CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION Document Layout Interpretation and its Applications (DLIA2003) August 2, 2003 (before ICDAR2003) Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.science.uva.nl/events/dlia2003 Submission deadline: April 18, 2003 (one month after anticipated ICDAR acceptance date) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Andrew D. Bagdanov, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Bertin Klein, DFKI, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE (invited members): Apostolos ANTONACOPOULOS, University of Liverpool, U.K. Henry BAIRD, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA Larry BAUM, The Boeing Company, USA Thomas BREUEL, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA Andreas DENGEL, DFKI, Germany David DOERMANN, University of Maryland, USA Jianying HU, Avaya Labs Research, USA Hiromichi FUJISAWA, Hitachi CRL, Japan Rolf INGOLD, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Yasuto ISHITANI, Toshiba Corporation, Japan Koichi KISE, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan Donato MALERBA, Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy Simone MARINAI, Universita di Firenze, Italy Lawrence O'GORMAN, Avaya Labs Research, USA Larry SPITZ, Document Recognition Technologies, USA Luc VINCENT, LizardTech, USA Marcel WORRING, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW: We would like to build on the two successful DLIA workshops, held in conjunction with ICDAR 1999 in Bangalore and ICDAR 2001 in Seattle, and bring together researchers in document layout analysis again for an exchange of ideas, discussion of applications and available tools, and discussions about future directions. The techniques of document layout segmentation have reached such a level of maturity that researchers are beginning to explore the wealth of possibilities enabled by the availability of accurate layout information. The purpose of this international workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, and users of document understanding technology to explore the following question: "Assuming accurate layout information is available, what now?" Of course, before approaching such a broad, open-ended question, it is essential to determine a task-dependent definition of accuracy for layout information. Once the interpretation purpose is fixed, the result of a specific layout analysis technique can be poor or very good. While conventional research about layout segmentation is still a very active area, the emphasis of the DLIA workshop is on the interpretation of extracted layout information. In order to stimulate discussion during the next DLIA workshop, we would like to especially encourage submissions from people with interesting application scenarios to present. The emphasis of such reports should be on the (not necessarily solved) application of document layout interpretation. We invite the submission of original, previously unpublished work. We also welcome, with some restrictions, submissions which are closely related to work submitted also to this ICDAR. Please use our workshop to present work that differs materially from your ICDAR presentations, in any of several ways: -- recent results too late for the ICDAR deadline; -- the motivations and broader implications of work presented in more detail at ICDAR; -- methodological issues facing the DLIA community; -- proposals for community-wide data sets, experiments, competitions, web sites, etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TECHNICAL FOCUS: The workshop will explore document layout interpretation and its application in document conversion to structured formats (XML, MS Word, etc.), genre recognition, document databases and retrieval, multimedia documents, and automatic hypertext creation. We invite contributions from individuals or groups working in the following areas: -- Application scenarios involving a strong document layout interpretation component; -- Layout analysis and page segmentation based either on general layout principles, document-specific grammars or models, or application specific constraints; -- Abstraction principles and models of the document layout generation and analysis cycle; -- Table understanding, including the detection, segmentation and interpretation of tabular data, as well as extraction and interaction with tables in all media (e.g., printed documents, ASCII documents, HTML, and other standard document formats); -- Methods and systems that take advantage of document layout information for conversion to structured formats, hypertext creation, document management, and document databases; -- Acquisition of document models and parameter settings using techniques from statistics or machine learning; -- Application of document layout interpretation concepts to broader classes of documents, such as multimedia, hypertext, or other structured document formats; -- Use of standardized methods for representation, interchange, and visualization of document layout interpretation results (e.g. XML, XSL/XSLT, and SVG); -- Standardization and dissemination of resources that have already reached maturity and broad application within the DLIA research community (e.g. databases for training and evaluation, representation/interchange formats, and software). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP FORMAT: This will be a one-day workshop for a maximum of about 50 participants. Each participant will submit an extended abstract. All participants are expected to contribute to the discussions. Abstracts will be published before the workshop. These abstracts should be position papers representing a specific view of the researcher, or application scenario papers describing an application of document layout interpretation for which no solution currently exists. Participants will present summaries of their abstracts at the beginning of the workshop. Each session will begin with an application scenario presentation selected as appropriate to set the tone and context for the other summary presentations. Summaries should identify current needs, open problems, and overall direction of their research in layout interpretation. After the summary presentations we will split up into several discussion groups. The afternoon session will consist of a summary of results from the morning session, followed by additional group discussions, and a plenary session at the end of the day. After the workshop, the organizing committee will compile a Workshop Summary, based on the working group notes, and make it available on the Web. It is hoped that the workshop will stimulate cooperative follow-on activities that will accelerate the pace of research in document layout interpretation and its applications. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXTENDED ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: Each potential participant or group of participants should submit an extended abstract which should arrive no later than April 18, 2003. Abstracts may be submitted in one of the following forms: -- PDF (preferred) or Postscript through the Web at http://www.science.uva.nl/events/dlia2003/ -- PDF or Postscript by sending E-mail to dlia2003@science.uva.nl -- In paper form (least preferred), by sending mail to DLIA 2003 Faculty of Science Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam The Netherlands Papers should be formatted according to the ICDAR style guidelines, and should be limited to four printed pages including references. The first page should include the name, address, telephone, fax, and email address of the corresponding author and possible co-authors. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------