CALL FOR PAPERS ICDAR '95: Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition August 14-16, 1995 Montreal, Canada General Chair C. Y. Suen (Canada) Co-Chairs R. Plamondon (Canada) S. Srihari (U.S.A.) Program Co-Chairs R. Kasturi (U.S.A.) G. Lorette (France) K. Yamamoto (Japan) Program Committee K. Abe (Japan), H.S. Baird (U.S.A.), R. G. Casey (U.S.A.), R. W. Dai (P.R.China), R. M. Haralick (U.S.A.), S. Impedovo (Italy), J. H. Kim (Korea), A. Krzyzak (Canada), H. J. Lee (Taiwan), S. W. Lee (Korea), C. G. Leedham (U.K.), S. Mori (Japan), G. Nagy (U.S.A.) T. A. Nartker (U.S.A.), L. O'Gorman (U.S.A.), T. Pavlidis (U.S.A.) D. Poussart (Canada), L.R. Schomaker (Holland), J. Schrmann (Germany) J. C. Simon (France), A. Thomassen (Holland), K. Tombre (France), J. Tsukumo (Japan), P. S. P. Wang (U.S.A.), Q. R. Wang (U.S.A.) Publicity Co-Chairs J. Hull (U.S.A.) Y. Nakano (Japan) G. Stamon (France) Publications J. J. Brault (Canada) Local Arrangements M. Cheriet (Canada) Y. Y. Tang (Canada) Treasurers J. G. Deschnes (Canada) L. Lam (Canada) You are invited to participate in the third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition to be held on August 14-16, 1995 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada. The Conference is sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Technical Committees 10 and 11, International Graphonomics Society, and the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society. This Conference is a unique International Forum for identifying, encouraging and exchanging ideas on research, development and novel applications of document related systems and technologies. The topics will include, but are not limited to: Document Analysis & Understanding Character Segmen. & Recognition Layout Analysis Touching Characters & Cursive Script Logical Structure Analysis Characters in Real-life Settings Knowledge-Based and Linguistic Large Vocabulary Approaches Text Analysis & Recognition On-Line Recognition Map and Drawing Understanding Handwritten Characters & Symbols Map Interpretation Drawings and Gestures Diagram/Drawing Understanding Pen Based Interface Musical Score Recognition Signature Verification Symbol Recognition Document Image Processing Storage and Retrieval of Doc. Images Deskewing Document Image Filing Image Compression Automated Indexing Color Image Processing Retrieval of Texts and Pictures Hypermedia Processing Theoretical and Psych. Approaches Multimedia Processing Neural Networks&Genetic Algorithms Electronic Books & Hypertext Expert Systems Multimedia Databases Psychological Models Implementations Applications and Systems VLSI/ULSI & Parallel Architectures Bank Cheques & Remittance Proc. Software Implementation OCR Systems Automatic Learning & Adaptation Geographical Information Systems Performance & Cost Analysis Postal Automation Software Tools, Databases & Standards Industrial & Business Applications Paper Submission Due December 1, 1994 Acceptance Notification March 1, 1995 Final Camera Ready Due May 1, 1995 Presentation: The Conference will include oral and poster presentations and invited talks by distinguished researchers. Posters with a demonstration are considered at the time of paper submission upon requests by the authors. All presentations will be in English. Paper Submission: Papers should describe original and unpublished work. Those who wish to present a paper are requested to submit four copies of a double-spaced complete paper not more than 20 pages by December 1, 1994 to one of the Program Chairmen listed below. The first page of the manuscript should contain a title, affiliation, mailing address, phone/fax numbers and e-mail address of the contact author. The second page should include the title, a 200-word abstract, and keywords. Papers accepted for presentation will be published in the conference proceedings, i.e. six pages (approximately 5000 words including figures) for long papers and four pages (3500 words) for short and poster papers. We will not review papers submitted by facsimile or e-mail. Prof. Rangachar Kasturi Prof. Guy Lorette Prof. Kazuhiko Yamamoto Dept. of Comp. Sc. & Eng. IFSIC/IRISA Image Understanding Section Penn State University Universit de Rennes 1 Electrotechnical Lab (ETL) 323 Pond Laboratory Campus de Beaulieu 1-1-4 Umezono Univ. Park, PA 16802 35042 RENNES Cedex Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305 U.S.A. France JAPAN Tel: 1-(814) 863-4254 Tel: (33) 99.84.73.58 Tel: (81) 298-54-5491 Fax: 1-(814) 865-3176 Fax: (33) 99.38.38.32 Fax: (81) 298-58-5949 E-mail: kasturi@cse.psu.edu E-mail: lorette@irisa.fr E-mail: yamamoto@etl.go.jp Important Dates: Paper Submission Due December 1, 1994 Acceptance Notification March 1, 1995 Final Camera Ready Due May 1, 1995 For further information, please contact the Conference Secretariat or one of the Publicity Co-chairs: 1. Secretariat - ICDAR '95 2. Prof. Jonathan Hull c/o CENPARMI - Suite GM-606 Centre of Excellence for Document Concordia University Analysis & Recognition 1455 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West UB Commons, 520 Lee Entrance Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8 State Univ. of New York at Buffalo CANADA Amherst, New York 14228-2567 Tel: (514) 848-7950 U.S.A. Fax: (514) 848-4522 Tel: 1-(716) 645-6164 (ext. 109) E-mail: Fax: 1-(716) 645-6176 icdar-95-request@cenparmi.concordia.ca E-mail: hull@cs.buffalo.edu 3. Prof. Yasuaki Nakano 4. Prof. Georges Stamon Department of Information Engineering Ecole Hautes Etudes Informatique Shinshu University Universit de Paris V - Sorbonne 500 Wakasato, Nagano 380 45 rue des Saints Pres JAPAN 75006 Paris, FRANCE Tel: (81) 262-26-4101 (ext. 3719) Tel: (33) 1-47-03-31-27 Fax: (81) 262-23-1026 Fax: (33) 1-42-86-22-31 E-mail: E-mail: vision@ehei.ehei.fr nakano@wakasato.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp