============================================================================ IAPR TC11 Newsletter June 2010 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - DRR 2011, San Francisco, June 28 - DICTA 2010, Sydney, July 2 ... (more below) * Event Report - International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS), 2010 * Calls for Papers - DICTA 2010, Sydney, December 1-3, 2010 * Announcement: LinkedIn Group on OCR * IJDAR Contents Telegram (Volume 13 Number 2, Special Issue DRR09) * Job Opportunities (repost) - Research Fellow in Document Image Analysis, CVC Barcelona, June 20, 2010 * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the June edition of our TC11 newsletter. This edition brings to you a report on the recent DAS workshop written by Dan Lopresti, one of the DAS Co-Chairs. As contributions like this one will make this newsletter more interesting to its readership, I would like to encourage organizers of events and also involved participants to provide such brief reports for inclusion into future editions. Additionally, you will also find in this edition of the newsletter one of the probably last calls for papers for a conference in 2010 (DICTA 2010 in Sydney), an announcement of a LinkedIn group on topics related to OCR, and a new edition of the IJDAR Contents Telegram. As this is only the second posting of the IJDAR Contents Telegram, which was introduced as a new feature of this newsletter with the April edition, I would be interested to hear your opinions on this new service. Best regards, Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * DRR 2011, San Francisco January 23-27 June 28, 2010 (http://www.cs.iit.edu/~drr2011/) * DICTA 2010, Sydney December 1-3 July 2, 2010 (http://dicta2010.conference.nicta.com.au/index.html) * AND 2010, Toronto October 26 July 16, 2010 (http://sites.google.com/site/and2010workshop) in conjunction with CIKM * ICDAR 2011, Beijing September 18-21 March 1, 2011 (http://www.icdar2011.org/) ============================================================================ ========== Event Report: DAS 2010 ========================================== Brief Report from DAS 2010 -------------------------- On June 9-11, nearly 100 members of the international research community gathered in Boston for the Ninth IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems. The DAS workshop has become one of the signature events for TC-11, and DAS 2010 builds on a long past history beginning with DAS 1994 held in Kaiserslautern, Germany and continuing most recently to DAS 2008 held in Nara, Japan. This year's DAS workshop received 91 submissions from 25 countries on six continents. The Program Committee selected 28 papers for oral presentation and 37 papers for poster presentation. In addition, 15 short papers were presented and six groups gave live demos. The workshop was kicked-off by an illuminating and entertaining keynote talk by George Nagy with the title "Document Systems Analysis: Testing, Testing, Testing." At the DAS banquet, the IAPR Nakano Award for the best paper at the workshop was presented to Masakazu Iwamura, Tomohiko Tsuji, and Koichi Kise for their paper "Memory-Based Recognition of Camera-Captured Characters." The IAPR Best Student Paper Award was given to Mudit Agrawal for his paper co-authored with David Doermann titled "Context-Aware and Content-Based Dynamic Voronoi Page Segmentation.," with Honorable Mention going to Pingping Xiu for his paper co-authored with Henry Baird titled "Analysis of Whole-Book Recognition." As with past workshops, an important feature of DAS 2010 was the lively Working Group discussions, this time led by Marcus Liwicki. The broad consensus from attendees is that the workshop was a great success. In addition to the official proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library, followup materials from the workshop (photos, PowerPoint slides, etc.) can be found on the DAS 2010 website (http://cubs.buffalo.edu/DAS2010/). A special issue of IJDAR to include selected papers and the Working Group reports is also planned. Contributed by Dan Lopresti, DAS 2010 Co-Chair, TC-11 Chair ============================================================================ ========== Calls for Papers ================================================ D I C T A 2010 Sydney, Australia International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA) is the main Australian conference on machine vision, image processing, pattern recognition and related areas. Since its establishment, DICTA has been a biannual meeting. In 2008, it turned into an annual conference. It is the conference of the Australian Pattern Recognition Society (APRS). DICTA 2010 is being held in Sydney, Australia in 1-3 December 2010. The conference venue is the Mercure Sydney Hotel, located in the heart of Sydney (818-820 George Street). It is very close to the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, Chinatown, The Sydney Entertainment Centre and Sydney University; and Immediate access to Sydney's major transport hub, Central Railway Square, which is directly linked to