CJECE Special Issue on Document Image Analysis Call for Papers IEEE Canada Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering Special Issue on Document Image Analysis Guest Editors Mohamed Kamel (mkamel@watnow.uwaterloo.ca) Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Lab Department of Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 Canada Slawo Wesolkowski (s.wesolkowski@ieee.org) Advanced Development Department NCR Canada Ltd. 580 Weber Street North Waterloo, Ontario N2J 4G5 Canada Theme of the special issue: The field of document image analysis has seen a tremendous growth in research and applications in the past ten years. Both academic researchers and the industry have been developing new algorithms and improving old ones utilizing the continuing increase in computer power. This Special Issue will focus on the state of the art in image processing and analysis as it relates to the storage, analysis and recognition of documents. We especially welcome papers describing novel architectures, comparing various algorithms and addressing real world problems (e.g. cheque image processing). Topics for papers in this special issue include, but are not limited to: * color image processing * image enhancement * image compression * document analysis * character recognition * data mining in document image databases * applications Timetable: Manuscripts due: June 1, 1998 Notification of acceptance: August 15, 1998 Final version due: October 15, 1998 All submitted papers will be reviewed according to the guidelines and standards of CJECE. Papers should be written according to the standard IEEE journal format. Four copies of submitted papers should be sent to: Mohamed Kamel Special Issue on Document Image Analysis Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Lab Department of Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 Canada