SACH 2006 Call for Participation and Abstracts

                          College Park, Maryland

                          September 27-28, 2006

     (http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/meetings/SACH06/index.htm)


The University of Maryland, along with Government sponsors invite leading

researchers from industry and academia, as well as all government
agencies

involved in Arabic and Chinese Handwriting Recognition to a two-day
Summit on

Arabic and Chinese Handwriting Recognition (SACH'06). This event is
intended as

a focused complement to the bi-annual Symposium on Document Image
Understanding

Technology (SDIUT) meetings.

The Summit will be held at the University Maryland, College Park,
Maryland, on

September 27-28, 2006. SACH'06 is sponsored in part by federal agencies
funding

document research and will serve as an overview of the state-of-the-art
in

handwriting recognition, with a special focus on Arabic and Chinese
scripts,

which have become increasingly important in recent years. The Summit will
offer

a forum for interaction with prominent researchers at the forefront of

scientific research into handwriting recognition. In particular, SACH'06
will

feature many of the world's leading researchers as keynote speakers
providing a

combination of tutorial and cutting edge research overviews on a variety
of

topics.

A Government panel discussion (open to US citizens only) providing an

opportunity for discussion on handwriting recognition initiatives will
conclude

the Summit.


As a member of the document analysis community, you are invited to
participate

in this unique event.  Please see the Summit home page at

http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/meetings/SACH06/index.htm and contact the Summit

coordinator at sach06@umiacs.umd.edu to be added to the mailing list if
you are
not receiving this email directly.

Call for Abstracts

In addition to focused presentations by the invited speakers, we are
opening the
symposium for 8-10 technical talks as well as posters and demos that will
be
selected from abstracts submitted by JUNE 18th.  The criteria for review
of
these abstracts will be their potential interest to the research
community and
their potential for effecting the future research directions in this
area. 
Interested speakers or demo/poster participants are encouraged to submit
a 1-2
page extended abstract on your proposed topics via the on-line submission
system
on the Summit home page, by June 18th.  Decisions will be made by early
July,
and submitters notified by email.
Depending on the quality of submissions, we intend to invite a selection
of the
papers presented at SACH to contribute to a book in the Springer Book
Series or
a Special Issue of the international Journal on Document Analysis and

Recognition.