DAS 2004
            Sixth IAPR International Workshop on 
                Document Analysis Systems
       
                   September 8-10, 2004
                     Florence, Italy
              http://www.dsi.unifi.it/DAS04
 
 Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in LNCS series
 
 OVERVIEW:
    We are pleased to announce that the Sixth International Workshop on
    Document Analysis Systems will be held in Florence, Italy.  DAS04
    will build on the tradition of past workshops held in Kaiserslautern,
    Germany (1994), Malvern, PA (1996), Nagano, Japan (1998), Rio de
    Janeiro, Brazil (2000), and Princeton, NJ (2002). 
 
 TECHNICAL FOCUS:
   We invite contributions describing current research in the following areas:
     Descriptions of complete, working DIA systems.
     Studies of system architectures.
     Links between document image analysis and digital libraries.
     Algorithms for Layout Analysis.
     Methods for table and form analysis.
     Document image processing for the Internet.
     Document Analysis and Understanding Web Services.
     Document Image Retrieval systems.
     Information Extraction from documents.
     Learning and classification methodologies for DIA systems.
     Applications to text, graphics, maps, music, etc.
     Authoring, editing, presentation, and collaboration systems 
           for complex multimedia documents.
     Enterprise applications: intranet and workflow management.
     Document reformatting for multimodal mobile access.
     Application of  multimodal Information Retrieval to document collections.
     Methods of performance evaluation.
 
 WORKSHOP FORMAT:
    This is a 100% participation workshop (every attendee will give a
    presentation) organized into single track sessions. To encourage an
    active participation of everyone the posters will be introduced by
    short oral presentations. To prepare the working group discussion
    each participant will list some relevant topics when registering to
    the workshop. At least one session will be reserved to presentations
    that have a significant demonstration component.  These will receive
    extra time and are expected to include an overview talk followed by a
    live demo of the system in question. The proceedings will be
    published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series and distributed at
    the workshop. 
 
 DAS & DL:
    Several DIA systems exist and can potentially be applied to Digital
    Libraries.  However, as yet there is no widely accepted understanding
    of what are the results that can be achieved on real documents
    belonging to DLs. To stimulate such comparison we identified a large
    collection of documents freely downloadable from Internet DLs (more
    than 5000 digitized pages).  References to these documents have been
    put in the DAS&DL page of the Workshop web site. Interested
    participants can test their systems on these data, submit papers
    specifically addressing this "game", and show their results in one
    demo session. In contrast with other contests the task to be
    performed is not fixed. Participants can freely demonstrate their
    systems (even if not designed for DL applications) with these data. 
 
 PAPER SUBMISSION:
    Original and unpublished contributions are solicited which include
    regular papers and extended abstracts.  Potential participants should
    submit a paper describing their work in one of the areas described
    above. Each regular paper must be accompanied by an abstract
    summarizing the contribution it makes to the field. Maximum paper
    length for regular papers is 12 pages in LNCS format. Extended
    abstracts can have at most four pages. Authors must explicitly
    indicate at the time of submission whether they would like their
    paper considered for the demo presentation session.  Submission of a
    paper constitutes a commitment that, if accepted, one or more authors
    will attend and participate in the workshop.  Electronic submission
    in camera-ready format is requested. The manuscript, complete with
    illustrations and abstract, must be sent as a PDF file according to
    instructions that will be posted on the web site. 
 
 IMPORTANT DATES:
       Regular Papers (up to 12 pages in LNCS camera-ready format):
             Submission February 1; Acceptance May 1.
       Extended abstracts (up to 4 pages in LNCS camera-ready format):
             Submission April 1; Acceptance May 1.
       Final camera-ready papers due:  June 1, 2004.
 
 VENUE:
    The workshop will take place at Villa "La Quiete alle Montalve", a
    15th-Century building located in a quiet position on the outskirts of
    Florence. The site can be reached with public bus and a short walk.
    During the workshop a bus shuttle will connect the nearest bus stop
    with the Villa. 
 
 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:
 	Andreas Dengel (Germany)
 	Simone Marinai (Italy)
 
 PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
    Apostolos Antonacopoulos (UK)
    Henry Baird  (USA)
    Francesca Cesarini  (Italy)             
    David Doermann  (USA)
    Andrew Downton  (UK)
    Hiromichi Fujisawa  (Japan)
    Jianying Hu  (USA)
    Rolf Ingold  (Switzerland)
    Ramanujan Kashi  (USA)          
    Koichi Kise  (Japan) 
    Daniel Lopresti  (USA)
    Donato Malerba  (Italy) 
    Udo Miletzki  (Germany)
    Yusuaki Nakano  (Japan)
    Lambert Schomaker (The Netherlands)
    Giovanni Soda  (Italy)
    Larry Spitz  (New Zealand) 
    Karl Tombre  (France)
    Luc Vincent   (USA) 
    Marcell Worring  (The Netherlands)
       
 CONTACT: mailto:das2004@dsi.unifi.it
 
 WORKSHOP WEBSITE: http://www.dsi.unifi.it/DAS04