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IAPR TC-11 Newsletter
January 2013
http://www.iapr-tc11.org
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* Message from the Editor
* Dates 'n' Deadlines
- ICFHR 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece February 10
* New and Recently Published Datasets
* Call for Participation
- 2nd Int. Document Image Processing Summer School (IDIPS 2014)
* Call for Papers: IJDAR Special Issue on Robust Reading (repost)
* Call for Dataset Submissions
* Call for Contributions
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========== Message from the Editor =========================================
Welcome to the first edition of our newsletter in 2014. This edition
brings to you an updated Call for Participation for the Second International
Document Image Processing Summer School (IDIPS 2014) that will be held on the
island of Fourni, Greece, from May 26 to May 30 2014.
Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor
Gernot.Fink@udo.edu
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========== Dates 'n' Deadlines =============================================
Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission):
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* DAS 2014, Tours, France April 7-10 -passed-
(http://das2014.univ-tours.fr/)
* IDIPS 2014, Fourni Island, Greece May 26-30 April 30
(http://samosweb.aegean.gr/idips2014/) (max. 40 part.)
* ICPR 2014, Stockholm, Sweden August 24-28 -passed-
(http://www.icpr2014.org/)
* ICFHR 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece September 1-4 February 10
(http://www.icfhr2014.org/
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========== New and Recently Published: TC-11 Datasets ======================
For a list of all datasets available visit:
http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets_List
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========== Call for Participation: IDIPS 2014 ==============================
2nd Internationdal Document Image Processing Summer School (IDIPS2014)
Fourni Island, Greece - May 26-30, 2014
http://samosweb.aegean.gr/idips2014/
SPONSORING TCs
IAPR TC10 & IAPR TC11
After the successful first Summer School on Document Image Processing
(IDIPS2013), (http://www.iapr.org/docs/newsletter-2013-03.pdf p.13-14) the
second Summer School on Document Image Processing (IDIPS2014) aims to provide
both an objective overview and an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art of
the Document Analysis Systems (DAS) and their current open issues. The courses
will be delivered by world-renowned researchers in the field and relevant
companies, covering both theoretical and practical aspects of real problems of
Document Analysis Systems, as well as examples of successful applications. This
year, the school aims to provide an attractive opportunity for 40 young
researchers, post-graduate and PhD students. The participants will benefit from
direct interaction and discussions with the renowned speakers and practice on
real problems.
The Summer School registration (400 Euro) will cover attendance, dinners,
coffee breaks, social events and transfer from Samos airport and back.
Important Dates
APPLICATION: 1/1/14 - 30/4/14 or up to 40 persons (13/1/2014: 29 positions left)
Acceptance Notification: 10 days after the application
Local Arrangements Information available by: 15 May 2014
Summer School: 26-30 May 2014
Organization
Apostolos Antonacopoulos ,
PRImA, University of Salford
David Doermann ,
University of Maryland
Ergina Kavallieratou ,
University of the Aegean
Josep Llados ,
CVC, University Autonoma de Barcelona
Daniel Lopresti ,
Lehigh University
Jean-Marc Ogier ,
Universite de La Rochelle
Ioannis Pratikakis ,
Democritus University of Thrace
Efstathios Stamatatos ,
University of the Aegean
Irini Stathi ,
University of the Aegean
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========== Call for Papers: IJDAR Special Issue on Robust Reading ==========
Special Issue on Robust Reading - International Journal on
Document Analysis and Recognition
Aims and Scope
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Document Image Analysis (DIA) was established to address the need for the
automated analysis of scanned paper documents, but has evolved to
incorporate a great variety of text containers including digital-born (Web
and email) images, scene images, and video sequences. These types of text
containers introduce a range of new challenges for document image analysis,
stemming from perspective distortions, a large variety of fonts and
backgrounds, anti-aliasing, and compression artefacts. Addressing the need
of reading textual content in such domains entails a paradigm shift in the
document analysis field that calls for a change in the definition of
"document" to include complex unconstrained text containers, as opposed to
the traditional scanned paper document. The IJDAR Special Issue on Robust
Reading invites original work on topics related to the detection, extraction
and recognition of textual content in such complex unconstrained text
containers.
Topics of Interest
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The list of topics includes but is not limited to:
- Scene text localisation, segmentation, and recognition
- Reading scene and/or overlaid text in video sequences
- Text localisation, segmentation, and recognition in born-digital images
- Restoration of camera captured documents (dewarping, deblurring, etc.)
- Quality estimation and degradation modelling of camera-captured text
- Performance evaluation and metrics
- Applications such as translation, reading text for the blind, etc
- Graphical content interpretation in complex settings
Submission Process
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Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has
neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. All
submissions will be peer reviewed subject to the standards of the journal.
Manuscripts based on previously published conference papers must be extended
substantially. Manuscripts should be submitted to:
http://www.editorialmanager.com/ijda/. All submissions are strictly limited
to 15 pages in IJDAR format. Detailed instructions are available on the
IJDAR website. Please select "S.I.: Robust Reading" in the menu "Choose
Article Type" after clicking on "Submit new manuscript". The submission site
will open on 1st May, 2014.
Important Dates
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Paper submission (hard deadline) 01 Jun 2014
First notifications 01 Aug 2014
Submission of revised papers 01 Oct 2014
Acceptance notifications 01 Nov 2014
Camera ready papers due 15 Nov 2014
Issue published Mar 2015
Guest Editors
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Faisal Shafait, The University of Western Australia, Australia
(faisal.shafait@uwa.edu.au)
Dimosthenis Karatzas, Computer Vision Centre, Spain (dimos@cvc.uab.es)
Seiichi Uchida, Kyushu University, Japan (uchida@ait.kyushu-u.ac.jp)
Masakazu Iwamura, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
(masa@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp)
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========== 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 Marcus Liwicki, the TC11 dataset curator, for any doubts you
might have on the process.
Marcus Liwicki, TC-11 Dataset Curator
liwicki@dfki.uni-kl.de
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========== 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.
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