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==  March, 2017  ==
 
  
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== Message from the Editor ==
 
  
This new edition of the TC11 newsletter reflects the vibrancy and diversity of activity in our community. There are numerous calls for submissions to ICDAR workshops and competitions, along with Calls for Papers for DAS 2018 and an upcoming special issue of IJDAR on Deep Learning. Springer is offering a discount on IJDAR subscriptions for IAPR members (details are provided below).
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Things continue to be busy in the TC-11 community! Probably the most
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pressing announcement concerns the ICDAR 2017 paper submission deadline,
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which has been extended to April 1st (abstracts) and April 7th (full
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papers).
  
Note that in addition to the specific ICDAR competitions advertised in this newsletter, a complete list of ICDAR competitions with links is available online: [http://u-pat.org/ICDAR2017/program_competitions.html ICDAR 2017 Competitions Web Page].
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As ICDAR is now fast approaching, various other ICDAR-related items are
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included in this issue. These include announcements for competitions,
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workshops, tutorials, the ICDAR Awards and the ICDAR Doctoral
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Consortium.
  
Also regarding ICDAR, submissions for the Doctoral Consortium are still being accepted. Finally, a Call for Proposals to host ICDAR 2021 may be found below - we ask that those in a position to do so, to please make a bid to host the flagship conference for TC-11.
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This month's newsletter also includes the first announcement for DAS
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2018, which will be held in Vienna, Austria. Additional details will be
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provided in upcoming newsletters. Other meeting announcements include
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the 1st Workshop on Human-Document Interaction, and the Conference of
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the Institute of the Americas.
  
'''Richard Zanibbi, TC-11 Communications Officer'''<br />
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In this issue you will also find information about Special Issues in
([mailto:rxzvcs@rit.edu rxzvcs@rit.edu])
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IJDAR and IEEE THMS pertinent to our community. These Special Issues
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concern deep learning (submissions are open) and handwriting/drawing in
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interactive systems (now available). Also, good news for those
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interested in subscribing to IJDAR: the Editors have negotiated a
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substantially reduced subscription fee for IAPR members.
  
== Dates and Deadlines ==
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Best of luck with preparing your ICDAR submissions!
  
'''2017'''
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'''Richard Zanibbi, TC-11 Communications Officer'''<br />
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([[rxzvcs@rit.edu|rxzvcs@rit.edu]])
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* '''May 15:''' Nominations for ICDAR 2017 Awards
 
* '''July 15:''' ICDAR Doctoral Consortium Applications
 
* '''Aug. 31:''' IJDAR Special Issue: ''Deep Learning for Document Analysis and Recognition'' ([http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/Special+Issue+on+Deep+Learning+for+DAR.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1600550-p1122349 Call for Papers])
 
* '''Nov. 15:''' ICPRAI 2018 Paper Submission ([http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~icprai18/index.html Call for Papers])
 
* '''Nov. 20:''' DAS 2018 Paper Submission ([https://das2018.caa.tuwien.ac.at/media/filer_public/9f/2e/9f2e9653-b73f-4899-902e-3dfa4109d744/cfp.pdf Call for Papers])
 
  
'''2018'''
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* '''April 1 &amp; 7, 2017:''' '''- EXTENDED -''' ICDAR 2017 Abstracts/Papers, Kyoto, Japan (Nov. 10-15, 2017) (http://www.iapr.org/icdar2017)
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* '''April 8, 2017:''' GCPR 2017, Basel, Switzerland (September 13-15, 2017) (https://gcpr2017.dmi.unibas.ch/en)
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* '''April 15, 2017:''' Conference of the Institute of the Americas, La Rochelle, France (Oct. 18-20, 2017)
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* '''May 15, 2017:''' Nominations for ICDAR 2017 Awards
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* '''July 15, 2017:''' ICDAR Doctoral Consortium Applications
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* '''August 31, 2017:''' IJDAR Special Issue Submissions: ''Deep Learning for Document Analysis and Recognition'' ([http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/Special+Issue+on+Deep+Learning+for+DAR.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1600550-p1122349 Submission Instructions])
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* '''Nov. 15, 2017:''' ICPRAI 2018, Montreal, Canada (May 14-17, 2018)<br />
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(http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~icprai18/index.html)
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* '''March 2, 2018:''' ICFHR 2018, Niagara Falls, USA (August 6-8, 2018) (http://www.cs.rit.edu/~icfhr2018)
  
* '''Jan. 19:''' DAS 2018 Short Paper Submission ([https://das2018.caa.tuwien.ac.at/media/filer_public/9f/2e/9f2e9653-b73f-4899-902e-3dfa4109d744/cfp.pdf Call for Papers])
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'''Upcoming Conferences'''
* '''Mar. 2:''' ICFHR 2018 Submissions ([http://www.cs.rit.edu/~icfhr2018 Call for Papers])
 
  
= ICDAR 2021: Call for Proposals =
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* DAS 2018, TBD
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* ICFHR 2020, Dortmund, Germany (September 8-10, 2020)
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'''INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION (ICDAR)'''<br />
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The following datasets were recently added to the [http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets TC-11 Datasets Collection].
'''CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO HOST ICDAR 2021'''<br />
 
'''Deadline:''' June 15, 2017<br />
 
'''Submissions:''' Send email to [mailto:dimos@cvc.uab.es dimos@cvc.uab.es] / [mailto:bart.lamiroy@loria.fr bart.lamiroy@loria.fr]
 
  
The ICDAR Advisory Board is seeking proposals to host the 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, to be held in 2021 (ICDAR2021). ICDAR is the premier IAPR event in the field of Document Analysis and Recognition with 300 to 500 participants. The aim of this conference is to bring together international experts to share their experiences and to promote research and development in all areas of Document Analysis and Recognition.
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* '''ICDAR'15 Smartphone Document Capture and OCR Competition'''
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* [http://tc11.cvc.uab.es/datasets/icdar15smartdoc-ch1_1 Challenge 1]: Document localization in video
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* [http://tc11.cvc.uab.es/datasets/icdar15smartdoc-ch2_1 Challenge 2]: Document localization and recognition (OCR)
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* '''University of La Rochelle''' - [http://tc11.cvc.uab.es/datasets/SmartDoc-QA_1 SmartDoc QA]: baseline benchmark for quality assessment methods for mobile captured documents
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== ICDAR 2017 Paper Deadline Extension<br>(Abstracts: April 1, Papers: April 7) ==
  
Any consortium interested in making a proposal to host an ICDAR should first familiarise themselves with the &quot;Guidelines for Organizing and Bidding to Host ICDAR&quot; document which is available on the TC10 and TC11 websites ( http://iapr-tc10.univ-lr.fr and http://www.iapr-tc11.org respectively).
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Dear Researchers,
  
A link to the most current version of the guidelines appears below. Small updates in the guidelines are expected during the next few weeks, so please check on the Web site of TC11 for the latest version.
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As we experienced certain technical problems with the server at the time of the abstract submission deadline, plus the announcement of the abstract deadline extension did not reach everyone as intended, we would like to extend the abstract deadline until April 1st which was the current date for full paper submission. Due to this extension, the deadline of full paper submission is postponed to April 7th. The following are the updated deadlines and '''no further extension will be granted.'''
  
http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/images/ICDAR_Guidelines_2016_02_27.pdf
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'''Abstract submission:''' April 1st (UTC-8, Pacific Time Zone)<br />
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'''Full paper submission:''' April 7th (UTC-8, Pacific Time Zone)
  
The submission of a bid implies full agreement with the rules and procedures outlined in that document. The submitted proposal must define clearly the items specified in the guidelines (Section 5.2).
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Looking forward to having your submissions!
  
