Call for Abstracts

SDIUT’05

2005 Symposium on Document Image Understanding Technologies

(Flyer attached! Abstract Deadline June 17th)

Leading researchers from industry and academia, as well as all government
agencies involved in document understanding, are being invited to a
three-day Symposium on Document Image Understanding Technology (SDIUT05)
to be held at the The Marriott Inn and Conference Center, University
Maryland University College, Adelphi, Maryland, on November 2-4, 2005.
Funding agencies will describe present and future document understanding
programs and principal investigators will report on current efforts in
the field.

Researchers and Developers who have document image understanding
technologies of potential interest to the government are encouraged to
submit an extended abstract.  Details of the submission constraints and a
link to the submission system are available at the symposium www page
(http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/meetings/SDIUT05/index.htm)


This Symposium is sponsored in part by federal agencies funding document
research and will serve as an overview of state-of-the-art projects in
document image understanding.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

* Multi-lingual OCR
* Language Identification
* Document Layout Analysis
* Logical Structure Recognition
* Document Classification
* Standards for Document Understanding
* Document Databases
* Recognition of Degraded Documents
* Tools for Document Analysis
* Commercial Systems

Special emphasis will be placed on the effects of degradation and
document analysis processes on:

*Forms Processing and Logo Detection/Recognition
*Machine Translation
*Information Extraction
*Image and Video Text Recognition
*Information Retrieval
*Cross Language Retrieval
*Document Image Management
*Electronic and WWW Document Analysis

We are very interested in expanding the topics presented to new areas. To
do this, we are inviting all attendees to consider participating as
speakers during an abstract session, or to consider bringing a poster or
demo. This is an ideal way to introduce your work or area of interest to
the community.


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Who should participate in SDIUT?

Government Agencies and Representatives: Representatives are invited to
participate by giving a description of a document image analysis need,
program or project, or by attending and interacting with other
researchers and developers. In the past we have had representatives brief
the community from many agencies and hope to include additional
representatives to discuss document analysis needs that have evolved over
the past several years.

University Researchers: Cutting edge research is a key component to
solving many of the government's unique problems. This symposium gives
researchers the opportunity to communicate developing ideas that show
promise for integration into large volume and often highly degraded
document streams. Technical presentations as well as posters and
demonstrations are welcome.

Companies: SDIUT provides a unique opportunity to interact with
government researchers and demonstrate capabilities in research and
development or engineered solutions. We will be continuing our focus on
interaction with a demonstration and poster session (and reception) on
Thursday afternoon, November 3rd. Leading OCR and document analysis
companies will demonstrate their products. There is no additional charge
for participation.

 

Please contact us directly if you have any questions
(sdiut05@umiacs.umd.edu) or visit our WWW page at
(http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/meetings/SDIUT05/)