following objectives:
* Introduce students and newcomers to major topics of ICFHR research.
* Provide instruction on established practices and methodologies.
* Survey a mature area of ICFHR research and/or practice.
* Motivate and explain an ICFHR topic of emerging importance.
* Introduce expert non-specialists to an ICFHR subarea.
NOTE: If you have an idea for a tutorial that does not quite fit the
above objectives, please e-mail the Tutorial chairs:
1. V. Govindaraju, Univ. of Buffalo, USA (venu@cubs.buffalo.edu)
2. B. Chanda, Indian Statistical Inst., India (chanda@isical.ac.in)
for a preliminary evaluation.
Proposals should be of two to four pages in length, and should
contain the following information:
* A brief description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in
the conference registration brochure.
* A detailed outline of the tutorial, including preferred length
(1/2 or 1 day).
* Characterization of the potential target audience for the tutorial,
including prerequisite knowledge.
* A description of why the tutorial topic would be of interest to a
substantial part of the ICFHR audience.
* A brief resume of the presenter(s), which should include name,
postal address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address, background
in the tutorial area, any available example of work in the area
(ideally, a published tutorial-level article on the subject),
evidence of teaching experience (including references that address
the proposer's presentation skills), and evidence of scholarship in
the area.
* The name and e-mail address of the corresponding presenter. The
corresponding presenter should be available for e-mail correspondence
during the evaluation process, in the case clarifications and
discussions on the scope and content of the proposal are needed.
The evaluation of the proposal will take into account its general
interest for ICFHR attendees (e.g., a tutorial on object-oriented
inheritance will be hardly accepted), the quality of the proposal
(e.g., a tutorial that simply lists a set of concepts without any
apparent rationale behind them will not be approved) as well as the
expertise and skills of the presenters. We emphasize that the
primary criteria for evaluation will be whether a proposal is
interesting, well-structured, and motivated, rather than the
perceived experience/standing of the proposer.
Last but not the least, the tutorial should attract a meaningful
audience.Those submitting a proposal should keep in mind that
tutorials are intended to provide an overview of the field; they
should present reasonably well established information in a balanced
way. Tutorials should not be used to advocate a single avenue of
research, nor should they promote a product.
All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to the Tutorial
Chairs, no later than April 30, 2010.
Feedback, comments and/or suggestions would be provided within four
weeks of receiving the proposal. Final acceptance (or rejection)
would be decided by June 30, 2010.
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========== 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.
The deadline for receiving applications is March 1st, 2010.
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
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========== Call for Contributions ==========================================
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