============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter November 2016 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - ASAR 2017, Nancy, France December 1 (http://asar.ieee.tn/) * New and Recently Published Datasets * Announcement: - ICFHR 2016 Awards - TC-10/11 Meeting at ICPR 2016, Cancun, Mexico * Call for Papers: - Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), November 10-15, Kyoto, Japan (http://u-pat.org/ICDAR2017/) - Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (ICPRAI), Montreal, Canada, May 14-17, 2018 (http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~icprai18/index.html) * Call for Participation: - TC-10/11 Summer School on Document Analysis: Document Informatics Jaipur, India, January 23-28, 2017 * Call for Applications - IAPR Research Scholarships * Job Offer: - Postdoc in Machine learning, LITIS, Université de Rouen, France - 3 PhD / PostDoc positions, DIVA Group, University of Fribourg, Switzerland * Call for Proposals: - ICDAR 2017 Workshops, Tutorials, and Competitions (repost) December 15 - DAS 2018: Call for Hosting Proposals (repost) December 31 * Call for Participation: - 1st Int. Workshop on Arabic Script Analysis and Recognition (repost) (ASAR 2017), April 3-5, Nancy, France * Call for Dataset Submissions * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the November edition of our newsletter. With this edition, it is a pleasure for me to inform you that during the recent ICFHR 2016 in Shenzhen, China, the venue for ICFHR 2020 was decided by a vote of the audience. The 17th ICFHR will be organized in Dortmund, Germany, from September 8 to 10, 2020. I also would like to congratulate the recipients of the ICFHR 2016 Awards, the announcement of which marked the closing of a successful ICFHR conference. Please also note that there will be a joint TC-10/11 Meeting that will be held during ICPR 2016 in Cancun, Mexico. Furthermore, I would like to draw your attention to the Calls for Papers for ICDAR 2017 to be held in Kyoto, Japan, and for the International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (ICPRAI) 2018 that will be held on May 14-17 in Montreal, Canada, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of CENPARMI. Additionally, you will find below the 2nd Call for Participation for the TC-10/11 Summer School on Document Analysis and the Call for Applications for IAPR Research Scholarships that are addressed towards Early Career Researchers. Finally, this newsletter also includes job offers for PostDoc and PhD positions at the University of Rouen and the University of Fribourg. 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): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * ASAR 2017, Nancy, France April 3-5, 2017 December 1 (http://asar.ieee.tn/) * GCPR 2017, Basel, Switzerland September 13-15, 2017 April 8, 2017 (https://gcpr2017.dmi.unibas.ch/en/) * ICDAR 2017, Kyoto, Japan November 10-15, 2017 March 15, 2017 (http://www.iapr.org/icdar2017) - Call for Workshops November 10-11, 2017 December 15 - Call for Tutorials November 12, 2017 December 15 - Call for Competitions December 15 * DAS 2018, [in a nice place] Fall 2018 December 31 (proposal for hosting) * ICPRAI 2018, Montreal, Canada May 14-17,2018 Nov. 15, 2018 (http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~icprai18/index.html) * ICFHR 2018, Rochester, USA (August 6-8, 2018) TBA * ICFHR 2020, Dortmund, Germany September 8-10, 2020 TBA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * MedPRAI 2016, Tebessa, Algeria November 22-23 - passed - (http://medprai2016.sciencesconf.org/) * MANPU 2016, Cancun, Mexico December 4 - passed - (http://manpu2016.imlab.jp) * ICPR 2016, Cancun, Mexico December 4-8, 2016 - passed - (http://www.icpr2016.org/) * CVPR 2017, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA July 20-27, 2017 - passed - (http://cvpr2017.thecvf.com/) ============================================================================ ========== New and Recently Published: TC-11 Datasets ====================== For a list of all datasets available visit: http://tc11.cvc.uab.es ============================================================================ ========== Announcement: ICFHR 2016 Awards ================================= The ICFHR2016 was finished successfully. Congratulations for the best paper award winners: IAPR Best Paper Award: Sebastian Sudholt and Gernot A. Fink. PHOCNet: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Word Spotting in Handwritten Documents IAPR Best Student Paper Award: Paul Voigtlaender, Patrick Doetsch and Hermann Ney. Handwriting Recognition with Large Multidimensional Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks IAPR Best Poster Award: Lei Hu and Richard Zanibbi. MST-Based Parsing of Online Handwritten Mathematical Expressions [source: http://www.nlpr.ia.ac.cn/icfhr2016/] ============================================================================ ========== Announcement: TC-10/11 Meeting at ICPR 2016 ===================== A TC-10/11 Joint