============================================================================ IAPR TC11 Newsletter July 2010 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - SAC Document Engineering, TaiChung, Taiwan, August 24, 2010 - ICDAR 2011, Beijing, March 1, 2011 * Survey: Possible Summer School in Document Analysis * Call for Papers: - SAC Document Engineering, TaiChung, Taiwan, March 21-25, 2011 * IJDAR: Papers freely available until the end of September! * IJDAR Impact Factors * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the July edition of our TC11 newsletter. With this edition the TC-11 Leadership Team would like to ask for your feedback on a potential new project within TC-11 - a Summer School in Document Analysis. Such an event should offer to graduate students and others new to our field of research the opportunity to learn about the current state of the art. It could either be connected to one of our major conferences or organized as a standalone event. As your opinion on this project is important, we kindly ask you to complete a short survey (8 questions) that can be found at the following address: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/T2S7S3P As this is the first time we are trying to use such an online survey to obtain feedback from the TC-11 community, please feel free to also comment on the general procedure itself. Additionally, this newsletter brings to you a new Call for Papers for the SAC Document Analysis track, an announcement that IJDAR papers will be offered free of charge by Springer until the end of September, and information on the current impact factors of this journal. Best regards, Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * SAC Document Engineering March 21-25, 2011 August 24, 2010 TaiChung, Taiwan (http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2011/) * ICDAR 2011, Beijing September 18-21 March 1, 2011 (http://www.icdar2011.org/) - Workshop proposals: November 20, 2010 - Tutorial proposals: January 20, 2011 - Competition proposals: January 20, 2011 ============================================================================ ========== Survey: Summer School in Document Analysis? ===================== The IAPR TC-11 is investigating whether it would be good to organize a summer school. This may be a way for graduate students and others new to a specific research area to learn about the current state of the art. Such a summer school might last a week, and be connected with an existing conference or it may standalone. Complete our survey online at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/T2S7S3P ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: SAC Document Analysis ========================== The 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing TaiChung, Taiwan March 21-25, 2011 Call-for-papers on Document Engineering For the past twenty five years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2011 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, and is hosted by the Tunghai University, TaiChung, Taiwan. Updated information may be found at: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2011/ Document Engineering is a branch of computer science that investigates systems for documents in any form and in all media. Document engineering is concerned with principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage, store, compact, access and maintain documents. The fields of document recognition and retrieval have grown rapidly in recent years. This development has been fueled by the emergence of new application areas such as the World Wide Web (WWW), digital libraries, and video- and camera-based OCR. The use of OCR is spreading from high-volume, niche domains to more general tasks, including the processing of noisy "real-world" documents, photocopies, and faxes. These are the main areas of concern in Document Engineering: * Algorithms and systems for machine-printed and handwritten character and word recognition, especially for degraded documents (e.g., faxes); * Character and word segmentation techniques; * Identification and analysis of tables or equations; * Page segmentation, including hierarchical decomposition of documents into text regions, colored/textured background, halftones, line-art, etc; * Logical structure analysis, linguistic representation of structure and syntax-directed recognition of logical structure; * Raster-to-vector conversion of line-art, maps, and technical drawings; * Filtering and enhancement techniques for document images; * Document image compression; * Document degradation models; * Video and camera based OCR; * Applications of document recognition to the WWW and digital libraries; * Techniques to support spoken language access to document text (audio browsing of document databases); * Multilingual character recognition; * Other topics relating to document analysis and character recognition; * Impact of recognition accuracy on retrieval effectiveness; * Recovery and use of logical structure for retrieval; * Relevance feedback techniques for document retrieval; * Cross-language and multi-lingual retrieval; * Categorization and summarization of text documents and imaged documents; * Keyword spotting in document images; * Approximate string matching algorithms for OCR text; * Non-textual retrieval methods; * Image and multimedia search; * Interfaces for retrieval; * Benchmarking and evaluation issues; * Other topics relating to the retrieval of documents and document images. Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers in all areas of document engineering. The program committee will blindly review submissions to that track. