============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter April 2011 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - GREC 2011, Seoul, Mai 15 * Call for Nominations: ICDAR 2011 Awards * Call for Proposals to Host ICDAR 2015 * Calls for Papers - DAS 2012, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, March 27-29, 2012 * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the April edition of our TC-11 newsletter. This edition brings to you three important calls related to the field of document analysis and recognition. First, this is the Call for Nominations for this year's ICDAR awards which are the IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award and the IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award. Secondly, the Call for Hosting ICDAR 2015 is now open. And finally, you will also find below the first preliminary Call for Papers for DAS 2012. With the best wishes for a happy Easter! Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * ICDAR 2011, Beijing September 18-21 --- (http://www.icdar2011.org/) - Doctoral Consortium: July 1 * GREC 2011, Seoul September 15-16 Mai 15 (http://grec2011.cau.ac.kr) * IJCB 2011, Washington, DC October 11-13 May 27 (http://www.cse.nd.edu/IJCB_11) * HIP 2011 (at ICDAR 2011) September 16-17 June 10 (http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~hdocp) * MOCR 2011 (at ICDAR 2011) September 17 June 10 (http://www.cubs.buffalo.edu/MOCR/) * AND 2011, (at ICDAR 2011) September 17 June 14 (http://sites.google.com/site/and2011workshop/) * CBDAR 2011, (at ICDAR 2011) September 22 June 15 (http://imlab.jp/cbdar2011/) * AFHA 2011, (at ICDAR 2011) September 17-18 June 15 (http://forensic.to/webhome/afha/) * DAS 2012, Gold Coast, Australia March 27-29, 2012 September 30 (http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/das2012) (tentative) [web site will be accessible soon!] ============================================================================ ========== Call for Nominations: ICDAR 2011 Awards ========================= INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION (ICDAR) CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR ICDAR 2011 AWARDS Nominations Due: June 15, 2011 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The ICDAR Award Program is an established program designed to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of Document Analysis and Recognition in one or more of the following areas: o Research o Training of students o Research/Industry interaction o Service to the profession Every two years, two awards categories are presented. Namely, the IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award (less than 40 years old at the time the award is made), and the IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award. Each award will consist of a token gift and a suitably inscribed certificate. The recipient of the Outstanding Achievements award will be invited to give the opening key note speech at the current ICDAR conference, introduced by the recipient from the previous conference. Nominations are invited for the 2011 ICDAR Awards in both categories. The nomination packet should include the following: 1. A nominating letter (1 page) including a brief citation to be included in the certificate. 2. A brief vitae (2 pages) of the nominee highlighting the accomplishments being recognized. 3. Supporting letters (1 page each) from 3 active researchers from at least 3 different countries. A nomination is usually put forward by a researcher (preferably from a different Institution than the nominee) who is knowledgeable of the scientific achievements of the nominee, and who organizes letters of support. Submission procedure is strictly confidential, and self nominations are not allowed. Please send these, preferably as a single pdf file, to jean-marc.ogier@univ-lr.fr. Deadline for receipt of nominations is June 15th, 2011 but early submissions are strongly encouraged. For further information, please contact: Pr Jean-Marc Ogier email : jean-marc.ogier@univ-lr.fr Université de La Rochelle Pôle Sciences et Technologie Laboratoire L3i, Avenue Michel Crépeau 17042 La Rochelle cédex 1 FRANCE The final decision will be made by the Awards Committee which is composed of the following members : Jean-Marc Ogier, France (Chair) Fujisawa-san, Japan Horst Bunke, Switzerland Dave Doermann, USA Katrin Franke, Norway Koichi Kise, Japan Josep Llados, Spain Dan Lopresti, USA Umapada Pal, India Liu Wenyin, China For the ICDAR 2011 Awards Committee, Jean-Marc Ogier (TC 10 Chair) Dan Lopresti (TC 11 Chair) ============================================================================ ========== Call for Proposals to Host ICDAR 2015 =========================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION (ICDAR) CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO HOST ICDAR2015 Deadline: June 1, 2011 Submission Method: email to lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The ICDAR Advisory Board is seeking proposals to host the 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, to be held in 2015 (ICDAR2015). ICDAR is the premier IAPR event in the field of Document Analysis and Recognition with 300 to 500 participants. The aim of this conference is to bring together international experts to share their experiences and to promote research and development in all areas of Document Analysis and Recognition. Any consortium interested in making