Meeting will be held during ICPR 2016 in Cancun, Mexico, on Wednesday, December 7. Room: TBA ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: ICDAR 2017 ===================================== Call for Papers ICDAR 2017 - The 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Kyoto, Japan November 10-15, 2017 http://www.iapr.org/icdar2017/ The 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2017) is the premier international forum for researchers and practitioners in the document analysis community. The accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and included in IEEE Xplore Digital Library. [Topics of Interest] include, but not limited to: - Character Recognition - Handwriting Recognition - Graphics Recognition - Document Image Analysis - Document Understanding - Document Analysis Systems - Document Processing - Camera-based Document Processing - Document Databases and Digital Libraries - Mining Document Image Collections - Multimedia Documents and Internet Documents - Document Forensics - Historical Documents - Segmentation and Restoration - Sketching Interfaces - Performance Evaluation - Camera and Scene Text Understanding - Machine Learning for Document Analysis - Human-Document Interaction - Language and Script in Document Understanding - Novel Applications [Submission and Review] ICDAR 2017 will follow a double blind review process. Authors should not include their names and affiliations anywhere in the manuscript. Authors should also ensure that their identity is not revealed indirectly by citing their previous work in the third person, and omitting including acknowledgements until the camera-ready version. [Paper format and length] Papers accepted for the conference will be allocated 6 pages in the proceedings, with the option of purchasing up to 2 extra pages for JPY 10,000 per page. This will have to be paid after paper acceptance and at the time of registration. The length of the submitted manuscript should match that intended for final publication. Therefore, if you are unwilling or unable to pay the extra charge you should limit yourself to 6 pages. Otherwise the page limit is 8 pages. [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 Michael Blumenstein (Griffith University, Australia) Umapada Pal (Indian Statistical Institute, India) - 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) 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] - Submission Deadline: March 15, 2017 - Acceptance Notification: July 1, 2017 - Camera Ready Papers Due: August 15, 2017 [Inquiry] icdar2017-inquiry@m.cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: ICPRAI 2018 ==================================== ICPRAI 2018 - International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of CENPARMI Montreal, Canada May 14-17, 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS To mark its 30th Anniversary, CENPARMI (Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence of Concordia University) is organizing an international conference on Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence. Papers can be submitted through EasyChair Topics of interest include, but not limited to: * Recognition of different types of patterns, handwriting, document, text, face, fingerprint, iris, and strategic objects and targets. * Computer vision and image processing, biomedical analysis, 2D and 3D images, graphics, robotics, and multimedia applications. * Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, SVM, deep learning and classification techniques, language processing, semantic analysis, computational linguistics, e-learning and innovative teaching methods. * Security and forensic studies, mobile applications, big data, data mining and performance evaluation, intelligent systems, and various applications. Note: A PDF of the Call for Papers may be downloaded here: http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~icprai18/ICPRAI2018-CFP.pdf IMPORTANT DATES Submission: August 15th, 2017 till November 15th, 2017 Acceptance notification: January 15th, 2018 Camera ready papers: February 15th, 2018 Conference: May 14-17, 2018 MORE INFORMATION Website: http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~icprai18/index.html Contact: icprai18@encs.concordia.ca Best papers will be selected for a Special Issue in the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. COMMITTEE General Chair: Ching Y. Suen (Canada) Conference Co-Chairs: Sabine Bergler (Canada), Xiaoyi Jiang (Germany), Seong-Whan Lee (Korea) Program Chairs: Adam Krzyzak (Canada), Neamat El Gayar (Egypt), Simone Marinai (Italy), P. C. Yuen (HK, China) Special Sessions Chairs: Rejean Plamondon (Canada), Nicole Vincent (France), Toru Wakahara (Japan) Publication Chairs: Louisa Lam (Canada), Patrick S. P. Wang (U.S.A.) Publicity Chairs: Mohamed Cheriet (Canada), Gernot A. Fink (Germany), Louis Oliveira (Brazil), Umapada Pal (India), Yuan Y. Tang (MO, China), Jun Zhou (Australia) Sponsorship Chairs: Robert Sabourin (Canada), Jun Tan (China) Local Arrangements: Marleah Blom, Nicola Nobile, Mary Tzanetakos, Olga Ormandjieva (Finance) SPONSORS Sponsored by CENPARMI, CSE & ENCS of Concordia University, and Industrial Partners. ============================================================================ ========== Call for Participation: TC-10/11 Summer School ================== Summer School on Document Analysis: Document Informatics SSDA 2017 Endorsed by: TC10 & TC11 January, 23-28 2017 Jaipur, India SCOPE The school will provide an in-depth and objective exposure to researchers of the emerging area of understanding large scale document collections and highlight open problems in this area. With deluge of documents (in a variety of forms - images, web-pages, etc.) on the web, individual and/or collaborative information foraging from document collections have become a challenging task. Researchers are developing tools not only to understand structure of the documents but also to facilitate comprehensive interpretation of the content, may be embedded in more than one document in the form of text, table and/or graphics. In this summer school we shall address different aspects of this problem of discovering actionable insight in large document collections through tutorial level talks and research overview presentations. TOPICS * Features, representation * Indexing for large document collections * Content representation and manipulation * Information and document retrieval * Machine learning, Deep Learning * Analytics for large document repositories PARTICIPATION Limited seats register here: http://cvit.iiit.ac.in/summerschool/attend.html All participants will be allowed to make a short presentation of their research work during the school. A post-event proceedings of the selected papers is planned. MORE INFORMATION Write to us: info.ssdi2017@gmail.com or Visit: http://cvit.iiit.ac.in/SSDA/ ORGANIZERS * Santanu Chaudhury, CEERI, PILANI * Venu Govindaraju, University at Buffalo, State University of New York * C. V. Jawahar, IIIT Hyderabad ============================================================================ ========== Call for Applications: IAPR Research Scholarships =============== IAPR RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS =========================== IAPR Research Scholarships, awarded by the IAPR through its Education Committee (IAPR-EC), seek to make possible mobility across institutions and international boundaries for Early Career Researchers working in fields within the scope of the IAPR's interests. Through this program, the IAPR sees an opportunity to make a significant contribution to the development of Early Career Researchers as well as the wider Pattern Recognition community. The candidate must be a full-time researcher: either a PhD research student who has completed at least one year's study at this level or someone already employed as a full-time researcher who has been active in the field for fewer than eight years and is working at a level equivalent to a post-doctoral researcher. The visits will be no longer than 12 months in duration. The scholarship will cover round trip travel to the chosen research institution and basic living expenses. For further details on the application requirements, please visit http://www.iapr.org/docs/IAPR-EC-RS-Call-2016.pdf ============================================================================ ========== Job Offer: PhD Positions at the CVC, Barcelona ================== *Postdoctoral position in Machine learning * The Machine Learning team at LITIS (France) is opening a postdoctoral position for a candidate with a strong experience in Machine Learning, with application to one of the following topics : Speech Processing, Handwriting Processing, Computer Vision, or Document Image Processing. The candidate will be involved in pursuing the development of Handwriting recognition and document image processing technologies to extend the PlaIR plateform that was originally developepd for digitizing old Newspapers www.plair.univ-rouen.fr . New contributions of the candidate are expected regarding Handwriting Recognition (HWR), by combining deep optical models with deep language models. He will contribute with other members of the team to various research projects in this domain. *Scientific and technical Skills* Experimented engineer or postdoctoral candidates having a strong background in one of the following topics : Neural Networks, Deep Neural Networks, Hidden Markov MOdels, Reccurent Neural Networks, statistical langguage models, computer vision. The successful candidate should have advanced programming skills (Python, C/C++, Matlab). Experience of developping models within one of the popular frameworks such as Torch 7, TensorFLow, will be particularly appreciated. *Application* Application should include a curriculum vita, a brief statement of research interests, and the names of at least three references. *Duration*: 18 months, starting as soon as possible. *Contact *: Thierry.Paquet@univ-rouen.fr ============================================================================ ========== Job Offer: PhD / PostDoc Positions, Fribourg ==================== Positions in Historical Document Analysis in the University of Fribourg ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The Document Image and Voice Analysis (DIVA) Group at the University of Fribourg offers two positions (PhD and Post-Doc) for the duration of 2-3 years. Description of the Project In HisDoc III we target historical document classification for large amounts of uncategorized facsimiles with the intent to provide new capabilities for researchers in the Digital Humanities. In particular, we will address the task of categorizing document images with respect to content, language, script, and layout. To do so, we will leverage the expertise gained from our previous projects HisDoc and HisDoc 2.0. In HisDoc we have shown that historical Document Image Analysis (DIA) can be effectively applied to extract layout structures and textual transcriptions and in the current HisDoc 2.0 project we successfully retrieved additional paleographic information. The novel contributions of HisDoc III will be complemented by these methods to cope with large document collections. The objective of HisDoc III is twofold: (i) fundamental research on combined text- and image-based classification methods and (ii) making developed technology useful for libraries, archives, and researchers in the Humanities. The PhD applicant should focus on the first task, i.e., the classification of documents. We will study novel deep learning methods for large amounts of unlabeled text and image data. These methods will be complemented by structural approaches based on document graphs. For the combination of these diverse approaches we will investigate Multiple Classifier Systems (MCS) on the one hand and integrated neural network architectures on the other. The post-doc candidate shall combine three ideas for making methods useful for libraries: (i) novel means for reducing the needed amount of ground truth by unsupervised machine learning and alternatively bootstrapping combined with active learning; (ii) intuitive computer-assisted presentation and annotation tools; and (iii) making our systems publicly available as Web services (For the latter idea, a PhD student already working at the DIVA group will work on the technical realization of the Web services). To demonstrate the suitability of the HisDoc III research results, the candidate shall design novel computer-assisted work-flows in collaboration with an advisory board compiled of scholars, librarians and archivists. A particular focus is speeding up the generation of catalog and database entries and devising ways to present methods and results in an understandable way. Requirements The ideal candidates will have a background one of the areas of Machine Learning, Document Image Analysis, and Digital Humanities with an interest in the other areas. The PhD candidate should have some experience in unsupervised machine learning, preferably with deep neural networks. A Master Degree in Computer Science are required for enrolling in the PhD program of the University of Fribourg. The post-doc candidate should hold a PhD in one of the above-mentioned areas with an interest in the interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities. For both positions, German and/or French language skills are beneficial for the supervision of Bachelor and Master students. Starting Date The starting date of the HisDoc III project is the beginning of January 2017. A soon start is welcome. While the duration of the PhD position is over the whole project duration (3 years), the duration of the post-doc position is flexible. Contact Applications including a motivation letter, a CV, graduation records, references, and a research statement should be sent via email to Prof. Rolf Ingold and Prof. Marcus Liwicki (rolf.ingold@unifr.ch, marcus.liwicki@unifr.ch). ============================================================================ Research Rosition in STEAM Education and Sequence Data Analysis ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The Document Image and Voice Analysis (DIVA) Group at the University of Fribourg offers a position (PhD or Post-Doc) for the duration of up to 30 months Description of the Project The educational movement of STEAM is about bringing Arts at the heart of the academic curriculum in order to cultivate creative skills of young people, alongside with the knowledge and skills they acquire in STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). New demands raised by the global economic environment and the industry for innovation, adaptability, and flexibility highlight the need for cross-disciplinarily connected skills in the educational process, such as creativity, critical thinking, innovation and risk taking, which are expected to foster innovation and economic growth. The iMuSciCA project will directly address the current requirements in education and learning for new pedagogical methodologies