============================================================================ IAPR TC-11 Newsletter May 2016 http://www.iapr-tc11.org ========== Contents ======================================================== * Message from the Editor * Dates 'n' Deadlines - MedPRAI 2016, Tebessa, Algeria May 27 (http://medprai2016.sciencesconf.org/) - IWRR 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands June 20 (http://www.cvc.uab.es/IWRR2016) * Call for Papers: - 2nd International Workshop on Robust Reading (IWRR) 2016 (repost) Amsterdam, The Netherlands (in conjunction with ECCV) (http://www.cvc.uab.es/IWRR2016) - 1st Mediterranean Conf. on Pattern Recognition and (repost) Artificial Intelligence Tebessa, Algeria, November 22-23, 2016 (http://medprai2016.sciencesconf.org/) * Call for Chapters: - "Handwriting: Recognition, Development and Analysis" to be (repost) published by Nova * Call for Participation: - ICFHR 2016 Competitions (Overview) (repost) (http://www.nlpr.ia.ac.cn/icfhr2016/competitions.htm) * Job offers: - Tenure-track Associate Professor position at (repost) Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. * New and Recently Published Datasets * Call for Dataset Submissions * Call for Contributions ============================================================================ ========== Message from the Editor ========================================= Welcome to the May edition of our newsletter. This edition brings to you again a few important announcements and an update on the relevant deadlines ahead. I would like to especially draw your attention to the Call for Papers for the 2nd Int. Workshop on Robust Reading (IWRR) which will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in conjunction with ECCV 2016. 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): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * MedPRAI 2016, Tebessa, Algeria November 22-23 May 27 (http://medprai2016.sciencesconf.org/) * IWRR 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands October 8, 9 or 16 June 20 (http://www.cvc.uab.es/IWRR2016) * ICDAR 2017, Kyoto, Japan November 10-15, 2017 March 15, 2017 (http://www.iapr.org/icdar2017) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * ICPR 2016, Cancun, Mexico December 4-8, 2016 - passed - (http://www.icpr2016.org/) * CVPR 2016, Las Vegas, United States June 26-July 1, 2016 - passed - (http://www.pamitc.org/cvpr16/) * BMVC 2016, York, UK September 19-22 - passed - (http://bmvc2016.cs.york.ac.uk/) * ICFHR 2016, Shenzen, China October 23-26 - passed - (http://www.nlpr.ia.ac.cn/icfhr2016) ============================================================================ ========== New and Recently Published: TC-11 Datasets ====================== * Dataset for Arabic Text Detection, Tracking and Recognition in News Videos - AcTiV (AcTiV) (http://tc11.cvc.uab.es/datasets/AcTiV_1) * TANGO-DocLab web tables from international statistical sites (Troy_200) (http://tc11.cvc.uab.es/datasets/Troy_200_1) For a list of all datasets available visit: http://tc11.cvc.uab.es ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: IWRR 2016 (in conj. with ECCV 2016) = (repost) = Call for papers 2nd International Workshop on Robust Reading (in conjunction with ECCV 2016) October 8,9, or 16 (TBC), 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands IWRR 2016 is the succession of the 1st IWRR workshop that was held in Singapore as a satellite workshop of ACCV 2014. IWRR aims at bringing together computer vision researchers and practitioners with an interest in reading systems that operate on images acquired in unconstrained conditions, such as scene images and video sequences, born-digital images, wearable camera and lifelog feeds, social media images, etc. The particular focus of the workshop is on the automatic extraction and interpretation of textual content in images, and applications that use textual information obtained automatically by such methods. The workshop aims to offer a forum for researchers to share experiences and latest results in the area, and to discuss current trends and the evolution of the Robust Reading Competition (RRC) which has attracted to date over 1,500 researchers and more than four thousand submissions. Reporting recent results on standard datasets such as the ICDAR RRC 2015 dataset on incidental scene text or the Coco-Text dataset is particularly encouraged. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the programme committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, novelty, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. Proceedings for all ECCV 2016 workshops will be published with Springer. Fresh paper submissions as well as re-submissions of improved versions of rejected ECCV / ACM Multimedia papers (submitted along with the original reviews) are welcome. The topics of interest include among others: - Scene text localisation, segmentation, and recognition - Reading scene and/or overlaid text in video sequences - Word spotting - End-to-end reading systems - Text localisation and recognition in born-digital images - Restoration of camera captured paper documents - Quality estimation and degradation modelling of camera-captured text - Performance evaluation and metrics - Robust reading applications - Graphical content interpretation in complex settings Important Dates ------------------- Submission deadline: June 20, 2016 Deadline for resubmitted ECCV / ACM Multimedia papers: July 7, 2016 Author Notification: July 11, 2016 Camera Ready: July 24, 2016 Workshop Chairs ------------------- D. Karatzas (Spain) M. Iwamura (Japan) J. Matas (Czech Republic) P.S. Kompalli (India) F. Shafait (Pakistan) Programme Committee ------------------- J. Almazan (France) A.D. Bagdanov (Italy) S. Belongie (USA) W. Fan (China) L. Gomez (Spain) A. Gordo (France) M. Jaderberg (UK) C.V. Jawahar (India) C.-L. Liu (China) S. Lu (Singapore) G. Meng (China) M. Mirmehdi (UK) P. Natarajan (USA) L. Neumann (Czech Republic) A. Nicolaou (Spain) W. Ohyama (Japan) U. Pal (India) M. Paluri (France) V.R. Chandrasekhar (Singapore) J.A. Rodriguez (Spain) M. Rusiñol (Spain) P. Shivakumara (Malaysia) R. Smith (USA) S. Uchida (Japan) E. Valveny (Spain) J. Weinman (USA) X.-C. Yin (China) H. Yu (USA) ============================================================================ ========== Call for Papers: MedPRAI 2016 ======================= (repost) = Call for papers 1st Mediterranean Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence November 22 - 23, 2016, Tebessa, Algeria http://medprai2016.sciencesconf.org It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the 1st Mediterranean Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. The conference is organized by the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Larbi Tebessi University and will be held in Tebessa, Algeria on November 22-23, 2016. The conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussions on recent advancements in different areas of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. Topics of interest scope all related subareas including but not limited to the following. Track 1: Pattern Recognition * Handwriting analysis and recognition * Biometrics applications * Pattern recognition & applications * Image, speech, signal and video processing * Machine learning and data mining * Computer vision * Robotics and perception * Virtual reality & medical applications Track 2: Artificial Intelligence * Natural language processing * Automated reasoning and inference * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Constraint processing * Heuristic search * Intelligent interfaces * Multi-agent Systems * Deep learning All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the international program committee; additional reviewers will be consulted if needed. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. It is planned to publish the proceedings with Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (final approval pending). Important Dates: Paper Submission: May 27, 2016. Author Notification: August 26, 2016. Camera-ready Paper/Registration: September 9, 2016. Conference Dates: November 22-23, 2016. Endorsed by: The International Association or Pattern Recognition (IAPR). Organizers: Larbi Tebessi University, Tebessa, Algeria. Bahria University, Islamabd, Pakistan. Laboratory of Mathematics, Informatics and Systems, Tebessa, Algeria. ============================================================================ ========== Call for Chapters: Handwriting: Recognition ... ====== (repost) = *Handwriting: Recognition, Development and Analysis * This book intents to present and discuss the recent advances and ongoing developments of handwriting recognition. We solicit high quality, original research, or review articles focused on the following topics: * Handwriting Recognition Techniques * Cursive Script Recognition * Symbol, Equation, Sketch and Drawing Recognition * Handwritten Document Processing and Understanding * Computational Linguistics and Information Integration * Handwritten Databases and Digital Libraries * Document Characterization * Form Processing * Word spotting * Bank-Check Processing * Historical Document Processing * Writer Verification and Identification * Performance Enhancement and System Evaluation The deadline for the abstract (150-500 words) is *May** 30, 2016 **and** for **the* *completed* *chapter**, **of* *accepted** abstracts, July 30, **2016. * The contributions to this edited book are intended to range from 4,000 to 35,000 