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