============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter February 2016 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - ICPR 2016, Cancun, Mexico April 4 (http://www.icpr2016.org/) - ICFHR 2016, Shenzen, China April 30 (http://www.nlpr.ia.ac.cn/icfhr2016) * Call for Papers: - 23rd Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2016 Cancun, Mexico, December 5-8, 2016 (http://www.icpr2016.org/) - 14th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) 2017 (repost) Kyoto, Japan, November 10-15, 2017 (http://u-pat.org/ICDAR2017) * Call for Participation: - 12th IAPR Int. Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS) 2016 Santorini, Greece, April 11-14, 2016 (http://www.primaresearch.org/das2016) * New and Recently Published Datasets * Call for Dataset Submissions * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the February edition of our newsletter. This edition brings to you the Call for Papers for ICPR 2016, which will be held in Cancun, Mexico in December, and a Call for Participation for the upcoming DAS 2016 Workshop. Gernot A. Fink, IAPR TC-11 Newsletter Editor / Education Officer Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * BMVC 2016, York, UK September 19-22 2016 May 9 (http://bmvc2016.cs.york.ac.uk/) * ICFHR 2016, Shenzen, China October 23-26, 2016 April 30 (http://www.nlpr.ia.ac.cn/icfhr2016) * ICPR 2016, Cancun, Mexico December 4-8, 2016 April 4 (http://www.icpr2016.org/) * ICDAR 2017, Kyoto, Japan November 10-15, 2017 April 16, 2017 (http://u-pat.org/ICDAR2017) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Int. Conf. on Nat. Sci. Tech. in February 29 - - passed - Manuscript Analysis, Hamburg, Germany - March 2, 2016 (http://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/natural_sciences_2016.html) * 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: ICPR 2016 ====================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 23rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION DECEMBER 4 - 8, 2016, CANCUN CENTER, CANCUN, Q.ROO, MEXICO www.icpr2016.org Welcome to the 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Cancun, Mexico, December 2016, hosted by the Mexican Association for Computer Vision, Neurocomputing and Robotics (MACVNR). ICPR will be an international forum for discussions on recent advances in the fields of Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning and Computer Vision, and on applications of these technologies in various fields. The Scientific Program is organized in five tracks, addressing several Pattern Recognition topics. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR Prof. Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano (CINVESTAV, Mexico) FINANCE CHAIRS Dr. Francisco Martinez (INAOE, Mexico) Ricardo A. Wilhelm (ONCE, Mexico) CO-CHAIRS Prof. Gerard Medioni (USC, USA) Prof. Gabriella Sanniti di Baja (CNR, Italy) LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIRS Dr. Jorge Rivera-Rovelo (Universidad Anáhuac Mayab, Mexico) Dr. Jaime Ortegón-Aguilar (Universidad de Quintana Roo, Mexico) CONFERENCE COORDINATOR Prof. Rangachar Kasturi (University of South Florida, USA) INVITED SPEAKERS CHAIRS Prof. Walter Kropatsch (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) PROGRAM CHAIRS Prof. Larry Davis (University of Maryland, USA) Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo (University of Firenze, Italy) Prof. Brian C. Lovell (University of Queensland, Australia) CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT contact_info@icpr2016.org TRACKS Track 1: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Prof. Edwin Hancock (University of York, UK) Prof. Enrique Succar (INAOE, Mexico) Prof. Liang Wang (Nat Lab of Pattern Recognition, China) Dr. Tin Kam Ho (IBM Watson NY, USA) Track 2: Computer Vision and Robot Vision Prof. Richard Hartley (Australian National University, Australia) Prof. Anders Heyden (Lund University, Sweden) Prof. Ales Leonardis (University of Birminghan, UK) Prof. Sudeep Sarkar (University of South Florida, USA) Track 3: Image, Speech, Signal and Video Processing Prof. Michael Felsberg (University of Linköping, Sweden) Prof. Vaclav Hlavac (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic) Prof. Dong Xu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Track 4: Document Analysis, Biometrics and Pattern Recognition Applications Prof. Anil Jain (Michigan State University, USA) Prof. Mark Nixon (University of Southampton, UK) Prof. Tieniu Tan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Track 5: Biomedical Image Analysis and Applications Prof. Xiaoyi Jian (University of Münster, Germany) Prof. Ioannis Kakadiaris (University of Houston, USA) Prof. Reinhard