International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition
                     SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS
       Graphics Recognition: Enabling Machines to Understand
                      Line Drawings and Symbols
 
 With the acceleration of options to convert paper documents into
 digital ones, the need for advanced graphics recognition technologies
 is on the rise, so as to take full advantage of the semantics conveyed
 by the graphics as an important and frequently the crucial part of a
 document or scene.
 
 This special issue of IJDAR is devoted to graphics recognition. The
 papers to be included in this issue will provide a broad perspective
 of state-of-the-art graphics recognition technologies, systems and
 techniques and their relation to document understanding and computer
 vision/pattern recognition.
 
 Areas covered may include, but are not limited to:
 
 Basic Techniques: Vectorization; Shape recognition; Graphics/text
 separation; Symbol recognition.
 
 System Approaches: Graphics recognition; Generic graphics recognition
 and reusability; Patterns and frameworks in graphics recognition;
 Incorporating graphics recognition into document analysis systems.
 
 Applications: Graphics Recognition over the Internet: Principles,
 requirements and uses; Applications to E-commerce; Content-based image
 retrieval. Line drawing understanding: Maps, cartography and GIS;
 Engineering drawings; Diagrams and schemas; Utility
 drawings. Non-textual symbol-based languages: Music, Chemistry, and
 Mathematics. Robotics and navigation: Fiducial recognition for indoor
 industrial and home applications; AGV homing through graphics
 recognition. Outdoor applications: Traffic sign recognition; Car plate
 recognition; Intelligent highway applications.
 
 Electronic Submission of Manuscripts:
   Please submit your manuscript electronically in PDF format, through
   the IJDAR Electronic Submission Page (ijdar.cfar.umd.edu) by March 31,
   2000.  Please indicate (Graphics Special Issue) after the title on the
   submission form.
 
               * Preliminary Abstract:  ASAP           *
               * Full paper:            March 31, 2000 *
               * Editors' Decisions:    May 30, 2000   *
               * Final Manuscript Due:  June 30, 2000  *
               * Publication Date:      September 2000 *
 
 Please direct all enquires about content and schedule to the Editors.
 
 GUEST EDITORS:
   Dov Dori (dori@ie.technion.ac.il), Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management
      Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000  ISRAEL
   Karl Tombre (Karl.Tombre@loria.fr), LORIA-INPL, Campus scientifique, B.P. 239,
      54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy CEDEX  FRANCE
   Atul K. Chhabra (atul@basit.com), Bell Atlantic Network Systems,
      Advanced Technology, 500 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, NY 10604 USA
 
 For instructions to authors: URL http://ijdar.cfar.umd.edu