============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter April 2014 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - IDIPS 2014, Fourni Island, Greece April 30 - BMVC 2014, Nottingham, UK May 2 * New and Recently Published Datasets * Call for Participation - ICFHR 2014 Tutorials * Job Advertisement - PostDoc at Osaka Prefecture University * Call for Papers: IJDAR Special Issue on Robust Reading (repost) * Call for Dataset Submissions * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the April edition of our TC-11 newsletter. This edition brings to you the Call for Participation for the tutorials that will be organized in conjunction with this year's ICFHR. There will be two full-day and two half-day tutorials with interesting topics from the field of handwritten document analysis addressing recognition, transcription, verification and retrieval. Furthermore, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the online registration for ICFHR is now open. Below, you will also find the advertisement for an open PostDoc position at Osaka Prefecture University and an extended Dates 'n' Deadlines section that now also includes major computer vision conferences. Happy Easter! Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * IDIPS 2014, Fourni Island, Greece May 26-30 April 30 (http://samosweb.aegean.gr/idips2014/) * BMVC 2014, Nottingham, UK September 1-5 May 2 (http://bmvc2014.cs.nott.ac.uk/) * GCPR 2014, Mu"nster, Germany September 2-5 May 11 http://cvpr.uni-muenster.de/GCPR2014/ * ACCV 2014, Singapore November 1-5 June 20 (http://www.accv2014.org/) * CVPR 2015, Bosten, United States June 8-10, 2015 November 14 (http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr15/) * IWCF 2014, Stockholm, Sweden August 24 - passed - (http://www.isical.ac.in/~iwcf2014) * ICPR 2014, Stockholm, Sweden August 24-28 - passed - (http://www.icpr2014.org/) * ICFHR 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece September 1-4 - passed - (http://www.icfhr2014.org/) ============================================================================ ========== New and Recently Published: TC-11 Datasets ====================== Dataset: Main Purpose: Published: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * CROHME Recognition of Online HW Math Expressions 2/2014 (more than 10k expressions from 100s of writers) http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/CROHME:_Competition_on_Recogntion_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 Participation: ICFHR 2014 Tutorials ==================== ICFHR 2014 - ANNOUNCEMENT OF TUTORIALS The 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2014) Venue: Creta Maris Beach Resort, Hersonissos, Crete Island, Greece Dates: September 1-4, 2014 Website: http://www.icfhr2014.org/ Twitter: @ICFHR2014 The ICFHR 2014 Organizing Committee with pleasure announces the following tutorials that will be held on Monday, 1st September 2014: [Full-day Tutorial] Handwritten Text Recognition: Word-Graphs, Keyword Spotting and Computer Assisted Transcription Moise's Pastor, Vero'nica Romero, Joan Andreu Sa'nchez, Alejandro H. Toselli and Enrique Vidal [Full-day Tutorial] Automatic signature verification: state of the art and recent trends Angelo Marcelli, Guiseppe Pirlo, Marcus Liwicki, Michael Blumenstein [Half-day Tutorial] Arabic document analysis methods from segmentation to character recognition Samia Snoussi Maddouri [Half-day Tutorial] Statistical Models for Handwriting Recognition and Retrieval Gernot A. Fink For more information please visit http://www.icfhr2014.org/?page_id=543. ============================================================================ ========== Job Advertisement: PostDoc in Osaka ============================= A position of postdoc researcher, research assistant or associate professor in Osaka, Japan: 1. Project The position is for a CREST project entitled "Development of Fundamental Technologies for Innovative Use of Character/Document Media and Their Application to Creating Human Harmonized Information Environment". http://www.u-pat.org/CREST/index-e.shtml 2. Position A position of postdoc or research assistant professor / associate professor is available at Osaka Prefecture University, which may be modified upon request. 3. Period of employment One year, which can be extended every year until March 2016 based on the evaluation. 4. Eligibility Applicants should have had or expect to have a Ph.D degree in computer science or other related areas. We are looking for applicants who have experiences in human computer interaction, pattern recognition and computer vision, and/or who can work on a research on understanding a person through reading activity analysis. The programming skill of C/C++ is necessary to do the research. 5. Place of work Osaka Prefecture University 1-1 Gakuencho, Naka, Sakai, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan 6. Salary It is about 6.5 million JPY for one year (46k EUR / 65K USD), though it depends on the experience and achievements of an applicant. 7. Closing date of application 2 June, 2014. 8. Documents to be submitted (1) CV (picture of the applicant, contact address and phone number, email, academic and employment records, reward and punishment) (2) List of publications (journal papers, conference papers, books, patents) (3) Reprints of representative papers (up to three) (4) Summary of research experiences and future directions (in total up to 3 pages) (5) Letters of recommendations (from two persons) 9. Address to send the documents Please send the above documents to: Prof. Koichi Kise kise@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp via email. The maximum size is 5MB. ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: IJDAR Special Issue on Robust Reading ========== Special Issue on Robust Reading - International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition Aims and Scope ------------------------ 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 ------------------------ 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 ------------------------ 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 ------------------------ 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 ------------------------ 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) ============================================================================ ========== 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 ============================================================================ ========== 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 ============================================================================