============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter May 2013 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - ICDAR 2013 Workshops May 31/ June 1 (extended) - ICDAR 2013 Doctoral Consortium (see below) June 1 (extended) * New and Recently Published Datasets * Call for Proposals to Host ICDAR 2017 (deadline: June 1, 2013) [repost] * Call for Papers: - Document Recognition and Retrieval XXI, San Francisco, Feb. 4-6, 2014 * Announcement: - ICDAR 2013 Doctoral Consortium submission deadline approaching: June 1! * Call for Dataset Submissions * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the May edition of our TC11 newsletter. This edition brings to you the Call for Papers for the 21st conference on Document Recognition and Retrieval which will be held in San Francisco in February 2014. Furthermore, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the paper submission deadlines for the ICDAR 2013 Workshops have been extended to the end of the month. Further details can be found in the Dates 'n' Deadlines section below. Finally, I would like to remind all prospective participants of the ICDAR Doctoral Consortium that the deadline for submitting short descriptions of ongoing PhD projects is June 1. Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * ICDAR 2013, Washington, USA August 25-28 --- (http://www.icdar2013.org/) - Doctoral Consortium: August 25 June 1 (ext.) * AFHA 2013 in conjunction with ICDAR August 22-23 June 1 (ext.) (http://www.dfki.de/afha/2013/index.html) * CBDAR 2013 in conjunction with ICDAR August 23 May 27 (ext.) (http://imlab.jp/cbdar2013/) * HIP 2013 in conjunction with ICDAR August 24 June 1 (ext.) (http://www.cvc.uab.es/~vfrinken/HIP2013) * OpenHaRT 2013 conjunction with ICDAR August 23 May 31 (ext.) (http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/hart2013.cfm) * MOCR 2013 conjunction with ICDAR August 24 June 1 (ext.) (http://www.cubs.buffalo.edu/MOCR2013/) * ACPR 2013, Okinawa, Japan November 5-8 June 10 (http://www.am.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/ACPR2013/) * DRR 2014, San Francisco, USA February 4-6 2014 July 22 (http://drr2014.irisa.fr) * DAS 2014, Tours, France April 7-10 2014 September 30 / October 14 ============================================================================ ========== New and Recently Published: TC-11 Datasets ====================== Name/Source of Dataset: Main Purpose: Published: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * MSRA 500 Database Text Detection 11/2012 http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/MSRA_Text_Detection_500_Database_(MSRA-TD500) * CROHME Recognition of Online 11/2012 HW Math Expressions http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/CROHME:_Competition_on_Recognition_of_Online_Handwritten_Mathematical_Expressions For a list of all datasets available visit: http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets_List ============================================================================ ========== Call for Proposals to Host ICDAR 2017 =========================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION (ICDAR) CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO HOST ICDAR2017 Deadline: June 1, 2013 Submission Method: email to kise@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The ICDAR Advisory Board is seeking proposals to host the 14th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, to be held in 2017 (ICDAR2017). 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/image/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 was held in Beijing, China (Asia), and ICDAR2013 will be held in Washington, DC (the Americas), and ICDAR2015 will be held in Tunis, Tunisia (Europe/Africa). Hence, for ICDAR2017, proposals from Asia 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 ICDAR2013, where a ballot will be conducted to determine the winning bid. Proposals should be emailed to Prof. Koichi Kise at kise@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp by June 1, 2013. ICDAR Advisory Board Prof. Jean-Marc Ogier (Chair, TC10) Prof. Koichi Kise (Chair, TC11) Prof. Simone Marinai (Chair, IAPR C&M Committee) Prof. Andreas Dengel (Past Organiser) Prof. Daniel Lopresti (Past Organiser) ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: DRR 2014 ====================================== Document Recognition and Retrieval XXI (2014) http://drr2014.irisa.fr San Francisco, Feb. 4-6, 2014 ** Paper Submission Deadline: July 22, 2013 (11:59 PST) --------------------------------------------------------- PDF CFP: http://drr2014.irisa.fr/drr2014-cfp.pdf Document Recognition and Retrieval (DRR) is one of the leading international conferences devoted to current research in document analysis, recognition and retrieval. The 21st Document Recognition and Retrieval Conference is being held as part of the IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Symposium, from 4-6 February 2014 in San Francisco, California, USA. The conference venue and hotel will be the Hilton San Francisco Union Square. The Conference Chairs and Program Committee invite all researchers working on document recognition and retrieval to submit original research papers. Papers are presented in oral and poster sessions at the conference, along with invited talks by leading researchers. Accepted papers will be published by the SPIE in the conference proceedings. At the conference a Best Student Paper Award will be presented. Papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the areas below. Document recognition * Text recognition: machine-printed, handwritten documents; paper, tablet, camera, and video sources * Writer/style identification, verification, and adaptation * Graphics recognition: vectorization (e.g. for line-art, maps and technical drawings), signature, logo and graphical symbol recognition, figure, chart and graph recognition, and diagrammatic notations (e.g. music, mathematical notation) * Document layout analysis and understanding: document and page region segmentation, form and table recognition, and document understanding through combined modalities (e.g. speech and images) * Evaluation: performance metrics, and document degradation models * Additional topics: document image filtering, enhancement and compression, document clustering and classification, machine learning (e.g. integration and optimization of recognition modules), historical and degraded document images (e.g. fax), multilingual document recognition, and web page analysis (including wikis and blogs). Document retrieval * Indexing and summarization: text documents (messages, blogs, etc.), imaged documents, entity tagging from OCR output, and text categorization * Query languages and modalities: content-based image retrieval (CBIR) for documents, keyword spotting, non-textual query-by-example (e.g. tables, figures, math), querying by document geometry and/or logical structure, approximate string matching algorithms for OCR output, retrieval of noisy text documents (messages, blogs, etc.), cross and multi-lingual retrieval * Discovery and Browsing: pattern discovery, trend mining, topic modeling and analysis, clustering * Evaluation: relevance and performance metrics, evaluation protocols, and benchmarking * Additional topics: relevance feedback, impact of recognition accuracy on retrieval performance, and digital libraries including systems engineering and quality assurance. Important dates * 22 July, 2013: Paper submission deadline * 7 October, 2013: Author notifications * 25 November, 2013: Final paper submission deadline * 4-6 February, 2014: Conference dates ** Paper submission ** All paper submissions should be between 8-12 pages in length, using the SPIE LaTeX template. For accepted submissions, the final manuscripts to be published in the proceedings are expected to be also 8-12 pages long in the same format. Papers should clearly identify the problem addressed in the paper, identify the original contribution(s) of the paper, relate the paper to previous work, and provide experimental and/or theoretical evaluation as appropriate. Submissions should be uploaded through the conference web site (http://drr2014.irisa.fr/submission.html). Questions concerning the conference may be addressed to: drr2014@irisa.fr ============================================================================ ========== Announcement: ICDAR 2013 DC submission deadline approaching ===== The deadline for submitting a short (1-2) description about ongoing PhD theses is on June 1st. Due to organizational issues we would like to keep the deadline. More information at: http://www.icdar2013.org/program/doctoral-consortiums Best regards, the ICDAR DC chairs, Marcus Liwicki Josep Lladós ============================================================================ ========== Call for Dataset Submissions ==================================== We would like to remind you that the TC10 and TC11 welcome contributions of new datasets or other resources related to the community. We would like to particularly encourage authors of articles that introduce new datasets, software or other material to submit such material to TC11 for hosting. Please check the TC11 site on information about how to submit datasets for archiving ( http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets) also feel free to contact Dimosthenis Karatzas, the TC11 dataset curator, for any doubts you might have on the process. Dimosthenis Karatzas, TC-11 Dataset Curator dimos@cvc.uab.es ============================================================================ ========== 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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