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