IWRR
2014
Co-Chairs
Masakazu Iwamura

Osaka Prefecture Univ., Japan

Dimosthenis Karatzas
CVC, Spain

Faisal Shafait

Univ. of Western Australia,
Australia

Pramod Sankar Kompalli
Xerox Research India, India

Program Committee
Alessandro Bissacco
Google, USA

Sergi Belongie

Cornell Univ., USA

Bernard Ghanem

King Abdullah Univ. of Scienceand Technology, Saudi Arabia

Erik Learned-Miller
Univ. of Massachusetts
Amherst, USA

Raghavan Manmatha
Amazon.com, USA

Jiri Matas

Czech Technical University,
Czech Republic

Gaofeng Meng

Chinese Academy of Sciences,
China

Ajmal Saeed Mian

Univ. of Western Australia,
Australia

Ray SmithGoogle, USA

Palaiahnakote
Shivakumara

National Univ. of Malaya,Malaysia

Jun SunFujitsu R&D Center, China

Phan Quy Trung

National Univ. of Singapore,Singapore

Seiichi Uchida

Kyushu Univ., Japan

Kai Wang

Google, USA

Jerod Weinman

Grinnell College, USA

Call for Papers

First International Workshop on
Robust Reading(In conjunction with ACCV 2014)

November 2, 2014
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Interpreting written communication (textual or symbolic) is one of the most important
human activities. It is, however, one of the most difficult ones for computers to realize and has
been recognized as an unsolved challenge. In the community of Document Analysis andRecognition (DAR), research on unconstrained reading systems has been of central interest.
The series of ICDAR Robust Reading Competition (RRC), which is held in conjunction withbiannual International Conference of Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), hasplayed an important role, especially, by providing standardized datasets that have become thede-facto evaluation benchmarks in the area and providing an opportunity to compare methods.
Recently, this kind of research, especially research on reading scene text, has attracted
the interest and is increasingly accepted by the wider computer vision (CV) community.
Papers on related topics have been consistently presented in major CV conferences such as
CVPR, ICCV, ECCV and ACCV. In these papers, ICDAR RRC datasets are used as standard
measures of methods.
Responding to this trend, we organize the First International Workshop on Robust Reading(IWRR 2014) in conjunction with ACCV 2014. The workshop aims at turning the spotlight on
the challenge of unconstrained reading systems. The goal of the workshop is to attract thewider CV community to put research efforts on this challenging research topic, as well as tomotivate many researchers from the DAR community to attend ACCV 2014.
Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to: Scene text localisation, segmentation, and recognition
 Reading scene and/or overlaid text in video sequences Text localisation, segmentation, and recognition in born-digital images
 Restoration of camera captured documents (dewarping, deblurring, etc.)
 Quality estimation and degradation modelling of camera-captured text
 Performance evaluation and metrics
 Applications such as translation, reading text for the blind, etc Graphical content interpretation in complex settings
Submission
The workshop organizers welcome original technical papers related to the workshop topics.
All submissions must follow the guideline of ACCV 2014. Namely, submissions must be a
maximum of 14 pages (not including references). Supplementary material can be submitted.
Submissions, including supplementary material, must be self-contained. Submitted papers will
be reviewed by the workshop program committee in a double blind manner (so all submissions must be anonymised). Papers violating the formatting rules will be rejected withoutreview.
There is another way of submission; submit your paper to ACCV2014 and designate
IWRR as the "optional workshop." Please see the workshop webpage for more detail.
Publication
Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be published bySpringer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series and also contained in theUSB stick distributed in the conference site. Accepted papers must be registered andpresented; otherwise they will not be included in the workshop proceedings.
Important Dates
Paper submission due:Author Notification:
Camera-ready paper due:
Information:
Inquiries:

September 17, 2014 (Extended)
September 26, 2014 (Updated)
October 2, 2014 (Updated)

http://imlab.jp/iwrr2014/
iwrr2014-inquiry __[[at]]__ ml.osakafu-u.ac.jp

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