Please note the extended deadline of the GREC-IJDAR special issue onDeep learning for graphics recognition: document understanding to February, 16th. Also, DAS abstract submission deadline have been extended to January 15th (same as full paper submission) and ICPR workshop proposal submission deadline to January 25th.
Best wishes, Christophe Rigaud IAPR-TC10 Communications Officer
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1) Upcoming deadlines and events
2020
January 15, abstract/paper submission deadline for DAS 2020
January 24, paper pre-submission deadline DIAGRAMS 2020
September 5-10, 2021conferenceICDAR 2021, Lausanne, Switzerland
December, 2022conferenceICFHR 2022, Hyderabad, India
2) GREC-IJDAR special issue (extended deadlines)
The TC10 (Technical Committee on Graphic Recognition) proposes a special issue to be published in the International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), Springer Nature:
Deep learning for graphics recognition: document understanding and beyond
This special issue is aimed to report the original and innovative advances in Graphics Recognition using deep learning methods. Thus, articles presenting reviews, perspectives, new methods and applications using deep learning for graphics recognition are cordially invited.
Guest editors : K.C. Santosh, University of South Dakota, USA – Jean-Christophe Burie, La Rochelle Université, France – Alicia Fornés, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain – Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman, La Rochelle Université, France
Important EXTENDED dates Paper submission deadline: January 20, February 16, 2020 (extended) First review notification: March 20, Mai 10, 2020 (extended) Decision (final notification): June 20, July 10, 2020 (extended) Production (Springer, IJDAR): August, September 2020 (extended)
Regular paper submission Abstract due: Dec. 13Jan. 15, 2019 (extended) Full papers due: Dec. 20Jan. 15, 2010 (extended) Notification of acceptance: Feb. 15 Mar. 18, 2020 (extended) Tutorial proposals Proposals due: Jan. 10, 2020 Short paper submission Papers due: Mar. 10, 2020 Notification of acceptance: Mar. 18, 2020
DAS 2020 is the 14th edition of the 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 d full papers) will be published by Springer.
Topics & Technologies
· Document analysis systems · Document understanding · Layout analysis · Deep learning for document analysis systems · Document analysis for digital humanities · Document analysis for libraries and archives · Document analysis for the Internet · Document analysis for mobile devices · Camera-based document analysis · Document datasets · Document retrieval · Information extraction from document images · Graphics recognition · Table and form processing · Mathematical expression recognition · Document authentication · Document image watermarking · Forensic document analysis · Historical document analysis · Multilingual document analysis · Multimedia document analysis · Pen-based input and its analysis · Authoring, annotation, and presentation systems · Performance evaluation · Applications
Submission Types
DAS2020 will include both 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 of ideas.
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 forum, up to 15 pages length.
Short Papers
Short papers provide an opportunity to report on research in progress, to present novel positions on document analysis systems. Authors may submit short papers (up to 4 pages in length). Short papers will also undergo review and will appear in an extra booklet, not in the official DAS2020 proceedings.
Demonstrations
DAS2020 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 DAS2020 booklet, as in the case of short papers.
Cheng-Lin Liu, Shijian Lu, and Jean-Marc Ogier, DAS 2020 General Chairs ( das2020[at]vlrlab.net )
25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition September 13-18, 2020 – Milan, Italy
ICPR 2020 will be held in Milan, the most international city in Italy, the second largest and most populated city in the country! Along with Paris, NY and London, Milan is worldwide renowned as one of the fashion capital, but it is also the Italian financial hub (hosting the National Stock Exchange) and will host Winter Olympics in 2026 sided by Cortina d’Ampezzo. Looking to the future with its roots set deeply into its past, Milan will leave you breathless!
SUBMISSION DEADLINES
Paper submission: March 2, 2020 Workshops proposal: January 15 25, 2020 (extended) Competitions proposal: January 15, 2020 Tutorials proposal: April 1, 2020 Demos and Exhibits proposal: June 15, 2020
General Chairs Rita Cucchiara, Alberto del Bimbo, Stan Sclaroff
Please find more information in the following file:
— Post-doc position – L3i – La Rochelle France (repost) —
Title
:
Recognition of text with variable styles in comics books
Duration: 12 months Position available from: Mai 1st, 2019 Salary: approximately 2100 € / month (net) Place: L3i lab, University of La Rochelle, France Specialty: Computer Science/ Image Processing/ Document Analysis/ Pattern Recognition Contact: Jean-Christophe BURIE (jcburie [at] univ-lr.fr)
ICDAR 2019 have been a great edition. Thanks to the organizing committee, keynote, participants for providing the document analysis community with excellent discussions, interactions and innovations.
