============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter November 2015 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - Int. Conf. on Nat. Sci. Tech. in Manuscript Analysis November 27 Hamburg, Germany (abstract) * New and Recently Published Datasets * Call for Papers - 2nd Int. Conf. on Natural Sciences and Technology in Manuscript Analysis Hamburg, Germany, 29 February - 2 March 2016 * Job Advertisements - 3 Postdoctoral Fellow Positions at the Computer Vision Center (Barcelona) * Call for Dataset Submissions * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the November edition of our newsletter. This edition brings to you the Call for Papers for the Second International Conference on Natural Sciences and Technology in Manuscript Analysis that will be held in Hamburg, Germany. Additionally, you will find below the Job Advertisements for three postdoctoral positions available at the CVC, Barcelona, Spain. Finally, I would like to inform you about a new position that has been created in the Leadership Teams of TC-11 and likewise TC-10. In order to oversee the educational activities of the TCs - especially the organization of a joint School on Document Analysis, the position of an Education Officer has been introduced. For TC-10 my colleague Alicia Fornés has taken over this position and for TC-11 I myself will serve as Education Officer. Gernot A. Fink, IAPR TC-11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Int. Conf. on Nat. Sci. Tech. in February 29 - November 27 Manuscript Analysis, Hamburg, Germany - March 2, 2016 (abstract) (http://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/natural_sciences_2016.html) * ICFHR 2016, Shenzen, China October 23-26, 2016 April 30, 2016 (http://www.nlpr.ia.ac.cn/icfhr2016) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * 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) * DAS 2016, Santorini, Greece April 11-14, 2016 - passed - (http://www.primaresearch.org/das2016) * CVPR 2016, Las Vegas, United States June 26-July 1, 2016 - passed - (http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr16/) ============================================================================ ========== 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 ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: Manuscript Analysis ============================ CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd Int. Conf. on Natural Sciences and Technology in Manuscript Analysis ======================================================================== Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures Hamburg 29 February - 2 March 2016 Contributions are solicited for original research work stressing the role of natural sciences and technology in the following areas: * Image analysis of visual manuscript features (contours, key points, strokes, word spotting, layout analysis, deep networks for learning and classification) * Recovering lost writing (multi-/hyper-spectral imaging, reflectance transformation imaging, X-ray fluorescence imaging, phase contrast tomography) * Material analysis of writing material (ink fingerprinting by X-Ray fluorescence, provenance studies of papyrus, parchment, leather, paper, palm leaves, etc.) * Cutting edge techniques OUTLINE OF CONFERENCE Our time witnesses increasing demand in application of modern technologies and material analysis in the manuscript studies. The second conference dedicated to natural sciences and technology in manuscript analysis continues the tradition of bringing together scholars and scientists from the fields of humanities, informatics, chemistry, physics, and biology. Also this time the conference will provide a forum for discussions on various aspects of manuscripts and presentations of new results, technologies and approaches. The conference will be hosted by the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at the University of Hamburg, participation is free. CALL FOR PAPERS The conference will consist of invited talks, contributed talks and poster sessions. Abstracts will be reviewed by the International Advisory Board members who will make recommendations for oral or poster presentations. Deadline for abstract submission is 27 November, 2015. Please note the instructions for authors of abstracts available from the conference web site. For submitting your abstracts, please use the email address manuscript-cultures [at] uni-hamburg.de IMPORTANT DATES 27.11.15 Submission of Extended Abstract (2 pages) 11.12.15 Notification of Acceptance 29.01.16 Deadline for conference registration 29.02-02.03.16 Conference INFORMATION ON THE WEB Please visit the following website for further details: http://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/natural_sciences_2016.html ============================================================================ ========== Jobs: Postdoctoral Positions at the CVC ========================== THREE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW POSITIONS AT THE COMPUTER VISION CENTER (BARCELONA) The project P-SPHERE, coordinated by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and with participation of UAB-CIE member centers, has received funding from the latest COFUND-2014 call. The COFUND program is part of the European Commission´s Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions. The Computer Vision Center (CVC), as part of the UAB-CIE sphere, offers 3 post-doc positions in the following research lines. * Holistic interpretation of urban scene imagery * Ultimate color descriptor including multiple light effects * Human pose recovery and behavior analysis The call will be open from November 2nd 2015 to February 2nd 2016. For the position on "Holistic interpretation of urban scene imagery", of particular interest is the interplay between visual and textual content in a scene image, and to what extent such modalities can work synergistically towards urban scene imagery interpretation. For more information and to submit your application, please visit the official website. http://www.uab.cat/psphere/ ============================================================================ ========== 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 ============================================================================