============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter August 2011 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - DAS 2012, Gold Coast, Australia, September 30 * Calls for Papers - DAS 2012, Gold Coast, Australia, March 27-29, 2012 * Job Opportunities - Open PhD position at the Computer Vision Center - Pattern Recognition and Document Analysis Group, Barcelona, Spain * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the August edition of our TC-11 newsletter. This edition brings to you the Call for Papers for DAS 2012 - next year's first event in the field of Document Analysis and Recognition - together with the deadlines for ICFHR 2012, which will be held in Bari, Italy, and ICPR 2012 to be held in Tsukuba, Japan. Additionally, you will find below a job offer for a PhD position in the Pattern Recognition and Document Analysis Group of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Looking forward to meeting you at ICDAR in Beijing! Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * DAS 2012, Gold Coast, Australia March 27-29, 2012 September 30 (http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/das2012) * ICFHR 2012, Bari, Italy September 18-20, 2012 February 28 (http://www.icfhr2012.uniba.it) * ICPR 2012, Tsukuba, Japan November 11-15, 2012 March 31 (http://www.icpr2012.org) ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: DAS 2012 ======================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2012) 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 Contact: DAS 2012 Secretariat: Email: das2012@griffith.edu.au Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus Queensland 4222 Australia ============================================================================ ========== Job Opportunities =============================================== Open PhD position at the Computer Vision Center Pattern Recognition and Document Analysis Group Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona The Computer Vision Center opens a PhD position in the analysis of handwritten historical documents, under the European Project "Five Centuries of Marriages". In this scenario, the PhD work will be focused on the research of handwriting recognition algorithms, as well as computer-aided and multimodal interaction techniques for handwriting recognition. Successful candidate will become doctoral student at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The scholarship is given for a maximum of 4 years provided successful progress. It includes a master degree on Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence during the first year and should lead to a final PhD dissertation. The candidate must perform high quality research leading to the publication of papers in well-known international conferences and journals with high impact factor. Detailed information: http://www.cvc.uab.es/~afornes/CallForPhD_Handwriting.pdf Qualifications and skills required: * Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related field such as electrical, telecommunications engineering, Mathematics or Physics. * Good mathematical understanding. * High motivation for research. * Capability of working in an autonomous way. * Good programming skills in C++ and Matlab. * Good communication skills in English, both in written and oral form. * Learning or Pattern Recognition techniques will be an asset. Applicants should submit: 1) Application letter 2) Curriculum Vitae and Academic Record 3) Letters of Reference (if available) Send required information to: Josep Lladós and Alicia Fornés: afornes@cvc.uab.es Campus UAB, Edifici O 08193, Bellaterra Barcelona, Spain Tel. +34 93 581 1828 Fax +34 93 581 1670 ============================================================================ ========== 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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