It has been the tradition that the location of ICDAR conferences follows a rotating schedule among different continents. Hence, proposals from America are encouraged. However, high quality bids from other locations, for example, from countries where we have had no ICDAR before, will also be considered. Proposals will be examined by the ICDAR Advisory Board.
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Best regards,
  
Proposals should be emailed to Dr. Dimosthenis Karatzas at [dimos@cvc.uab.es ] and Dr. Bart Lamiroy at [bart.lamiroy@loria.fr ] by June 15, 2017.
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ICDAR 2017 PC chairs
  
'''ICDAR Advisory Board'''
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'''Masakazu Iwamura, Executive Co-Chair, ICDAR 2017'''<br />
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([[masa@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp|masa@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp]])
  
* Dimosthenis Karatzas (Chair, TC11)
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== First Announcement: International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems 2018 (DAS 2018) ==
* Bart Lamiroy (Chair, TC10)
 
* Dan Lopresti (Chair, IAPR C&amp;M)
 
* Jean-marc Ogier
 
* Josep Llados
 
* Simone Marinai
 
* Cheng-Lin Liu
 
  
= Conferences and Workshops =
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We are happy to announce that the next edition of DAS, will be held in Vienna, Austria, during April 2018.
  
== Upcoming Conferences ==
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Further announcements and the Call for Papers will follow soon.
 
 
* [[u-pat.org/ICDAR2017|ICDAR 2017]]<br />
 
Kyoto, Japan (Nov. 9-15, 2017)
 
* [https://das2018.caa.tuwien.ac.at DAS 2018]<br />
 
Vienna, Austria (24-27 April, 2018)
 
* [http://icprai2018.com/ ICPRAI 2018]<br />
 
Montreal, Canada (May 14-17, 2018)
 
* [https://www.cs.rit.edu/~icfhr2018 ICFHR 2018]<br />
 
Niagara Falls, USA (August 6-8, 2018)
 
* ICFHR 2020<br />
 
Dortmund, Germany (September 8-10, 2020)
 
 
 
== ICDAR 2017: Competitions, Workshops, Tutorials ==
 
 
 
ICDAR 2017 will be hosting a variety of interesting competitions, workshops and tutorials. Current information may be found at the links provided below. Additional details for some of the ICDAR competitions and workshops may be found below.
 
 
 
* [http://u-pat.org/ICDAR2017/program_competitions.html ICDAR Competitions]
 
* [http://u-pat.org/ICDAR2017/program_workshops.html ICDAR Workshops]
 
* [http://u-pat.org/ICDAR2017/program_tutorials.html ICDAR Tutorials]
 
 
 
Please note that some of these important events may still be accepting participants. I encourage you to contact event organizers directly with any questions that you may have.
 
 
 
'''Richard Zanibbi, TC-11 Communications Officer'''<br />
 
([mailto:rxzvcs@rit.edu rxzvcs@rit.edu])
 
 
 
== Call for Papers: DAS 2018 ==
 
 
 
'''13th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2018)'''<br />
 
''April 24-27 2018, Vienna, Austria''<br />
 
http://www.das2018-conference.org
 
 
 
'''Important Dates'''
 
 
 
<pre>Full papers due:            Nov. 20, 2017 
 
* Decision notification:    Jan. 15, 2018 
 
Short papers due:          Jan. 19, 2018 
 
* Decision notification:    Jan. 31, 2018 
 
Tutorial proposals due:    Nov. 30, 2017</pre>
 
'''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 &amp; Technologies and Commitees, please see the DAS 2018 website: http://www.das2018-conference.org
 
 
 
'''Contact:''' das2018@caa.tuwien.ac.at
 
  
 
'''Robert Sablatnig and Florian Kleber, DAS 2018 General Chairs'''<br />
 
'''Robert Sablatnig and Florian Kleber, DAS 2018 General Chairs'''<br />
 
([mailto:sab@caa.tuwien.ac.at sab@caa.tuwien.ac.at], [mailto:kleber@caa.tuwien.ac.at kleber@caa.tuwien.ac.at])
 
([mailto:sab@caa.tuwien.ac.at sab@caa.tuwien.ac.at], [mailto:kleber@caa.tuwien.ac.at kleber@caa.tuwien.ac.at])
  
== ICDAR Workshop on Machine Learning ==
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== Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on Human-Document Interaction ==
 
 
'''Submission Deadline'''
 
 
 
<pre>Paper Submissions:  July 5, 2017</pre>
 
Please consider participating in the Workshop on Machine Learning in Kyoto, Japan on November 11, 2017, which is co-located with the ICDAR 2017 conference. The workshop aims to facilitate interaction, collaboration and engagement between the document analysis community and other research communities including pattern recognition, machine learning, computer vision, and image analysis.
 
 
 
We ask that you please consider submitting your work to this workshop. For more details about the workshop, please visit: http://u-pat.org/ICDAR2017/program_workshops.html
 
 
 
'''Topics of interest''' include, but are not limited to:
 
 
 
* Analysis and recognition of document images and handwritings using machine learning techniques, such as deep learning
 
* Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs)
 
* Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)
 
* Semantic Analysis (e.g., Word Embedding and Topic Models)
 
* Graphical Models and their Optimization (e.g., HMM and CRF/MRF)
 
* Feature Reduction and Selection (e.g., Sparse Representation and Latent Space Analysis)
 
* Metric Learning, Ensemble Learning (e.g., Boosting and Random Forests)
 
* Semi-Supervised and Weakly-Supervised Learning
 
* Support Vector Machines (SVM)
 
* Instance-Based Methods (e.g., k-Nearest Neighbor classifier)
 
* Applications of Machine Learning
 
 
 
'''Manuscript length:''' IEEE format with 6 pages (maximum). WML-2017 follows a single-blind review process, and so authors are asked to include their names and affiliations in their paper submissions. Submissions will be made through EasyChair.
 
 
 
For further information please contact to WML Secretariat through [[icdarwml@gmail.com|icdarwml@gmail.com]].
 
 
 
Thanks and Regards,<br />
 
'''Umapada Pal and Eric Granger, General Chairs for WML-2017'''<br />
 
([mailto:umapada_pal@yahoo.com umapada_pal@yahoo.com], [mailto:eric.granger@etsmtl.ca eric.granger@etsmtl.ca])
 
 
 
== Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on Human-Document Interaction (''repost'') ==
 
  
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'''Workshop Dates:''' November 10 or 11th, 2017<br />
 
'''Location:''' Kyoto Japan (in conjunction with ICDAR 2017)<br />
 
'''Location:''' Kyoto Japan (in conjunction with ICDAR 2017)<br />
'''Web Page:''' [http://www.cvc.uab.es/HDI2017 www.cvc.uab.es/HDI2017]<br />
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'''Web Page:''' [http://www.cvc.uab.es/HDI2017 www.cvc.uab.es/HDI2017]
'''Important Dates:'''
 
  
<pre>Regular paper submissions:    July 1, 2017
 
ICDAR resubmission deadline:  July 15, 2017 
 
Notifications:                July 31, 2017 
 
Camera Ready:                September 1, 2017 
 
Workshop Dates:              November 10 or 11th, 2017  (TBD) </pre>
 
 
HDI 2017 will focus on how humans interact with written information around them, and the interfaces between users and documents. The term document is meant in the wider possible sense, to refer to any physical object that carries written information.
 
HDI 2017 will focus on how humans interact with written information around them, and the interfaces between users and documents. The term document is meant in the wider possible sense, to refer to any physical object that carries written information.
  
 
The workshop aims to create a space for debate between the Document Image Analysis and Recognition and the Human-Computer Interaction communities, and it is motivated by a number of recent developments that point to a coming change of paradigm in the way we interact with written information around us.
 
The workshop aims to create a space for debate between the Document Image Analysis and Recognition and the Human-Computer Interaction communities, and it is motivated by a number of recent developments that point to a coming change of paradigm in the way we interact with written information around us.
  