Congratulations to Prof. Andreas Dengel for its IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award, Dr. Faisal Shafait and Dr. Xiang Bai for the IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Awards!
GREC 2019 has been very interactive and successful with more than 100 participants at is peak. Thank you to the organizers and all the attendees.
Call for Contributions: please contribute to TC10 newsletters, by sending any relevant news, event, notice, open position, dataset or link to us on iapr.tc10[at]gmail.com
1) Upcoming deadlines and events
2019
December 13abstract submission deadline for DAS 2020
December 13competition proposal deadline for ICFHR 2020
August 23-28, 2020, conference ECCV 2020, Glasgow, UK
September 8-10, 2020conferenceICFHR 2020, Dortmund, Germany
September 13-18, 2020conferenceICPR 2020, Milan, Italy
September 7-10, 2021conferenceICDAR 2021, Lausanne, Switzerland
December, 2022conferenceICFHR 2022, Hyderabad, India
2) GREC 2019 report
13th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC 2019) http://grec2019.univ-lr.fr/ 20-21 September 2019, Sydney, Australia
The GREC workshop was a great opportunity for researchers to meet colleagues and to share new ideas and knowledge about graphics recognition methods. In this edition, 23 papers were presented, followed by highly interactive discussions. Some topics such as comics analysis, music score segmentation, sketch analysis, symbol classification were addressed by the participants. The first day of the workshop hosted more than 100 participants. The GREC organizers would like to thank all participants, since we could indeed enjoy a highly interactive GREC workshop, with many fruitful discussions concerning graphics recognition topic.
Jean-Christophe BURIE General chair
3) IJDAR special issue
The TC10 (Technical Committee on Graphic Recognition) proposes a special issue to be published in the International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), Springer Nature:
Deep learning for graphics recognition: document understanding and beyond
This special issue is aimed to report the original and innovative advances in Graphics Recognition using deep learning methods. Thus, articles presenting reviews, perspectives, new methods and applications using deep learning for graphics recognition are cordially invited.
Guest editors : K.C. Santosh, University of South Dakota, USA – Jean-Christophe Burie, La Rochelle Université, France – Alicia Fornés, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain – Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman, La Rochelle Université, France
Important dates Paper submission deadline: Jan 10, 2020 First review notification: March 20, 2020 Decision (final notification): June 20, 2020 Production (Springer, IJDAR): August, 2020
Special issue: Advanced Topics in Document Analysis and Recognition https://link.springer.com/journal/10032/22/3 Articles are currently freelyavailable (few weeks after conference).
Editorial for special issue on “Advanced Topics in Document Analysis and Recognition” Cheng-Lin Liu, Andreas Dengel…
Are 2D-LSTM really dead for offline text recognition? Bastien Moysset, Ronaldo Messina
Boosting scene character recognition by learning canonical forms of glyphs Yizhi Wang, Zhouhui Lian, Yingmin Tang…
Generalized framework for summarization of fixed-camera lecture videos by detecting and binarizing handwritten content Bhargava Urala Kota, Kenny Davila…
A comparison of local features for camera-based document image retrieval and spotting Quoc Bao Dang, Mickaël Coustaty…
Comic MTL: optimized multi-task learning for comic book image analysis Nhu-Van Nguyen, Christophe Rigaud…
A two-stage method for text line detection in historical documents Tobias Grüning, Gundram Leifert…
On optimal stopping strategies for text recognition in a video stream as an application of a monotone sequential decision model Konstantin Bulatov, Nikita Razumnyi…
An anchor-free region proposal network for Faster R-CNN-based text detection approaches Zhuoyao Zhong, Lei Sun, Qiang Huo
Handwritten Arabic text recognition using multi-stage sub-core-shape HMMs Irfan Ahmad, Gernot A. Fink
Coarse-to-fine document localization in natural scene image with regional attention and recursive corner refinement Anna Zhu, Chen Zhang, Zhi Li, Shengwu Xiong
Evaluation of word spotting under improper segmentation scenario Sounak Dey, Anguelos Nicolaou, Josep Lladós
Patch-based offline signature verification using one-class hierarchical deep learning Sima Shariatmadari, Sima Emadi…
HWNet v2: an efficient word image representation for handwritten documents Praveen Krishnan, C. V. Jawahar
HanFont: large-scale adaptive Hangul font recognizer using CNN and font clustering Jinhyeok Yang, Heebeom Kim, Hyobin Kwak…
A novel feature transform framework using deep neural network for multimodal floor plan retrieval D. Sharma, N. Gupta, C. Chattopadhyay…
5) SSDA report
The 3rd IAPR Summer School on Document Analysis 2019 was organized by National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) in collaboration with Pakistan Pattern Recognition Society (PPRS) from August 19 -23, 2019 which the objective to impart the knowledge of state-of-the-art techniques in Pattern Recognition, particularly Deep Learning with their relevance to Document Analysis. Insightful talks and lectures, delivered by experts from all around the world, introduced the field of document analysis to the local participants along with advanced techniques and open challenges. The main topics covered during the five-day summer school included fundamentals of Document Analysis, Pattern Recognition, Deep Learning and the open research directions in document analysis and recognition.
