Call for Participation GREC'99 Third IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition Rambagh Palace Hotel Jaipur, India September 26-27, 1999 http://graphics.basit.com/iapr-tc10/GREC99/ Early registration deadline : July 30, 1999 Deadline to reserve hotel rooms at the special rate : August 5, 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. Below are some of the topics that will be addressed by this workshop. * 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 As at the past workshops, a graphics recognition contest is planned at GREC'99. Details on the contest will soon be posted on the GREC'99 web site. 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. There are plenty of flights connecting Bangalore and Jaipur (via Delhi). Attendance will be limited to 70 persons. All participants are expected to contribute actively to the workshop. If you are not one of the speakers at the workshop, then, at the least, you will be expected to participate in the discussions at the end of each session. A list of the technical sessions, and a tentative list of talks within each session, are available at the GREC'99 web site. Pre-proceedings of all contributed papers will be available at the workshop. To find out more about this workshop, to register, and to make hotel reservations, please visit the GREC'99 web site http://graphics.basit.com/iapr-tc10/GREC99/ IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Early registration deadline July 30, 1999 Hotel reservation deadline August 5, 1999 WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION --------------------- 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 TC10 MEMBERSHIP --------------- While you are at the TC10 or GREC'99 web site, if you are interested in this field, please take a few moments to visit the "Membership" page and enroll as a member of TC10 (IAPR Technical Committee on Graphics Recognition).