Sydney Airport. The format of the conference will be single-track with both oral presentations and posters. Important Dates Call for papers 28 February 2010 Paper submission 2 July 2010 Notification of acceptance 6 August 2010 Camera ready papers due 3 September 2010 Early Registration 2 October 2010 Conference 1-3 December 2010 Topics The prospective topics of interest of DICTA 2010 are as follows: Image coding and processing Shape and texture analysis Surveillance, defence and industrial applications Remote sensing and spectral imaging Statistical and structural pattern recognition Computer vision Document analysis Machine learning applications in vision and imaging Human-computer interaction Biomedical imaging, bioinformatics and e-health applications Biotechnology and medical applications of pattern recognition ______________________________________________ Associate Professor Michael Blumenstein Dean (Research) Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology Group Gold Coast Campus Griffith University Queensland 4222 Australia Email : M.Blumenstein@griffith.edu.au Phone : +61 7 555 28271 Fax : +61 7 555 28226 ============================================================================ ========== ================================================================== LinkedIn.com now hosts an OCR special interest group, which is open to all researchers, engineers, and developers concerned with Optical Character Recognition, including pen- and image-based character recognition as well as related tasks such as ICR/IWR. Go to http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1928744& to join. (provided by Andras Kornai) ============================================================================ ========== IJDAR Contents Telegram (Volume 13 Number 2) ==================== Table of contents for International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR) Volume 13 Number 2 / June, 2010 (http://www.springerlink.com/content/w212m551x425) Special Issue DRR09 Special issue on document recognition and retrieval 2009 Authors Kathrin Berkner and Laurence Likforman-Sulem DOI 10.1007/s10032-010-0112-x Page 77-78 Combined orientation and skew detection using geometric text-line modeling Authors Joost van Beusekom, Faisal Shafait and Thomas M. Breuel DOI 10.1007/s10032-009-0109-5 Page 79-92 Multi-font printed Mongolian document recognition system Authors Liangrui Peng, Changsong Liu, Xiaoqing Ding, Jianming Jin, Youshou Wu, Hua Wang and Yanhua Bao DOI 10.1007/s10032-009-0106-8 Page 93-106 Locating and parsing bibliographic references in HTML medical articles Author Jie Zou, Daniel Le and George R. Thoma DOI 10.1007/s10032-009-0105-9 Page 107-119 A robust model for on-line handwritten japanese text recognition Authors Bilan Zhu, Xiang-Dong Zhou, Cheng-Lin Liu and Masaki Nakagawa DOI 10.1007/s10032-009-0111-y Page 121-131 Distance-based classification of handwritten symbols Authors Oleg Golubitsky and Stephen M. Watt DOI 10.1007/s10032-009-0107-7 Page 133-146 Individuality of alphabet knowledge in online writer identification Authors Guo Xian Tan, Christian Viard-Gaudin and Alex C. Kot DOI 10.1007/s10032-009-0110-z Page 147-157 Impact of online handwriting recognition performance on text categorization Autors Sebastia'n Pen~a Saldarriaga, Christian Viard-Gaudin and Emmanuel Morin DOI 10.1007/s10032-009-0108-6 Page 159-171 (provided by Simone Marinai) ============================================================================ ========== 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 . Such news could be the obvious announcements of confereces and workshops, job opportunities, reports on past conferences, book reviews, or anything that might be of interest to a wider audience involved in the construction of reading systems. ============================================================================ ========== Job Opportunities (repost) ====================================== 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 a vibrant group of 20 researchers and will be expected to contribute to the research activities of the group in one or more of the following areas: Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition, Graphics Recognition, Handwriting Recognition and Colour / Perceptual DIA. 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. Strong motivation to conduct research and own initiative will be highly valued. This position is initially available for a period of 12 months. The candidate will be expected to start before September 2010. Gross salary will be at the level of EUR 38000. A travel allowance of EUR 750 as well as a career exploratory allowance of EUR 2000 will be made available to the successful candidate. The deadline for receiving applications is June 20th, 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 ============================================================================ ========== Subscription Information ======================================== This newsletter is sent to subscribers of the IAPR TC11 mailing list. 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