Final Call For Papers

                                  GREC'99

         Third IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition

                               Jaipur, India
                           September 26-27, 1999

               http://graphics.basit.com/iapr-tc10/GREC99/


        DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF 2 PAGE ABSTRACTS: MARCH 29, 1999


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 an
invited presentation describing 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.

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 (line drawings)
   * interpretation of low-level (``dumb'') CAD data
   * description of complete systems for interpretation of graphics in
     scanned documents
   * performance evaluation in graphics recognition

The workshop will be held just after the 5th International Conference
on Document Analysis and Recognition (Bangalore, India, September
20-22, 1999). Jaipur, the GREC city, is located in northern India, 250
km from New Delhi. It is well connected to New Delhi by air, rail, and
road.

Attendance will be limited to encourage active participation. All
participants are expected to contribute actively to the workshop,
either by presenting a full state-of-the-art paper, or by an abstract
of remarks on a specific topic.  You are invited to submit to the
workshop chairs an abstract (2 pages plus figures, max 4 pages) of
your proposed contribution to the workshop. Please indicate 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 and the
contest.

As at the past workshops, a graphics recognition contest will be held
at GREC'99. Further details can be found at the GREC'99 web site.


The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended to March
29, 1999. The preferred method of submission is through the web site
http://graphics.basit.com/iapr-tc10/conferences/grec99/submission.html. If
it is not possible for you to submit through the web, then please send
three copies of your abstract to one of the co-chairs. Please specify
your contact information, including your e-mail address, in the cover
letter. Contact either one of the co-chairs for further information.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstracts Due(2-4 pages):            March 29, 1999  <<<<<<
Acceptance notification:             May 1, 1999
Final Manuscripts Due:               June 15, 1999

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION:

CO-CHAIRS:

Atul Chhabra                     Dov Dori
Bell Atlantic Network Systems    Information Systems Engineering
  Advanced Technology            Faculty of Industrial Engineering
500 Westchester Avenue             and Management
White Plains, NY 10604           Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
USA                              Haifa 32000, Israel

Phone: 1 (914) 644-2786          Phone: (972) 4 8294409
Fax:   1 (914) 644-2561          Fax:   (972) 4 8235194
Email: atul@basit.com            Email: dori@ie.technion.ac.il

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Keiichi Abe, Japan                   Osamu Hori, Japan
Adnan Amin, Australia                Rangachar Kasturi, USA
Dorothea Blostein, Canada            Young-Bin Kwon, Korea
Horst Bunke, Switzerland             Noshir Langrana, USA
Luigi Cordella, Italy                Gerd Maderlechner, Germany
Marc-Pierrot Deseilligny, France     Lawrence O'Gorman, USA
Its'hak Dinstein, Israel             Theo Pavlidis, USA
David Doermann, USA                  Ihsin Phillips, USA
Georgy Gimelfarb, New Zealand        Arnold Smeulders, Netherlands
Robert Haralick, USA                 Karl Tombre, France

LOCAL ORGANIZATION:

Santanu Chaudury, IIT Delhi
Atul Chhabra, Bell Atlantic