and innovative educational technology tools by supporting active, discovery-based, personalized, and more engaging learning and providing students and teachers with opportunities for collaboration, co-creation and collective knowledge building. As a STEAM-oriented project, iMuSciCA aims to design and implement a suite of software tools and services on top of new enabling technologies integrated on a platform that will deliver interactive music activities for teaching/learning STEM. Enabling technologies, such as interactive pen on touchpad, 3D object design and printing, as well as new multimodal interfaces that combine advanced music generation and processing with wearable technology, will be deployed to implement a web-based workbench aiming at STEAM learning. The applicant will be responsible for the conceptualization of the iMuSciCA workbench especially in the scope of analysis of deeper learning using multi-modal streaming sensor data (gestures, eye-movements, brain-activity, ?). The technical development of the workbench takes places at various iMuSciCA partners. For the analysis, existing Toolkits, like the iMotions platform shall be combined with modern sequence learning algorithm for multi-modal data. Requirements The ideal candidates will have a background in one of the areas of sequence learning, STEAM education, and HCI development, with strong interest in the other two. Furthermore, an excellent English level is required in terms of oral and written scientific communication. The scope of the research work might be either performed in the form of a PhD thesis or postdoctoral research. Starting Date The starting date of the iMuSciCA project is the beginning of January 2017. A soon start is welcome. We would be happy if the prospective candidate can candidate can participate during the project kick-off on January 11/12. Contact Applications including a motivation letter, a CV, graduation records, references, and a research statement should be sent via email to Prof. Marcus Liwicki and Dr. Fotini Simistira (marcus.liwicki@unifr.ch, fotini.simistira@unifr.ch). ============================================================================ ========== Call for Proposals: ICDAR 2017 Workshops, Tutorials, Competitions Call for ICDAR2017 Workshops http://www.iapr.org/icdar2017/call_for_workshops.html ----------------------------------------- The ICDAR 2017 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops that will be held during November 10-11, 2017, before the commencement of the main conference. Researchers interested in organizing workshops at ICDAR2017 are invited to submit a proposal, including: - Title - Preference for duration (full day or half day) and date (November 10 or 11) - Scope and motivation - Topics - Relevance for ICDAR - Potential program committee - Short CV of organizers In order to facilitate innovative collaboration and engagement between members of other research communities and the document analysis community, the Workshop Chairs strongly encourage researchers to submit proposals on recent important topics such as deep-learning, machine vision etc. as these topics are also very much related to the document analysis community. Notes: - The ICDAR organizers will handle the workshop registration and provide workshop space, coffee breaks and other facilities required to organize workshops (c.f., a room, a projector and a screen). In addition, a free registration is provided to the workshop organizers. - Workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE through the ICDAR organizers if the camera-ready paper due date is set to September 1, 2017 or prior, and the front matter (preface, title page and so on) and the paper order with session dividers are provided from the workshop organizers to the ICDAR2017 Publication Chairs by August 25, 2017. Proceeding costs will also be borne by the ICDAR organizers.ã??If the conditions above are not met, the proceedings will not be published by the IEEE, and they will need to be published locally by the workshop organizers. - If a workshop incurs costs for invited speakers, the workshop organizers are required to bear that cost. The workshop organizers may solicit sponsorship to cover the relevant costs. They may use the free registration for the invited speaker. *** Submission Guidelines *** All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to the Workshop Chairs (Michael Blumenstein and Umapada Pal) via: icdar2017-workshop@m.cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp *** Important Dates: *** - Proposal Due: December 15, 2016 - Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2017 - Date of Workshops: Either November 10 or 11, 2017 *** Inquiries *** For any inquiries you may have regarding the workshops, please contact the ICDAR2017 Workshop Chairs (Michael Blumenstein and Umapada Pal) via: icdar2017-workshop@m.cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp ============================================================================ Call for ICDAR2017 Tutorials http://www.iapr.org/icdar2017/call_for_tutorials.html ----------------------------------------- The ICDAR 2017 Organizing Committee invites proposals for Tutorials, to be held on November 12th, 2017 (Sunday). ICDAR2017 Tutorials should serve one or more of the following objectives: - Introduce students and newcomers to major topics of Document Analysis and Recognition (DAR) research. - Provide instructions on established practices and methodologies. - Survey a mature area of DAR research and/or practice. - Motivate and explain a DAR topic of emerging importance. - Introduce expert non-specialists to a DAR subarea. Proposals should be up to four pages in length, and should contain the following information: - A brief description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in the conference registration brochure. - A detailed outline of the tutorial, including preferred length (1/2 or 1 day). Due to the ICDAR organization 1/2 day tutorials are preferred. - Characterization of the potential target audience for the tutorial, including prerequisite knowledge. - A description of why the tutorial topic would be of interest to a substantial part of the ICDAR audience. - A brief resume of the presenter(s), which should include name, postal address, phone number, e-mail address, web page, background in the tutorial area, any available example of work in the area (ideally, a published tutorial-level article on the subject), evidence of teaching experience (including references that address the proposer's presentation skills), and evidence of scholarship in the area. - The name and e-mail address of the corresponding presenter. The corresponding presenter should be available for e-mail correspondence during the evaluation process, in case clarifications and discussions on the scope and content of the proposal are needed. The evaluation of the proposal will take into account its general interest for ICDAR attendees, the quality of the proposal (e.g., a tutorial that simply lists a set of concepts without any apparent rationale behind them will not be approved) as well as the expertise and skills of the presenters. We emphasize that the primary criteria for evaluation will be whether a proposal is interesting, well-structured, and motivated in relation to Document Analysis and Recognition, rather than the perceived experience/standing of the proposer(s). Last but not least, the tutorial should attract a meaningful audience, cover hot topics and incorporate new knowledge to the community. Those submitting a proposal should keep in mind that tutorials are intended to provide an overview of the field; they should present reasonably well established information in a balanced way. Tutorials should not be used to advocate a single avenue of research, nor should they promote a product. *** Submission Guidelines *** All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to the Tutorial Chairs (Simone Marinai and Josep Lladós) via: icdar2017-tutorial@m.cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp Feedback, comments and/or suggestions would be provided within two weeks of receiving the proposal. Final acceptance (or rejection) would be decided by January 15, 2017. *** Important Dates *** - Proposal Due: December 15, 2016 - Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2017 - Date of Tutorials: November 12, 2017 *** Inquiries *** For any inquiries you may have regarding the tutorials, please contact the ICDAR2017 Tutorial Chairs (Simone Marinai and Josep Lladós) via: icdar2017-tutorial@m.cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp ============================================================================ Call for ICDAR2017 Competitions http://www.iapr.org/icdar2017/call_for_competitions.html ----------------------------------------- The ICDAR 2017 Organizing Committee invites proposals for competitions that aim at evaluating the performance of algorithms and methods related to areas of document analysis and recognition. You are cordially invited to submit a proposal, that should contain the following information: 1. A brief description of the competition, including what the particular task under evaluation is and why this competition is of interest to the ICDAR community. 2. A draft of the outline of the competition describing competition schedule, the expected number of participants and its rationale, which data is planned to be used, how will the submitted methods be evaluated and which performance measures will be used. 3. The names, contact information, and brief CVs of the competition organizers, outlining previous experience in performance evaluation and/or organizing competitions. The following rules shall apply to the accepted Competitions: - Name of competition must be standardized by starting with "ICDAR2017" e.g. "ICDAR2017 Competition on ..." or "ICDAR2017 ... Competition." - Datasets used in the competitions must be made available after the end of the competitions. In principle, the organizers should submit