IAPR TC11 Newsletter 2022 10
October, 2022
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- Message from the Editor
- Dates and Deadlines
- Deadlines
- Upcoming Conferences and Events
- ICDAR 2023
- ICDAR 2023: Call for ICDAR-IJDAR Journal Track Papers *(extended deadline)*
- ICDAR 2023: Call for Tutorials
- ICDAR 2023: Call for Papers *(repost)*
- DAS 2024
- DAS 2024: Call for Proposals
- Datasets
- TC11 Datasets Repository *(repost)*
Dear TC11 members,
The ICDAR-IJDAR journal track has extended its article submission deadline by two weeks to November 14, 2022. Furthermore, the ICDAR 2023 organizers are seeking proposals for tutorials until January 14, 2023.
Finally, please find below a call for proposals to host the IAPR sponsored Document Analysis Systems (DAS) workshop in 2024, co-located with ICDAR in Athens, Greece. Due date for proposal submission is February 28, 2023.
Andreas Fischer, TC11 Chair
( andreas.fischer@unifr.ch )
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Deadlines
2022
- November 14 Extended 1st round journal track submission ICDAR 2023
2023
- January 11 Tutorial proposal due ICDAR 2023
- January 15 Conference paper submission ICDAR 2023
- February 28 Proposals due for hosting DAS 2024
Upcoming Conferences and Events
2022
- ICFHR 2022. Hyderabad, India (December 4-7, 2022)
2023 and Later
- ICDAR 2023. San José, USA (August 21-26, 2023)
- ICDAR 2024. Athens, Greece (September, 2024)
ICDAR 2023: Call for ICDAR-IJDAR Journal Track Papers (extended deadline)
The 17th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2023)
August 21-26, 2023 San José, California, USA
https://icdar2023.org/
PDF version of this call: CfP ICDAR-IJDAR Journal Track
IJDAR website: CfP ICDAR-IJDAR Journal Track
Following a tradition established at ICDAR 2019 and 2021, ICDAR 2023 will include a journal paper track that offers the rapid turnaround and dissemination times of a conference, while providing the paper length, scientific rigor, and careful review process of an archival journal.
Important Dates
Nov 14, 2022 Extended 1st round journal track paper submissions due Jan 04, 2023 1st round journal track paper notifications Jan 15, 2023 *Regular ICDAR proceedings paper submission deadline Mar 15, 2023 2nd round journal track paper submissions due May 15, 2023 2nd round journal track paper notifications
The ICDAR-IJDAR journal track invites high-quality submissions presenting original research in Document Analysis and Recognition. Journal versions of previously published conference papers or survey papers will not be considered for this special issue; such submissions can be submitted as journal-only papers via the regular IJDAR process.
Accepted papers will be published in a special issue of IJDAR, and will receive an oral presentation slot at ICDAR 2023. Authors who submit their work to the journal track commit themselves to present their results at the ICDAR conference if their paper is accepted. IJDAR’s publisher, Springer-Nature, will make accepted papers freely available for four weeks around the conference. After this, accepted papers will be available from the archival journal.
Format: Journal track papers submissions should follow the format of IJDAR submissions and the standard guidelines for the journal.
Procedure and Deadlines:
While we permit a second round of submissions for the ICDAR-IJDAR journal track for both new submissions and revised papers from the 1st round of submissions, it must be understood by all authors that the full journal review process will be required for all ICDAR-IJDAR track submissions — there is no “short cut.” Papers submitted late in the second round run a risk of the review process not completing in time. In such cases, authors should know that:
(1) The submitted paper can still continue under review as an IJDAR paper.
(2) The authors always have the option of preparing a shorter version of the paper to submit as a regular ICDAR conference paper.
Questions regarding the status of a paper that is under review for the IJDAR- ICDAR journal track should be directed to Ms. Katherine Moretti @Springer (katherine.moretti@springer.com). The guest editors have full authority to determine that the journal review process will not complete in time, and to decline submissions that arrive too late. In which case they will immediately notify the authors who can decide to leave the paper in the standard journal reviewing system or withdraw their manuscript from the journal.
Special Issue Guest Editors
ICDAR 2023 PC Chairs: Gernot A. Fink, Rajiv Jain, Koichi Kise (liaison to IJDAR), and Richard Zanibbi
Inquiries
For additional information, please email one of the editors of this special issue or consult the FAQ that will be posted on the IJDAR website.
ICDAR 2023: Call for Tutorials
Important Dates
Jan 11 2022 Proposal Due Jan 31 2022 Acceptance Notification Aug 24-26 2023 Dates of Tutorials
The ICDAR 2023 Organizing Committee invites proposals for tutorials that will be held on August 24-26th (the correct final date will be communicated as soon as possible), before the main conference begins.
ICDAR 2023 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.
- Introduce expert non-specialists to a DAR subarea. Survey a mature area of DAR research and/or practice.
- Motivate and explain a DAR topic of emerging importance.
- Overview DAR systems for industrial solutions (suggestion for researchers in industry).
- Introduce some recent innovative techniques for DAR research and software quality, such as open-source libraries, high-level API, technical frameworks for expert developments, etc. (suggestion for expert programmers).
An ICDAR tutorial should aim to give a comprehensive overview of a specific topic related to DAR. A good tutorial should be educational rather than just a cursory survey of techniques. The topic should be of sufficient relevance and importance to attract significant interest from the ICDAR community. Typical tutorial audiences consist of PhD students studying computer vision, image processing or pattern recognition, but also include researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry.
