From: icdar93@c1shin.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp (Yasuaki Nakano)
Newsgroups: comp.research.japan
Subject: CFP:ICDAR93
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:25:42 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Information Engineering, Shinshu Univ.,500 wakasato, Nagano, Japan

[Seen in news.announce.conferences. -- Rick]


                         CALL FOR PAPERS

              ICDAR'93  :  Second IAPR Conference on 
                Document Analysis and Recognition
                     October 20 - 22, 1993
                   Tsukuba Science City, Japan

              Sponsored by IAPR TC-11, TC-10 and IGS
                        in corporation with IEEE-CS
              Supported by IEICE, IPSJ, IEEJ, JEIDA and AVIRG

You are invited to participate in the second International Conference
on Document Analysis and Recognition to be held on October 20 - 22, 1993
at Tsukuba City Center, Tsukuba Science City, Japan.

The conference is sponsored by the International Association for Pattern 
Recognition(IAPR) Technical Committees 11 and 10 and International 
Graphonomics Society(IGS).  This conference is the truly international 
forum for identifying, encouraging and exchanging ideas on research, 
development and novel applications of document related systems and 
technologies.  The topics that will be addressed include, but are not 
limited to:

   Document Structure Analysis      Character Segmentation and Recognition
   Map and Drawing Understanding    Storage and Retrieval of Document Images
   On-Line Recognition              Document Image Processing
   Hypermedia Processing            Theoretical and Psychological Approaches
   Implementations                  Applications and Systems
   Research Environments

          Paper Submission Due      February 15, 1993
          Acceptance Notification   June 1, 1993
          Final Camera Ready Due    August 1, 1993


PRESENTATIONS:

The conference will include several invited talks and oral and poster 
presentations.  Posters with a demonstration are considered upon requests 
at the paper submission.  All presentations will be in English.

PAPER SUBMISSION:

Papers should describe original and unpublished works.  Those who wish to 
present a paper are requested to submit four copies of a double-spaced,
A4-size, full-paper manuscript by February 15, 1993 to Prof. Y. Nakano at
the address shown below. The manuscript should be provided with all necessary
figures and tables. The first page of the manuscript should contain a title,
affiliation and mailing address of the contact author, and the second page
should include the title,  200-word abstract, and keywords.  Accepted papers
for presentation will be published in the conference proceedings.  The length
of the paper in the proceedings will be six pages (approximately 5000 words
including figures) for long papers and  four pages (3500 words) for short and
poster papers.  We do not review papers submitted by telefax and E-mail.

Send manuscript to:    Prof. Yasuaki NAKANO
                       Department of Information Engineering
                       Shinshu University
                       500 Wakasato, Nagano, 380 Japan

Phone:   +81-262-26-4101 (Ext.3719)
Telefax: +81-262-23-1026
E-mail:  icdar93@wakasato.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp

General Chair             K.Yamamoto(Japan)
General Co-chairs         C.Y.Suen(Canada),M.Sakauchi(Japan)
Program Chairs            T.Pavlidis(U.S.A.),S.Mori(Japan),Y.Nakano(Japan)
Executive Chairs          H.Fujisawa(Japan),K.Sakai(Japan)
Program Committee:
  K.Abe(Japan),T.Akiyama(Japan),H.Baird(U.S.A.),G.Borgefors(Sweden)
  R.Casey(U.S.A.),T.Ejima(Japan),H.Harada(Japan),R.Haralick(U.S.A.)
  J.S.Huang(Chinese, Taipei),S.Impedovo(Italy),K.Inaba(Japan),
  S.Kakumoto(Japan),R.Kasturi(U.S.A.),J.H.Kim(Korea),J.Kittler(U.K.),
  S.W.Lee(Korea),G.Lorette(France),A.Maeda(Japan),M.Minoh(Japan),
  S.Naito(Japan),M.Nakagawa(Japan),T.Nartker(U.S.A),H.Ogawa(Japan),
  W.G.Oh(Korea),Y.Ohsawa(Japan),S.Ozawa(Japan),R.Plamondon(Canada),
  A.Rosenfeld(U.S.A.),J.Schuermann(Germany) J.Simon(France),
  S.Srihari(U.S.A.),J-W.Tai(China),Z.Tang(China),Y.Tezuka(Japan),
  H.Tominaga(Japan),J.Toriwaki(Japan),Y.Tsuji(Japan),S.Tsujimoto(Japan),
  A.Thomassen(The Netherlands),H.Yamada(Japan),S.Yamakawa(Japan),
  M.Yoshimura(Japan)
Executive Committee:       
  H.Asada(Japan),K.Ejiri(Japan),K.Toraichi(Japan),J.Tsukumo(Japan)
Advisory Committee:
  T.Iijima(Japan),M.Nagao(Japan)


ABOUT TSUKUBA SCIENCE CITY:

Tsukuba Science City is a well-known academic and high-tech area with more 
than 80 national research institutes.  It is a spacious and pleasant place 
where beautiful lakes and mountains are within one hour drive distance.  
Things, including foods and accommodations, are much less expensive there 
than in Tokyo.  Tsukuba is located about 60 Km north from metropolitan 
Tokyo and about 40 Km west of Narita International Airport.  It takes only 
one hour by highway bus from JR Tokyo Station. 

STUDENT DISCOUNT:

To encourage students to participate in the conference, special registration 
fee for students are being planned and inexpensive accommodations are being 
prepared.

AWARD:

Two or three papers will be selected as award winners and given US$ 1,000
as the award. 



DETAILED TOPICS:

Document Structure Analysis         Character Segmentation and Recognition
     Layout Analysis                      Cursive Script Recognition
     Logical Structure Analysis           Touched Character Recognition
     Knowledge-Based Approaches           Characters in Natural Scene
                                          Large Vocabulary 

Map and Drawing Understanding       On-Line Recognition
     Map Interpretation                   Handwritten Characters
     Diagram / Drawing Recognition        Drawings and Symbols
     Musical Score Recognition
     Symbol Recognition

Document Image Processing           Storage and Retrieval of Document Images
     Deskewing                            Document Image Filing
     Image Compression                    Automated Indexing
     Color Image Processing               Contents Retrieval

Hypermedia Processing               Theoretical and Psychological Approaches
     Multimedia Processing                Neural Networks
     Electronic Books                     Genetic Algorithms
     Hypertext                            Parallel Architectures
     Multimedia Databases                 Psychological Models

Applications and Systems            Implementations
     OCR Systems                          VLSI / ULSI
     Geographical Information Systems     Software Implementation
     Pen Based Interface
     Signature Verification

Research Environments
     Software Tools
     Research Databases
     Standardization

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Yasuaki NAKANO
icdar93@c1shin.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp