IAPR TC-11 (READING SYSTEMS) NEWSLETTER October-November, 2017 ======================================================================== IAPR TC-11 HOMEPAGE: Online Version: TABLE OF CONTENTS: - Message from the Editor - Dates and Deadlines - Deadlines - Upcoming Conference Dates - ICDAR - ICDAR 2021: Bid to Host in Montreux, Switzerland - IAPR/ICDAR 2017 Awards (repost) - Call for Participation: The Workshop for the Future of Document Analysis and Recognition (repost) - ICDAR 2017: Workshops List - ICDAR 2017: Competitions List - DAS 2018 - DAS 2018: Call for Papers (Deadline Extended) - DAS 2018: Call for Tutorials - ICFHR 2018 - ICFHR 2018: Call for Papers (repost) - ICFHR 2018: Call for Competitions (repost) - International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2018): Call for Papers and Proposals - IEEE ASAR 2018: Call for Papers (repost) - ICPRAI 2018: Celebrating 30 Years of CENPARMI (repost) - Journals - Latest Issue: IJDAR Vol. 20, Issue 3 (Sept. 2017 - repost) - IJDAR Discount for IAPR Members (repost) - Deadline Extended: Journal of Imaging, Special Issue: "Document Image Processing" - Careers - Open Positions in Handwritten Text Recognition at Uppsala University (Sweeden) - Faculty Position in Computer Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT, USA) - Student Industrial Internship Opportunities (IAPR List) Message from the Editor ======================= I am writing this enroute to ICDAR 2017 in Kyoto. I look forward to meeting old friends and making new ones at TC-11's flagship meeting. The bid to host ICDAR 2021 in Montreux, Switzerland is now available. The bid will be presented and voted on at ICDAR next week. If you are attending ICDAR next week, please take a moment to review the bid. There a number of new internship and career opportunities in this month's newsletter,from Uppsala University in Sweeden, the Rochester Institute of Technology in the United States, and through a new internship list being maintained by the IAPR. Please share these opportunities with those who may be interested. The DAS paper submission deadline has been extended, and we have announcements for a number of other upcoming conferences in this edition (ICPR, ICFHR, ASAR, and ICPRAI). Also, the upcoming Special Issue on Document Image Processing in the Journal of Imaging submission deadline has been extended. To everyone attending ICDAR and/or the workshops at ICDAR, safe travels and best wishes for a productive and enjoyable time. **Join us!** If you are not already a member of the TC-11 community, please consider joining the [TC11 mailing list](https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=iapr-tc11&A=1). **Richard Zanibbi, TC-11 Communications Officer** () Dates and Deadlines =================== Deadlines --------- **2017** - **Nov. 15:** ICPRAI 2018 Paper Submission ( [Call for Papers](http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~icprai18/index.html) ) - **Nov. 20:** DAS 2018 Paper Submission ( [Call for Papers](https://das2018.caa.tuwien.ac.at/media/filer_public/9f/2e/9f2e9653-b73f-4899-902e-3dfa4109d744/cfp.pdf) ) - **Dec. 1:** ASAR 2018 Paper Submission ( [Call for Papers](http://asar.ieee.tn/cfp) ) - **Dec. 15:** ICPR Workshop Proposal Deadline ( [Call for Proposals](http://www.icpr2018.org/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=10&id=28) ) and Tutorial Proposal Deadline ( [Call for Proposals](http://www.icpr2018.org/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=10&id=29) ) - **Dec. 15:** *Journal of Imaging* Special Issue: *Document Image Processing* ( [Call for Papers](http://www.mdpi.com/journal/jimaging/special_issues/document_image_processing) ) **2018** - **Jan. 5:** ICPR Paper Submission ( [Call for Papers](http://www.icpr2018.org/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=lists&catid=15) ) - **Jan. 8:** ICFHR Competition Proposals ( [Call for Proposals](http://icfhr2018.org/competitions.html) ) - **Jan. 19:** DAS 2018 Short Paper Submission ( [Call for Papers](https://das2018.caa.tuwien.ac.at/media/filer_public/9f/2e/9f2e9653-b73f-4899-902e-3dfa4109d744/cfp.pdf) ) - **Mar. 2:** ICFHR 2018 Submissions ( [Call for Papers](http://icfhr2018.org/pdf/ICFHR2018_CFP.pdf) ) Upcoming Conference Dates ------------------------- **2017** - [ICDAR 2017](http://u-pat.org/ICDAR2017). Kyoto, Japan (Nov. 9-15, 2017) **2018** - [ASAR 2018](http://asar.ieee.tn). London, UK (March 12-14, 2018) - [DAS 2018](https://das2018.caa.tuwien.ac.at). Vienna, Austria (24-27 April, 2018) - [ICPRAI 2018](http://icprai2018.com). Montreal, Canada (May 14-17, 2018) - [ICFHR 2018](https://icfhr2018.org). Niagara Falls, USA (August 5-8, 2018) - [ICPR 2018](http://www.icpr2018.org). Beijing, China (August 20-24, 2018) **2019 and Later** - ICDAR 2019, Brisbane, Australia (September 22-25, 2019) - [ICFHR 2020](http://www.icfhr2020.org). Dortmund, Germany (September 8-10, 2020) ICDAR ===== ICDAR 2021: Bid to Host in Montreux, Switzerland ------------------------------------------------ The bid to host ICDAR 2021 in Montreux, Switzerland with General Chairs Andreas Fischer, Marcus Liwicki and Rolf Ingold is now available online: This proposal will be voted on during ICDAR 2017 in Kyoto. The proposal contains information on the organizing team, venue, travel, a tentative schedule, and a proposed budget (including registration fees). If you are attending ICDAR, please take a moment to have a look. **Richard Zanibbi, TC-11 Commnunications Officer** **( <rxzvcs@rit.edu )** IAPR/ICDAR 2017 Awards (repost) ------------------------------- **Online Announcement (with recipient biographies)**: We are pleased to announce the recipients of this year's IAPR/ICDAR Awards. The awards ceremony will be held during ICDAR 2017 in Kyoto, Japan. **IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award** **Prof. Rangachar Kasturi** for seminal research in document image analysis and graphics recognition shaping the evolution of the document image analysis field, and for outstanding leadership to both the ICDAR and the wider international pattern recognition community. Prof. Kasturi will deliver the Opening Keynote Speech at ICDAR2017. *IAPR / ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award Committee:* Dan Lopresti Jean-Marc Ogier Josep Llados Simone Marinai Cheng-Lin Liu Marcus Liwicki Venu Govindaraju Bart Lamiroy Dimosthenis Karatzas **IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award** **Dr. Alicia Fornés** for outstanding contributions in the recognition of handwriting, text and graphics, with high impact to the field of Digital Humanities, and her service to the IAPR Technical Committee on Graphics Recognition. *IAPR / ICDAR Young Investigator Award Committee:* Dan Lopresti Simone Marinai Cheng-Lin Liu Marcus Liwicki Venu Govindaraju Call for Participation: The Workshop for the Future of Document Analysis and Recognition (repost) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates Nov. 12, 14:30-18:30: Workshop (co-located with ICDAR 2017) **Website:** In cooperation with the Institute of Document Analysis and Knowledge Science (IDAKS), Osaka Prefecture University Kyoto Terrsa, Kyoto, Japan **Workshop Chairs** Koichi Kise, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan Andreas Dengel, DFKI, Germany **Objectives** Let's discuss the future of document analysis and recognition. In the history of ICDAR in the last 26 years, we have been working in a variety of fields of document analysis and recognition, and have solved many important problems. The emergence of machine learning technologies, however, has shifted the nature of unsolved problems. For example, improving accuracy of methods for existing problems attracts less researchers. This brings us to the following questions: What are exciting open problems that interest more researchers? What are research topics young researchers and outsiders of the ICDAR community cannot help joining us? This workshop is planned to discuss possible research topics and open problems to start new chapters of research on document analysis and recognition. **Workshop Format** The purpose of the workshop is to have deeper discussions about the future of document analysis and recognition. For stimulating the discussion, we have short presentation by invited speakers listed below to share their views of the future. After the presentation, we select some representative topics for discussion. Then participants and invited speakers are divided into some groups of selected topics for discussion. The results of discussion will be summarized at the end of the workshop and final results will be presented at the main conference. We plan to have a short summary presentation at the banquet and more detailed presentation and discussion at the panel on the last day of the conference. **Invited Speakers** Apostolos Antonacopoulos Michael Blumenstein Andreas Dengel Dimosthenis Karatzas Koichi Kise C. V. Jawahar Bart Lamiroy Cheng-Lin Liu Marcus Liwicki Josep Llados Dan Lopresti Simone Marinai Jean-Marc Ogier Seiichi Uchida **Program** - 14:30-14:40 Opening - 14:40-15:50 Position paper presentation (5 min/invited speaker) - 15:50-16:20 Coffee break - 16:20-16:30 Discussion group formation (about 4 groups) - 16:30-17:50 Discussion (each group) - 17:50-18:30 Wrap-up (5 min/group + summary) Looking forward to meeting you at the workshop!! **Koichi Kise, Workshop Co-Chair** () ICDAR 2017: Workshops List -------------------------- Nine workshops will be offered at ICDAR 2017. Please see below a list of these Workshops and the names of the corresponding organizers. Web pages for each workshop may be found online: . **HDI: First International Workshop on Human-Document Interaction** Organizers: Jean-Christophe Burie, Mickaël Coustaty, Dimosthenis Karatzas and Koichi Kise **CBDAR: 7th International Workshop on Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition** Organizers: Lluis Gomez-Bigorda, Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman and Dimosthenis Karatzas **MANPU: 2nd International Workshop on coMics Analysis, Processing and Understanding** Organizers: Jean-Christophe Burie, Toshihiko Yamasaki and Motoi Iwata **ICDAR-WML: Workshop on Machine Learning** Organizers: Umapada Pal and Eric Granger **HIP: 4th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing** Organizers: Andreas Fischer, Angelika Garz, Kengo Terasawa and Bill Barrett **IWCDF: 1st International Workshop on Computational Document Forensics** Organizers: Jean-Marc Ogier, Utpal Garain and Apostolos Antonacopoulos **ICDAR-OST: 1st International Workshop on Open Services and Tools for Document Analysis** Organizers: Marcel Würsch and Joseph Chazalon **GREC: 12th International Workshop on Graphics Recognition** Organizers: Alicia Fornés and Bart Lamiroy **MOCR: 6th International Workshop on Multilingual OCR** Organizers: Venu Govindaraju, Prem Natarajan, Santanu Chaudhury and Srirangaraj Setlur We are looking forward to your submissions for these Workshops. We also solicit your gracious support in circulating this information among your students, colleagues and scientific/research community to give it higher visibility. **Michael Blumenstein & Umapada Pal, ICDAR-2017 Workshop Co-Chairs** (, ) ICDAR 2017: Competitions List ----------------------------- HANDWRITTEN HISTORICAL DOCUMENT LAYOUT RECOGNITION - Competition on Baseline Detection in Archival Documents: - Competition on Layout Analysis for Challenging Medieval Manuscripts: - Competition on Historical Book Analysis: HISTORICAL HANDWRITTEN SCRIPT ANALYSIS - Competition on the Classification of Medieval Handwritings in Latin Script: - Competition on Historical Document Writer Identification: - Competition on Multi-script Writer Identification Using LAMIS-MSHD and CERUG Databases: CHARACTER/WORD SPOTTING - Competition on Query-by-Example Glyph Spotting of Southeast Asian Palm Leaf Manuscript Images: - Handwritten Keyword Spotting Competition: HANDWRITING RECOGNITION - Competition on Handwritten Text Recognition on the READ Dataset: - Competition on Information Extraction in Historical Handwritten Records: DOCUMENT IMAGE BINARIZATION - Document Image Binarization Competition: DOCUMENT RECOGNITION (LAYOUT ANALYSIS & TEXT RECOGNITION) - Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts: - Competition on Early Indian Printed Documents: - Competition on Page Object Detection in Document Images: DOCUMENT DOCUMENT RECONSTRUCTION - Smartphone-captured Document Image Reconstruction from Multiple Views: POST OCR CORRECTION - Competition on Post-OCR Text Correction: ROBUST READING COMPETITIONS - Competition on Reading Chinese Text in the Wild: - Challenge on COCO-Text: - Challenge on Text Extraction from Biomedical Literature Figures: - Challenge on Robust Reading Challenge on Omnidirectional Video: - Competition on Multi-lingual scene text detection and script identification: TEXT IN VIDEO - Competition on Arabic Text Detection and Recognition in Multiresolution Video Frames (AcTiVComp17) - Competition on Video Script Identification: http://[www.ict.griffith.edu.au/cvsi2017](www.ict.griffith.edu.au/cvsi2017) FORENSICS - Competition on File Type and Altered Image Identification: MISCELLANEOUS COMPETITIONS - Competition on Multi-font and Multi-size Digitally Represented Arabic Text: DAS 2018 ======== DAS 2018: Call for Papers (Deadline Extended) --------------------------------------------- **CFP: 13th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems** *April 24-27 2018, Vienna, Austria* [PDF Version of CFP](https://das2018.caa.tuwien.ac.at/media/filer_public/e6/2e/e62e0e62-34a9-46da-a64d-c5c6567d790f/cfp.pdf) **Important Dates** Full papers due: *Nov. 30, 2017* (EXTENDED) * Decision notification: Jan. 15, 2018 Short papers due: Jan. 19, 2018 * Decision notification: Jan. 31, 2018 Tutorial proposals due: Nov. 30, 2017 **Overview.** DAS 2018 is the 13th 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 2018 will be organized at TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology), in the heart of Vienna’s city center, which places the attendees within walking distance to a large variety of world-famous historical and cultural attractions. The program will include 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. Information regarding paper submissions is provided below. **Note:** Submission of a paper involves a commitment that, if accepted, one or more authors will attend the workshop. **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 form, up to 6 pages length. **Short Papers.** Short papers provide an opportunity to report on research in progress and 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 DAS 2018 proceedings. **Demonstrations.** DAS 2018 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 DAS 2018 booklet, as in the case of short papers. For Topics & Technologies and Commitees, please see the DAS 2018 website: DAS 2018: Call for Tutorials ---------------------------- **Important Dates** Tutorial Proposals due: 30th November 2017 Tutorial Announcement: 15th January 2018 Tutorial Date: 24th April 2018 **Overview.** DAS2018 intends to offer conference participants high quality half day tutorials reflecting current topics and trends in all areas of Document Analysis and Recognition. As tutorials are educational events they must include a comprehensive introduction to the state-of-the-art in the corresponding subject. Tutorials should be aimed at varied audience: research students, experienced researchers, practitioners, academics and representatives of governments and funding agencies who wish to learn new technologies. For details see: **Contact:** **Robert Sablatnig and Florian Kleber, DAS 2018 General Chairs** (, ) ICFHR 2018 ========== ICFHR 2018: Call for Papers (repost) ------------------------------------ **The 16th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition** *August 5 - 8, 2018 - Niagara Falls, USA* Web page: [icfhr2018.org](http://icfhr2018.org) PDF Version of this Call: [ICFHR2018\_CFP.pdf](http://icfhr2018.org/pdf/ICFHR2018_CFP.pdf) **Important Dates** March 2, 2018 Paper abstract submission March 9, 2018 Full paper submission May 25, 2018 Author notifications June 22, 2018 Camera-ready papers due The **International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR)** is the flagship conference for handwriting recognition research and applications. The conference brings together experts in handwriting recognition from academia and industry to share their experiences and promote research and development in all aspects of handwriting recognition and handwriting applications. **ICFHR 2018** is sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), and organized in part by [IAPR Technical Committee No. 11 (Reading Systems)](http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/IAPR-TC11:Reading_Systems). **Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:** - Handwriting Recognition - Cursive Script Recognition - Symbol, Equation, Sketch and Drawing Recognition - Handwritten Document Processing and Understanding - Language Models in Handwriting Recognition - Web-Based Applications - Handwritten Databases and Digital Libraries - Information Extraction & Retrieval - Document Characterization - Form Processing - Word Spotting - Bank-Check Processing - Historical Document Processing - Forensic Studies and Security Issues - Writer Verification and Identification - Performance Enhancement and System Evaluation - Electronic Ink and Pen-Based Systems - Other Offline and Online Applications **Authors are invited to submit full-length papers of not more than six (6) pages.** Papers must describe original work, and paper reviews will be double blind. Instructions for paper submission will be available on the ICFHR 2018 web site ([icfhr2018.org](http://icfhr2018.org)). Questions about paper submission should be directed to the Program Chairs ( ). **ICFHR 2018 Organizing Committee** *General Chairs* [Venu Govindaraju](https://cubs.buffalo.edu/about-the-director), University of Buffalo, USA [R. Manmatha](http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/~manmatha), A9/Amazon, USA [Richard Zanibbi](https://www.cs.rit.edu/~rlaz), Rochester Institute of Technology, USA *Program Chairs* [Luiz S. Oliveira](http://web.inf.ufpr.br/luizoliveira), Federal University Parana, Brazil [Umapada Pal](http://www.isical.ac.in/~umapada/), Indian Statistical Institute, India [Christian Viard-Gaudin](http://www.irccyn.ec-nantes.fr/~viardgau), University of Nantes, France *Tutorial and Workshop Chairs* [Elisa Barney-Smith](https://coen.boisestate.edu/EBarneySmith), Boise State, USA [Seiichi Uchida](http://human.ait.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~uchida/index-e.html), Kyushu University, Japan *Competition Program Chairs* [Harold Mouchère](http://www.irccyn.ec-nantes.fr/~mouchere/index.php?lg=en), University of Nantes, France [Nicholas R. Howe](http://www.cs.smith.edu/~nhowe), Smith College, USA *Publicity Chairs* [Thierry Paquet](http://thierry.paquet.free.fr), University of Rouen, France [Utkarsh Porwal](http://labs.ebay.com/people/utkarsh-porwal), eBay, USA [Masaki Nakagawa](http://web.tuat.ac.jp/~nakagawa/en/nakagawa.shtml), Tokyo University Agriculture and Technology, Japan *Publications Chair* [Srirangaraj Setlur](http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/personnel/ranga.html), University of Buffalo, USA *Organizing Chairs* [Srirangaraj Setlur](http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/personnel/ranga.html), University of Buffalo, USA [Ifeoma Nwogu](http://cubs.buffalo.edu/~inwogu), Rochester Insitute of Technology, USA *Sponsorship Chair* [Prem Natarajan](http://www.isi.edu/about/bio/prem_natarajan), University of Southern California (ISI), USA **Richard Zanibbi, Co-Chair, ICFHR 2018** ( ) ICFHR 2018: Call for Competitions (repost) ------------------------------------------ Online Version: **Important Dates** 8 January 2018: Submission of competition proposals 15 January 2018: Notification of acceptance 22 January 2018: Competitions on icfhr2018.org, open to participants. 1 June 2018: Full papers describing competitions due 29 June 2018: Accepted camera-ready papers due The ICFHR 2018 Organizing Committee invites proposals for **competitions addressing current research challenges in handwriting recognition and related areas of pattern recognition and vision**. Competitions should aim at evaluating the performance of individual methods and systems that fall within the context of the conference’s Call for Papers. Competitions should also participate in the sharing and standardisation of handwriting recognition processes. **Proposal Requirements.** Proposals should include a brief description of the competition, including the particular task under evaluation, and why this competition would be of interest to the ICFHR community. Please check online for the complete call with submission requirements and competition rules (). **Submissions of proposals.** Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to the ICFHR 2018 Competitions Chairs, Harold Mouchère and Nicholas Howe (). **Questions** should be directed to the ICFHR2018 Competitions Chairs at . **Online** - web: - twitter: [@IAPR_TC11](http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/IAPR-TC11:Reading\_Systems) @@ICFHR2018 @@ICFHR2018competitions **Harold Mouchère and Nicholas Howe, ICFHR 2018 Competition Chairs** ( ) International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2018): Call for Papers and Proposals ========================================================================================== **Important Dates:** Submission Open November 5, 2017 Call for Contests December 1, 2017 Proposals for Workshops December 15，2017 Proposals for Tutorials December 15, 2017 Paper Submission January 5, 2018 Acceptance Notification April 5, 2018 Web Page: The 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2018), sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), will