The learning material was delivered in the form of lectures and hands-on practical sessions. The notable speakers who were a part of SSDA were Prof. Dr. Cheng-Lin Liu from China, Prof. Dr. Marcus Liwicki from Sweden, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schwanecke and Prof. Dr. Adrian Ulges from Germany, Prof. Dr. Seiichi Uchida from Japan, and Dr. Sheraz Ahmed from Germany. A programming and poster competition was also organized during the summer school, providing the participating students a chance to present their existing research work and get the expert feedback from international speakers.
One hundred and twenty-nine participants attended the event among which thirty were professionals from industry and academia, six were international students, while the remaining were local students from different areas of Pakistan including Abbottabad, Bahawalpur, Hazara, Lahore, Faisalabad, Multan, Karak, Taxila, Peshawar, Azad Kashmir, and Mianwali. In order to assure maximum participation of the students and to promote the research in document analysis and pattern recognition at the national level, stipends to selected international and local students were awarded on behalf of IAPR.
In order to acquaint the speakers and participants with the culture and food of Pakistan, several social activities, lunches, dinners, and recreational activities were arranged. A highly commendable feedback was obtained from both the speakers and participants accompanied with suggestions on how the organization of the summer school can be further improved for the next edition.
Faisal Shafait
6) ICPR 2020 conference
25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition September 13-18, 2020 – Milan, Italy
ICPR 2020 will be held in Milan, the most international city in Italy, the second largest and most populated city in the country! Along with Paris, NY and London, Milan is worldwide renowned as one of the fashion capital, but it is also the Italian financial hub (hosting the National Stock Exchange) and will host Winter Olympics in 2026 sided by Cortina d’Ampezzo. Looking to the future with its roots set deeply into its past, Milan will leave you breathless!
SUBMISSION DEADLINES
Paper: March 2, 2020 Workshops Proposal: January 15, 2020 Competitions Proposal: January 15, 2020 Tutorials Proposal: April 1, 2020 Demos and Exhibits Proposal: June 15, 2020
General Chairs Rita Cucchiara, Alberto del Bimbo, Stan Sclaroff
DAS 2020 is the 14th edition of the 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. Proceedings (full papers) will be published by Springer.
DAS 2020 will be hosted by Huazhong University of Science and Technology(HUST) in Wuhan, China on May 17-20, 2020. Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province in central China, is a city with both an ancient history and a thriving present. As for HUST, it is a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary research university, which is among the first Universities joining the national “211 Project” and “985 Project”.
DAS2020 will include both 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 of ideas.
Diagrams 2020 is the eleventh conference in the biennial series that started in 2000. The multidisciplinary nature of Diagrams means it encompasses: architecture, art, artificial intelligence, biology, cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software modelling. The conference attracts a large number of researchers from these interrelated fields, positioning Diagrams as the major international event in the area.
The ICFHR 2020 Organizing Committee invites proposals for competitions addressing current research challenges in handwriting recognition and related areas of pattern recognition and vision. Competitions should aim at evaluating the performance of individual methods and systems that fall within the context of the conference’s call for papers. Competitions should also participate in the sharing and standardization of handwriting recognition processes.
A
brief description of the competition, including which is the
particular task under evaluation and why this competition could be
of interest to the ICFHR community. If a similar competition has
been held in a previous edition of ICFHR, the novel additions of the
proposed one must be clearly explained.
A
draft of the outline of the competition describing which data is
planned to be used, how will the submitted methods be evaluated and
which performance measures will be used. Proposals should state
explicitly whether data and annotations are already available or
otherwise the timeframe to prepare them.
How
datasets and evaluation scripts will be made publicly available.
The
list of rules or best practices which will be imposed to
participants (allowing multiple submissions or not, allowing
external data or not, public ranking or not, etc.). Each competition
relies on the academic integrity of the competitors.
The
names, contact information, and brief CVs of the competition
organizers, outlining previous experience in performance evaluation
and/or organizing competitions.
