GREC 2001 Call for Papers Fourth IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition Kingston, Ontario, Canada, September 7-8, 2001 http://www.cs.queensu.ca/grec2001 Abstracts Due March 1, 2001 Graphics recognition is a branch of document image analysis that focuses on the recognition of diagram notations, including engineering drawings, maps, mathematical notation, music notation, tables, and chemical structure diagrams. There is great demand for automatic conversion between paper and electronic forms of documents. Graphics recognition is an essential component of this conversion. - The GREC workshops have enjoyed strong participation from both industry and academia. - Researchers in a variety of disciplines are invited to participate. - GREC workshops are published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (previous workshops in Volumes 1072, 1389, 1941). - GREC 2001 features an Arc Segmentation Contest, organized by Dov Dori and Liu Wenyin: http://research.microsoft.com/users/wyliu/arcsegcontest.htm - GREC 2001 precedes ICDAR 2001 (Sixth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Seattle, Sept. 10-13). A GREC attendee can travel from Kingston to Seattle on Sept. 9, or during the evening of Sept. 8. The travel connection is posted at http://www.cs.queensu.ca/grec2001 - Location: Kingston, Ontario is located at the eastern end of the Great Lakes, where Lake Ontario empties into the St. Lawrence River. A boat has been chartered for the GREC banquet; we will be going on a three hour tour of the 1000 Islands. Further information, including a description of the workshop format, and electronic submission procedures, can be found at http://www.cs.queensu.ca/grec2001 We welcome your participation, and invite you to submit an abstract (one to four pages long) by March first.