International Association for Pattern Recognition Workshop on
Document Analysis Systems
Malvern, Pennsylvania, October 14-16, 1996

Call for Papers

An intensive, three-day, single-track, 100% participation
workshop on the research and development of systems for the
analysis of document images.

Academic and industrial researchers, end-users and students are
encouraged to attend. We expect to provide several student scholarships

Attendance will be limited to 75 people.  Papers will be delivered in a
single-track format.  A portion of the workshop will also be devoted
to panel discussions and working groups.  Participants will be invited
to propose topics for these in advance.  There will be ample
opportunity for informal discussion and socializing.

Sponsors

IAPR Technical Committee on Graphics Recognition (TC-10)
IAPR Technical Committee on Text Processing (TC-11)
Loral Defense Systems-Eagan
Ricoh Corporation
U.S. Department of Defense

Topics
- descriptions of complete, working document image analysis systems,
   including applications to large document image databases
- applications to text, graphics, maps, logic diagrams, music, etc.
- studies of system architectures
- methods of performance evaluation for whole systems or system modules
- interfaces to knowledge databases and post-processors
- algorithms for symbol recognition
- layout segmentation

Submission of Papers

Authors are invited to submit either a full paper or an abstract of
remarks.  Full papers, of up to book-chapter length, will be presented
formally, published in a limited number of refereed Proceedings
available at the meeting, and considered for archival publication in a
post-workshop book.  Abstracts of remarks, one page in length, will be
delivered more briefly, and will not be published in the Proceedings.
Authors should submit four copies of each paper or
abstract, cleanly typed and in English.  If there are several authors,
please indicate the author that will handle all correspondence.
The email address of the corresponding author should be provided.

If any part of a full paper has been submitted to another conference,
please state where it has been submitted and how it differs 
from this paper.

Acceptance of a paper or abstract will result in automatic
distribution of registration materials.

Send full papers, abstracts, or inquiries about
the technical program to:

Jonathan J. Hull
Ricoh California Research Center
2882 Sand Hill Road, Suite 115
Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA
TEL: 415-496-5723  FAX: 415-854-8740 EMAIL: hull@crc.ricoh.com

Organization

Chairs

  Suzanne Liebowitz Taylor	Loral Defense Systems-Eagan (USA)
  Jonathan J. Hull	  	Ricoh California Research Center (USA)

Program Committee

  Henry Baird, AT&T Bell Laboratories (USA)
  Horst Bunke, University of Berne (Switzerland)  
  Dick Casey, IBM Almaden (USA)
  Andreas Dengel, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (Germany)
  Stephen Dennis, U.S. Department of Defense
  Hiromichi Fujisawa, Hitachi (Japan)
  Tin Kam Ho,  AT&T Bell Laboratories (USA)  
  Junichi Kanai, ISRI-UNLV  (USA)
  Louisa Lam, Concordia University (Canada)
  Daniel Lopresti, Panasonic Technologies (USA)
  Guy Lorette, IRISA, University of Rennes 1 (France)
  Juergen Schuermann, Daimler Benz  (Germany)
  Larry Spitz, Daimler Benz (USA)
  Sargur N. Srihari, CEDAR-SUNY/Buffalo (USA)
  Karl Tombre, INRIA Lorraine & CRIN/CNRS (France)
  Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Gifu University (Japan)

Important Dates
  
  April 1, 1996  	Submission of full Papers
  June 15, 1996		Acceptance of full papers
  July 1, 1996		Submission of abstracts
  August 1, 1996	Acceptance of abstracts
  August 15, 1996	Camera-ready copy of full papers
  September 1, 1996	Registration payment and hotel reservation

Workshop Information
  
  Pre-registration will be required.  
  Information about the workshop and the registration procedure
  will be available over the
          World Wide Web

  Other inquiries about local arrangements, registration, 
  and scholarships should be directed to:

   Suzanne Liebowitz Taylor
   Loral Defense Systems-Eagan
   70 E Swedesford Road 
   Paoli, PA 19301-0517

   TEL: 610-648-2009  FAX: 610-648-2288   EMAIL: das@vfl.paramax.com