take place at the China National Convention Center, Beijing, during August 20-24, 2018. ICPR provides an international forum for researchers and practitioners in the broad area of pattern recognition, including pattern recognition and machine learning, computer vision, speech, image, video and multimedia, biometrics and human computer interaction, document analysis and recognition, biomedical imaging and bioinformatics. Calls for paper submission, workshop proposals, tutorials, and contest proposals are now available through the conference web pages (). Please have a look and consider submitting to this important meeting for the IAPR and broader pattern recognition community. **Cheng-Lin Liu, Program Co-Chair, ICPR 2018** **( )** IEEE ASAR 2018: Call for Papers (repost) ======================================== **2nd IEEE Int. Workshop on Arabic and Derived Script Analysis and Recognition (ASAR)** *Dates:* 12-14 March 2018 *Venue:* The Alan Turing Institute, London, United Kingdom *Endorsements:* IEEE Region 8, IAPR *Website:*    *E-mail:* **Important Dates** Paper submission: December 1, 2017 Acceptance notifications: January 2, 2018 Camera-ready papers: February 1, 2018 **Publication:** Registered and Presented papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Authors of some selected accepted papers presented at ASAR workshop will be invited to submit extended versions of their manuscripts for consideration in related international Journals. **Travel Grant Programs:** IEEE Region 8 VCF: IEEE Women In Engineering: **Plenary Speakers** - Umapada Pal (Indian Statistical Institute, India) - Volker Märgner (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany) - Daniel Lowe (The British Library, United Kingdom) **Scope** It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Arabic and derived Script Analysis and Recognition (ASAR 2018), which will be hosted by the Alan Turing Institute, London, in collaboration with the LORIA laboratory (University Lorraine, France) and REGIM-Lab. (University of Sfax, Tunisia), and will be held in London (United Kingdom) on March 12-14, 2018. ASAR 2018 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Region 8, IEEE UK&IR section, IEEE Tunisia section, and IAPR (under approval). The ASAR 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 and derived script document analysis and recognition methods. The workshop enjoys strong participation from researchers in both industry and academia. The workshop program will include keynote speakers, discussion sessions, and oral sessions. **Areas** Topics include but are not limited to the following: - Printed/Handwritten text recognition - Arabic Document image watermarking - Word spotting - Forensic Arabic document analysis - Language and script recognition - Historical Arabic document analysis - Authoring, annotation, and presentation systems - Pen-based user interface - Camera-based Arabic document image analysis - Arabic Document retrieval systems - Arabic Document analysis for mobile devices, for the internet - Information extraction - Arabic Document databases and digital libraries - Arabic Document understanding - Multilingual Arabic document analysis - Performance evaluation **Sponsors & Exhibitions** We invite your organisation to be a sponsor. It will play an essential role for the success of the workshop. We expect to welcome experts and researchers from all over the world and numerous high-ranking guests. Therefore, we anticipate extensive coverage of the event. To take advantage of these opportunities and to help enhance them, corporations, research centers, universities and individuals are invited to become sponsors of ASAR workshop. It will be a good opportunity to present your enterprise and your expertise to a distinguished audience. We are looking forward to a successful cooperation with you! **Venue** The Alan Turing Institute is the UK is a national institute for data science. Five universities (Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, University College London and Warwick) and the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (the main UK government agency for funding research and training in engineering and the physical sciences) created The Alan Turing Institute in 2015. The mission of The Alan Turing Institute is to make great leaps in data science research in order to change the world for the better. The