Submissions
Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to the ICFHR2020 Competitions Chairs: Harold Mouchère and Dimosthenis Karatzas (competitions@icfhr2020.org)
Rules
The
following rules will apply to the accepted competitions:
All
competitions must run well in advance of the conference.
Datasets
used in the competitions must be made available through the
TC10/TC11 Online Resources website after the end of the competitions
(or equivalent arrangement by approval of the competition chairs).
Evaluation
methodologies and metrics used must be described in detail so that
results can be replicated later.
The
name of the competition must be standardized by starting with
“ICFHR2020” e.g. “ICFHR2020 Competition on …”;
Reports
(full papers) on each competition will be reviewed and, if accepted
(the competition run according to plan and is appropriately
described), will be published in the ICFHR2020 conference
proceedings.
The
results of accepted competitions will be announced during a
dedicated session of the conference. Competition organizers are
expected to participate to this dedicated session during ICFHR 2020.
Participants should be encouraged to present their algorithms (if
not already done) in a conference paper at ICFHR 2020.
Participants
should be encouraged to share their algorithms and code using one of
the open-source licenses
Competitions
must have sufficient number of participants (about 5, depending of
the originality of the topic) to be able to draw meaningful
conclusions.
Each
competition will be allocated some time in parallel to the poster
session, during which they can run a mini-workshop (e.g. presenting
results and conclusions, inviting winning methods to present their
methods, lessons learnt, etc).
Each
competition accepted to present results in the conference, should
prepare a poster presentation and present it during ICFHR 2020
Important
Dates
13 December 2019: Submission of competition proposals.
20 December 2019: Notification of acceptance.
24 December: Competitions published on ICFHR2020 website and open to participants.
14 June 2020: Deadline for submission for review of full papers describing the competitions. Papers must be sent directly to the Competitions Chairs.
26 June 2020: Notification of acceptance.
12 July 2020: Accepted camera-ready papers reporting on the competitions for inclusion in the proceedings.
If
you have any questions, please contact the ICFHR2020 Competitions
Chairs (competitions@icfhr2020.org)
Please find more information in the following file:
— Post-doc position – L3i – La Rochelle France (repost) —
Title
:
Recognition of text with variable styles in comics books
Duration: 12 months Position available from: Mai 1st, 2019 Salary: approximately 2100 € / month (net) Place: L3i lab, University of La Rochelle, France Specialty: Computer Science/ Image Processing/ Document Analysis/ Pattern Recognition Contact: Jean-Christophe BURIE (jcburie [at] univ-lr.fr)
Welcome to the September edition of the TC10 newsletter.
We are pleased to announce the winners of this year’s IAPR/ICDAR Awards, which include the Outstanding Achievement Award and two Young Investigator Awards. The awards ceremony will be held during ICDAR 2019 in Sydney (see preliminary program now available).
GREC workshop program is also online now. Hope to see you at GREC to enjoy the discussions on graphics recognition topics!
You will also find the announcement of 2nd International Workshop on Reading Music Systems and several job offers.
I hope to see you soon in Sydney, Christophe Rigaud IAPR-TC10 Communications Officer
Call for Contributions: please contribute to TC10 newsletters, by sending any relevant news, event, notice, open position, dataset or link to us on iapr.tc10[at]gmail.com
September 8-10, 2020 conference ICFHR 2020, Dortmund, Germany
September 7-10, 2021 conference ICDAR 2021, Lausanne, Switzerland
2) GREC 2019 workshop
13th International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC) September 20: University of Technology Sydney, Aerial Function Centre, Thomas Room, Sydney, Australia September 21: International Convention Centre (ICC) Sydney https://grec2019.univ-lr.fr/
The GREC workshops 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, maps, architectural plans, musical scores,
mathematical notation, tables, diagrams, etc.
We are pleased to announce that the GREC program is already available at the website.
Don’t miss the opportunity to participate, meet and interact with researchers from our community.
The IAPR / ICDAR awards committee has decided to confer the following awards (Outstanding Achievement Award and 2 x Young Investigator Awards) during ICDAR 2019:
IAPR / ICDAR Outstanding Achievement Award 2019 To Prof Andreas Dengel “for contributions in semantic technologies applied to reading systems, the impact of his innovative solutions in the socio-economic sectors, and his leadership and strategic vision of the document analysis community”
IAPR / ICDAR Young Investigator Award 2019 To Dr Faisal Shafait “for his outstanding contributions to document image analysis and computational forensics”
IAPR / ICDAR Young Investigator Award 2019 To Dr Xiang Bai “for his outstanding contributions to scene text understanding”
It is our pleasure to announce the 2nd International Workshop on Music Reading Systems (WoRMS). It will take place on Thursday, the 2nd of November 2019, at the Delft University of Technology, as a satellite event to ISMIR 2019.
WoRMS is a new workshop that tries to connect researchers who develop music reading systems — especially from the field of optical music recognition, but also related topics such as score following, score searching, or information retrieval from written music — with researchers and practitioners that could benefit from such systems, like librarians or musicologists.
WoRMS will be organized as a half-day workshop and provides a good opportunity to share ideas, discuss current developments and shape the future of music reading systems. We would like for diverse points of view to engage, by explicitly inviting contributors without a technical background to participate as well.
We strive to make the workshop as interactive as possible, with participants getting the opportunity not just to present their work, but to discuss current research in depth and foster relationships within the community. Therefore, promising ideas, work-in-progress submissions and recently submitted or published works are equally welcome.
The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:
Music reading systems
Optical music recognition
Datasets and performance evaluation
Image processing on music scores
Writer identification
Authoring, editing, storing and presentation systems for music scores
Multi-modal systems
Novel input-methods for music to produce written music
— PhD studentship at Queen Mary University of London (AI and Music CDT) (new) —
A fully-funded PhD studentship is available to carry out research in the area of Optical Music Recognition using Deep Learning in collaboration with Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. See full PhD topic description here.
The position is available within the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence and Music (AIM) at Queen Mary University of London https://www.aim.qmul.ac.uk/
The studentships covers fees and a stipend for four years starting September 2019. The position is open to UK and international students. Application deadline: 21 June 2019 (http://www.aim.qmul.ac.uk/apply)
Why apply to the AIM Programme?
4-year fully-funded PhD studentships available
Access to cutting-edge facilities and expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) and music/audio technology
Comprehensive technical training at the intersection of AI and music through a personalised programme
Partnerships with over 20 companies and cultural institutions in the music, audio and creative sectors
Programme structure Our Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) offers a four year training programme where students will carry out a research project in the intersection of AI and music, supported by taught specialist modules, industrial placements, and skills training. Find out more about the programme structure at: http://www.aim.qmul.ac.uk/about/
Who can apply? We are on the lookout for the best and brightest students interested in the intersection of music/audio technology and AI. Successful applicants will have the following profile:
Hold
or be completing a Masters degree at distinction or first class level,
or equivalent, in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Music/Audio
Technology, Physics, Mathematics, or Psychology.
Programming
skills are strongly desirable; however we do not consider this to be an
essential criterion if candidates have complementary strengths.
Formal music training is desirable, but not a prerequisite.
This position is open to UK and international students.
Funding Funding will cover the cost of tuition fees and will provide an annual tax-free stipend of £17,009. The CDT will also provide funding for conference travel, equipment, and for attending other CDT-related events.
Apply Now Information on applications and PhD topics can be found at: http://www.aim.qmul.ac.uk/apply Application deadline: 21 June 2019
For further information on eligibility, funding and the application process please visit our website. Please email any questions to aim-enquiries@qmul.ac.uk
— Post-doc position – L3i – La Rochelle France (repost) —
Subject: Content-based document signature for IoT security Duration: 12 months Position available from: as soon as possible Salary: approximately 2100 € / month (net) Place: L3i, La Rochelle University, France Specialty: Computer Science/ Image Processing/ Document Analysis/ Pattern Recognition Contact: Mickaël Coustaty (mickael.coustaty[at]univ-lr.fr) and Petra Gomez-Krämer (petra.gomez[at]univ-lr.fr)
— Post-doc position – L3i – La Rochelle France (repost) —
Title
:
Recognition of text with variable styles in comics books
Duration: 12 months Position available from: Mai 1st, 2019 Salary: approximately 2100 € / month (net) Place: L3i lab, University of La Rochelle, France Specialty: Computer Science/ Image Processing/ Document Analysis/ Pattern Recognition Contact: Jean-Christophe BURIE (jcburie [at] univ-lr.fr)
Welcome to the June edition of the TC10 newsletter.
In this edition, you will find the announcement of ICDAR Doctoral Consortium, information regarding next GREC workshop, the Summer School on Document Analysis in Islamabad, the current special issue at PRL and several job offers.
Call for Contributions: please contribute to TC10 newsletters, by sending any relevant news, event, notice, open position, dataset or link to us on iapr.tc10[at]gmail.com
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, ICDAR 2015 and ICDAR 2017. The tradition of having a Doctoral Consortium as a satelite event to the ICDAR main conference will further be continued at ICDAR 2019 in Sydney, Australia.