In order to facilitate innovative collaboration and interaction between researchers in academia and industry, the Tutorial Chairs strongly encourage proposals for industrial tutorials, in which researchers in companies describe DAR systems and overview industrial solutions to document analysis problems in real use-case industrial scenarios.
Proposals should be up to 4 pages in length, and should contain the following information:
- Title of the tutorial.
- Scope and motivation. A brief description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in the conference registration brochure.
- Preference for the duration (full day or half day). Due to agenda constraints, half day tutorials are recommended. If a full day is needed, provide a brief justification.
- A detailed outline of the tutorial. Course description with list of topics to be covered, along with a brief outline.
- Relevance for ICDAR. A description of why the tutorial topic would be of interest to a substantial part of the ICDAR audience.
- Expected target audience in terms of composition and estimated number of attendees. Prerequisite knowledge of the ICDAR audience for attending the tutorial.
- Short CV of organizers. A brief CV of the presenter(s), including name, postal address, phone number, e-mail address, web page, background in the tutorial area (projects, relevant publications or tutorial-level articles on the subject), evidence of teaching experience.
- 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 the case clarifications and discussions on the scope and content of the proposal are needed.
Evaluation
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.
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.
Notes:
Tutorial slides must be provided to us for inclusion on the conference website and also on the TC-10 and TC-11 websites, as educational material.
The ICDAR main conference organizers will handle the tutorial registration and provide the space, coffee breaks and other facilities required to organize tutorials (e.g. a room, a projector and a screen).
Submission Guidelines & Inquiries
All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to the Tutorial Chairs:
Elisa Barney (elisa.barney@ltu.se)
Laurence Likforman-Sulem (likforman@telecom-paris.fr)
Feedback, comments and/or suggestions would be provided within two weeks of receiving the proposal. Final acceptance (or rejection) would be decided by January 31, 2022.
Inquiries should be sent to tutorials-chairs@icdar2023.org or the above emails.
ICDAR 2023: Call for Papers (repost)
The 17th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2023)
August 21-26, 2023 San José, California, USA
https://icdar2023.org/
PDF version of this call: ICDAR 2023 CfP
ICDAR is the premier event for scientists and practitioners involved with document analysis and recognition, a field of growing importance in our current age of digital transition. The 17th edition of this flagship conference will be held in San Jose, August 21-26, 2023. (The conference will be an in-person event).
Important Dates
Jan 15, 2023 Conference paper submission (23:59 AoE) Mar 26, 2023 Conference paper notification Apr 15, 2023 Conference camera-ready papers due
Paper Submissions:
There is both a standard conference paper track and a journal track at ICDAR 2023; details regarding the journal track may be found in a separate Call for Papers on the conference website.
Reviewing for conference papers will be double blind. Authors should not include their names, affiliations, or acknowledgements in submitted manuscripts, and should ensure that their identity is not revealed indirectly by citing their earlier work in the third person.
Papers may be up to 15 pages long (including references) in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. Detailed submission instructions for authors can be found on the conference website (https://icdar2023.org).
Topics of Interest:
- Document image processing
- Physical and logical layout analysis
- Text and symbol recognition
- Handwriting recognition
- Document analysis systems
- Document classification
- Indexing and retrieval of documents
- Document synthesis
- Extracting document semantics
- NLP for document understanding
- Office automation
- Graphics recognition
- Human document interaction
- Document Representation Modeling
- Structured document generation
- Multimedia document analysis
- Mobile text recognition
- Pen-based document analysis
- Scene text detection and recognition
- Recognition of tables and formulas
- Historical document analysis
- Signature verification
- Document summarization and translation
- Document forensics and provenance
- Medical document analysis
- Document analysis for social good
- Document analysis for literature search
- Gold-standard benchmarks and datasets
Publication: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science
The conference proceedings will be published as part of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Accepted papers will be freely available through SpringerLink from the conference website for one year after publication and will later be freely available through SpringerLink for four years after publication.
Contact: pc-chairs@icdar2023.org
DAS 2024: Call for Proposals
Deadline: February 28, 2023
Submission Method: email to andreas.fischer@unifr.ch / jean-christophe.burie@univ-lr.fr
Document Analysis Systems (DAS) is an IAPR sponsored workshop focusing on system-level issues and approaches. In DAS 2022, it was decided by the participants to hold DAS as a satellite workshop with annual ICDAR starting from 2024 onwards. We are seeking proposals to host the 16th Document Analysis Systems workshop co-located with ICDAR in 2024.
Anyone interested in submitting a proposal to host DAS 2024 in Greece should drop an email to andreas.fischer@unifr.ch and jean-christophe.burie@univ-lr.fr by February 28, 2023.
We are looking forward to receiving high quality proposals and making the first chapter of DAS-ICDAR 2024 a big success!
Andreas Fischer (Chair, TC11)
Jean-Christophe Burie (Chair, TC10)
TC11 Datasets Repository (repost)
TC11 maintains a collection of datasets that can be found online in the TC11 Datasets Repository.
If you have new datasets (e.g., from competitions) that you wish to share with the research community, please use the online upload form. For questions and support, please contact the TC11 Dataset Curator (contact information is below).
Joseph Chazalon (TC11 Dataset Curator)
( joseph.chazalon@lrde.epita.fr )
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