Fresh paper submissions as well as re-submissions of improved versions of rejected ICDAR papers (submitted along with the original reviews) are welcome. Accepted papers will be published in the &quot;ICDAR 2017 Workshops&quot; IEEE CPS volume.
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Fresh paper submissions as well as re-submissions of improved versions of rejected ICDAR papers (submitted along with the original reviews) are welcome. The topics of interest include among others:
 
 
'''Topics of interest''' include, among others:
 
  
 
* Augmented documents
 
* Augmented documents
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* Content personalisation
 
* Content personalisation
 
* Applications (e.g. document editing, interactive translation, collaborative editing)
 
* Applications (e.g. document editing, interactive translation, collaborative editing)
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Accepted papers will be published in the &quot;ICDAR 2017 Workshops&quot; IEEE CPS volume.
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=== Important Dates ===
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'''Submission Deadline (normal papers):''' July 1, 2017<br />
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'''Submission Deadline (ICDAR resubmissions):''' July 15, 2017<br />
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'''Notification:''' July 31, 2017<br />
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'''Camera Ready:''' September 1, 2017<br />
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'''Workshop:''' November 10 or 11, 2017 (TBC)
  
 
=== Workshop Chairs ===
 
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([mailto:dimos@cvc.uab.es dimos@cvc.uab.es])
 
([mailto:dimos@cvc.uab.es dimos@cvc.uab.es])
  
= ICDAR 2017: Competitions =
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== Call for Papers:<br>2017 Conference of the Institute of the Americas ==
 
 
== ICDAR 2017 Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts (RDCL2017) ==
 
 
 
'''Web Page:''' http://www.primaresearch.org/RDCL2017
 
 
 
This competition presents challenges for page segmentation, region classification, and text recognition in an end-to-end scenario. The dataset contains scanned pages from contemporary magazines and technical articles. Participants will be provided with know-how and tools that aid the development or extension of their page analysis systems.
 
  
Details may be found on the competition web page.
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'''Conference Dates:''' October 18-20, 2017<br />
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'''Location:''' La Rochelle, France
  
'''Apostolos Antonacopoulos, Competition Organizer'''<br />
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* '''Abstracts Due:''' April 15, 2017<br />
([mailto:a.antonacopoulos@primaresearch.org a.antonacopoulos@primaresearch.org])
 
  
== ICDAR 2017 Competition on Recognition of Early Indian Printed Documents (REID2017) ==
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* '''Scientific Committee Decisions:''' 15 May, 2017<br />
  
'''Web Page:''' http://www.primaresearch.org/REID2017
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* '''Submission of Full Papers:''' 31 July, 2017
  
The British Library is currently undertaking a ground breaking project, Two Centuries of Indian Print, to digitise and make available as open access 4,000 early printed Indian books (1713-1914) written in Bengali. Complementary material, the Quarterly Lists, consist of catalogue records for all books published in India between 1867 and 1967, will also be made openly available through the project. As part of this project a challenge is posed to find an optimal solution for accurately and automatically transcribing the Bengali books and Quarterly Lists, to form a unique dataset that can be used with computational tools and methods, and to enable full-text search and discovery.
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The 2017 conference of the Institute of the Americas proposes to explore the evolutions of practices and knowledge in the field of the human and social sciences closely related to the development of digital techniques and their applications. This edition will specifically focus on the digital humanities and digital history concepts, and could thus organize its reflections around the following avenues:
  
Details may be found on the competition web page.
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# New heuristic tools: the multi-disciplinarity and collaborative dimension in American studies.<br />
  
'''Apostolos Antonacopoulos, Competition Organizer'''<br />
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# Political, financial and institutional issues of Digital Humanities in American Studies<br />
([mailto:a.antonacopoulos@primaresearch.org a.antonacopoulos@primaresearch.org])
 
  
== ICDAR 2017 Page Object Detection (POD) Competition ==
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# From the Americas to the Atlantic and the Pacific: transnational studies in the Digital Age<br />
  
'''Important Dates'''
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# The role of legal and management sciences<br />
  
<pre>Release Examples with Ground Truth: March 20, 2017
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# Opening the field to social demand: addressing issues of pedagogy, heritage management, and the mediatization of scientific production
Release Training Dataset:          April 20, 2017
 
Release Testing Dataset:            May 1, 2017
 
Result Submissions:              ** May 30, 2017 **
 
Release Testing Dataset Annotations and Evaluation Tools:
 
  June 30, 2017</pre>
 
The organizers of the ICDAR 2017 Page Object Detection (POD) Competition invite potential participants to submit their systems for the competition. The goal for the POD competition is to detect specific page objects (e.g. tables, formulas, figures(including charts)) in document images.
 
  
The competition consists of four sub tasks:
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Abstracts (Cambria, size 12 font, 1.5 line spacing) will include:
  
* Detection of formulas
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* a title, the names of the authors, their institutional affiliation and a five-line summary of their research activities;<br />
* Detection of tables
 
* Detection of figures
 
* Detection of all above page objects
 
  
Participants can select one or more sub tasks to participate. We look forward to your participation.
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* an abstract of approximately 450 words;<br />
  
For detailed information please visit the competition website: http://www.icst.pku.edu.cn/cpdp/ICDAR2017_PODCompetition/index.html
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* 5 keywords
  
'''POD Competition Organizers'''<br />
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The file name should be 'IdA2017' followed by the surname of the author or first author. The proposal may be written in French, English, Spanish or Portuguese. It will be examined by two members of the Scientific Committee. The final papers should be sent two months before the conference to the following mailing address in order to be transmitted to the scientific committee: [mailto:colloque2017@institutdesameriques.fr colloque2017@institutdesameriques.fr].
([mailto:chlxyd@pku.edu.cn chlxyd@pku.edu.cn])
 
  
= ICDAR 2017 SmartDoc Competition =
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The Organizing Committee is committed to achieving a balance between doctoral candidates, young and confirmed researchers. The conference is open to all disciplines.
  
'''Important Dates'''
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Details are available in French and English.
  
<pre>Registration:  May 26th
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'''Mickaël Coustaty, Associate Professor, Université de La Rochelle'''<br />
Competition:    May 29th - June 2nd</pre>
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([[mickael.coustaty@univ-lr.fr|mickael.coustaty@univ-lr.fr]])
In conjunction with the 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2017), the L3i (Univ. La Rochelle) and the CVC (UAB) would like to invite you to participate in our new challenge. The '''official website''' is http://smartdoc.univ-lr.fr.
 
  
The new SmartDoc edition focuses on video-captured document images by mobiles. It targets large documents and reflective documents. The capture in video mode provides extra information that can be used to reconstruct a high quality image and prevent defects such as out-of-focus blur and spotlights (which usually make isolated pictures useless).
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== ICDAR 2017: Accepted Workshops and Tutorials - (repost) ==
  
The SmartDoc competition will be held from May 29th to June 2nd. Participants can check out available training material and start preparing their methods from now. The deadline for registration of interest is May 26th.
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Nine workshops and three tutorials will be offered at [http://u-pat.org/ICDAR2017/ ICDAR 2017]. You can find the names and organizers for each below. Please direct any questions to the workshop and/or tutorial chairs (contact information is provided below).
  
