============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter December 2011 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - ICFHR 2012, Bari, Italy, February 28, 2012 * Call for Competitions - ICFHR 2012, Bari, Italy, December 20th, 2011 * Call for Participation - Open Handwriting Recognition and Translation (OpenHaRT) Evaluation * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the December edition of our TC-11 newsletter. This edition brings to you the Call for Competitions for ICFHR and the Call for Participation for the next OpenHaRT Evaluation. I would like to wish you all a quiet and peaceful time during the upcoming Christmas holidays and all the best for a happy and successful New Year! Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * ICFHR 2012, Bari, Italy September 18-20, 2012 February 28 (http://www.icfhr2012.uniba.it) - Call for Competitions December 20 - Call for Tutorial Proposals March 15 * ICPR 2012, Tsukuba, Japan November 11-15, 2012 March 31 (http://www.icpr2012.org) ============================================================================ ========== Call for Competitions: ICFHR 2012 =============================== ICFHR 2012 - Call for Competitions The 13th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition Bari, Italy September 18-20, 2012 http://www.icfhr2012.uniba.it/ The ICFHR 2012 Organizing Committee invites proposals for competitions to be held in the framework of the Conference. Competitions should aim at evaluating the performance of algorithms and methods for a particular task of Handwriting Recognition. Proposals should be submitted for review by e-mail to the Competitions Chairs, Apostolos Antonacopoulos (A.Antonacopoulos@primaresearch.org) and Haikal El Abed (elabed@tu-bs.de), no later than December 20th, 2011. Proposals should include: * The names, contact information, and brief CVs of the competition organizers, outlining previous experience in performance evaluation and/or organizing competitions. * A brief description of the competition, including which is the particular task under evaluation and why this competition could be of interest to the ICFHR community. * A first draft of the outline of the competition: which data is planned to be used, how will the methods be tested (before/during the conference), which performance measures will be used. Notes: 1. Accepted competitions may run before or during ICFHR. 2. Datasets used in the competitions must be made available after the end of the competitions. 3. Evaluation methodologies and metrics used must be described in detail so that results can be replicated later. 4. The results of accepted competitions will be announced during a particular session of the conference. 5. Reports (full papers) on each competition will be reviewed and, if accepted (the competition run according to plan), will be published in the conference proceedings. Important Dates: * December 20th, 2011: Submission of competition proposals. * January 10th, 2012: Notification of acceptances. * January 12th, 2012: Competitions open and publicised. * April 30th, 2012: Deadline for submission (for review) of full papers describing the competitions. Papers must be sent directly to the Competition Chairs. * May 15th, 2012: Camera ready papers describing the competitions. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICFHR-2012 Secretariat Department of Computer Science via E. Orabona, n. 4 University of Bari "Aldo Moro" 70125 Bari -BA- ITALY (ITALIA) -IT- ============================================================================ ========== Call for Participation: OpenHaRT Evaluation ===================== CFP: Open Handwriting Recognition and Translation (OpenHaRT) Evaluation What: The OpenHaRT evaluation series tests system capabilities in Optical Character Recognition and Machine Translation as applied to document images of Arabic handwritten script Who: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ITLs Information Access Division Important dates: + March 30, 2012 : Registration deadline + April 16-27, 2012 : Evaluation period + June 28, 2012 : Evaluation workshop in the Washington DC area Highlights: + News-focused test data collected in a controlled environment + New domain test data collected in an unrestrictive environment + Line segmentation provided to systems under test More Info: http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/hart2012.cfm Contact: If you would like to receive more information about OpenHaRT, or have a question about the evaluation series, email us at hart_poc@nist.gov Pass the Word: Please distribute this announcement to those who might be interested in participating in this evaluation ============================================================================ ========== Call for Contributions ========================================== This newsletter needs your support in order to provide useful information to the TC11 community. 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