============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter May 2012 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - DRR 2013, San Francisco, USA, July 23 * Report: - Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS) 2012, Gold Coast, Australia * Call for Papers: - Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition, Okinawa, Japan, Nov. 5-8, 2013 * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the May edition of our TC-11 newsletter. This edition brings to you a short report on the recent DAS 2012 workshop held in Gold Coast, Australia, and the Call for Papers for the Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition to be held in Okinawa, Japan. Best regards, Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * DRR 2013, San Francisco, USA February 5-7, 2013 July 23, 2012 (http://www.cs.rit.edu/~drr2013) * ACPR 2013, Okinawa, Japan November 5-8, 2013 June 10, 2013 (http://www.am.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/ACPR2013/) ============================================================================ ========== Report DAS 2012 ================================================= The IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS) is one of the most popular meetings in the area of Document Analysis and is held every alternate year. DAS is a single-track peer-reviewed 100% participation workshop and attempts to bring together industrialists and academics, as well as practitioners and theoreticians from numerous related disciplines involved in document analysis systems research, and provides an opportunity for interactions between them. The 2012 iteration of DAS was held on the beautiful Gold Coast in Australia and organised by the Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems (IIIS) at Griffith University, in conjunction with the Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology Group (SEET) at Griffith. The Gold Coast City Council and Gold Coast Tourism also extended their support in organising the workshop to a great extent. DAS 2012 was also sponsored by the IAPR, Griffith University, BusinessGC and Hitachi Japan. The DAS 2012 organisers are very grateful to the workshop sponsors and supporters for their generous assistance. Details about DAS 2012 can be obtained at: http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/das2012/ DAS 2012 attracted a record number of document analysis researchers from all over the world. In fact, 131 paper submissions were received from researchers representing 32 countries, which is indicative of the popularity of DAS, especially at the Gold Coast. The Program Committee Chairs invited 126 international referees to review the papers received. Finally, 91 papers were accepted for publication by IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Out of the 91 papers accepted, 36 were selected for oral presentation and 55 for poster presentation, along with 13 short papers and 2 demo sessions. These accepted papers covered diverse areas of pre-processing, feature extraction, segmentation, recognition, signature verification, text classification, image retrieval techniques, video document processing, document image decoding, graphical document processing, performance evaluation, historical and handwritten documents, and various other systems and applications for document analysis. The final program consisted of seven oral sessions, two poster sessions and one discussion session. In addition, the keynote lecture was delivered by the distinguished speaker, Dr. Samy Bengio, Research Scientist in the Machine Learning group at Google Inc. California, USA. His keynote address was on "Learning a Semantic Space: from Image Annotation to Music Similarity". Two pre-workshop tutorial sessions were also organised and were delivered by Prof. Gernot Fink of Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany and Professor Koichi Kise of Osaka Prefecture University, Japan. Prof. Fink delivered a tutorial on "Markov Models for Handwriting Recognition" and Prof. Kise discussed "Large-Scale Document Image Retrieval and Character Recognition with Approximate Nearest Neighbor Techniques". The slides of the keynote lecture and the tutorials are available online at the following DAS 2012 webpages: http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/das2012/keynote.html http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/das2012/tutorial.html The proceedings of the workshop have been published by the IEEE CPS (ISBN-13: 978-0-7695-4661-2), and is now available through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The proceedings will also be made available on the DAS 2012 website. The social programs organised during the workshop were very much appreciated by the delegates. An authentic Aboriginal music performance was organised at the welcome reception. The banquet dinner was held at "The Australian Outback Spectacular" followed by the Awards ceremony. The Nakano best paper award, the student best paper award, and the honourable mention were presented during the awards ceremony: http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/das2012/awards.html by Michael Blumenstein DAS 2012 Workshop Chair ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: ACPR 2013 ====================================== ============================================================ 2nd Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR2013) http://www.am.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/ACPR2013/ ============================================================ ----------------- Call for papers ----------------- The 2nd Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR2013) will be held on November 5-8, 2013, Okinawa, Japan. The conference aims at providing one major international forum for researchers in pattern recognition and related fields to share their new ideas and achievements. Submissions from other than the Asia-Pacific regions are also highly encouraged. Topics of interest include all aspects of pattern recognition including, but not limited to: A. Computer Vision and Robot Vision B. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning C. Signal Processing (signal, speech, image) D. Media Processing and Interaction (video, document, medical applications, biometrics, HCI, VR) ----------------- Important dates ----------------- Workshop/Tutorial proposals: May 15th, 2013 Title & Abstract submission: June 3rd, 2013 Paper submission: June 10th, 2013 Workshop/Tutorial: November 5th, 2013 Main Conference: November 6th-8th, 2013 ----------- Committee ----------- Steering Committee - Katsushi Ikeuchi (Univ. of Tokyo) - Tieniu Tan (Chinese Academy of Sciences) - Seong-Whan Lee (Korea Univ.) - Sankar K. Pal (Indian Statistical Institute) - Hongbin Zha (Peking Univ.) General Chairs - Yasushi Yagi (Osaka Univ.) - Seong-Whan Lee (Korea Univ.) - Kim L. Boyer (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Program Chairs - Koichi Kise (Osaka Prefecture Univ.) - Cheng-Lin Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences) - Yi-Ping Hung (National Taiwan Univ.) Organizing Chair - Kazuhiko Sumi (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) Workshop/tutorial Chair - Seiji Hotta (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology) Demo/exhibision Chair - Takayoshi Yamashita (OMRON) Financial Chairs - Ryuzo Okada (TOSHIBA) - Keiji Yamada (NEC) Publication Chair - Daisaku Arita (ISIT) Publicity Chairs - Tien-Tsin Wong (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong) - Fatih M. Porikli (MERL) - Dimosthenis Karatzas (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona) - Ikuhisa Mitsugami (Osaka Univ.) 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