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# IAPR TC-11 (Reading Systems) Newsletter

## February, 2023

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### TABLE OF CONTENTS

- Message from the Editor
- Dates and Deadlines
- Deadlines
- Upcoming Conferences and Events
- ICDAR 2023
- Workshops of ICDAR 2023
- ICDAR 2023 Competitions (repost)
- DUDE Competition
- SSDA 2023 and SSDA 2024
- Call for SSDA 2023 and SSDA 2024 Proposals
- Job Offers
- 2x Post-doctoral positions at the Computer Vision Center, Barcelona
- Datasets
- TC11 Datasets Repository
- Where to share datasets

Message from the Editor
=======================

Dear TC11 members,

Now is the time to take part in ICDAR workshops and competitions!. Take
a look at the many interesting workshops that will be held in
conjunction with ICDAR ([ICDAR 2023
Workshops](https://icdar2023.org/program/workshops/)). This issue lists
the different workshops along with their websites.
As for the various ICDAR competitions, researchers from academia or
industry are encouraged to participate. Find those interesting
competitions at [ICDAR 2023
Competitions](https://icdar2023.org/program/competitions/)

In this issue you will find a call for proposals for organizing the IAPR
TC10/TC11 Summer School on Document Analysis (SSDA) for 2023 or 2024.
You will also find new job offers.

Nibal Nayef, TC11 Communication Officer
( <n.nayef@gmail.com> )

Join us! If you are not already a member of the TC11 community,
please consider joining the [TC11 mailing
list](https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=iapr-tc11&A=1).
Follow us on Twitter (iapr\_tc11): <https://twitter.com/iapr_tc11>

Dates and Deadlines
===================

Deadlines
---------

2023

- March 26 -- April 2 ICDAR conference paper rebuttal period
[ICDAR 2023 dates](https://icdar2023.org/important-dates/)

- March 31 Proposals due for organizing SSDA 2023 - [Organization
guidelines](http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Guidelines_for_Organising_and_Bidding_to_Host_the_TC10_/_TC11_Summer_School)

Upcoming Conferences and Events
-------------------------------

2023 and Later

- [ICDAR 2023](https://icdar2023.org). San José, USA (August
21-26, 2023)

- ICDAR 2024. Athens, Greece (September, 2024)

ICDAR 2023
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ICDAR 2023-related calls:

Workshops of ICDAR 2023
-----------------------

A number of interesting workshops will be held in conjunction with ICDAR
1. The workshops are listed below along with links to their websites.
Some of the workshops have already announced the paper submission
deadlines.

[IWCDF](https://warwick.ac.uk/siplab/IWCDF2023/)
ICDAR 2023 Workshop on International Workshop on Computational Document
Forensics (4th edition) (https://warwick.ac.uk/siplab/IWCDF2023/):
The Fourth International Workshop on Computational Document Forensics
(IWCDF 2023) aims at presenting the most recent theoretical and
practical advances related to digital document forgery while fostering
discussions between academy and industry.

[IWCP](https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/iwcp2023.html)
ICDAR 2023 Workshop on Computational Paleography (2nd edition)
(https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/iwcp2023.html):
The goal of this workshop is to bridge the gap between the different
research fields analyzing handwritten scripts in ancient artifacts. It
is primarily targeted at computer scientists, natural scientists, and
humanists involved in the study of ancient writing systems and their
materials, but it is not limited to these groups. By promoting
discussion among these three communities, the workshop aims to encourage
future interdisciplinary collaborations that will address current
research questions about ancient manuscripts.

[CBDAR](https://dll.seecs.nust.edu.pk/cbdar2023)
ICDAR 2023 Workshop on Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition
(https://dll.seecs.nust.edu.pk/cbdar2023):
The ICDAR 2023 Workshop on Camera-Based Document Analysis and
Recognition (CBDAR 2023) will be the successor of the previous nine
CBDAR workshops. The CBDAR series has a special focus on the analysis of
camera captured documents and text. CBDAR is a forum for presenting
up-to-date research, sharing experiences, and fomenting discussions on
future directions in camera based document analysis.

