GREC'97
	     Second IAPR Workshop on Graphics Recognition
		      (sponsored by IAPR TC-10)

			    Nancy, France

			  August 22-23, 1997

	       http://www.loria.fr/~tombre/grec97.html

You are invited to participate in a single-track 2-day workshop on
methods and systems for graphics recognition organized by IAPR TC-10
(Technical Committee on Graphics Recognition).  The workshop will
comprise several sessions dedicated to specific topics.  For each
session, there will be a main paper presentation giving the state of
the art and stating the open questions for the session's
topic, followed by a number of short presentations where each
participant is invited to contribute by proposing solutions to some of
the questions or presenting results of his/her work.  Each session
will be concluded by a panel discussion.

The workshop will be held just after the 4th International Conference
on Document Analysis and Recognition (Ulm, Germany, August 18-20,
1997). Nancy is only a 4 hours drive from Ulm and the two cities are
directly connected by train.

Attendance will be limited to 75 persons.  All participants are
expected to contribute actively to the workshop, either by presenting
a full state-of-the-art paper, or through an abstract of remarks on a
specific topic.  You are invited to submit to the program committee an
abstract (maximum 2 pages) of your proposed contribution to the
workshop.  Please indicate also if you would be willing to present a
state-of-the-art paper on this topic, if invited to do so by the
program committee.

Pre-proceedings of all contributed papers will be available at the
workshop for the participants. After the workshop, the program
committee plans to publish as a book revised versions of selected key
papers, possibly including reports from the panel discussions.

Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
  - raster-to-vector techniques
  - recognition of graphical primitives
  - recognition of graphic symbols in charts and diagrams
  - interpretation of engineering drawings, logic diagrams, maps, 
    charts, etc.
  - analysis of line drawings, tables, forms etc.
  - graphics-based information retrieval
  - 3-D models from multiple 2-D views
  - interpretation of low-level ("dumb") CAD data
  - description of complete systems for interpretation of graphics in
    scanned documents
  - performance evaluation in graphics recognition

			Workshop Organization

Chairs:

Karl Tombre
INRIA Lorraine & CRIN/CNRS
Batiment LORIA,
615 rue du jardin botanique, B.P. 101
54602 Villers-les-Nancy Cedex, France
Email: tombre@loria.fr, Phone: +33 3 83 59 20 71, Fax: +33 3 83 27 83 19

Atul K. Chhabra
NYNEX Science & Technology
500 Westchester Avenue
White Plains, NY 10604, USA
Email: atul@nynexst.com, Phone: +1 914 644-2786, Fax: +1 914 644-2561


Program Committee:

Keiichi Abe            Shizuoka University, Japan
Adnan Amin             University of New South Wales, Australia
Dorothea Blostein      Queen's University, Ontario, Canada
Horst Bunke            Bern University, Switzerland
Luigi P. Cordella      Naples University, Italy
Its'hak Dinstein       Ben Gurion University, Israel
David Doermann         University Maryland, USA
Dov Dori               Technion Haifa, Israel
Robert M. Haralick     University of Washington, USA
Osamu Hori             Toshiba R&D Center, Japan
Rangachar Kasturi      Pennsylvania State University, USA
YoungBin Kwon          Chung-Ang University, Korea
Yves Lecourtier        University of Rouen, France
Lawrence O'Gorman      Bell Labs, USA
Arnold Smeulders       University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Deadlines:

Abstracts (max. 2 pages, 3 copies):             March 1, 1997
Acceptance notification:                        May 1, 1997
Camera Ready Manuscripts:                       June 15, 1997

Please send your abstract to one of the co-chairs.  Contact either one
of the co-chairs for further information.