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. The paper should not exceed 5 pages in ACM format. Submissions should be printable on a standard printer on common paper formats, such as US letter and A4. Papers should not be submitted to more than one ACM-SAC track. Paper submissions should be done electronically through the eCMS website: https://www.softconf.com/b/sac2011/ Accepted papers will be published in the annual conference proceedings. Authors are allowed up to 8 pages. For papers with more than 5 pages in the final camera ready, there will be a charge of 80USD per extra page. One may refer to the final copy format at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers presented will be selected for publication in a special issue of an international journal. The last three issues of the DE-Track were published in the Journal of Universal Computer Science by Springer. Important Dates: August 24, 2010: Paper submissions October 12, 2010: Author notification November 02, 2010: Camera-Ready Copy Program Committee * Adel M. Alimi (University of Sfax, Tunisia) * Angelo Marcelli (University of Salerno, Italy) * Apóstolos Antonacopoulos (Univ. of Salford,UK ) * Alejandro C. Frery (UFAL, Brazil) * Andreas Dengel (Kaiserslautern Univ., Germany) * Antony Wiley (Hewlett Packard Labs., Bristol, UK) * Brian Lawler (Cal Poly, USA) * Boris Chidlovskii (Xerox Research Europe, France) * Cinthia Freitas (PUC-Paraná, Brazil) * Daniel P. Lopresti (Lehigh University, USA) * David S. Doermann (University of Maryland, USA) * Elisa Barney Smith (Boise State Univ., USA) * Ergina Kavallieratou (Univ. of the Aegean, Greece) * Ethan Munson (U of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, USA) * Fábio Gianetti (HP Labs., P.Alto, USA ) * Fernando Pereira (IST Liboa, Portugal) * Flávio Bortolozzi (CESUMAR, Brazil) * F.Heron de Carvalho Jr (Univ. Fed. Ceará, Brazil) * F.Mário Martins (Univ. Minho em Braga, Portugal) * George Cavalcanti (UFPE, Brazil) * Graham Leedham (Nanyang Tech.U., Singapore) * Henry S. Baird (Lehigh University, USA) * Hirobumi Nishida (Ricoh SW R. Center, Japan) * J.Caldas Pinto (Inst. Superior Técnico, Portugal) * Jacques Facon (PUC Paraná, Brazil) * Jean-Marc Ogier (U. de la Rochelle, France) * Jin H. Kim (Computer Science Dept., Korea) * Jian Fan (HP Labs, USA) * Jian Liang (Media Management Tech, USA); * João Marques de Carvalho (U.F.CG, Brazil) * Jonathan J. Hull. (Ricoh California, USA) * Josep Llados (Uni. Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) * Juan Paz Vieira (U. Central de las Villas, Cuba) * Kazem Taghva (University of Nevada, USA) * Lawrence O'Gorman (Avaya Labs, USA) * Liu Wenyin (City Univ. of Hong Kong, China); * Luis Corte-Real (Univ. do Porto, Portugal) * Luis Eduardo Oliveira (U.F.PR, Brazil) * Louisa Lam (The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong) * Majid Mirmehdi (University of Bristol, England) * Marcelo Thielo (Hewlett-Packard R&D., Brazil) * Marco Gori (Università di Siena, Italy) * Marcos Galindo (U.F.PE., Brazil) * Maria Feldgen (Univ. Buenos Aires, Argentina) * Mohamed Cheriet (ETS-Montreal, Canada); * Nasser Sherkat (The Nottingham Trent U., UK) * Nelson Mascarenhas (Univ. de São Paulo, Brazil) * Nicole Vincent (Paris 5, France) * Olac Fuentes (U.Texas at El Paso, USA) * Pedro Rangel Henriques (Univ. Minho em Braga, Portugal) * Pedro Quelhas (Univ. do Porto, Portugal) * Pertti Vakkari. (University of Tampere, Finland) * Qian Lin (Hewlett Packard Labs., P.Alto, USA) * Rafael Dueire Lins (U.F.PE, Brazil) - Chair * Ricardo Queiroz (Univ. Brasília, Brazil) * Robert Sabourin (ETS, Canada) * Rolf Ingold (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) * Salvatore Tabbone (Univ. of Nancy 2, France) * Sargur Srihari (State U. NY at Buffalo, USA) * Seiichi Uchida (Kyushu University, Japan) * Seong-Whan Lee (Korea University, Korea) * Steven J. Simske (HP Labs., USA ) * Tan Chew Lim (NUS, Singapore) * Thierry Paquet (Université de Rouen, France) * Thomas Breuel (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany) * Thomas Mandl (Univ. of Hildeshein, Germany) * Tin Kam Ho (Bell Laboratories, USA) * Tsang Ing Ren (U.F.PE, Brazil) * Umapada Pal (Indian Statistical Institute, India) * Utpal Garain (Indian Statistical Inst., India) * Venu Govindaraju (State U. NY at Buffalo, USA) * Weiler Finamore (P UC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) * Xiaoqing Ding (Tsinghua University, China) Secretariat and Website: Gabriel Silva: gfps@cin.ufpe.br Updated information on the Document Engineering track may be found at: http://www.telematica.ee.ufpe.br/sac2011/ Contact For further information please contact the track organizer: Rafael Dueire Lins Departamento de Eletrônica e Sistemas Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Recife – PE – BRAZIL Phone: + 55 81 2126-8210 ext 241 Fax: + 55 81 2126-8215 E-mail: rdl.ufpe@gmail.com ============================================================================ ========== IJDAR: Papers freely available until the end of September! ====== Springer is marketing IJDAR this month in the Computer Science Reading Room (CSRR) and so is offering free access to the journal for a limited period (till the end of September). This would be a good opportunity for any potential author (or in general any DIAR researcher) to read IJDAR for free. The journal can be accessed by visiting the website below, follow a quick and easy registration process and then have access to IJDAR along with several other Computer Science titles. http://www.springer.com/computer/reading+room+welcome?SGWID=0-149902-0-0-0&cm_mmc=AD-_-Journal-_-MCS12555_V1-_-0 (provided by Simone Marinai) ============================================================================ ========== IJDAR Impact Factors ============================================ IJDAR Impact Factors for 2009 have been released. This information can be useful for both authors and potential authors of IJDAR. 2009 IF -- 1.213 (increased from 0.909 in 2008) 5 Year IF -- 1.955 IJDAR is ranked 61st out of 102 journals in the Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence Category (last year it was 65/94). 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