============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter June 2012 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - DRR 2013, San Francisco, USA, July 23 * Call for Papers: - 12th Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2013) * Call for Participation: - OpenHaRT'13 evaluation * Announcement: - Signature Verification Datasets Available * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the June edition of our TC-11 newsletter. This edition brings to you the First Call for Papers for ICDAR 2013, which will be held in Washington, DC, in August next year. Please note that in addition to the paper submission deadline, which is February 1, 2013, there are also deadlines for workshop, tutorial, and competition proposals on November 1. Furthermore, you will find below the Call for Participation for the 2013 OpenHaRT evaluation campaign and an announcement of new Signature Verification Datasets beeing available now from the TC-11 website. Best regards, Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor Gernot.Fink@udo.edu ============================================================================ ========== Dates 'n' Deadlines ============================================= Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * DRR 2013, San Francisco, USA February 5-7, 2013 July 23, 2012 (http://www.cs.rit.edu/~drr2013) * ICDAR 2013, Washington, USA August 25-28, 2013 February 1, 2013 (http://www.icdar2013.org/) - Workshop proposals: November 1, 2012 - Tutorial proposals: November 1, 2012 - Competition proposals: November 1, 2012 * ACPR 2013, Okinawa, Japan November 5-8, 2013 June 10, 2013 (http://www.am.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/ACPR2013/) ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: ICDAR 2013 ===================================== ======================================================================= 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2013) August 25-28, 2013 Conference web site: http://www.icdar2013.org/ ======================================================================= We are pleased to issue this call for papers for the Twelfth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2013), sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) TC-10 (Graphics Recognition) and TC-11 (Reading Systems). ICDAR is the premier international forum for researchers and practitioners in the document analysis community for identifying, encouraging and exchanging ideas on the state-of-the-art technology in document analysis, understanding, retrieval, and performance evaluation. The term document in the context of ICDAR encompasses a broad range of documents from historical forms such as palm leaves and papyrus to traditional documents and modern multimedia documents. The 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 Processing Basic Research and Methodologies for Document Processing Document Databases and Digital Libraries Multimedia Documents Forensic Documents Historical Documents Novel Applications Sketching Interfaces Performance Evaluation -------------------- Conference Outline: -------------------- The conference will be held at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington DC, USA with the main conference being held 25th-28th August 2013, workshops on the 23rd and 24th, and half-day tutorials on the 24th and 25th. A doctoral consortium will be held on the afternoon of the 25th. Manuscripts of a maximum length of five pages are encouraged to be submitted. Papers must describe original work on any of the ICDAR related topics. The format templates and instructions for paper submission will be made available on the Conference web site. The deadline for paper submission is February 1, 2013. The review process will include a rebuttal opportunity for authors. Our goal is to provide a transparent and fair review process ensuring a high quality technical program. Calls for satellite Workshops, Tutorials, Competitions and Sponsorships are now available on the Conference Web site. ----------------- Important dates ----------------- Paper Submission: Feb 1, 2013 Acceptance Notification: May 1, 2013 Camera Ready Papers Due: Jun 1, 2013 Advanced Registration: Jun 1, 2013 Workshop Proposals Due: Nov 1, 2012 Tutorial Proposals Due: Nov 1, 2012 Competition Proposals Due: Nov 1, 2012 Decision Notification:i Dec 1, 2012 Main Conference: Aug 25-28, 2013 Workshops: Aug 23-24, 2013 Tutorials: Aug 24-25, 2013 Doctoral Consortium: Aug 25, 2013 ----------- Organizing Committee ----------- Honorary Chair: George Nagy, RPI, USA General Chair: David Doermann, University of Maryland, USA General Co-Chairs: Venu Govindaraju, University at Buffalo, USA Daniel Lopresti, Lehigh University, USA Prem Natarajan, Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA Program Committee Chairs: Elisa Barney Smith, Boise State University, USA Abdel Belaid, LORIA, France Koichi Kise, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan Workshop Chair: Apostolos Antonacopoulos, University of Salford, UK Tutorial Chair: Simone Marinai, University of Florence, Italy Competitions Chairs: Volker Märgner, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany Haikal El Abed, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany Publications Chair: Srirangaraj(Ranga)Setlur, University at Buffalo, USA Sponsorship Chair: Andreas Dengel, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, DFKI, Germany Publicity Chairs: Wael Abd-Almageed, University of Maryland, USA Srirangaraj(Ranga)Setlur, University at Buffalo, USA Finance Chair: Rohit Prasad, Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA Doctoral Consortium Chair: Marcus Liwicki, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, DFKI, Germany Secretariat: David Frampton & Laura Stephens, Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA Eugenia Smith & Ed Sobczak, University at Buffalo, USA ============================================================ ============================================================================ ========== Call for Participation: OpenHaRT'13 evaluation ================== NIST 2013 Open Handwriting Recognition and Translation (OpenHaRT) Evaluation The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, is pleased to announce the second OpenHaRT evaluation that is to take place in 2013. The OpenHaRT evaluation series aims to support document analysis research and help advance the state of the art in document analysis technology through large scale common evaluations. 2013 OpenHaRT will focus on text line segmentation, OCR, and translation of document images contain primarily Arabic handwritten script. To learn more about the evaluation, refer to the evaluation plan posted on the NIST OpenHaRT'13 website: http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/hart2013.cfm. For more information or to provide feedback on our evaluation plans, please send questions and comments to hart_poc@nist.gov. Some important dates: + December 31, 2012: Registration deadline + February 15 - 26, 2012: Dry run period + March 19 - April 9, 2012: Evaluation period + August 2013: Post-evaluation workshop in the Washington DC area (tentative) If you like to receive future updates about OpenHaRT, please consider joining the NIST OpenHaRT mailing list. Send requests to hart_poc@nist.gov to join. You can also contact us at the same email if you have any questions. Please distribute this announcement to those who might be interested in participating in this evaluation Best Regards, Audrey Tong, NIST, OpenHaRT'13 coordinator ============================================================================ ========== Announcement: Signature Verification Datasets Available ========= New datasets archived at the TC11 Web Site We are pleased to announce that the ICFHR 2010 and ICFHR 2012 " Signature Verification Competition" datasets (4NSigComp2010 / 4NSigComp2012) are now available through the TC11 Web site. The collections contain offline genuine and simulated/forged signature samples. http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/ICFHR_2010_Signature_Verification_Competition_(4NSigComp2010) http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/ICFHR_2012_Signature_Verification_Competition_(4NSigComp2012) We would like to remind you that the TC10 and TC11 welcome contributions of new datasets or other resources related to the community. Please check the TC11 site on information about how to submit datasets for archiving. http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets Dimosthenis Karatzas TC-11 Dataset Curator ============================================================================ ============================================================================ ========== Call for Contributions ========================================== This newsletter needs your support in order to provide useful information to the TC11 community. 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