============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter August 2014 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - ICFHR 2018, [in a nice place] August 18 (proposal for hosting) - IWRR 2014, Singapore September 12 * New and Recently Published Datasets * Call for Hosting Proposals: - Int. Conf. on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR) 2018 (repost) * Announcements: - TC10/11 Joint Meeting at ICPR2014 - Europeana API available (http://labs.europeana.eu/api/) (also accessible via the TC-11 datasets list) * Call for Dataset Submissions * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the August edition of our TC-11 newsletter. With this edition I would first like to remind you of the Call for Proposals for Hosting ICFHR 2018, one of the major events organized by the TC-11 community. The deadline for submissions is August 18. The decision about bids for hosting ICFHR 2018 will be taken by a vote of the attendants of ICFHR 2014 during a special session. Therefore, if you are interested in organizing ICFHR in four years from now, please submit your proposal and prepare a nice presentation for convincing the TC-11 community gathering in Crete in September. Additionally, I would like to draw your attention to two announcements. First, there will be a joint TC-10/11 meeting at ICPR 2014 which you are invited to attend in order to disucss TC activities and future directions. Second, the Europeana API that was recently made available. It will allow users to search and retrieve the contents of the Europeana database which to a large extent are document images originating from various institutions. Looking forward to meeting you at ICFHR 2014! Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * IWRR 2014, Singapore November 2 September 12 (http://imlab.jp/iwrr2014/) * CVPR 2015, Boston, United States June 8-10, 2015 November 14 (http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr15/) * ICDAR 2015, Gammarath, Tunisia August 23-26, 2015 January 15, 2015 (http://2015.icdar.org/) * ACPR 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia November 3-6, 2015 June 1, 2015 (http://acpr2015.org/) * 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/) * BMVC 2014, Nottingham, UK September 1-5 - passed - (http://bmvc2014.cs.nott.ac.uk/) * GCPR 2014, Mu"nster, Germany September 2-5 - passed - http://cvpr.uni-muenster.de/GCPR2014/ * ACCV 2014, Singapore November 1-5 - passed - (http://www.accv2014.org/) * DRR 2015, San Francisco, USA February 11-12, 2015 - passed - (http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/drr2015) ============================================================================ ========== 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 Hosting Proposals: ICFHR 2018 ========================== Call for Hosting Proposals for ICFHR 2018 ----------------------------------------- Continuing a long tradition, the international research community plans to gather in Crete Island, Greece for the 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition on September 1-4, 2014 (http://www.icfhr2014.org/). In keeping with the practice of the community, proposals are now being solicited for hosting ICFHR 2018, the 16th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition. ICFHR is the premier event for identifying, encouraging, and exchanging ideas in handwriting recognition research, as well as for promoting novel applications at the frontiers of this important field. The single-track conference brings together leading researchers and practitioners in on-line and off-line handwriting recognition. The series of the ICFHR conferences is a continuation of the ten IWFHRs (Montreal 1990, Chateau de Bonas 1991, Buffalo 1993, Taipei 1994, Colchester 1996, Taejon 1998, Amsterdam 2000, Niagara on the Lake 2002, Tokyo 2004, La Baule 2006). Previous ICFHR conferences were held in Montreal 2008, Kolkata 2010 and Bari 2012. The 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR 2016, is scheduled to be held in Shenzhen, China, on October 24-16, 2016. Individuals and groups who are interested in handwriting recognition research are invited to submit proposals for organizing and hosting ICFHR 2018. According to the normal rotation, the year 2018 would see the conference located somewhere in the Americas, but proposals from other locales are encouraged as well. Proposals should be sent to: Koichi Kise, TC-11 Chair, kise@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp Dimosthenis Karatzas, TC-11 Vice Chair, dimos@cvc.uab.es The deadline for submitting written proposals is Monday, August 18. In addition, proposers should be prepared to make a brief presentation to the community during a special session at ICFHR 2014 after which time a vote will be taken to determine the winning bid. The special session is scheduled just before the social event (Wednesday afternoon, 3 September 2014). Questions concerning the proposal process can be addressed to Koichi Kise and Dimosthenis Karatzas. ============================================================================ ========== Announcement: TC10/11 Joint Meeting at ICPR2014 ================= TC10/11 Joint Meeting at ICPR2014 --------------------------------- We are planning to have a joint TC10/11 meeting at ICPR 2014 on 28th (Thursday) 9:00-10:30. Please joint us to disucss TC activities and future directions. The room will be announced at the conference site. Looking forward to seeing you at ICPR2014. Jean-Marc Ogier (TC10 chair) Koichi Kise (TC11 chair) ============================================================================ ========== Announcement: Europeana API available =========================== Europeana API ------------- http://labs.europeana.eu/api/ The Europeana network represents more than 2,500 cultural heritage organisations and is the principal point of reference for digitised European culture. Europeana offers open access to over 32 million records, a large percentage of which are document images originating from various memory institutions including national libraries and archives. In many cases it offers links to high resolution scans of such documents. The Europeana APIs allow you to search and retrieve the contents of their database for use in your own applications. Two APIs are offered. The first is a REST-API that is suited for dynamic search and retrieval of our data. The second API is more experimental and supports download of complete datasets and advanced semantic search and retrieval of our data via the SPARQL query language. [The Europeana API is also linked from the TC-11 datasets list: http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets_List] ============================================================================ ============================================================================ ========== 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. 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