Institute's goals are to undertake world-class research in data science, apply its research to real-world problems, driving economic impact and societal good, lead the training of a new generation of data scientists, and shape the public conversation around data. Website: We are looking forward to a successful cooperation with you! **General Chairs** Adel M. Alimi, Univesity of Sfax, Tunisia Abdel Belaïd, University of Lorraine, France Mohamed Cheriet, …TS, University of Quebec, Canada ( , ) ICPRAI 2018: Celebrating 30 Years of CENPARMI (repost) ====================================================== **Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of CENPARMI** *May 14-17, 2018* *Concordia University, Montréal, Canada* **Free Public Lecture:** Sunday May 13, 2018, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. **URL:** (see links for Author Guidelines, Free Public Lectures, Keynote Speakers) **PDF CFP:** **Important Dates** Paper submission: August 15, 2017 - November 15, 2017 Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2018 Camera ready due: February 15, 2018 Free Public Lecture: Sunday May 13, 2018, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Conference: May 14-17, 2018 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. **For more information,** please visit or contact us: - Facebook: - Inquiries: Thank you, *ICPRAI 2018 Organizing Committee* **ICPRAI 2018 - First International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence** Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Web: eMail: Journals ======== Latest Issue: IJDAR Vol. 20, Issue 3 (Sept. 2017 - repost) ---------------------------------------------------------- **Table of Contents** [A multi-one-class dynamic classifier for adaptive digitization of document streams](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10032-017-0286-6) Anh Khoi Ngo Ho, Véronique Eglin, Nicolas Ragot & Jean-Yves Ramel [A sigma-lognormal model-based approach to generating large synthetic online handwriting sample databases](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10032-017-0287-5) Ujjwal Bhattacharya, Réjean Plamondon, Souvik Dutta Chowdhury, Pankaj Goyal & Swapan K. Parui [On writer identification for Arabic historical manuscripts](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10032-017-0289-3) Abedelkadir Asi, Alaa Abdalhaleem, Daniel Fecker, Volker Märgner & Jihad El-Sana [Post-processing coding artifacts for JPEG documents](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10032-017-0288-4) The-Anh Pham & Mathieu Delalandre [Mean-Shift segmentation and PDE-based nonlinear diffusion: toward a common variational framework for foreground/background document image segmentation](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10032-017-0285-7) Fadoua Drira & Frank LeBourgeois IJDAR Discount for IAPR Members (repost) ---------------------------------------- IAPR is pleased to announce a partnership agreement with Springer, the publisher of IJDAR, the International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition. This new agreement will allow IAPR members to receive a subscription to the electronic version of IJDAR at a discount of nearly 50%. For additional details, see the links below: - - [http://www.iapr.org/publications/intjrnlsub.php](http://www.iapr.org/publications/intjournal.php) **Koichi Kise, Daniel Lopresti and Simone Marinai, IJDAR Editors-in-Chief** ( , , ) Deadline Extended: Journal of Imaging, Special Issue: "Document Image Processing" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The deadline for manuscript submission is EXTENDED to **December 15, 2017.** For more details please visit the website: The *Journal of Imaging* (ISSN 2313-433X) is currently running a Special Issue entitled *Document Image Processing*. Dr. Ergina Kavallieratou (University of the Aegean, Greece) and Dr. Laurence Likforman-Sulem (Telecom ParisTech/TSI) are serving as the Guest Editors for this Special Issue. The intention of this Special Issue is to collect the experiences of leading scientists of the field, but also to be an assessment tool for people who are new to the world of document image processing. This Special Issue intends to cover the following topics, but is not limited to them: - Document Image Analysis - Document Understanding - Document Analysis Systems - Document Processing - Camera-based Document Processing - Document Databases and Digital Libraries - Mining Document Image Collections - Document Forensics \[...\] Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance ( and ), as this will help us with planning. The Journal of Imaging is an open access publication, which provides unlimited free access by readers. While open access publications typically require an article processing charge (or similar), the Journal of Imaging *does not currently require authors to pay any sort of fee*. For further details on article formatting and the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website: **Guest Editors** **Dr. Ergina Kavallieratou** University of the Aegean, Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, Samos, Greece ( ) **Dr. Laurence Likforman-Sulem** Telecom ParisTeach/TSI ( ) Careers ======= Open Positions in Handwritten Text Recognition at Uppsala University (Sweeden) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Center for Image Analysis at the University of Uppsala, Sweeden has open PostDoc and Researcher positions in the area of large-scale image analysis and machine learning for digital paleography. These positions are for a project on digital paleography, i.e., computational methods for analysis and quantification of handwritten text. The extracted data can be used for scribal attribution (writer identification), dating and other similar purposes. The material consists primarily of mediaeval charters, produced in Sweden. There are more than 10.000 images of such charters available. The aim is to develop new computerized methods within image analysis and machine learning, to analyze these images, individually and collectively, in ways that a human specialist cannot achieve. For additional details, please consult the links below. - PostDoc: - Researcher: **For further information about the position,** please contact Dr. Anders Brun () or Prof. Lasse Mårtensson (). **Ingela Nyström, Professor, Uppsala University** **( )** Faculty Position in Computer Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT, USA) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Important Dates:** Application Deadline: January 1, 2018 Web Page: The [Department of Computer Science](https://www.cs.rit.edu) at the Rochester Institute of Technology (USA) is in a period of growth. The Department’s student-centered programs are home to over 1,200 students pursuing BS, MS, BS/MS, and PhD degrees. Student employment rates upon graduation are over 98%, often with leading technology companies.  The department’s innovative problem-based introductory programming sequence has been continuously revised and updated, in part through research projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). In recent years, the department’s research presence has increased significantly while maintaining commitment to excellence in student instruction. The department invites applications from candidates to fill the following positions: - Two tenure-track assistant professor positions in all areas of computer science that strengthen our department (\#3444 BR) - One tenure-track assistant professor position in the areas of cybersecurity, including cryptography (\#3442 BR) - One non-tenure track teaching position (\#3445 BR) Candidates for the tenure-track positions are expected to have strong commitment to research, doctoral student mentoring, and teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Candidates for the non tenure-track position are expected to have a strong commitment to teaching. Interested applicants should visit: and refer to the appropriate BR number listed above for additional information about the position and the application process. Please direct any inquires to the Hiring Committee Chair, Edith Hemaspaandra (). **Edith Hemaspaandra, Chair, RIT CS Hiring Committee** **( )** Student Industrial Internship Opportunities (IAPR List) ------------------------------------------------------- [IAPR's Industrial Liaison Committee](http://www.iapr.org/committees/committees.php?id=5&subid=53) is pleased to announce the opening of its Company Internship Brokerage List. The web page lists internship opportunities for students at different levels of education and specialism. We expect many additional internship opportunities to be listed here as the community becomes more aware of the site. 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