The goal of the ICDAR 2019 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 2019 Doctoral Consortium will be limited to 25 students. Prospective participants are encouraged to submit their application by July 10th. 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 2019 Doctoral Consortium will take place the day before the main conference, i.e., on Sunday, September 22.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Students willing to participate should submit a participation package in a SINGLE pdf file.
The submission package should be prepared using the following LaTeX or MS Word templates and should contain the following information:
Student’s name
University
Title of your thesis
Supervisor of the thesis
Starting and expected finalization date of the PhD.
short research plan (1-2 pages about the work).
short CV (1-2 pages).
The research plan should contain an overview of the PhD topic, the steps made so far (including a list of publications), and the actions planned before finishing the PhD, especially novel research ideas to be pursued.
Acceptance notification and Mentor assignment: July 20th, 2019
Final material due: September 5th, 2019
Doctoral Consortium: September 22nd, 2019
We are looking forward to your participation!
Véronique Eglin and Jean-Christophe Burie Doctoral Consortium Chairs
3) GREC 2019 workshop (repost)
GREC workshops 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 sub-field of document image analysis that deals with graphical entities in engineering drawings, comics, musical scores, sketches, maps, architectural plans, mathematical notation, tables, diagrams, etc.
The aim of this workshop is to maintain a very high level of interaction and creative discussions between participants, maintaining a “workshop” spirit, and not being tempted by a “mini-conference” model.
For this edition, authors are invited to submit two types of paper :
Full papers describing complete works of research (up to 6 pages). They will undergo a rigorous review process with a minimum of 2 reviews considering the originality of work.
Short papers providing an opportunity to report on research in progress and to present novel positions on graphic recognition (up to 2 pages). Short papers will also undergo review and will appear in an extra booklet, not in the official proceedings. The booklet will be available on the GREC 2019 website.
Full papers will be published according to the same policy and conditions of ICDAR 2019 conference papers (format, length, publication site). See ICDAR guidelines for more information. Short papers have to respect the same format than full papers but within the limit of 2 pages.
Important dates
Abstract paper submission hard deadline: May 25, 2019
4) SSDA 2019 Summer School on Document Analysis (repost)
3rd IAPR Summer School on Document Analysis Deep Learning Application for Document Analysis August 19 th – 23 rd 2019 Islamabad, Pakistan http://www.pprs.org.pk/events/ssda2019.html
The 3rd IAPR Summer School on Document Analysis aims to provide the students and professionals with an in-depth knowledge of document analysis and recognition. The school will enable the participants to explore the emerging areas of document analysis and recognition, and focus on how deep learning is significantly reshaping research and development in this area. This summer school will not only gather best researchers from around the world to train but will also provide a captivating learning environment to the participants enabling them explore their full potential.
Topics
Document Understanding
Layout Analysis
Information Retrieval
Optical Character Recognition
Speakers (tentative)
Jean Marc (L3I, France)
Seiichi Uchida (Kyushu, Japan)
Marcus Liwicki (Luleå, Sweden)
Marc-Peter Schambach (Siemens, Germany)
Foteini Simistra Liwicki (Luleå, Sweden)
Cheng-Lin Liu (CASIA, China)
Vassilis Katsouros (ILSP, Greece)
Muzammil Luqman (L3I, France)
Sheraz Ahmed (DFKI, Germany)
Hands-on Activities
In addition to the keynote speeches and lectures, hands-on activities will be carried out where participants will be able practice document analysis and deep learning in groups.
5) Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Cultural Heritage special issue (repost)
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly contaminating new areas of our life day by day. On the other hand, the management of Cultural Heritage is increasingly in need of new solutions to document, manage and visit (even virtually) the enormous amount of artifacts and information that come from the past. The contamination of these two worlds is now a reality and creates the bounds of the main topics of this Virtual Special Issue (VSI).
— PhD studentship at Queen Mary University of London (AI and Music CDT) (new) —
A fully-funded PhD studentship is available to carry out research in the area of Optical Music Recognition using Deep Learning in collaboration with Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. See full PhD topic description here.
The position is available within the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence and Music (AIM) at Queen Mary University of London https://www.aim.qmul.ac.uk/
The studentships covers fees and a stipend for four years starting September 2019. The position is open to UK and international students. Application deadline: 21 June 2019 (http://www.aim.qmul.ac.uk/apply)
Why apply to the AIM Programme?
