Document Recognition and Retrieval X: Call for Papers and Announcement

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Note: The due date for this conference has been extended to 10 July
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This conference is part of the IS&T/SPIE's International Symposium on
Electronic Imaging 2003, 20-24 January 2003, Santa Clara Convention
Center and Westin Hotel, Santa Clara, California USA

Conference Chairs: Tapas Kanungo, IBM Almaden Research Ctr.; Elisa H.
BarneySmith, Boise State Univ.; Jianying Hu, Avaya Labs. Research;
Paul B.  Kantor, Rutgers Univ.

Program Committee: Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon Univ.; Francine
R. Chen, Palo Alto Research Ctr.; David S. Doermann, Univ. of
Maryland/College Park; Hiromichi Fujisawa, Hitachi, Ltd. (Japan);
David Grossman, Illinois Institute of Technology; Alexander Hauptman,
Carnegie Mellon Univ.; Jonathan J. Hull, Ricoh Corp. California
Research Ctr.; Matthew Hurst, Whizbang!Labs Inc.; Daniel P. Lopresti,
Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs.; Kris Popat, Palo Alto Research Ctr.;
Sargur N. Srihari, Univ. at Buffalo; Kazem Taghva, Univ. of Nevada/Las
Vegas; George R. Thoma, National Library of Medicine; Marcel Worring,
Univ. van Amsterdam (Netherlands); Jiangying Zhou, Summus Ltd.

The fields of document recognition and retrieval have grown rapidly in
recent years. This development has been fueled by rising accuracy
rates for omnifont and handprint optical character recognition (OCR),
decreasing costs for the computational power needed to run such
sophisticated algorithms, and the emergence of new application areas
such as the World Wide Web (WWW), digital libraries, and video- and
camera-based OCR. The use of OCR is spreading from high-volume, niche
domains to more general tasks, including the processing of noisy
"real-world" documents, photocopies, and faxes.

Beyond OCR, document recognition includes the recovery of a document's
logical structure and format. This encompasses decomposing a document
into its various fundamental components (sentences, paragraphs,
figures, tables, etc.), tagging these units, and then determining a
higher-level structure for the document as a whole. The analysis of
these entities may include attempting to understand the structure of
tables and equations, or the conversion of line drawings from raster
to vector format. Syntactic representation of logical structure
(e.g. using grammars) and syntax-directed recognition is another
important area where research contributions are solicited.

One primary reason for digitizing existing paper materials is, of
course, to simplify retrieval of information. Therefore we are
particularly interested in papers which address any of the following
retrieval issues: (1) retrieval in the face of corrupted readings of
the terms in a document; (2) retrieval based on sketches, images,
tables, diagrams or other non-linguistic objects that appear in the
document;(3) retrieval based on text appearing with non-standard
alignment, in images or graphics; (4) recognition and tagging of
mathematical arrays and equations which serve as indicators of subject
content or methodology used in the document. Papers addressing
retrieval-specific issues are encouraged to use a standard methodology
from either statistics (such as the ROC representation) or IR (such as
precision versus recall) to assess the effectiveness of proposed
techniques against the endpoint goal of correct recognition and
retrieval of the entire document, or a section thereof.

   Papers are solicited in the following areas:

Recognition:
*  algorithms and systems for machine-printed and handwritten character and
   word recognition, especially for degraded documents (e.g., faxes)
*  character and word segmentation techniques
*  identification and analysis of tables or equations
*  page segmentation, including hierarchical decomposition of documents
   into text regions, colored/textured background, halftones, line-art, etc.
*  logical structure analysis, linguistic representation of structure and
   syntax-directed recognition of logical structure
*  raster-to-vector conversion of line-art, maps, and technical drawings
*  filtering and enhancement techniques for document images
*  document image compression
*  document degradation models
*  video- and camera-based OCR
*  applications of document recognition to the WWW and digital libraries
*  techniques to support spoken language access to document text (audio
   browsing of document databases)
*  multilingual character recognition
*  other topics relating to document analysis and character recognition

Retrieval:
*  impact of recognition accuracy on retrieval effectiveness
*  recovery and use of logical structure for retrieval
*  relevance feedback techniques for document retrieval
*  cross-language and multi-lingual retrieval
*  categorization of text documents and imaged documents
*  summarization of text documents and imaged documents
*  keyword spotting in document images
*  approximate string matching algorithms for OCR text
*  non-textual retrieval methods
*  image and multimedia search
*  interfaces for retrieval
*  benchmarking and evaluation issues
*  other topics relating to the retrieval of documents and document images

Note: submissions to Document Recognition and Retrieval X should be
extended abstracts (6 pages / 2,500 words maximum). The abstract
should informative and address the following questions: i) What is the
paper about? ii) What is the original contribution? iii) What is the
most closely related work by others and how does this work differ? iv)
How can others make use of this work? v) What are the main
experimental/theoretical results?

For more information and submission instructions, please see:
http://electronicimaging.org/call/03/conferences/index.cfm?fuseaction=EI11

Abstract Due Date: 10 July 2002
Manuscript Due Date: 28 October 2002
Final Summary Due Date: 18 November 2002

Proceedings of this conference will be published and available at the
meeting.  The Abstract and Manuscript due dates must be strictly
observed.

Submissions imply the intent of at least one author to register,
attend the symposium, and present the paper (either orally or in
poster format).

Your abstract must include all of the following:

     1.   The phrase "SUBMIT TO: EI11,  KANUNGO, BARNEYSMITH, HU, KANTOR"

     2.   SUBMIT ABSTRACT TO THIS CONFERENCE ONLY:
          Document Recognition and Retrieval X (EI11)

     3.   ABSTRACT TITLE

     4.   AUTHOR LISTING (principal author first) -- for each author:
          First (given) name (initials not acceptable), Last (family)
          name, Affiliation, Mailing address, Telephone, Fax, and
          Email address.

     5.   PRESENTATION
          Indicate your preference for "Oral Presentation" or "Poster
          Presentation." Final placement is subject to chairs' discretion.

     6.   BRIEF BIOGRAPHY ( principal/presenting author)
          Approximately 50 words.

     7.   ABSTRACT TEXT
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     8.   KEYWORDS
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    and the results of the research.

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*   Applicants will be notified of acceptance by mail no later than 7
    October 2002. Early notification of acceptance will be placed on
    the Web site the week of 30 September 2002 at
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To ensure a high-quality conference, all abstracts and Proceedings
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Accepted authors will receive instructions for submission of the
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Oral or Poster Presentation:

Instructions for Oral and Poster presentations will be included in
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