A sample dataset is already available, and more tools (evaluation, example method) will be released very soon. ''Participants do not need to submit their binaries nor their source code.''
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==== Workshops ====
  
'''Muzzamil Luqman, Competition Organizer'''<br />
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* '''HDI 2017''': First International Workshop on Human-Document Interaction<br />
([mailto:mluqma01@univ-lr.fr mluqma01@univ-lr.fr])
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''Jean-Christophe Burie, Mickaël Coustaty, Dimosthenis Karatzas and Koichi Kise''
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* '''CBDAR 2017''': 7th International Workshop on Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition<br />
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''Lluis Gomez-Bigorda, Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman and Dimosthenis Karatzas''
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* '''MANPU 2017''': 2nd International Workshop on coMics Analysis, Processing and Understanding<br />
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''Jean-Christophe Burie, Toshihiko Yamasaki and Motoi Iwata''
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* '''WML ICDAR''': Workshop on Machine Learning<br />
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''Umapada Pal and Eric Granger''
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* '''HIP 2017''': 4th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing<br />
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''Andreas Fischer, Angelika Garz, Kengo Terasawa and Bill Barrett''
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* '''IWCDF 2017''': 1st International Workshop on Computational Document Forensics<br />
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''Jean-Marc Ogier, Utpal Garain and Apostolos Antonacopoulos''
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* '''ICDAR-OST''': 1st International Workshop on Open Services and Tools for Document Analysis<br />
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''Marcel Würsch and Joseph Chazalon''
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* '''GREC''': 12th International Workshop on Graphics Recognition<br />
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''Alicia Fornés and Bart Lamiroy''
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* '''MOCR''': 6th International Workshop on Multilingual OCR<br />
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''Venu Govindaraju, Prem Natarajan, Santanu Chaudhury and Srirangaraj Setlur''
  
== ICDAR 2017 Competition on Arabic Text Detection and Recognition in Multiresolution Video Frames ==
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==== Tutorials ====
  
​ ​''In conjunction with the 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'17), in Kyoto, during 10-15 November 2017.''
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Each of tutorial will last half a day.
  
After the success of the first edition of the “Arabic Text in Videos Competition ̶ AcTiVComp”, we are proposing to organize a more challenging second edition in conjunction with ICDAR’17. The main objective is to contribute in the evolution of Arabic Video-OCR research area. The first edition was held in the framework of the 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR’16). The achieved results have shown that there is still room for improvement in both detection and recognition of Arabic video text.
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* '''RTRS''': Building a Robust Text Reading System for Unconstrained Scene Images<br />
 +
''Zhizhong Su and Chengquan Zhang''<br />
  
The goals of this competition are i) to evaluate the performance of participating systems to automatically locate and recognize overlay text objects in multiresolution Arabic video frames and ii) to unify the groundtruth formats, the evaluation protocols and metrics used in the Arabic Video-OCR domain. For the purposes, we provide the participants with a new version of the Arabic-Text-in-Videos (AcTiV) dataset which is freely available for researchers.
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* '''GMPRDIA''': Graph-based Methods in Pattern Recognition and Document Image Analysis<br />
 +
''Anjan Dutta, Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman, Josep Lladós Canet, Jean-Marc OGIER''
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* '''WS''': Word Spotting: From Bag-of-Features to Deep Learning<br />
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''Gernot A. Fink''
  
This second edition has a special focus on the evaluation of the multiresolution impact on the detection and recognition performances. The participating systems will be evaluated in both “channel-dependent” and “channel-free” contexts. For this, new data / resolution have been prepared and new evaluation protocols are defined.
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'''Michael Blumenstein and Umapada Pal, ICDAR 2017 Workshop Chairs'''<br />
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([mailto:Michael.Blumenstein@uts.edu.au Michael.Blumenstein@uts.edu.au], [mailto:umapada@isical.ac.in umapada@isical.ac.in])
  
Researchers working on other scripts (e.g., Latin, Japanese, Chinese, Urdu texts, etc) or other environment (e.g., scene image texts, born digital images) are strongly invited to participate in this competition to see how their systems perform on the AcTiV dataset. ​ ​For more details about the contest, please visit the competition website: http://diuf.unifr.ch/diva/AcTiVComp.
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'''Simone Marinai and Josep Llados, ICDAR 2017 Tutorial Chairs'''<br />
 +
([mailto:simone.marinai@unifi.it simone.marinai@unifi.it], [mailto:josep@cvc.uab.es josep@cvc.uab.es])
  
If you have any specific questions, do not hesitate to contact Oussama Zayene (email is provided below).
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<accordion parent="accordion" heading="ICDAR 2017: Competitions">
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== ICDAR 2017 Competition -- RRC-MLT : Call For Participation (repost) ==
  
'''Oussama Zayene, Competition Co-Organizer'''<br />
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'''Robust Reading Competition: Challenge on Multi-Lingual Scene Text Detection and Script Identification'''
([mailto:oussama.zayene@unifr.ch oussama.zayene@unifr.ch])
 
  
== ICDAR 2017 Competition -- RRC-MLT : Call For Participation (''repost'') ==
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Download the call here: http://rrc.cvc.uab.es/files/RRC-MLT-2017-CFP.pdf
 
 
'''Robust Reading Competition:<br />
 
Challenge on Multi-Lingual Scene Text Detection and Script Identification'''
 
  
 
We invite you to participate in our challenge on multi-lingual scene detection and script identification. This year: more scenes and more languages in scene text images!
 
We invite you to participate in our challenge on multi-lingual scene detection and script identification. This year: more scenes and more languages in scene text images!
  
Download the call here: http://rrc.cvc.uab.es/files/RRC-MLT-2017-CFP.pdf<br />
 
 
See more information at our website: http://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=8
 
See more information at our website: http://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=8
  
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([mailto:nibal.nayef@univ-lr.fr nibal.nayef@univ-lr.fr])
 
([mailto:nibal.nayef@univ-lr.fr nibal.nayef@univ-lr.fr])
  
== ICDAR 2017 Competition -- Post-OCR Text Correction: Call for Participation (''repost'') ==
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== ICDAR 2017 Competition -- Post-OCR Text Correction: Call for Participation (repost) ==
  
'''Important Dates:'''
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http://l3i.univ-larochelle.fr/ICDAR2017PostOCR
  
<pre>Training dataset available online:   Late Feb. 2017
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The goal of this competition is to improve/denoise OCR-ed texts, based on an original corpus of OCRed documents composed of 12M characters (2.1M tokens) aligned with their corresponding Gold Standard, with an equal share of English- and French-written materials. There are two independent subtasks: 1) Detection of OCR errors, and 2) Correction of OCR errors. A competition report including both the description of the methodology and a comparative analysis of participants' performances will be submitted for publication at ICDAR 2017.
Registration deadline:              30th March 2017 
 
Result submission:                  15th June 2017</pre>
 
'''Competition Web Page:''' http://l3i.univ-larochelle.fr/ICDAR2017PostOCR
 
  
The goal of this competition is to improve/denoise OCR-ed texts, based on an original corpus of OCRed documents composed of 12M characters (2.1M tokens) aligned with their corresponding Gold Standard, with an equal share of English- and French-written materials. There are two independent subtasks: 1) Detection of OCR errors, and 2) Correction of OCR errors. A competition report including both the description of the methodology and a comparative analysis of participants' performances will be submitted for publication at ICDAR 2017.
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'''IMPORTANT DATES'''<br />
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* Training dataset available online : End of Feb. 2017<br />
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* Registration deadline : 30th March 2017<br />
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* Result submission : 15th June 2017
  
 
To participate, please contact the competition organizers below.
 