a proposal to host an ICDAR should first familiarise themselves with the "Guidelines for Organizing and Bidding to Host ICDAR" document which is available on the TC10 and TC11 websites (www.iapr-tc10.org and www.iapr-tc11.org, respectively). A link to the most current version of the guidelines appears below: http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/images/ICDAR_Guidelines_2011_04_04.pdf The submission of a bid implies full agreement with the rules and procedures outlined in that document. The submitted proposal must define clearly the items specified in the guidelines (Section 5.2). It has been the tradition that the location of ICDAR conferences follows a rotating schedule among different continents. ICDAR2011 will be held in Beijing, China (Asia), and ICDAR2013 will be held in Washington, DC (the Americas). Hence, for ICDAR2015, proposals from Europe are strongly encouraged, however, high quality bids from other locations will also be considered. Proposals will be examined by the ICDAR Advisory Board. Valid bids will then be presented at the TC10/TC11 joint meeting held during ICDAR2011, where a ballot will be conducted to determine the winning bid. Proposals should be emailed to Dr. Daniel Lopresti at lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu by June 1, 2011. ICDAR Advisory Board Prof. Jean-Marc Ogier (Chair, TC10) Prof. Daniel Lopresti (Chair, TC11) Dr. Simone Marinai (Chair, IAPR C&M Committee) Prof. Andreas Dengel (Past Organiser) Dr. Apostolos Antonacopoulos (Past Organiser and Editor of ICDAR Guidelines) ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: DAS 2012 ======================================= DAS 2012 PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems March 27-29th, 2012 Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia We are pleased to announce the 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems will take place at the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia during March 27-29th, 2012. The 10th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems will build on the tradition established by past DAS workshops held in Kaiserslautern, Germany (1994); Malvern, PA (1996); Nagano, Japan (1998); Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2000); Princeton, NJ (2002); Florence, Italy (2004); Nelson, New Zealand (2006); Nara, Japan (2008); and Cambridge USA (2010). As usual DAS is a 100% participation, single-track workshop with guest speakers, oral, poster, and demo sessions as well as working group discussions. The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE (TBC). After the workshop, it is planned that selected papers will be chosen for a journal special issue. The program committee invites the submission of original and unpublished contributions for inclusion in the workshop. All papers and presentations will be in English. Topics to be dealt with include but are not limited to: * Document image analysis (DIA) systems * Algorithms for graphics recognition * Analysis methods for historic documents * Camera-based/Video document image analysis * Document analysis for the Internet * Performance evaluation * Page layout analysis * Information extraction from document images * Multilingual document analysis * Document databases and digital libraries * Document retrieval systems * Forensic document analysis * Multimedia systems * Authoring, annotation, and presentation systems * Applications Full papers must be accompanied by an abstract summarizing the contribution the paper makes to the field. Maximum full paper length is 5 pages in two-column IEEE format. All papers will be peer reviewed, and accepted papers will be included in the proceedings. Authors are also invited to submit short (poster) papers for late-breaking results and for demo presentations. Short papers should be at most 2 pages in two-column IEEE format and the short papers may not be included in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES (tentative) Full Paper Submission: September 30, 2011 Notification of Acceptance: November 30, 2011 Camera-Ready Papers Due: December 31, 2011 Short Paper Submission: December 20, 2011 Notification of Acceptance (short paper): January 15, 2012 Conference: March 27-29th, 2012 Workshop Chair Michael Blumenstein, Griffith University, Australia Program Co-Chairs Umapada Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India Seiichi Uchida, Kyushu University, Japan Local Arrangements & Publicity Chair Graham Leedham, University of New England, Australia Local Arrangements Committee Abdul Sattar, Griffith University, Australia Brijesh Verma, Central Queensland University, Australia Brian Lovell, University of Queensland, Australia Publicity Committee Marcus Liwicki, DFKI, Germany Prateek Sarkar, Xerox PARC, USA Program Committee (See workshop website) Contact: DAS 2012 Secretariat: Email: srikanta.pal@griffithuni.edu.au Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus Queensland 4222 Australia http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/das2012 Michael Blumenstein (DAS-2012 General Chair) Seiichi Uchida and Umapada Pal (DAS-2012 Program Committee Chairs) ============================================================================ ========== Call for Contributions ========================================== This newsletter needs your support in order to provide useful information to the TC11 community. 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