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
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Early registration deadline          July 30, 1999
Hotel reservation deadline           August 5, 1999
 
WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
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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
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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).