To participate, please contact the competition organizers below.
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([mailto:guillaume.chiron@bnf.fr guillaume.chiron@bnf.fr], [mailto:antoine.doucet@univ-lr.fr antoine.doucet@univ-lr.fr], [mailto:jean-philippe.moreux@bnf.fr jean-philippe.moreux@bnf.fr])
 
([mailto:guillaume.chiron@bnf.fr guillaume.chiron@bnf.fr], [mailto:antoine.doucet@univ-lr.fr antoine.doucet@univ-lr.fr], [mailto:jean-philippe.moreux@bnf.fr jean-philippe.moreux@bnf.fr])
  
= ICDAR 2017: Awards and Doctoral Consortium =
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== ICDAR 2017 Competitions : An Overview - (repost) ==
  
== Call for Nominations: ICDAR 2017 Awards (''repost'') ==
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Dear Colleagues,
  
'''Important Dates'''
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We are pleased to announce that the [http://u-pat.org/ICDAR2017/ ICDAR'17] that will be held in Kyoto (November, 10th-15th) will organize a set of competitions dedicated to a large set of document analysis problems. You are cordially invited to participate in this scientific event that will be a very good opportunity to objectively compare the quality of algorithms in different categories of challenges. '''Please consider submitting your algorithm(s) to all competitions in the same category,''' as we asked the individual competition organizers to synchronize their evaluation metrics, if possible. You will find below the different categories of competitions, and the URL of their respective website, that will allow you to get all the required information for participating.
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* '''Category : Handwritten Historical Document Layout Recognition'''
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** Competition on Baseline Detection in Archival Documents : https://scriptnet.iit.demokritos.gr/competitions/5/
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** Competition on Layout Analysis for Challenging Medieval Manuscripts : http://diuf.unifr.ch/main/hisdoc/icdar2017-hisdoc-layout-comp
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** Competition on Historical Book Analysis : http://icdar2017hba.litislab.eu
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* '''Category : Historical Handwritten Script Analysis'''
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** Competition on the Classification of Medieval Handwritings in Latin Script : http://icfhr2016-clamm.irht.cnrs.fr/icdar-2017/
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** Competition on Historical Document Writer Identification : [https://scriptnet.iit.demokritos.gr/competitions/6/ http://scriptnet.iit.demokritos.gr/competitions/6/]
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** Competition on Multi-script Writer Identification Using LAMIS-MSHD and CERUG Databases : https://icdar2017cmswi.sciencesconf.org/
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* '''Category : Character/Word Spotting'''
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** Competition on Query-by-Example Glyph Spotting of Southeast Asian Palm Leaf Manuscript Images : http://amadi.univ-lr.fr/ICDAR2017_Competition/
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** Handwritten Keyword Spotting Competition : ''TBA''
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* '''Category : Handwriting Recognition'''
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** Competition on Handwritten Text Recognition on the READ Dataset : https://scriptnet.iit.demokritos.gr/competitions/4/
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** Competition on Information Extraction in Historical Handwritten Records : http://www.cvc.uab.es/5cofm/competition/
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* '''Category : Document Image Binarization'''
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** Document Image Binarization Competition : https://vc.ee.duth.gr/dibco2017/
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* '''Category : Document Recognition (Layout analysis &amp; Text Recognition)'''
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** Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts : http://www.primaresearch.org/RDCL2017/
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** Competition on Early Indian Printed Documents : http://www.primaresearch.org/REID2017/
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** Competition on Page Object Detection in Document Images : http://www.icst.pku.edu.cn/cpdp/ICDAR2017_PODCompetition/index.html
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* '''Category : Document Document Reconstruction'''
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** Smartphone-captured Document Image Reconstruction from Multiple Views : http://smartdoc.univ-lr.fr
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* '''Category : Post OCR Correction'''
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** Competition on Post-OCR Text Correction : http://l3i.univ-larochelle.fr/ICDAR2017PostOCR
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* '''Category : Robust Reading Competitions'''
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** Competition on Reading Chinese Text in the Wild : http://mclab.eic.hust.edu.cn/icdar2017chinese/
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** Challenge on COCO-Text : http://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=5
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** Challenge on Text Extraction from Biomedical Literature Figures : http://prir.ustb.edu.cn/DeTEXT/ICDAR2017Competition/
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** Challenge on Robust Reading Challenge on Omnidirectional Video : http://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=7
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** Competition on Multi-lingual scene text detection and script identification : http://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=8
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* '''Category : Text in Video'''
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** Competition on Arabic Text Detection and Recognition in Multiresolution Video Frames ̶ AcTiVComp’17 : http://diuf.unifr.ch/diva/AcTiVComp/index.html
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** Competition on Video Script Identification : '''TBA'''
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* '''Category : Forensics'''
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** Competition on File Type and Altered Image Identification : http://icsdweb.aegean.gr/icdar2017
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* '''Category : Miscellaneous Competitions'''
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** Competition on Multi-font and Multi-size Digitally Represented Arabic Text : http://diuf.unifr.ch/diva/APTI/competitionICDAR2017.html
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Looking forward to meeting you in Kyoto.
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Kind regards,<br />
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'''Marcus Liwicki &amp; Jean-Marc Ogier, ICDAR 2017 Competition Chairs'''<br />
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([mailto:liwicki@cs.uni-kl.de liwicki@cs.uni-kl.de], [mailto:president.larochelle@univ-lr.fr president.larochelle@univ-lr.fr])
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== Call for Nominations: ICDAR 2017 Awards (repost) ==
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'''Nominations Due:''' May 15, 2017
  
<pre>Nominations Due:  May 15, 2017
 
  (*late submissions may be considered; please send ASAP*)</pre>
 
 
The ICDAR Award Program is an established program designed to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of Document Analysis and Recognition in one or more of the following areas:
 
The ICDAR Award Program is an established program designed to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of Document Analysis and Recognition in one or more of the following areas:
  
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Submission procedure is strictly confidential, and self-nominations are not allowed.
 
Submission procedure is strictly confidential, and self-nominations are not allowed.
  
'''Please send nominations packets electronically''' to the Awards Committee Co-Chairs Dimosthenis Karatzas ([mailto:dimos@cvc.uab.es dimos@cvc.uab.es]) and Bart Lamiroy ([mailto:bart.lamiroy@loria.fr bart.lamiroy@loria.fr]). The deadline for receipt of nominations is May 15th, 2017 but early submissions are strongly encouraged.
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Please send nominations packets electronically to the Awards Committee Co-Chairs Dimosthenis Karatzas ([matilto:dimos@cvc.uab.es dimos@cvc.uab.es]) and Bart Lamiroy ([mailto:bart.lamiroy@loria.fr bart.lamiroy@loria.fr]). The deadline for receipt of nominations is May 15th, 2017 but early submissions are strongly encouraged.
  
 
The final decision will be made by the Awards Committee which is composed of the following members (ICDAR advisory board and previous awardees): Dimosthenis Karatzas, Bart Lamiroy, Dan Lopresti, Jean-marc Ogier, Josep Llados, Simone Marinai, Cheng-Lin Liu, Marcus Liwicki (''2015 IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award recipient''), Venu Govindaraju (''2015 IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Awards recipient'')
 
The final decision will be made by the Awards Committee which is composed of the following members (ICDAR advisory board and previous awardees): Dimosthenis Karatzas, Bart Lamiroy, Dan Lopresti, Jean-marc Ogier, Josep Llados, Simone Marinai, Cheng-Lin Liu, Marcus Liwicki (''2015 IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award recipient''), Venu Govindaraju (''2015 IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Awards recipient'')
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== ICDAR 2017 Doctoral Consortium (repost) ==
 
== ICDAR 2017 Doctoral Consortium (repost) ==
  
'''Important Dates'''
 
 
<pre>Submission deadline:  July 15 
 
Doctoral Consortium:  November 12</pre>
 
 
In 2011, the first Doctoral Consortium in the Document Analysis community was organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR). This has led to successful successor events at ICDAR 2013 and ICDAR 2015. The tradition of having a Doctoral Consortium as a satellite event to the ICDAR main conference will be continued at ICDAR 2017 in Kyoto, Japan.
 
In 2011, the first Doctoral Consortium in the Document Analysis community was organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR). This has led to successful successor events at ICDAR 2013 and ICDAR 2015. The tradition of having a Doctoral Consortium as a satellite event to the ICDAR main conference will be continued at ICDAR 2017 in Kyoto, Japan.
  
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The ICDAR 2017 Doctoral Consortium will take place the day before the main conference, i.e., on Sunday, November 12.
 
The ICDAR 2017 Doctoral Consortium will take place the day before the main conference, i.e., on Sunday, November 12.
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'''IMPORTANT DATES'''<br />
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* '''Submission deadline:''' July 15<br />
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* '''Doctoral Consortium:''' November 12
  
 
We are looking forward to your participation!
 
We are looking forward to your participation!
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( [mailto:veronique.eglin@insa-lyon.fr veronique.eglin@insa-lyon.fr], [mailto:rdl.ufpe@gmail.com rdl.ufpe@gmail.com] )
 
( [mailto:veronique.eglin@insa-lyon.fr veronique.eglin@insa-lyon.fr], [mailto:rdl.ufpe@gmail.com rdl.ufpe@gmail.com] )
  
= Journals =
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== IJDAR Discount for IAPR Members (''repost'') ==
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== IJDAR Discount for IAPR Members ==
  
 
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:
 
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:
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'''Koichi Kise, Daniel Lopresti and Simone Marinai, IJDAR Editors-in-Chief'''<br />
 
'''Koichi Kise, Daniel Lopresti and Simone Marinai, IJDAR Editors-in-Chief'''<br />
( [mailto:kise@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp kise@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp], [mailto:lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu], [mailto:simone.marinai@unifi.it simone.marinai@unifi.it] )
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( [mailto:kise@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp kise@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp], [mailto:lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu], [mailto:simone.marinai@unifi.it simone.marinai@unifi.it] ) ?IN ## IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems: Special Issue on Drawing and Handwriting Processing for User-Centered Systems
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The April 2017 issue of IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems is concerned with interactive systems that incorporate handwriting and/or drawing. The Special Issue aims to bring together some of the most valuable research contributions and applicable solutions in the field of drawing and handwriting processing for human–machine interaction.
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Twelve papers are included in the special issue concerning diverse topics such as signature verification, user-centered document segmentation, sketch retrieval, combined speech and handwriting entry, emotion and handwriting, and dysgraphia.
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The issue is available online now: [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6221037 THMS April 2017]. Please spread the word, and take a moment to peruse the Table of Contents.
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'''Réjean Plamondon, Guest Editor, IEEE THMS Special Issue'''<br />
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([mailto:rejean.plamondon@polymtl.ca rejean.plamondon@polymtl.ca])
  
 
== IJDAR Special Issue:<br>''Deep Learning for Document Analysis and Recognition'' (repost) ==
 
== IJDAR Special Issue:<br>''Deep Learning for Document Analysis and Recognition'' (repost) ==
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'''Koichi Kise, Daniel Lopresti and Simone Marinai, IJDAR Editors-in-Chief'''<br />
 
'''Koichi Kise, Daniel Lopresti and Simone Marinai, IJDAR Editors-in-Chief'''<br />
 
( [mailto:kise@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp kise@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp], [mailto:lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu], [mailto:simone.marinai@unifi.it simone.marinai@unifi.it] )
 
( [mailto:kise@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp kise@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp], [mailto:lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu], [mailto:simone.marinai@unifi.it simone.marinai@unifi.it] )
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== Open Position in Handwritten Text Recognition at Uppsala University (Sweeden) - (updated) ==
  
== IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems: Special Issue on Drawing and Handwriting Processing for User-Centered Systems (''repost'') ==
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At Uppsala University we are seeking persons who would like to work in the area of handwritten text recognition. The positions will allow you to work with machine learning algorithms on high performance computers. '''We are currently seeking one PhD student''' that would like to work in an interesting and expanding research environment.
 
 
The April 2017 issue of IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems is concerned with interactive systems that incorporate handwriting and/or drawing. The Special Issue aims to bring together some of the most valuable research contributions and applicable solutions in the field of drawing and handwriting processing for human–machine interaction.
 
 
 
Twelve papers are included in the special issue concerning diverse topics such as signature verification, user-centered document segmentation, sketch retrieval, combined speech and handwriting entry, emotion and handwriting, and dysgraphia.
 
  
The issue is available online now: [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6221037 THMS April 2017]. Please spread the word, and take a moment to peruse the Table of Contents.
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* '''PhD position''': http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=131835
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* Description: http://www.math.uu.se/digitalAssets/396/c_396868-l_1-k_hast.pdf
  
'''Réjean Plamondon, Guest Editor, IEEE THMS Special Issue'''<br />
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Please contact Dr. Anders Hast for more information: [mailto:anders.hast@it.uu.se anders.hast@it.uu.se] For more information about the research group, please see: https://www.it.uu.se/research/project/q2b.
([mailto:rejean.plamondon@polymtl.ca rejean.plamondon@polymtl.ca])
 
  
== Contributions and Subscriptions ==
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'''Update:''' the postdoctoral position advertised in last month's TC-11 newsletter has been filled.
  
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'''Anders Hast, Associate Professor, Uppsala University'''<br />
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'''Call for Contributions:''' To contribute news items, please send a short email to the editor, Richard Zanibbi ([mailto:rxzvcs@cs.rit.edu rxzvcs@rit.edu]). Contributions might include conference and workshop announcements/updates/reports, career opportunities, book reviews, or anything else of interest to the TC-11 community.
  
 
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March, 2017




Things continue to be busy in the TC-11 community! Probably the most pressing announcement concerns the ICDAR 2017 paper submission deadline, which has been extended to April 1st (abstracts) and April 7th (full papers).

As ICDAR is now fast approaching, various other ICDAR-related items are included in this issue. These include announcements for competitions, workshops, tutorials, the ICDAR Awards and the ICDAR Doctoral Consortium.

This month's newsletter also includes the first announcement for DAS 2018, which will be held in Vienna, Austria. Additional details will be provided in upcoming newsletters. Other meeting announcements include the 1st Workshop on Human-Document Interaction, and the Conference of the Institute of the Americas.

In this issue you will also find information about Special Issues in IJDAR and IEEE THMS pertinent to our community. These Special Issues concern deep learning (submissions are open) and handwriting/drawing in interactive systems (now available). Also, good news for those interested in subscribing to IJDAR: the Editors have negotiated a substantially reduced subscription fee for IAPR members.

Best of luck with preparing your ICDAR submissions!

Richard Zanibbi, TC-11 Communications Officer
(rxzvcs@rit.edu)


  • April 1 & 7, 2017: - EXTENDED - ICDAR 2017 Abstracts/Papers, Kyoto, Japan (Nov. 10-15, 2017) (http://www.iapr.org/icdar2017)
  • April 8, 2017: GCPR 2017, Basel, Switzerland (September 13-15, 2017) (https://gcpr2017.dmi.unibas.ch/en)
  • April 15, 2017: Conference of the Institute of the Americas, La Rochelle, France (Oct. 18-20, 2017)
  • May 15, 2017: Nominations for ICDAR 2017 Awards
  • July 15, 2017: ICDAR Doctoral Consortium Applications
  • August 31, 2017: IJDAR Special Issue Submissions: Deep Learning for Document Analysis and Recognition (Submission Instructions)
  • Nov. 15, 2017: ICPRAI 2018, Montreal, Canada (May 14-17, 2018)
(http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~icprai18/index.html)

Upcoming Conferences

  • DAS 2018, TBD
  • ICFHR 2020, Dortmund, Germany (September 8-10, 2020)


The following datasets were recently added to the TC-11 Datasets Collection.

  • ICDAR'15 Smartphone Document Capture and OCR Competition
  • Challenge 1: Document localization in video
  • Challenge 2: Document localization and recognition (OCR)
  • University of La Rochelle - SmartDoc QA: baseline benchmark for quality assessment methods for mobile captured documents

ICDAR 2017 Paper Deadline Extension
(Abstracts: April 1, Papers: April 7)

Dear Researchers,

As we experienced certain technical problems with the server at the time of the abstract submission deadline, plus the announcement of the abstract deadline extension did not reach everyone as intended, we would like to extend the abstract deadline until April 1st which was the current date for full paper submission. Due to this extension, the deadline of full paper submission is postponed to April 7th. The following are the updated deadlines and no further extension will be granted.