words, around 25 pages for each chapter. If you are interested in participating, please consult the Notes for Contributors here , and submit at EasyChair : http://bit.ly/1Rw6rGM. The book will be published in about 6-9 months after the close of the volume. As soon as a book is listed on our Website, the codes in the status field will indicate the production stages through publication cycle. Editors: Prof. Dr. Alejandro H. Toselli, Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) Prof. Dr. Byron L. D. Bezerra, Universidade de Pernambuco (Brazil) Prof. Dr. Cleber Zanchettin, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil) Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Pirlo, Università degli Studi di Bari (Italy) *About Nova: * Nova Science Publishers, Inc. is an academic STM publisher founded in 1985 in New York. We publish about 1,500 new books and over 50 journals a year. Our readership is primarily research level academia. Our books and journals are sold worldwide, we work with all major booksellers and have representatives and agents on four continents and in most countries. For more information visit www.novapublishers.com and Testimonials . ============================================================================ ========== Call for Participation: ICFHR 2016 Competitions ====== (repost) = Welcome to participate in the competitions of ICFHR2016. Please visit the competition URLs for details. 1. ICFHR2016 Competition on the Classification of Medieval Handwritings in Latin Script Organizers: Dominique Stutzmann, Véronique Eglin, Nicole Vincent, Florence Cloppet, Marlène Helias-Baron URL: http://oriflamms.hypotheses.org/1388 Contact: dominique.stutzmann@irht.cnrs.fr 2. ICFHR2016 Competition on Analysis of Handwritten Text in Images of Balinese Palm Leaf Manuscripts Organizers: Jean-Christophe Burie, Jean-Marc Ogier, Mickael Coustaty, Made Windu Antara Kesiman, Setiawan Hadi, Erick Paulus, Kimheng Sok, Dona Valy, I Made Gede Sunarya URL: http://amadi.univ-lr.fr/ICFHR2016_Contest/ Contact: jean-marc.ogier@univ-lr.fr 3. ICFHR2016 Competition on Arabic Online Text Recognition using Online-KHATT Database Organizers: Mohammad Tanvir Parvez, Hamzah Luqman, Baligh Al-Helali, Sabri A. Mahmoud URL: http://onlinekhatt.ideas2serve.net/competition/ Contact: m.parvez@qu.edu.sa 4. ICFHR2016 Competition on Multi-script Writer Demographics Classification Using "QUWI" Database Organizers: Chawki Djeddi, Somaya Al-Maadeed, Abdeljalil Gattal, Imran Siddiqi, Abdellatif Ennaji, Haikal El Abed URL: http://mswdc2016.sciencesconf.org Contact: djeddi_2008@yahoo.fr 5. ICFHR2016 Competition on Recognition of Handwritten Mathematical Expressions (CROHME2016) Organizers: Harold Mouchère, Christian Viard-Gaudin, Richard Zanibbi, Utpal Garain URL: http://ivc.univ-nantes.fr/CROHME/ Contact: harold.mouchere@univ-nantes.fr 6. ICFHR2016 Handwritten Keyword Spotting Competition (H-KWS 2016) Organizers: Basilis Gatos, Ioannis Pratikakis, Joan Puigcerver, Alejandro H. Toselli, Enrique Vidal, Konstantinos Zagoris URL: https://www.prhlt.upv.es/contests/icfhr2016-kws/index.html Contact: ipratika@ee.duth.gr 7. ICFHR2016 Handwritten Document Image Binarization Competition (H-DIBCO 2016) Organizers: Ioannis Pratikakis, Konstantinos Zagoris, Georgios Barlas, Basilis Gatos URL: http://vc.ee.duth.gr/h-dibco2016/ Contact: ipratika@ee.duth.gr 8. ICFHR2016 Competition on Local Attribute Detection for Improving Handwriting Recognition Organizers: Shawn Reid, Michael Murdock, Jack Reese, Blaine Hamilton URL: http://collections.ancestry.com/ANDAR-AD-2016/Home Contact: mmurdock@ancestry.com 9. ICFHR2016 Competition on Handwritten Text Recognition on the READ Dataset Organizers: Joan Andreu Sánchez, Verónica Romero, Alejandro H. Toselli, Enrique Vidal URL: http://transcriptorium.eu/~htrcontest/ Contact: jandreu@prhlt.upv.es [Source: ICFHR 2016 - http://www.nlpr.ia.ac.cn/icfhr2016/competitions.htm] ============================================================================ ========== Job Offer: Associate Professor, Tokyo ================ (repost) = A tenure-track associate professor position is available at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. Area name is: Cognitive Interactive Technology, related with (1) Data Engineering, (2) Media Information Processing, (3) Machine Learning, (4) Pattern Recognition. https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?D01A9990=30A3079FDDAFD866D3418515F39CFA88&fn=4&dt=1&id=D116030987&ln_jor=1 If you are interested in the position, please e-mail to Prof. Nakagawa at nakagawa@cc.tuat.ac.jp ============================================================================ ========== 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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