============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter August 2015 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - DAS 2016, Santorini, Greece September 25 / (http://www.primaresearch.org/das2016) October 2 * New and Recently Published Datasets * Announcements: - TC-10 / TC-11 Joint Meeting at ICDAR 2015 - Voting for the Location of ICDAR 2019 (at ICDAR 2015) * Call for Papers: - 12th IAPR Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2016) April 11-14, Santorini, Greece * Call for Hosting Proposals for the TC10/TC11 Summer School => Deadline Extended to October 15 * Call for Dataset Submissions * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the August edition of our newsletter. With this edition I would like to draw your attention to two important meetings that will take place during the upcoming ICDAR 2015: In the early afternoon of August 25 there will be a Joint TC-10 / TC-11 Meeting and on August 26 at 2 PM we will have the voting for the location of ICDAR 2019. For this two bids from teams in Greece and Australia were received that are available from the TC-11 web site (see ``What's New?''). Furthermore, this newsletter brings to you the Call for Papers for DAS 2016. Please note that DAS 2016 requires a pre-submission of abstracts on September 25 before the actual paper submission deadline on October 2. Finally, you will find below the Call for Hosting Proposals for the TC10/TC11 Summer School for which the deadline was extended until October 15. See you in Nancy soon! Gernot A. Fink, IAPR TC-11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * DAS 2016, Santorini, Greece April 11-14, 2016 September 25 / (http://www.primaresearch.org/das2016) October 2 * 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/) * DRR 2016, San Francisco, USA Feb 15-18, 2016 - passed - (http://drr2016.loria.fr) ============================================================================ ========== 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 ============================================================================ ========== Announcement: TC-10 / TC-11 Joint Meeting ======================= ICDAR 2015 TC-10 / TC-11 Joint Meeting ====================================== DATE & LOCATIOON Date: August 25, 13:00-13:50 Room: Auditorium 300, Prouvé Congress Center, Nancy The following is the agenda; please join us. AGENDA 13:00-13:05 Welcome message 13:05-13:10 DAS2016 Report 13:10-13:15 ICFHR2016 Report 13:15-13:20 ICDAR2017 Report 13:20-13:25 TC11 report 13:25-13:30 TC10 report 13:30-13:45 Discussion 13:45-13:50 Closing ============================================================================ ========== Announcement: Voting for ICDAR 2019 ============================= Voting for the location of ICDAR 2019 ------------------------------------- Bids from Australia and Greece are available on the TC11 web. We will have a voting for selecting the venue on 26th August, 14:00-14:30. Please vote! Bid to host ICDAR 2019 in Athens, Greece by Basilis Gatos et al: http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/images/Icdar2019_hosting_bid_ATHENS_GREECE_v1.1.pdf Bid to host ICDAR 2019 in Brisbane, Australia by Michael Blumenstein et al.: http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/images/ICDAR-2019-Proposal-Australia.pdf ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: DAS 2016 ======================================= 12th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems DAS 2016 April 11-14, Santorini, Greece http://www.primaresearch.org/das2016 DAS 2016 is the 12th edition of the 100% participation single-track IAPR sponsored workshop focusing on system-level issues and approaches in document analysis and recognition. The workshop comprises invited speaker presentations, oral, poster, tutorial and demo sessions as well as working group discussions. DAS 2016 will be organized on the island of Santorini, Greece. Santorini was created from a volcanic eruption that left it with volcanic cliffs overlooking a black and red coast, dazzling against the turquoise Mediterranean. Santorini is one of the most popular, beautiful and unique islands in the world since it combines a cosmopolitan atmosphere, spectacular scenery of deep blue sea and whitewashed houses, breathtaking sunsets, ancient sites, world-class restaurants and an active volcano. SUBMISSION TYPES DAS2016 will include both long and short papers, posters and demonstrations of working or prototype systems. All submissions will undergo a rigorous review process with a minimum of 3 reviews considering the originality of work, the quality of research or analysis of experience, the relevance to document analysis systems, and quality of presentation of ideas. **Full Papers** Full papers should describe complete works of original research. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered in another forum, up to 6 pages length. **Short Papers** Short papers provide an opportunity to report on research in progress, to present novel positions on document analysis systems. Authors may submit short papers (up to 2 pages in length). Short papers will also undergo review and will appear in an extra booklet, not in the official DAS2016 proceedings. **Demonstrations** DAS2016 seeks public demonstrations of novel systems, to be presented to the workshop as a whole during breaks between paper sessions. Prospective demonstrators should submit a two-page summary of the system to be demonstrated. Demonstration proposals will undergo review and summaries of accepted demonstrations will appear in the extra DAS2016 booklet, as in the case of short papers. IMPORTANT DATES **Tutorials proposals** Proposals due Sep 04, 2015 **Regular Papers** Abstracts due Sep 25, 2015 Papers due Oct 02, 2015 Decision notification Dec 07, 2015 Camera ready due Jan 08, 2016 Early registration Jan 08, 2016 **Short Papers** Papers due Jan 08, 2016 Decision notification Feb 08, 2016 Camera ready due Feb 22, 2016 TOPICS & TECHNOLOGIES * Algorithms for graphics recognition * Applications * Authoring, annotation, and presentation systems * Camera-based document image analysis * Document analysis for digital humanities * Document analysis for mobile devices * Document analysis for the internet * Document analysis systems for libraries and archives * Document databases and digital libraries * Document image analysis (DIA) systems * Document image watermarking * Document retrieval systems * Document understanding * Forensic document analysis * Historical document analysis * Information extraction from document images * Multilingual document analysis * Multimedia document analysis * Page layout analysis * Pen-based user interface * Performance evaluation COMMITTEES **General Chairs** Apostolos Antonacopoulos, UK Basilis Gatos, Greece **Program Chairs** Michael Blumenstein, Australia Josep LLadós, Spain Dan Lopresti, USA **Tutorial Chairs** Dimosthenis Karatzas, Spain Cheng-Lin Liu, China **Publicity Chairs** Gernot A. Fink, Germany Marco Büchler, Germany Clemens Neudecker, Germany **Publications Chair** Stefan Pletschacher, UK **Organising Committee** Christian Clausner, UK George Louloudis, Greece Christos Papadopoulos, UK Nikolaos Stamatopoulos, Greece **Program Committee** [see the DAS 2016 website] CONTACT das2016@primaresearch.org ============================================================================ ========== Call for Hosting Proposals: TC-10 / TC-11 Summer School 2016 ==== ** Deadline EXTENDED to October 15 ** Call for Hosting Proposals for the TC10/TC11 Summer School ---------------------------------------------------------- Part of the mission of IAPR TC11 and TC10 is to promote high quality educational activities related to Reading Systems and Graphics Recognition. Responding to this need, TC10 and TC11 are soliciting proposals for the organisation of the first "IAPR TC10/TC11 Summer School" during 2016. The "IAPR TC10/TC11 Summer School" is intended to become the prime educational activity of IAPR TC11 (Reading Systems) and TC10 (Graphics Recognition). The School is meant to be a training activity where participants are exposed to the latest trends and techniques of Reading Systems and Graphics Recognition. The aim of the School is to provide both an objective and clear overview and an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art research in selected topics of Reading Systems and Graphics Recognition. The School should aim to provide a stimulating opportunity for young researchers and Ph.D. students in the field. Individuals and groups who are interested in Reading Systems and Graphics Recognition are invited to submit proposals for organizing and hosting the 2016 IAPR TC10 / TC11 Summer School. It is expected that proposers familiarise themselves with the guidelines for organising the School first, to fully plan their bid. The Guidelines can be found at the TC11 Web site: http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Guidelines_for_Organising_and_B idding_to_Host_the_TC10_/_TC11_Summer_School The submission of a bid implies full agreement with the rules and procedures for organising the School. Proposals should be sent to: Dimosthenis Karatzas, TC-11 Vice Chair, dimos@cvc.uab.es and Alicia Fornes, TC-10 Education Officer afornes@cvc.uab.es The deadline for submitting written proposals is October 15. ============================================================================ ========== 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 . 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