Abstract submission: April 1st (UTC-8, Pacific Time Zone)
Full paper submission: April 7th (UTC-8, Pacific Time Zone)

Looking forward to having your submissions!

Best regards,

ICDAR 2017 PC chairs

Masakazu Iwamura, Executive Co-Chair, ICDAR 2017
(masa@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp)

First Announcement: International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems 2018 (DAS 2018)

We are happy to announce that the next edition of DAS, will be held in Vienna, Austria, during April 2018.

Further announcements and the Call for Papers will follow soon.

Robert Sablatnig and Florian Kleber, DAS 2018 General Chairs
(sab@caa.tuwien.ac.at, kleber@caa.tuwien.ac.at)

Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on Human-Document Interaction

Workshop Dates: November 10 or 11th, 2017
Location: Kyoto Japan (in conjunction with ICDAR 2017)
Web Page: www.cvc.uab.es/HDI2017

HDI 2017 will focus on how humans interact with written information around them, and the interfaces between users and documents. The term document is meant in the wider possible sense, to refer to any physical object that carries written information.

The workshop aims to create a space for debate between the Document Image Analysis and Recognition and the Human-Computer Interaction communities, and it is motivated by a number of recent developments that point to a coming change of paradigm in the way we interact with written information around us.

Fresh paper submissions as well as re-submissions of improved versions of rejected ICDAR papers (submitted along with the original reviews) are welcome. The topics of interest include among others:

  • Augmented documents
  • Linking physical and digital content
  • Reading behaviour analysis
  • Human factors
  • User experience and usability
  • Wearable sensors in reading
  • Interaction for facilitating Document Image Analysis (teaching reading systems through the way humans interact with written information)
  • Document Image Analysis for enabling Interaction
  • Content personalisation
  • Applications (e.g. document editing, interactive translation, collaborative editing)

Accepted papers will be published in the "ICDAR 2017 Workshops" IEEE CPS volume.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline (normal papers): July 1, 2017
Submission Deadline (ICDAR resubmissions): July 15, 2017
Notification: July 31, 2017
Camera Ready: September 1, 2017
Workshop: November 10 or 11, 2017 (TBC)

Workshop Chairs

Jean-Christophe Burie (L3i Laboratory, University of La Rochelle, France)
Mickaël Coustaty (L3i Laboratory, University of La Rochelle, France)
Dimosthenis Karatzas (Computer Vision Centre, Spain)
Koichi Kise (Osaka Prefecture University)
Kai Kunze (Keio University, Japan)

Dimosthenis Karatzas, HDI 2017 Workshop Co-Chair
(dimos@cvc.uab.es)

Call for Papers:
2017 Conference of the Institute of the Americas

Conference Dates: October 18-20, 2017
Location: La Rochelle, France

  • Abstracts Due: April 15, 2017
  • Scientific Committee Decisions: 15 May, 2017
  • Submission of Full Papers: 31 July, 2017

The 2017 conference of the Institute of the Americas proposes to explore the evolutions of practices and knowledge in the field of the human and social sciences closely related to the development of digital techniques and their applications. This edition will specifically focus on the digital humanities and digital history concepts, and could thus organize its reflections around the following avenues:

  1. New heuristic tools: the multi-disciplinarity and collaborative dimension in American studies.
  1. Political, financial and institutional issues of Digital Humanities in American Studies
  1. From the Americas to the Atlantic and the Pacific: transnational studies in the Digital Age
  1. The role of legal and management sciences
  1. Opening the field to social demand: addressing issues of pedagogy, heritage management, and the mediatization of scientific production

Abstracts (Cambria, size 12 font, 1.5 line spacing) will include:

  • a title, the names of the authors, their institutional affiliation and a five-line summary of their research activities;
  • an abstract of approximately 450 words;
  • 5 keywords

The file name should be 'IdA2017' followed by the surname of the author or first author. The proposal may be written in French, English, Spanish or Portuguese. It will be examined by two members of the Scientific Committee. The final papers should be sent two months before the conference to the following mailing address in order to be transmitted to the scientific committee: colloque2017@institutdesameriques.fr.

The Organizing Committee is committed to achieving a balance between doctoral candidates, young and confirmed researchers. The conference is open to all disciplines.

Details are available in French and English.

Mickaël Coustaty, Associate Professor, Université de La Rochelle
(mickael.coustaty@univ-lr.fr)

ICDAR 2017: Accepted Workshops and Tutorials - (repost)

Nine workshops and three tutorials will be offered at ICDAR 2017. You can find the names and organizers for each below. Please direct any questions to the workshop and/or tutorial chairs (contact information is provided below).

Workshops

  • HDI 2017: First International Workshop on Human-Document Interaction

Jean-Christophe Burie, Mickaël Coustaty, Dimosthenis Karatzas and Koichi Kise

  • CBDAR 2017: 7th International Workshop on Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition

Lluis Gomez-Bigorda, Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman and Dimosthenis Karatzas

  • MANPU 2017: 2nd International Workshop on coMics Analysis, Processing and Understanding

Jean-Christophe Burie, Toshihiko Yamasaki and Motoi Iwata

  • WML ICDAR: Workshop on Machine Learning

Umapada Pal and Eric Granger

  • HIP 2017: 4th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing

Andreas Fischer, Angelika Garz, Kengo Terasawa and Bill Barrett

  • IWCDF 2017: 1st International Workshop on Computational Document Forensics

Jean-Marc Ogier, Utpal Garain and Apostolos Antonacopoulos

  • ICDAR-OST: 1st International Workshop on Open Services and Tools for Document Analysis

Marcel Würsch and Joseph Chazalon

  • GREC: 12th International Workshop on Graphics Recognition

Alicia Fornés and Bart Lamiroy

  • MOCR: 6th International Workshop on Multilingual OCR

Venu Govindaraju, Prem Natarajan, Santanu Chaudhury and Srirangaraj Setlur

Tutorials

Each of tutorial will last half a day.

  • RTRS: Building a Robust Text Reading System for Unconstrained Scene Images

Zhizhong Su and Chengquan Zhang

  • GMPRDIA: Graph-based Methods in Pattern Recognition and Document Image Analysis

Anjan Dutta, Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman, Josep Lladós Canet, Jean-Marc OGIER

  • WS: Word Spotting: From Bag-of-Features to Deep Learning

Gernot A. Fink

Michael Blumenstein and Umapada Pal, ICDAR 2017 Workshop Chairs
(Michael.Blumenstein@uts.edu.au, umapada@isical.ac.in)

Simone Marinai and Josep Llados, ICDAR 2017 Tutorial Chairs
(simone.marinai@unifi.it, josep@cvc.uab.es)


ICDAR 2017 Competition -- RRC-MLT : Call For Participation (repost)

Robust Reading Competition: Challenge on Multi-Lingual Scene Text Detection and Script Identification

Download the call here: http://rrc.cvc.uab.es/files/RRC-MLT-2017-CFP.pdf

We invite you to participate in our challenge on multi-lingual scene detection and script identification. This year: more scenes and more languages in scene text images!

See more information at our website: http://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=8

Nibal Nayef, RRC-MLT Competition Organizer
(nibal.nayef@univ-lr.fr)

ICDAR 2017 Competition -- Post-OCR Text Correction: Call for Participation (repost)

http://l3i.univ-larochelle.fr/ICDAR2017PostOCR

The goal of this competition is to improve/denoise OCR-ed texts, based on an original corpus of OCRed documents composed of 12M characters (2.1M tokens) aligned with their corresponding Gold Standard, with an equal share of English- and French-written materials. There are two independent subtasks: 1) Detection of OCR errors, and 2) Correction of OCR errors. A competition report including both the description of the methodology and a comparative analysis of participants' performances will be submitted for publication at ICDAR 2017.