Klette (Auckland University of Technology, NZ) IMPORTANT DATES Submission paper opens Jan. 04, 2016 Notification of acceptance. Early bird registration opens * Jul. 11, 2016 Deadline for workshop &contest proposal Mar. 01, 2016 Publication of the list of accepted papers Jul. 18, 2016 Acceptance of workshop &contest proposal Mar. 07, 2016 Deadline for submission of Camera-Ready papers. End of early bird registration Sep. 05, 2016 Deadline for paper submission Apr. 04, 2016 Deadline for contest papers Sep. 05, 2016 Deadline for tutorial Jul. 01, 2016 Last day for guaranteed hotel reservation Oct. 04, 2016 Acceptance of tutorial Jul. 07, 2016 Deadline for late registration fees Nov. 20, 2016 Conference Dec. 04 - 08, 2016 * At least one author of accepted papers must register during the early bird registration period for the paper to be published in the proceedings. ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: ICDAR 2017 ====================== (repost) ===== First Call for Papers 14th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR 2017 @ Kyoto, Japan November 10-15, 2017 http://u-pat.org/ICDAR2017/ [ICDAR Meets Kyoto in Best Season] The 14th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2017) will be taking place in Kyoto, Japan. Kyoto is one of the most popular destinations in Japan. Approximately 50 million people visit there every year. Kyoto had been the imperial capital of Japan for more than 1000 years and is known as a city of UNESCO World Heritage, in which about 20% of Japan's National Treasures and 14% of Important Cultural Properties exist. ICDAR2017 will be taking place in the "Autumn leaves" season, in which green leaves change their color to yellow and red gradually and eventually fall. Many people fascinated by the beautiful scenery visit Kyoto in the season. ICDAR2017 will provide an opportunity to the participants to access the best season in Kyoto. [Topics of Interest] include, but are not limited to: - Character Recognition - Handwriting Recognition - Graphics Recognition - Document Image Analysis - Document Understanding - Document Analysis Systems - Camera-Based Document Image Analysis - Document Databases and Digital Libraries - Multimedia Document Analysis - Forensic Document Analysis - Historical Document Analysis - User Interface - Performance Evaluation - Novel Applications [Organization] - Honorary Chairs Prof. Kazuhiko Yamamoto (Gifu University, Japan) Prof. Masaki Nakagawa (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan) - General Chair Koichi Kise (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan) - Executive Co-Chairs Shinichiro Omachi (Tohoku University, Japan) Seiichi Uchida (Kyushu University, Japan Masakazu Iwamura (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan) - Program Committee Chairs C.V. Jawahar (IIIT Hyderabad, India) Daniel Lopresti (Lehigh University USA) Dimothenis Karatzas (CVC, Spain) - Workshop Chairs Umapada Pal (Indian Statistical Institute, India) Michael Blumenstein (Griffith University, Australia) - Competition Chairs Jean-Marc Ogier (University of La Rochelle, France) Marcus Liwicki (DFKI, Germany & University of Fribourg, Switzerland) - Tutorial Chairs Simone Marinai (University of Florence, Italy) Josep Llados (CVC, Spain) - Publication Chairs Wataru Ohyama (Mie University, Japan) Seiji Hotta (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan) Kengo Terasawa (Future University Hakodate, Japan) - Publicity Chairs David Doermann (DARPA, USA) Cheng-Lin Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Gernot Fink (TU Dortmund University , Germany) Tomo Miyazaki (Tohoku University, Japan) - Sponsorship Chairs Andreas Dengel (DFKI, Germany) Hisashi Ikeda (Hitachi, Japan) - Finance Chair Masakazu Iwamura (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan) [Important Dates (tentative)] - Workshops and Competitions Proposal Due: November 1, 2016 - Tutorials Proposal Due: December 15, 2016 - Papers Submission Deadline: April 1, 2017 Acceptance Notification: July 1, 2017 Camera Ready Papers Due: September 1, 2017 [Inquiries] icdar2017-inquiry *** m.cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp (please replace *** with atmark) ============================================================================ ========== Call for Participation: 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. Notice: For attendees that require a visa, please send an email to das2016@primaresearch.org with attendee information in order to receive an invitation letter ============================================================================ ========== 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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