ICDAR 2013

Call for Papers

We  are  pleased  to  issue  this  call  for  papers  for  the  Twelfth  International  Conference  on  Document Analysis  and  Recognition  (ICDAR  2013),  sponsored  by  the  International  Association  for  Pattern  Recognition (IAPR)  TC-10  (Graphics  Recognition)  and  TC-11  (Reading  Systems).  The  Conference  will  be  held  at  the  Omni Shoreham Hotel, in Washington DC, USA from August 23-29th, 2013. ICDAR is the premier international forum for researchers and practitioners in the document analysis community for identifying, encouraging and exchanging ideas on  the  state-of-the-art  technology  in  document  analysis,  understanding,  retrieval,  and  performance  evaluation.  The term  document  in  the  context  of  ICDAR  encompasses  a  broad  range  of  documents  from  historical  forms  such  as palm leaves and papyrus to traditional documents and modern multimedia documents.  

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Character Recognition
• Handwriting Recognition
• Graphics Recognition
• Document Image Analysis
• Document Understanding
• Document Analysis Systems
• Camera-based Document Processing
• Basic Research and Methodologies for Document Processing
• Document Databases and Digital Libraries
• Multimedia Documents
• Forensic Documents
• Historical Documents
• Novel Applications
• Sketching Interfaces
• Performance Evaluation

Paper Submission
Manuscripts of a maximum length of five pages are encouraged to be submitted. Papers must describe original work on any of the ICDAR related topics. The format templates and instructions for paper submission will be available  on the Conference web site. The deadline for paper submission is February 15, 2013; 24:00 PST.  

Typically, solid scientific research requires validation against existing datasets, or where such datasets do not exist, against a newly created dataset that adequately tests the system. The procedures and evaluation protocols should be communicated in a way that would allow other interested researchers to reproduce the general concepts. A sufficient amount of data should be used to demonstrate statistical significance.

Workshops

Friday, August 23, 2013

· 5th International Workshop on Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition (CBDAR2013)

· NIST Open Handwriting Recognition and Translation Evaluation & Workshop (OpenHaRT2013)

Saturday, August 24, 2013

· 4th International Workshop on Multilingual OCR (MOCR2013)

· 2nd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP2013)

All Workshops will follow the same schedule: 

Tutorials
ICDAR2013 also includes a Tutorial Program, to be held immediately before the technical conference. Tutorials survey mature or emerging topics of interest to the ICDAR community at large. Proposers will be informed of the official decision soon.

Competitions
As in past ICDAR editions, competitions are organized to evaluate the performance of different document analysis technologies. Proposers will be informed of the official decision soon.

Author Guidelines

Manuscript length: 5 pages maximum. This is a strict limit for initial submission. During final submission of accepted papers, authors may purchase extra pages if they find it necessary to address the concerns of the reviewers. 

Single blind reviewing: ICDAR 2013 follows a single-blind review process. Authors are required to include their names and affiliations in their papers as illustrated in the sample templates. 

 
Important Dates 

 IAPR Ethical Requirements for Authors

The IAPR requires that all authors wishing to present a paper declare that the paper is substantially original; that is, the manuscript as a whole, or for the most part, is novel, has not been published in (or even submitted to) any journals and has not been presented at any other conferences. If previous versions of the manuscript were published or presented, appropriate references must be given and substantial justification for presentation of the current version must be presented.

The IAPR strictly prohibits any plagiarism; that is, the work of others must not be "borrowed" and presented as the authors' own work, regardless of the size of the borrowed portion.

The IAPR frowns upon "no-show behavior" at IAPR-related conferences and workshops, meaning that an author registers to make a presentation but does not show up for it. If such behavior is unavoidable due to urgent and unexpected personal matters, the author is strongly urged to notify the event organizer of the situation as soon as possible. If prior notification is impossible, the organizer should be advised after the fact of the reason for the author's absence.

The IAPR retains the rights to eliminate any papers in violation of these Requirements and to take appropriate action against individuals repeatedly violating these Requirements and assumes no responsibility for any resulting loss of reputation or opportunity of such individuals or for any inconvenience related to the future work of such individuals.