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Training dataset available online : End of Feb. 2017
  • Registration deadline : 30th March 2017
  • Result submission : 15th June 2017

To participate, please contact the competition organizers below.

Guillaume CHIRON (BnF/L3i), Antoine DOUCET (L3i), and Jean-Philippe MOREUX (BnF), Competition Organizers
(guillaume.chiron@bnf.fr, antoine.doucet@univ-lr.fr, jean-philippe.moreux@bnf.fr)

ICDAR 2017 Competitions : An Overview - (repost)

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the ICDAR'17 that will be held in Kyoto (November, 10th-15th) will organize a set of competitions dedicated to a large set of document analysis problems. You are cordially invited to participate in this scientific event that will be a very good opportunity to objectively compare the quality of algorithms in different categories of challenges. Please consider submitting your algorithm(s) to all competitions in the same category, as we asked the individual competition organizers to synchronize their evaluation metrics, if possible. You will find below the different categories of competitions, and the URL of their respective website, that will allow you to get all the required information for participating.

Looking forward to meeting you in Kyoto.

Kind regards,
Marcus Liwicki & Jean-Marc Ogier, ICDAR 2017 Competition Chairs
(liwicki@cs.uni-kl.de, president.larochelle@univ-lr.fr)

Call for Nominations: ICDAR 2017 Awards (repost)

Nominations Due: May 15, 2017

The ICDAR Award Program is an established program designed to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of Document Analysis and Recognition in one or more of the following areas:

  • Research
  • Training of students
  • Research/Industry interaction
  • Service to the profession

Every two years, two awards categories are presented. Namely, the IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award (less than 40 years old at the time the award is made), and the IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award. Each award will consist of a token gift and a suitably inscribed certificate. The recipient of the Outstanding Achievements award will be invited to give the opening key note speech at the ICDAR 2015 conference, introduced by the recipient from the previous conference.

Nominations are invited for the ICDAR 2017 Awards in both categories.

The nomination packet should include the following:

  1. A nominating letter (1 page) including a brief citation to be included in the certificate.
  2. A brief vitae (2 pages) of the nominee highlighting the accomplishments being recognized.
  3. Supporting letters (1 page each) from 3 active researchers from at least 3 different countries.

A nomination is usually put forward by a researcher (preferably from a different Institution than the nominee) who is knowledgeable of the scientific achievements of the nominee, and who organizes letters of support.

Submission procedure is strictly confidential, and self-nominations are not allowed.

Please send nominations packets electronically to the Awards Committee Co-Chairs Dimosthenis Karatzas ([matilto:dimos@cvc.uab.es dimos@cvc.uab.es]) and Bart Lamiroy (bart.lamiroy@loria.fr). The deadline for receipt of nominations is May 15th, 2017 but early submissions are strongly encouraged.

The final decision will be made by the Awards Committee which is composed of the following members (ICDAR advisory board and previous awardees): Dimosthenis Karatzas, Bart Lamiroy, Dan Lopresti, Jean-marc Ogier, Josep Llados, Simone Marinai, Cheng-Lin Liu, Marcus Liwicki (2015 IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award recipient), Venu Govindaraju (2015 IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Awards recipient)

Dimosthenis Karatzas, IAPR TC-11 Chair
(dimos@cvc.uab.es)

ICDAR 2017 Doctoral Consortium (repost)

In 2011, the first Doctoral Consortium in the Document Analysis community was organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR). This has led to successful successor events at ICDAR 2013 and ICDAR 2015. The tradition of having a Doctoral Consortium as a satellite event to the ICDAR main conference will be continued at ICDAR 2017 in Kyoto, Japan.

The goal of the ICDAR 2017 Doctoral Consortium is to create an opportunity for Ph.D. students to test their research ideas, present their current progress and future plans, and receive constructive criticism and insights related to their future work and career perspectives. A mentor (a senior researcher who is active in the field) will be assigned to each student to provide individual feedback. In addition, students will have the opportunity to present an overview of their research plan during a special poster session.

Participation in the ICDAR 2017 Doctoral Consortium will be limited to 25 students. Prospective participants are encouraged to submit their application by July 15 (submission procedure to be announced). The Doctoral Consortium Chairs will then review all applications received. Preference will be given to students who are at a stage in their studies most likely to benefit (i.e., they have identified a research direction and published some initial results, but the thesis is not yet set in stone).

Participation to the Doctoral Consortium will be free for all accepted students, i.e., there will be no extra registration fees!

The ICDAR 2017 Doctoral Consortium will take place the day before the main conference, i.e., on Sunday, November 12.

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Submission deadline: July 15
  • Doctoral Consortium: November 12

We are looking forward to your participation!

Véronique Eglin & Rafael Dueire Lins, ICDAR 2017 Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs
( veronique.eglin@insa-lyon.fr, rdl.ufpe@gmail.com )


IJDAR Discount for IAPR Members

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:

Koichi Kise, Daniel Lopresti and Simone Marinai, IJDAR Editors-in-Chief
( kise@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp, lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu, simone.marinai@unifi.it ) ?IN ## IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems: Special Issue on Drawing and Handwriting Processing for User-Centered Systems

The April 2017 issue of IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems is concerned with interactive systems that incorporate handwriting and/or drawing. The Special Issue aims to bring together some of the most valuable research contributions and applicable solutions in the field of drawing and handwriting processing for human–machine interaction.

Twelve papers are included in the special issue concerning diverse topics such as signature verification, user-centered document segmentation, sketch retrieval, combined speech and handwriting entry, emotion and handwriting, and dysgraphia.

The issue is available online now: THMS April 2017. Please spread the word, and take a moment to peruse the Table of Contents.

Réjean Plamondon, Guest Editor, IEEE THMS Special Issue
(rejean.plamondon@polymtl.ca)

IJDAR Special Issue:
Deep Learning for Document Analysis and Recognition (repost)

In recent years, applying Deep Learning techniques to Document Analysis and Recognition (DAR) tasks has produced significant performance gains. These have included impressive advances in handwriting recognition, word-spotting in document images, document segmentation, and text detection in natural scenes.

This special issue aims to report new advances in DAR using deep learning methods. Articles presenting reviews, perspectives, new methods and applications in DAR are cordially invited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to uses of Deep Learning for:

  • Document image processing and segmentation
  • Layout analysis
  • Character and text recognition
  • Scene text detection and recognition
  • Writer identification and signature analysis
  • Document retrieval
  • Context modeling
  • Graphics and symbol recognition
  • Other DAR tasks

Paper submissions are due August 31, 2017. For further information, please see the Call for Submissions.

Koichi Kise, Daniel Lopresti and Simone Marinai, IJDAR Editors-in-Chief
( kise@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp, lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu, simone.marinai@unifi.it )

Open Position in Handwritten Text Recognition at Uppsala University (Sweeden) - (updated)

At Uppsala University we are seeking persons who would like to work in the area of handwritten text recognition. The positions will allow you to work with machine learning algorithms on high performance computers. We are currently seeking one PhD student that would like to work in an interesting and expanding research environment.

Please contact Dr. Anders Hast for more information: anders.hast@it.uu.se For more information about the research group, please see: https://www.it.uu.se/research/project/q2b.

Update: the postdoctoral position advertised in last month's TC-11 newsletter has been filled.

Anders Hast, Associate Professor, Uppsala University
(anders.hast@it.uu.se)

Call for Contributions: To contribute news items, please send a short email to the editor, Richard Zanibbi (rxzvcs@rit.edu). Contributions might include conference and workshop announcements/updates/reports, career opportunities, book reviews, or anything else of interest to the TC-11 community.

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