4-year fully-funded PhD studentships available
Access to cutting-edge facilities and expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) and music/audio technology
Comprehensive technical training at the intersection of AI and music through a personalised programme
Partnerships with over 20 companies and cultural institutions in the music, audio and creative sectors
Programme structure Our Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) offers a four year training programme where students will carry out a research project in the intersection of AI and music, supported by taught specialist modules, industrial placements, and skills training. Find out more about the programme structure at: http://www.aim.qmul.ac.uk/about/
Who can apply? We are on the lookout for the best and brightest students interested in the intersection of music/audio technology and AI. Successful applicants will have the following profile:
Hold
or be completing a Masters degree at distinction or first class level,
or equivalent, in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Music/Audio
Technology, Physics, Mathematics, or Psychology.
Programming
skills are strongly desirable; however we do not consider this to be an
essential criterion if candidates have complementary strengths.
Formal music training is desirable, but not a prerequisite.
This position is open to UK and international students.
Funding Funding will cover the cost of tuition fees and will provide an annual tax-free stipend of £17,009. The CDT will also provide funding for conference travel, equipment, and for attending other CDT-related events.
Apply Now Information on applications and PhD topics can be found at: http://www.aim.qmul.ac.uk/apply Application deadline: 21 June 2019
For further information on eligibility, funding and the application process please visit our website. Please email any questions to aim-enquiries@qmul.ac.uk
— Post-doc position – L3i – La Rochelle France (repost) —
Subject: Content-based document signature for IoT security Duration: 12 months Position available from: as soon as possible Salary: approximately 2100 € / month (net) Place: L3i, La Rochelle University, France Specialty: Computer Science/ Image Processing/ Document Analysis/ Pattern Recognition Contact: Mickaël Coustaty (mickael.coustaty[at]univ-lr.fr) and Petra Gomez-Krämer (petra.gomez[at]univ-lr.fr)
— Post-doc position – L3i – La Rochelle France (repost) —
Title
:
Recognition of text with variable styles in comics books
Duration: 12 months Position available from: Mai 1st, 2019 Salary: approximately 2100 € / month (net) Place: L3i lab, University of La Rochelle, France Specialty: Computer Science/ Image Processing/ Document Analysis/ Pattern Recognition Contact: Jean-Christophe BURIE (jcburie [at] univ-lr.fr)
— PhD position – L3i – La Rochelle France (repost) —
Title
:
Extraction of complex textual elements – Application to
onomatopoeia detection and recognition in comics books
Duration: 36 months Position available from: June 1st, 2019 Salary: approximately 1200 € / month (net) Place: L3i lab, University of La Rochelle, France Specialty: Computer Science/ Image Processing/ Document Analysis/ Pattern Recognition Contact: Jean-Christophe BURIE (jcburie [at] univ-lr.fr)
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Welcome to the May edition of the TC10 newsletter.
In this edition, you will find the announcement of the next edition of the Summer School on Document Analysis (SSDA), the updated information regarding GREC and HDI workshops, the call for hosting proposal for ICDAR 2023, the current special issues at PRL and some job offers.
Call for Contributions: please contribute to TC10 newsletters, by sending any relevant news, event, notice, open position, dataset or link to us on iapr.tc10[at]gmail.com
GREC workshops 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 sub-field of document image analysis that deals with graphical entities in engineering drawings, comics, musical scores, sketches, maps, architectural plans, mathematical notation, tables, diagrams, etc.
The aim of this workshop is to maintain a very high level of interaction and creative discussions between participants, maintaining a “workshop” spirit, and not being tempted by a “mini-conference” model.
For this edition, authors are invited to submit two types of paper :
Full papers describing complete works of research (up to 6 pages). They will undergo a rigorous review process with a minimum of 2 reviews considering the originality of work.
Short papers providing an opportunity to report on research in progress and to present novel positions on graphic recognition (up to 2 pages). Short papers will also undergo review and will appear in an extra booklet, not in the official proceedings. The booklet will be available on the GREC 2019 website.
Full papers will be published according to the same policy and conditions of ICDAR 2019 conference papers (format, length, publication site). See ICDAR guidelines for more information. Short papers have to respect the same format than full papers but within the limit of 2 pages.
Important dates
Abstract paper submission hard deadline: May 25, 2019
3rd IAPR Summer School on Document Analysis Deep Learning Application for Document Analysis August 19 th – 23 rd 2019 Islamabad, Pakistan http://www.pprs.org.pk/events/ssda2019.html
The 3rd IAPR Summer School on Document Analysis aims to provide the students and professionals with an in-depth knowledge of document analysis and recognition. The school will enable the participants to explore the emerging areas of document analysis and recognition, and focus on how deep learning is significantly reshaping research and development in this area. This summer school will not only gather best researchers from around the world to train but will also provide a captivating learning environment to the participants enabling them explore their full potential.
