CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Document Layout Interpretation and its Applications (DLIA99) September 18, 1999 (before ICDAR99) Bangalore, India http://www.wins.uva.nl/events/dlia99 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS: Thomas BREUEL, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA Marcel WORRING, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Apostolos ANTONACOPOULOS, University of Liverpool, U.K. Larry BAUM, The Boeing Company, USA Abdel BELAID, CRIN/CNRS, France Horst BUNKE, University of Bern, Switzerland Andreas DENGEL, DFKI, Germany David DOERMANN, University of Maryland, USA Hiromichi FUJISAWA, Hitachi CRL, Japan Patrick HAFFNER, AT&T labs, USA Bob HARALICK, University of Washington, USA Jianying HU, Bell Labs, Lucent Techs, USA Jonathan HULL, Ricoh California Research Center, USA Rolf INGOLD, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Yasuto ISHITANI, Toshiba Corporation, Japan Koichi KISE, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan Yasuaki NAKANO, Shinshu University, Japan Lawrence O'GORMAN, Veridicom, Inc. USA Theo PAVLIDIS, SUNY Stony Brook, USA Thomas PHELPS, UC Berkeley, USA Larry SPITZ, Document Recognition Technologies, USA Luc Vincent, Xerox ScanSoft, USA --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TECHNICAL FOCUS: The workshop will explore document layout interpretation and its application in document conversion to structured formats (SGML, MS Word, etc.), genre recognition, document databases and retrieval, and automatic hypertext creation. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers in document layout analysis and groups developing systems that apply document layout interpretation. We want to identify limitations of current systems and state-of-the-art research, and explore the needs of users and applications. We invite contributions from individuals or groups working in the following areas: -- Layout analysis and page segmentation based either on general layout principles, document-specific grammars or models, or application specific constraints. -- Methods and systems that take advantage of document layout information for conversion to structured formats, hypertext creation, document management, and document databases. -- Acquisition of document models and parameter settings using techniques from statistics or machine learning. -- Creation of resources available to the document layout interpretation community (databases for training and evaluation, representations/interchange formats, available software). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP FORMAT: This will be a one-day workshop for a maximum of about 50 participants. Each participant will submit an extended abstract. All participants are expected to contribute to the discussions. Abstracts will be published before the workshop. At the beginning of the workshop, participants will present summaries of current work, needs, and open problems. Then, we will split up into several discussion groups. The afternoon session will consist of a summary of results from the morning session, followed by additional group discussions, and a plenary session at the end of the day. After the workshop, the organizing committee will compile a Workshop Summary, based on the working group notes, and make it available on the Web. It is hoped that the workshop will stimulate cooperative follow-on activities that will accelerate the pace of research in document layout interpretation and its applications. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXTENDED ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: Each potential participant or group of participants should submit an extended abstract which should arrive no later than March 15, 1999. Abstracts may be submitted in one of the following forms: -- PDF or plain ASCII through the Web at http://www.wins.uva.nl/events/dlia99 -- Plain ASCII, by sending E-mail to dlia99@wins.uva.nl -- In paper form (least preferred), by sending mail to DLIA 99 WINS-UVA Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam The Netherlands The length should be limited to four printed pages including references. The first page should include the name, address, telephone, fax, and email address of the corresponding author and possible co-authors.