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