Topics
Document Understanding
Layout Analysis
Information Retrieval
Optical Character Recognition
Speakers (tentative)
Jean Marc (L3I, France)
Seiichi Uchida (Kyushu, Japan)
Marcus Liwicki (Luleå, Sweden)
Marc-Peter Schambach (Siemens, Germany)
Foteini Simistra Liwicki (Luleå, Sweden)
Cheng-Lin Liu (CASIA, China)
Vassilis Katsouros (ILSP, Greece)
Muzammil Luqman (L3I, France)
Sheraz Ahmed (DFKI, Germany)
Hands-on Activities
In addition to the keynote speeches and lectures, hands-on activities will be carried out where participants will be able practice document analysis and deep learning in groups.
4) HDI 2019: International Workshop on Human-Document Interaction
A number of recent developments point to a coming change of paradigm in the way we interact with written information around us. The Second International Workshop on Human-Document Interaction (HDI 2019) will focus on how humans interact with written information around them, and the interfaces between users and documents. The term document is meant here 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. We consider that initiating this dialogue is relevant and timely. HDI will be a 100% participation, half-day, single-track workshop featuring one keynote talk, oral/poster presentations, a discussion group and possibly a demo session.
Topics of Interest:
Augmented documents
Linking physical and digital content
Reading behaviour analysis
Human factors
User experience and usability
Wearable sensors in reading
Real-time / Anytime algorithms for document analysis
5) ICDAR 2023: Call for Hosting Proposals (repost)
CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO HOST ICDAR2023
International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)
The ICDAR Advisory Board is seeking proposals to host the 17th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, to be held in 2023 (ICDAR2023).
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.
Welcome to the April edition of the TC10 newsletter.
In this edition, you will find the updated call for papers for GREC 2019 with two types of submission (short/full papers), the last call for participation at ICDAR competitions, the call for nominations for ICDAR 2019 awards, the call for hosting proposal for ICDAR 2023 and the current special issues at PRL.
Call for Contributions: please contribute to TC10 newsletters, by sending any relevant news, event, notice, open position, dataset or link to us on iapr.tc10@gmail.com
1) Upcoming deadlines and events
2019
May 1st nomination submission deadline for ICDAR 2019 Awards
May 8-10 conference DATECH 2019, Brussels, Belgium
GREC workshops 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.
The aim of this workshop is to maintain a very high level of interaction and creative discussions between participants, maintaining a “workshop” spirit, and not being tempted by a “mini-conference” model.
For this edition, authors are invited to submit two types of paper :
Full papers describing complete works of research (up to 6 pages). They will undergo a rigorous review process with a minimum of 2 reviews considering the originality of work.
Short papers providing an opportunity to report on research in progress and to present novel positions on graphic recognition (up to 2 pages). Short papers will also undergo review and will appear in an extra booklet, not in the official proceedings. The booklet will be available on the GREC 2019 website.
Full papers will be published according to the same policy and conditions of ICDAR 2019 conference papers (format, length, publication site). See ICDAR guidelines for more information. Short papers have to respect the same format than full papers but within the limit of 2 pages.
3) ICDAR 2019 competitions related to graphics recognition
ICDAR2019 will organize a set of competitions dedicated to a large set of document analysis problems. You are cordially invited to participate to this scientific event that will be a very good opportunity to objectively compare the quality of algorithms on different categories of challenges. You will find the full list of competitions here. The following selection are either related to graphics recognition or been asked to be promoted by some members of TC10 community
4) ICDAR 2019: Call for Nominations for ICDAR 2019 Awards (repost)
Call for Nominations for ICDAR 2019 Awards International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) http://icdar2019.org
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:
o Research o Training of students o Research/Industry interaction o Service to the profession
Every two years, two awards categories are presented. Namely, the IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award (less than40 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 keynote speech at the ICDAR 2019 conference, introduced by the recipient from the previous conference.
Nominations are invited for the ICDAR 2019 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 [dimos@cvc.uab.es ] and Alicia Fornes [ afornes@cvc.uab.es] .
Deadline: May 1st, 2019, but early submissions are strongly encouraged.
The final decision will be made by the Awards Committee which is composed of the ICDAR advisory board and the previous awardees.
ICDAR Advisory Board
5) ICDAR 2023: Call for Hosting Proposals (repost)
CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO HOST ICDAR2023
International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)
The ICDAR Advisory Board is seeking proposals to host the 17th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, to be held in 2023 (ICDAR2023).
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.
