International Workshop on
DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS for LIBRARIES
January 23-24, 2004
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
Palo Alto, CA, USA
www.cedar.buffalo.edu/DIAL2004
dial2004@cedar.buffalo.edu
DIAL2004 will bring together Digital Library (DL) and Document Image
Analysis (DIA) researchers, practitioners, and users who are
interested in new technologies that assist the integration of imaged
documents within DLs so that, ideally, everything that can be done
with symbolically encoded data can also be done with scanned hardcopy
documents. In an increasingly digital world, vast legacy (& modern)
collections of irreplaceable paper documents are threatened with
neglect and irrelevance unless difficult DIA tasks can be automated:
searching document images, presenting them legibly, navigating within
and among them, etc. This workshop will attempt to describe the state
of the art and identify urgent open problems. More broadly, the
workshop is designed to promote closer cooperation between the DIA
and DL communities in exploring fundamental capabilities that will
allow information systems to operate with equal effectiveness across
all media types and formats, including paper documents and other
human-legible but non-digital media, in multiple languages, and from
many historical periods.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Document Image Analysis (DIA) technology for Digital Libraries (DLs)
* Challenging DL open problems requiring new DIA research strategies
* End-user requirements for document images provided via DLs
* Case studies of DLs that serve document images well
* Imaging & compression standards for document preservation & analysis
* Automatic quality control during document image capture
* Content & metadata extraction, recognition, tagging, linking, etc
* Parallel tagging of images, transcripts, and other document layers
* Information extraction from images of tables, graphs, math, etc
* Searching/querying, retrieval, summarizing/condensing of doc images
* Presentation & legibility of document images on GUIs, eBooks, PDAs
* On-line & web-based navigation within/among document images
* Personal & interactive DLs: e.g. capture, correction, reading
* Historical/archival DIA; original-medium quality challenges
* Inter- & multi-national DLs: e.g. languages, scripts, translations
* Guaranteeing authenticity of document images; rights management
* Citation and editorial control of image-based data
* File formats & representations for document images & analysis results
* Multimedia document analysis, including audio & video
* Proposals for DIA/DL database collection, truthing, & benchmarking
* Government DL projects (e.g. The Newton Project, American Memory)
* Critical surveys of the state of the art of DLs & DIA
Chairs
Henry BAIRD Palo Alto Research Center (USA)
Venu GOVINDARAJU Univ. at Buffalo, NY (USA)
Advisory Board
Jun ADACHI National Inst. of Informatics (Japan)
N. BALAKRISHNAN Indian Inst. of Science (India)
Xiaoqing DING Tsinghua Univ. (P. R. China)
Andy DOWNTON Univ. of Essex (U.K.)
Stephen GRIFFIN National Science Foundation (USA)
Michael LESK Rutgers Univ. (USA)
Robert WILENSKY Univ. of California at Berkeley (USA)
Program Committee
Frédéric BAPST Ecole d'Ingenieurs, Fribourg (Switzerland)
Elisa H. BARNEY SMITH Boise State Univ. (USA)
Sayeed CHOUDHURY Johns Hopkins Univ. (USA)
Andreas DENGEL DFKI, Kaiserslautern (Germany)
Richard FATEMAN Univ. of California at Berkeley (USA)
Hiromichi FUJISAWA Hitachi CRL (Japan)
Gunter HILLE Projekt Gutenberg-DE (Germany)
Jonathan HULL Ricoh Innovations, Inc. (USA)
Rob ILIFFE Imperial College, London (UK)
Koichi KISE Osaka Prefecture Univ. (Japan)
Frank LE BOURGEOIS INSA, Lyon (France)
Daniel LOPRESTI Lehigh Univ. (USA)
R. MANMATHA Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA)
Simone MARINAI Univ. of Florence (Italy)
Larry MASINTER Adobe Systems (USA)
Erich NEUHOLD Fraunhofer IPSI & Darmstadt Univ. (Germany)
Umapada PAL Indian Statistical Inst., Kolkata (India)
Kris POPAT Palo Alto Research Center (USA)
Alan SMEATON Dublin City Univ. (Ireland)
Larry SPITZ DocRec Ltd. (New Zealand)
Sargur SRIHARI Univ. at Buffalo, NY (USA)
Chew Lim TAN National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore)
George THOMA National Library of Medicine (USA)
Workshop format:
Two days: Friday & Saturday. Podium presentations, keynote
talks, panel discussions, & breakout working groups. Single track
(except working groups). 100% participation, i.e. every attendee
will give a presentation. On-site printed Proceedings. Post-
Proceedings book and/or journal special issue. Breakfasts, lunches,
& Friday-evening banquet.
Starts immediately following the SPIE/IS&T 16th International
Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science & Technology, Jan. 18-22,
http://electronicimaging.org/Call/04, San Jose, CA (25 minutes'
drive south of Palo Alto). Note: the Document Recognition &
Retrieval (DR&R) Conf. (Jan. 21-22) is one of many events included
in the SPIE/IS&T Symposium.
We invite two classes of submissions:
1. Regular Paper (for researchers, professional practitioners)
up to 30 pages, refereed, published, long presentation
Deadlines for regular papers:
October 15 Submission
November 20 Acceptance
December 20 Camera-ready copy
2. Abstract of Remarks (for businesses, end-users, students)
1-5 pages, not refereed, unpublished, brief presentation
Deadlines for abstracts of remarks:
December 1 Submission
December 15 Acceptance
Information: www.cedar.buffalo.edu/DIAL2004
Inquiries: dial2004@cedar.buffalo.edu
Secretariat:
CEDAR, Univ. at Buffalo, 520 Lee Entrance, #202, Amherst, NY 14228
Venue: PARC, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA