Call for ICPR 2012 Contest Proposals
 	http://www.icpr2012.org/cfc.html

The ICPR 2012 Contest Co-Chairs invite proposals for contests, whose results 
will be presented at the 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition 
(www.icpr2012.org). The aim of the contests is to encourage better scientific 
development through comparing competing approaches on a common dataset. Each 
contest needs a contest organizer, who will be responsible for providing the 
dataset and setting clear competition tasks. The contest organizer should 
advertise the contest by Oct 1, 2011 (the schedule below is set so as to 
encourage contest participants to submit papers to main conference). The 
ICPR web site will also publicize the contest. The contest meeting will be a 
quarter/half day session (organizer's choice) at the conference on 
November 11, 2012, immediately before the start of the main conference. 
The format of the meeting is up to the contest organizer, but we anticipate 
it will include a description of the challenge and dataset, and a summary of 
performance on the different competition tasks. There could be presentations 
by the top scoring teams.

 

ICPR 2012 will be responsible for the following:

  - Providing a meeting venue with necessary equipment and logistical support 
	for the contests including support staff in each room.
  - Duplicating contest notes and distributing them to the participants at the 
	conference venue. Contest organizers are encouraged to make summary 
	notes of their contest results for stimulating discussions in their 
	sessions.

 
Important Contest Session Dates
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Contest Proposal Deadline 	                        July 15, 2011
Notification of Acceptance 				August 15, 2011
Contest Announcement to Participants 			Oct 1, 2011
     (Tasks, Dataset and Metrics) 	
Submissions of Contest Results and 2-3 page 	 	Oct 1, 2012
     report for copying and distribution to participants.
Results of the competition are announced 	 	Nov 11, 2012
     at the conference

 
How to Submit Proposal
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To propose a contest, a PDF file containing the following information must 
be sent to the ICPR 2012 Contest Co-Chairs, Yasuyo Kita  
and Robert Fisher  by July 15, 2011 (All submissions 
will be acknowledged by email) :

1. Contest title and abstract
2. Name and contact information of the main organizer and at least 
   2 other expert committee members
3. General description of the problem
4. Description of the dataset to be used
5. Description of the actual competition tasks
6. Evaluation metrics
7. Plan of how to organize the contest
8. Estimated number of participants
9. Preference of a quarter day session or a half day session

Other points that should be taken into account are as follows:
* The dataset should be interesting, available, and sufficiently large.
* The tasks should be interesting and novel, but also accessible without 
  too much domain specific knowledge.
* The evaluation metrics should be clear and easy to apply.

 

 
Contact Addresses
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ICPR 2012 Contest Co-Chairs,
Yasuyo Kita 
Robert Fisher