CALL FOR PAPERS    
                           DIAL 2006
                   2nd International Workshop on
              on Document Image Analysis for Libraries 
                       27-28 April 2006

                         Lyon (France)
The rapid spread of Digital Libraries (DL) across the world motivates 
research in computer vision and especially in Document Image Analysis 
(DIA). The DL and DIA research community share common objectives, namely to 
digitize paper documents and convert them into electronic formats which can 
be  reserved, retrieved, consulted, shared, and reused. Without computer 
assistance, manual processing of the large quantities of available 
digitized documents would be expensive and time consuming. The DIA research 
community has developed many technologies applicable to digital libraries 
which are ripe to be collected, compared, and shared.  

DIAL'06 will bring together DL and DIA researchers, practitioners, and 
users who are interested in  new technologies that assist the integration 
of digitized documents within DLs, so that, ideally, all documents that 
contribute to human knowledge can be easily accessed and queried by using 
Web based search engines.

The workshop will cover all technical aspects of document image processing 
from digitization, image restoration, text recognition, and extraction of 
metadata from images, up to document encoding and specification of file 
formats for digitized documents.  This workshop will also attempt to 
describe the state of the art, to identify urgent open problems in image 
analysis suited to DLs and to collect all available information on document 
digitization projects across the world. 

The workshop is open to researchers from both the DL and DIA communities on 
the following topics: 

Surveys : 
- Document Image Analysis (DIA) methods useful for Digital Libraries (DLs)
- Technical reviews of digitization projects around the world 
- Critical surveys of the state of the art of DLs & DIA
- Challenging open problems in the DL community requiring new DIA research 
strategies 
- End-user requirements for document images provided via DLs
- Performance evaluation & cost of document image processing for DLs

Methodologies :
- Automatic quality control during document image capture, modeling of 
document image degradation, digital image restoration, etc
- Document image enhancement (unwarping, deskewing, cropping, color & 
contrast improvement)
- Text segmentation and/or recognition (OCR, keyword spotting, word 
retrieval or recognition, text-image alignment, etc) for printed or 
handwritten documents
- Document layout segmentation and logical structure recognition for DL 
applications
- Metadata extraction and recognition from digitized documents 
- Methodologies to improve accessibility and navigation within/among on-
line digital libraries 
- Imaging & compression standards for document preservation, analysis, etc 
- Guaranteeing authenticity of document images; rights management
- File formats & representations of document images
- Methodologies for specific image content (tables, graphs, mathematics, 
multilingual documents, etc)
- Style identification (typography of printed text, handwriting style 
recognition for manuscript authentication or authors identification^Ĺ) 
- Searching/querying, retrieval, summarizing/condensing of document images 
- Other topics related to the retrieval of document images

Applications :
- Historical document collections (medieval manuscripts, books of the 
Renaissance, author manuscripts, old newspapers or 'gazettes', archives, 
etc)
- Documents from the world cultural heritage
- Scientific, technical  and educational documents for digital libraries 
- Other digitized documents used by digital libraries

Deadlines for  Regular Papers (up to 20 pages,refereed, archivally 
published, long presentation)

      Submission          : December 20, 2005
      Acceptance          : January 10, 2006
      Camera-ready copy   : February 10, 2006  

Deadlines for Abstracts of Remarks (1-5 pages, not refereed, unpublished, 
brief presentation)

     Submission 	  : March 20, 2006

Contact : dial2006@liris.cnrs.fr

Website : http://liris.cnrs.fr/dial2006/

Conference Chairs :   Frank Le Bourgeois & Hubert Emptoz (France) LIRIS 
INSA de Lyon

Program Committee 

Chair :  Henry BAIRD (USA)    Lehigh Univ.

Frédéric BAPST  (Switzerland) Ecole d'Ingenieurs, Fribourg   
Elisa H. BARNEY SMITH  (USA)  Boise State Univ.
Sayeed CHOUDHURY  (USA)       Johns Hopkins Univ.
Michael DROETTBOOM  (USA)     Johns Hopkins Univ. 
Richard FATEMAN  (USA)        Univ. of California at Berkeley  
Hiromichi FUJISAWA  (Japan)   Hitachi CRL   
Joël GARDES  (France)         France Telecom
Venu GOVINDARAJU  (USA)       Univ. at Buffalo, NY   
Jonathan HULL  (USA)          Ricoh Innovations, Inc.   
Dolores IORIZZO  (UK)         Imperial College, London   
J. V. JAWAHAR  (India)        IIIT Hyderabad   
Koichi KISE  (Japan)          Osaka Prefecture Univ.
Michael LESK  (USA)           Rutgers Univ.   
Xioafan LIN  (USA)            Hewlett-Packard Labs
Daniel LOPRESTI  (USA)        Lehigh Univ.   
Simon LUCAS  (UK)             Univ. of Essex   
R. MANMATHA (USA)             Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst   
Umapada PAL  (India)          Indian Statistical Inst., Kolkata
Toni RATH  (USA)              Google
Alan SMEATON   (Ireland)      Dublin City Univ.    
Larry SPITZ  (New Zealand)    DocRec Technologies Ltd.
Sargur SRIHARI  (USA)         Univ. at Buffalo, NY
Chew Lim TAN   (Singapore)    National Univ. of Singapore