[GREC](https://grec2023.univ-lr.fr/)
ICDAR 2023 International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (15th edition)
(https://grec2023.univ-lr.fr/)
GREC 2023 will provide an excellent opportunity for researchers and
practitioners at all levels of experience to meet colleagues and to
share new ideas and knowledge about graphics recognition methods.
Graphics Recognition is a subfield of document image analysis that deals
with graphical entities in engineering drawings, comics, musical scores,
sketches, maps, architectural plans, mathematical notation, tables,
diagrams, etc.

[ADAPDA](https://sites.google.com/view/adapdaicdar23)
ICDAR 2023 Workshop on Automatically Domain-Adapted and Personalized
Document Analysis (ADAPDA)
(https://sites.google.com/view/adapdaicdar23)
This workshop aims at gathering expertise and novel ideas for
personalized Document Analysis tasks (training and adaptation strategies
of writer, language, and visual-specific models, new benchmarks, and
data collection strategies), both on-line and off-line, with attention
to privacy-preserving solutions.

[HIP](https://blog.sbb.berlin/hip2023/)
ICDAR 2023 International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and
Processing (7th edition) (HIP'23) (https://blog.sbb.berlin/hip2023/)
The 7th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and
Processing (HIP'23) will bring together researchers from various fields
working on document image acquisition, restoration, analysis, indexing,
and retrieval to make these documents accessible in digital libraries.
It is the seventh satellite workshop of ICDAR dedicated to this topic,
following HIP'11 in Beijing, HIP'13 in Washington, HIP'15 in Nancy,
HIP'17 in Kyoto and HIP'19 in Sydney and HIP'21 in Lausanne (hybrid)
that were a significant success with strong participation. HIP aims to
provide the researchers with a forum that is complementary and
synergetic to the main sessions at ICDAR on document analysis and
recognition.

[VINALDO](https://sites.google.com/view/vinaldo-workshop-icdar-2023/home)
ICDAR 2023 Workshop on Machine vision and NLP for Document Analysis (1st
edition) (VINALDO)
(https://sites.google.com/view/vinaldo-workshop-icdar-2023/home)
The first edition of the machine VIsion and NAtural Language processing
for DOcument analysis (VINALDO) workshop comes as an extension of the
GLESDO workshop, where we encourage the description of novel problems or
applications for document analysis in the area of information retrieval
that has emerged in recent years. We also encourage works that include
NLP tools for extracted text, such as language models and Transforms.
Finally, we also encourage works that develop new scanned document
datasets for novel applications.

[WML](https://www.isical.ac.in/~cvpr/ICDARWML23/)
ICDAR 2023 International Workshop on Machine Learning (4th edition)
(WML) (https://www.isical.ac.in/\~cvpr/ICDARWML23/)
Since 2010, the year of initiation of the annual Imagenet Competition
where research teams submit programs that classify and detect objects,
machine learning has gained significant popularity. In the present age,
Machine learning, in particular deep learning, is incredibly powerful to
make predictions based on large amounts of available data. There are
many applications of machine learning in Computer vision, pattern
recognition including Document analysis, Medical image analysis etc. In
order to facilitate innovative collaboration and engagement between
document analysis community and other research communities like computer
vision and images analysis etc. here we plan to organize this workshop
of Machine learning.

[ScaleDoc](http://cvit.iiit.ac.in/scaldoc2023/)
ICDAR 2023 Workshop on Scaling-up document Image understanding
(http://cvit.iiit.ac.in/scaldoc2023/)
Document Analysis has long suffered from both a fragmented landscape of
task-specific datasets and a strong focus on narrow-focused information
extraction and document conversion tasks. The Scaling-up document Image
understanding workshop aims to open the discussion on possible ways for
the community to align data preparation efforts and define large-scale
(grand) challenges that drive progress in the field.. This is meant to
be one of a series of such events to be organized on our scientific
forums in the near future. The aspiration is to set the seed for an
initiative to create our own community's document-oriented "ImageNet",
over which multiple long-term grand challenges can be defined.

ICDAR 2023 Competitions (repost)
----------------------------------

ICDAR 2023 competitions are now up and running. Find those interesting
competitions at [ICDAR 2023
Competitions](https://icdar2023.org/program/competitions/).

Researchers from academia or industry are encouraged to participate. As
usual, each competition has its own website, where one may download the
datasets, submission guidelines etc. For any questions, please contact
the respective organizers of the competition in which you are
interested.

DUDE Competition
----------------

ICDAR 2023 Competition on Document UnderstanDing of Everything (DUDE)
proposes a new dataset for benchmarking Document Understanding systems
under real-world settings that have been previously overlooked. In
contrast to previous datasets, we extensively source multi-domain,
multi-purpose, and multi-page documents of various types, origins, and
dates.
Importantly, we bridge the yet unaddressed gap between Document Layout
Analysis and Question Answering paradigms by introducing complex
layout-navigating questions and unique problems that often demand
advanced information processing or multi-step reasoning. Finally, the
multi-phased evaluation protocol also assesses the few-shot capabilities
of models by testing their generalization power to previously unseen
questions and domains, a condition essential to business use cases
prevailing in the field.

The registration has been open since December 2022, and the
training/validation sets are available on the competition website. This
is the competition schedule for the coming deadlines.

Important Dates

March 1, 2023 Evaluation phase 2 open
March 15, 2023 Task 1 submission deadline
April 1, 2023 Evaluation phase 2 deadline

All dates are 23:59 AoE and subject to change.

SSDA 2023 and SSDA 2024
=======================

Find below a call for proposals for organizing the IAPR TC10/TC11 Summer
School on Document Analysis (SSDA). The call can be answered for
organizing either the 2023 edition or 2024 edition. The deadline for
SSDA 2023 has been extended till March 31, 2023. Proposals for
organizing the summer school in 2024 are also welcome.

Call for SSDA 2023 and SSDA 2024 Proposals
------------------------------------------

SSDA 2023/2024 call for proposals: IAPR TC10/TC11 Summer School on
Document Analysis

Important Dates

March 31, 2023 proposal submission deadline for SSDA 2023
TBD proposal submission deadline for SSDA 2024

Submit Proposals via email to:
\* Foteini Simistira Liwicki (TC11 Representative),
foteini.liwicki\@ltu.se
\* KC Santosh (TC10 Representative), Santosh.KC\@usd.edu

Part of the mission of International Association for Pattern Recognition
(IAPR) TC11 and TC10 is to promote high quality educational activities
related to Reading Systems and Graphics Recognition. Responding to this
need, TC10 and TC11 have established a series of summer schools. After
the successful organization of summer schools in Jaipur, India, La
Rochelle, France, Islamabad, Pakistan, and Luleå, Sweden, we are now
soliciting proposals for the organization of the fifth "IAPR TC10/TC11
Summer School on Document Analysis" (SSDA) in 2023.

The "IAPR TC10/TC11 Summer School on Document Analysis" is intended to
become the primary educational activity of IAPR TC11 (Reading Systems)
and TC10 (Graphics Recognition). The School is meant to be a training
activity where participants are exposed to the latest trends and
techniques of Reading Systems and Graphics Recognition.

The aim of the School is to provide both an objective and clear overview
and an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art research in selected
topics of Reading Systems and Graphics Recognition. The School should
aim to provide a stimulating opportunity for young researchers and PhD
students in the field.

Individuals and groups who are interested in Reading Systems and
Graphics Recognition are invited to submit proposals for organizing and
hosting the 2023 IAPR TC10 / TC11 Summer School. As the previous summer
schools were organized in Asia, Europe, and the Sub-continent,
organizing teams from the Americas are encouraged to submit a bid in
order to facilitate the envisioned rotational scheme of the IAPR TC10 /
TC11 Summer School.

In order to fully plan their bid, it is expected that proposers
familiarize themselves with the guidelines for organizing the School
first. The Guidelines can be found at the TC11 Web site:
http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Guidelines\_for\_Organising\_and\_Bidding\_to\_Host\_the\_TC10\_/\_TC11\_Summer\_School

The submission of a bid implies full agreement with the rules and
procedures for organizing the School. Especially, this means that
organizers will apply for IAPR support and that the event will use the
series title "IAPR TC10/TC11 Summer School on Document Analysis" with an
optional sub-title denoting a special focus of the respective event.

Please consider submitting a proposal for this increasingly important
event for the TC10/TC11 community. If you have questions, please do not
hesitate to contact the TC11 and TC10 SSDA representatives: Foteini
Simistira Liwicki (TC11 Representative) and KC Santosh (TC10
Representative).

Previous events: As a reference, the 2021 Summer School on Document
Analysis was held in Luleå, Sweden with the theme
[Digital Transformation in a Changing
World](https://www.ltu.se/research/subjects/Maskininlarning/Workshoppar/SSDA-2021?l=en).

Job Offers
==========

Find below a post 2 open postdoc positions at the Computer Vision Center
(CVC), Barcelona. The positions are focused on computer vision and
federated learning and differential privacy.

2x Post-doctoral positions at the Computer Vision Center, Barcelona
-------------------------------------------------------------------

We are seeking two postdoctoral researchers to join the Vision, Language
and Reading group at the Computer Vision Center (CVC), in Barcelona,
Spain, focused on (1) COMPUTER VISION and (2) FEDERATED LEARNING AND
DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY.

The positions are available for a minimum of 2 years, and are linked to
the "European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI" (ELSA), a European
Project funded by Horizon Europe and backed by the ELLIS network of
excellence. The project covers research topics that include robustness,
privacy and human agency and will develop use cases in areas such as
autonomous driving, robotics, health and document intelligence. The
candidate researchers will focus on privacy aware methods for document
understanding.

CANDIDATE 'S PROFILE
The candidate should possess a PhD in machine learning or computer
vision and have a strong publication record. We are looking for
candidates who have publications in top conferences like CVPR, ECCV,
ICCV, ICDAR, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR.

The candidate should have a strong background in machine learning and
computer vision. Experience on document image analysis and/or visual
question answering would be positive. The applicants are expected to be
fluent in both oral and written communication in English. They should
work well in a team while demonstrating initiative and independence. The
candidate is expected to co-supervise PhD students.

The successful candidate is expected to contribute to the design and
development of AI solutions for document understanding, employing
privacy preserving techniques and infrastructures set up by the ELSA
project.

THE COMPUTER VISION CENTER
The selected candidate will work in the Computer Vision Centre (CVC),
Barcelona, a research institute comprising more than 130 researchers and
support staff, dedicated to computer vision research and knowledge
transfer. With a strong international projection and links to the
industry, the Computer Vision Centre offers an exciting environment for
scientific career development. The Computer Vision Centre has a plan for
expansion of its permanent research staff base and has received the "HR
Excellence in Research" award as a provider and supporter of a
stimulating and favourable working environment.

The direct responsible for these posts will Dr Dimosthenis Karatzas,
leading the Vision, Language and Reading research group at the CVC.

Barcelona is a vibrant city and an important Artificial Intelligence
hub. The high quality of life is combined with an open and international
looking character of the city. Barcelona is very well connected by air,
sea and ground transportation. The region of Catalonia boosts its own AI
strategy, in which the CVC is a key player.

RESEARCH CONTACT
If you are interested in the position, please contact Dr Dimosthenis
Karatzas for more information and applications (dimos\@cvc.uab.es)

APPLICATION PROCESS
Apply by filling in the online form at:
Computer Vision:
http://www.cvc.uab.es/blog/2023/01/11/postdoc-position-in-computer-vision/
FL and DP:
http://www.cvc.uab.es/blog/2023/01/11/postdoc-position-in-computer-vision/

MORE INFO
ELSA project: https://elsa-ai.eu/
Computer Vision Center: http://www.cvc.uab.es/
Vision, Language and Reading group: https://www.vlr.ai/

Datasets
========

TC11 Datasets Repository
------------------------

### Where to share datasets

Did you know it? We have two official places for datasets:
- Our historical platform for storage and listing:
http://datasets.iapr-tc11.org

- A Zenodo community (if you choose to submit your datasets there):
https://zenodo.org/communities/iapr-tc11

TC11 maintains a collection of datasets that can be found online in the
[TC11 Datasets
Repository](http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets).

If you have new datasets (e.g., from competitions) that you wish to
share with the research community, please use the [online upload
form](http://tc11.cvc.uab.es/upload/). 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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