============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter July 2015 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - DRR 2016, San Francisco, USA August 15 (http://drr2016.loria.fr) - DAS 2016, Santorini, Greece September 25 (http://www.primaresearch.org/das2016) * New and Recently Published Datasets * Announcements: - ICDAR Workshops: CBDAR / MOCR / AFHA (Change of Date / Change of Location / Registration Open) * Call for Papers: - 23rd Int. Conf. on Document Recognition and Retrieval (DRR XXIII), San Francisco, USA, Feb 15-18, 2016 * Call for Dataset Submissions * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the July edition of our newsletter. As you will probably already know by now, for safety reasons ICDAR 2015 and all its satellite events have been relocated to Nancy, France. The main conference will take place from August 24 to 26. All satelite workshops and the ICDAR 2015 Doctoral Consortium will take place on the weekend before the main conference, i.e., on August 22 and 23. More information can also be found on the ICDAR 2015 website: http://2015.icdar.org/ Especially, please note the announcement below concering the changed dates for the CBDAR, MOCR, and AFHA workshops for which now also the registration is open with adjusted fee structure. Furthermore, this newsletter brings to you the Call for Papers for the 23rd Int. Conference on Document Recognition and Retrieval - DRR XXIII which will be held from February 15 to 18, 2016, in San Francisco, USA. Please note that the deadline for paper submission is already on August 15. Looking forward to meeting you all in Nancy! Gernot A. Fink, IAPR TC-11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * DRR 2016, San Francisco, USA Feb 15-18, 2016 August 15 (http://drr2016.loria.fr) * DAS 2016, Santorini, Greece April 11-14, 2016 September 25 (http://www.primaresearch.org/das2016) (abstract) * CVPR 2016, Las Vegas, United States June 26-July 1, 2016 November 6 (http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr16/) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * ICDAR 2015, Nancy, France August 23-26, 2015 - passed - (http://2015.icdar.org/) - Doctoral Consortium: August 23 - passed - * HIP 2015 in conjunction with ICDAR August 22 - passed - (http://hip2015.irisa.fr) * CBDAR 2015 in conjunction with ICDAR August 23 - passed - (http://www.cvc.uab.es/CBDAR2015) * AFHA 2015 in conjunction with ICDAR August 23 - passed - (http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/afha2015) * BTAS 2015, Arlington, Virginia , USA September 8 - 11 - passed - (http://www.btas2015.org/) * ACPR 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia November 3-6, 2015 - passed - (http://acpr2015.org/) * ICCV 2015, Santiago, Chile December 13-16, 2015 - passed - (http://pamitc.org/iccv15/) ============================================================================ ========== 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 ============================================================================ ===== CBDAR / MOCR / AFHA - Change of Date & Location / Registration Open == The 6th International Workshop on Camera Based Document Analysis and Recognition (CBDAR 2015), the 5th International Workshop on Multilingual OCR (MOCR 2015) and the 4th Int. Workshop on Automated Forensic Handwriting Analysis (AFHA 2015) will be organised in a single track on Sunday 23rd of August at the Brasserie Excelsior (Nancy) only a few steps away from the ICDAR 2015 Prouvé Congress Center and in immediate vicinity of the train station. Registered participants will be able to attend to all three workshops, with a single registration. The registrations for ICDAR workshops are now open, with updated fee structures. Please visit the registration page of the main conference to register to workshops and other satellite events: www.cvent.com/d/4rq1d7 Please see the workshops' Web sites for further information: CBDAR 2015: http://www.cvc.uab.es/cbdar2015/?c=home MOCR 2015: http://www.cubs.buffalo.edu/MOCR2015/ AFHA 2015: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/afha2015/index.html ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: DRR ============================================ We are pleased to announce that the *23rd International Conference on * *Document Recognition and Retrieval* - *DRR XXIII * (http://drr2016.loria.fr/ ) will take place *Feb 15-18, 2016*, San Francisco, at the Hilton, Union Square . Document Recognition and Retrieval (DRR) is a long-standing international conference devoted to current research in document analysis, recognition and retrieval, and has a tradition of drawing strong researchers to California for an enjoyable mid-winter gathering to share their results. The 23rd Document Recognition and Retrieval Conference will be held as part of the IS&T Electronic Imaging Symposium, and will take place for two days during the week of 15-18 February 2016 in San Francisco, California, USA. We invite you to submit your recent work to *DRR'16 **. *Important dates follow. *Important Dates:* August 15, 2015: Paper submission September 11, 2015: Short Presentation Submission October, 2015: Notification of Acceptance February 15-18, 2016: Conference Please feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues and those who would benefit from attending *DRR'16 *. For the *DRR'16* Organizing Committee, - Bill Barrett ============================================================================ ========== 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. 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