============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter March 2012 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - ICPR 2012, Tsukuba, Japan, March 31, 2012 * Call for Participation: - DAS 2012 Tutorials - ICFHR 2012 Competitions * IJDAR Contents Telegram (Volume 15 Number 1) * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the March edition of our TC-11 newsletter. With this edition I would like to invite you to participate in the tutorials offered at the upcoming DAS 2012 workshop (they will be free of charge for all DAS participants!) and in the competitions organized in conjunction with ICFHR 2012. Furthermore, you will also find below a new Contents Telegram for IJDAR. See you at DAS 2012 on Australia's Gold Coast! Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * ICPR 2012, Tsukuba, Japan November 11-15, 2012 March 31 (http://www.icpr2012.org) ============================================================================ ========== Call for Participation: DAS 2012 Tutorials ====================== Dear DAS-2012 Participants, The information about DAS-2012 tutorials are available at: http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/das2012/tutorial.html The tutorials are FREE OF CHARGE! We hope that you will enjoy the tutorials to be delivered by the distinguished speakers. Participants interested to attend the tutorials are requested to send his/her willingness, by sending an email to das2012@griffith.edu.au, so that we can register your name for the tutorials. With Thanks and Regards, DAS2012 Organisers. ============================================================================ ========== Call for Participation: ICFHR 2012 Competitions ================= Dear Colleague, it is my pleasure to invite you for participating to the ICFHR 2012 Competitions, that are listed in the following: ID. 1) ICFHR2012 Recognition of Online Handwritten Mathematical Expressions (CROHME-II) (http://www.isical.ac.in/~crohme/) ID. 2) ICFHR2012 Handwritten Document Image Binarisation Contest (H-DIBCO 2012) (http://utopia.duth.gr/~ipratika/HDIBCO2012/) ID. 3) ICFHR2012 On-Line Arabic Handwriting Recognition Competition (OAHRC 2012) (http://oahrc2012.regim.org/) ID. 4) ICFHR2012 Competition on Forensic Signature Verification (4NSigComp2012) (http://www.dfki.de/~liwicki/4NSigComp2012/4NSigComp2012.pdf) ID. 5) ICFHR2012 Word Spotting Competition (http://users.iit.demokritos.gr/~bgat/WordSpotComp2012/) ID. 6) ICFHR2012 Writer Identification Contest (http://users.iit.demokritos.gr/~louloud/ICFHR2012WritIdentCont/) ID. 7) French Handwriting Recognition Competition (http://www.rimes-database.fr/wiki/doku.php) For more information please visit the webpage http://www.icfhr2012.uniba.it/CallParticipation.php . Best Regards Sebastiano Impedovo (ICFHR 2012 General Chair) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICFHR-2012 Secretariat Department of Computer Science via E. Orabona, n. 4 University of Bari "Aldo Moro" 70125 Bari -BA- ITALY (ITALIA) -IT- ============================================================================ ========== IJDAR Contents Telegram (Volume 15 Number 1) ==================== International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR). Volume 15 Number 1 (http://www.springerlink.com/content/wl75l2xw7744/) A statistical handwriting model for style-preserving and variable character synthesis Won-Du Chang & Jungpil Shin pp. 1-19 A local evaluation of vectorized documents by means of polygon assignments and matching R. Raveaux, J. C. Burie & J. M. Ogier pp. 21-43 Labelling logical structures of document images using a dynamic perceptive neural network Yves Rangoni, Abdel Belai"d & Szila'rd Vajda pp. 45-55 Binarization of degraded document image based on feature space partitioning and classification Morteza Valizadeh & Ehsanollah Kabir pp. 57-69 CMATERdb1: a database of unconstrained handwritten Bangla and Bangla-English mixed script document image Ram Sarkar, Nibaran Das, Subhadip Basu, Mahantapas Kundu, Mita Nasipuri & Dipak Kumar Basu pp. 71-83 ============================================================================ ========== 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 conferences 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. ============================================================================ ========== Subscription Information ======================================== This newsletter is sent to subscribers of the IAPR TC11 mailing list. To manage your subscription, please visit the mailing list homepage at: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=IAPR-TC11 The homepage for IAPR TC11 is http://www.iapr-tc11.org ============================================================================