the dataset to http://tc11.cvc.uab.es/ - Evaluation methodologies and metrics used must be described in detail so that results can be replicated later. - The results of competitions will be announced during a dedicated session of the ICDAR2017 conference. - The basic length of reports of competitions is the same as the regular paper (i.e., 6 pages). If there are circumstances to be considered, upon request, Competition Chairs may allow additional pages. - The results of competitions will be announced during a dedicated session of the ICDAR2017 conference. - Each competition has to be presented with a poster at a prominent place at the conference venue, selected competitions will get the chance to be presented orally in the dedicated session mentioned above. Based on the analysis of the received proposals, the competitions chairs will first synchronize with the competition organizers and then submit a proposal to the program committee, in order to finalize the organization of the competitions. *** Submission Guidelines *** All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to the Competition Chairs (Jean-Marc Ogier and Marcus Liwicki) via: icdar2017-competition@m.cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp *** Important Dates *** - Proposal Due: December 15, 2016 - Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2017 - Initial Submission of Competition Reports Deadline: August 1, 2017 (Papers must be sent directly to the Competition Chairs) - Camera-Ready Papers Due: September 1, 2017 *** Inquiries *** For any inquiries you may have regarding the competitions, please contact the ICDAR2017 Competition Chairs (Jean-Marc Ogier and Marcus Liwicki) via: icdar2017-competition@m.cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp ============================================================================ ========== Call for Hosting Proposals: DAS 2018 ================ (repost) == Call for Hosting Proposals for DAS 2018 --------------------------------------- Following the successful organisation of the 12th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems in Santorini (Greece) last April, by our colleagues Apostolos Antonacopoulos and Basilis Gatos, we are now soliciting proposals for organising and hosting DAS 2018. The DAS workshop has become one of the signature events for TC-11. DAS 2018 will build on the tradition established by past DAS workshops held in Kaiserslautern, Germany (1994), Malvern, PA (1996), Nagano, Japan (1998), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2000), Princeton, NJ (2002), Florence, Italy (2004), Nelson, New Zealand (2006), Nara, Japan (2008), Boston, MA (2010), and Gold Coast, Australia (2012), Tours-Loire Valley, France (2014), and Santorini, Greece (2016). Individuals and groups who are interested in Document Analysis Systems are invited to submit proposals for organizing and hosting DAS 2018. The event should preferably take place in late summer/fall, but is not limited to this period. The submission deadline is December 31st, 2016. Proposals should be submitted to the TC11 chair (Koichi Kise) and vice-chair (Dimosthenis Karatzas). If you already know whether you are interested in preparing a proposal, please send us your expression of interest. Note that an expression of interest is not a commitment to make a formal proposal nor an official bid. If you need further information concerning DAS, please feel free to contact us. The final selection among competing proposals will be made short after the deadline by the DAS Steering Committee, which is composed of all those who have themselves organized or contributed substantially to past DAS workshops. Prof Koichi Kise, TC11 Chair (kise@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp ) Dr Dimosthenis Karatzas, TC11 Vice-chair (dimos@cvc.uab.es ) ============================================================================ ========== Call for Participation: ASAR 2017 ==================== (repost) = It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the 1st International Workshop on Arabic Script Analysis and Recognition (ASAR 2017) http://asar.ieee.tn/, which will be hosted by LORIA laboratory (University Lorraine, France), in collaboration with the REGIM-Lab. (University of Sfax, Tunisia), and will be held in Nancy (France) from April 3-5, 2017. The first ASAR 2017 workshop provides an excellent opportunity for researchers and practitioners at all levels of experience to meet colleagues and to share new ideas and knowledge about Arabic script document analysis and recognition methods. The workshop enjoys strong participation from researchers in both industry and academia. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: December 1st, 2016 Acceptance notified: January 1st, 2017 Registration and Camera Ready Submission: February 1st, 2017 ============================================================================ ========== 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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