CALL FOR PAPERS
DIAL 2006
2nd International Workshop on
on Document Image Analysis for Libraries
27-28 April 2006
Lyon (France)
The rapid spread of Digital Libraries (DL) across the world motivates
research in computer vision and especially in Document Image Analysis
(DIA). The DL and DIA research community share common objectives, namely to
digitize paper documents and convert them into electronic formats which can
be reserved, retrieved, consulted, shared, and reused. Without computer
assistance, manual processing of the large quantities of available
digitized documents would be expensive and time consuming. The DIA research
community has developed many technologies applicable to digital libraries
which are ripe to be collected, compared, and shared.
DIAL'06 will bring together DL and DIA researchers, practitioners, and
users who are interested in new technologies that assist the integration
of digitized documents within DLs, so that, ideally, all documents that
contribute to human knowledge can be easily accessed and queried by using
Web based search engines.
The workshop will cover all technical aspects of document image processing
from digitization, image restoration, text recognition, and extraction of
metadata from images, up to document encoding and specification of file
formats for digitized documents. This workshop will also attempt to
describe the state of the art, to identify urgent open problems in image
analysis suited to DLs and to collect all available information on document
digitization projects across the world.
The workshop is open to researchers from both the DL and DIA communities on
the following topics:
Surveys :
- Document Image Analysis (DIA) methods useful for Digital Libraries (DLs)
- Technical reviews of digitization projects around the world
- Critical surveys of the state of the art of DLs & DIA
- Challenging open problems in the DL community requiring new DIA research
strategies
- End-user requirements for document images provided via DLs
- Performance evaluation & cost of document image processing for DLs
Methodologies :
- Automatic quality control during document image capture, modeling of
document image degradation, digital image restoration, etc
- Document image enhancement (unwarping, deskewing, cropping, color &
contrast improvement)
- Text segmentation and/or recognition (OCR, keyword spotting, word
retrieval or recognition, text-image alignment, etc) for printed or
handwritten documents
- Document layout segmentation and logical structure recognition for DL
applications
- Metadata extraction and recognition from digitized documents
- Methodologies to improve accessibility and navigation within/among on-
line digital libraries
- Imaging & compression standards for document preservation, analysis, etc
- Guaranteeing authenticity of document images; rights management
- File formats & representations of document images
- Methodologies for specific image content (tables, graphs, mathematics,
multilingual documents, etc)
- Style identification (typography of printed text, handwriting style
recognition for manuscript authentication or authors identification^Ĺ)
- Searching/querying, retrieval, summarizing/condensing of document images
- Other topics related to the retrieval of document images
Applications :
- Historical document collections (medieval manuscripts, books of the
Renaissance, author manuscripts, old newspapers or 'gazettes', archives,
etc)
- Documents from the world cultural heritage
- Scientific, technical and educational documents for digital libraries
- Other digitized documents used by digital libraries
Deadlines for Regular Papers (up to 20 pages,refereed, archivally
published, long presentation)
Submission : December 20, 2005
Acceptance : January 10, 2006
Camera-ready copy : February 10, 2006
Deadlines for Abstracts of Remarks (1-5 pages, not refereed, unpublished,
brief presentation)
Submission : March 20, 2006
Contact : dial2006@liris.cnrs.fr
Website : http://liris.cnrs.fr/dial2006/
Conference Chairs : Frank Le Bourgeois & Hubert Emptoz (France) LIRIS
INSA de Lyon
Program Committee
Chair : Henry BAIRD (USA) Lehigh Univ.
Frédéric BAPST (Switzerland) Ecole d'Ingenieurs, Fribourg
Elisa H. BARNEY SMITH (USA) Boise State Univ.
Sayeed CHOUDHURY (USA) Johns Hopkins Univ.
Michael DROETTBOOM (USA) Johns Hopkins Univ.
Richard FATEMAN (USA) Univ. of California at Berkeley
Hiromichi FUJISAWA (Japan) Hitachi CRL
Joël GARDES (France) France Telecom
Venu GOVINDARAJU (USA) Univ. at Buffalo, NY
Jonathan HULL (USA) Ricoh Innovations, Inc.
Dolores IORIZZO (UK) Imperial College, London
J. V. JAWAHAR (India) IIIT Hyderabad
Koichi KISE (Japan) Osaka Prefecture Univ.
Michael LESK (USA) Rutgers Univ.
Xioafan LIN (USA) Hewlett-Packard Labs
Daniel LOPRESTI (USA) Lehigh Univ.
Simon LUCAS (UK) Univ. of Essex
R. MANMATHA (USA) Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Umapada PAL (India) Indian Statistical Inst., Kolkata
Toni RATH (USA) Google
Alan SMEATON (Ireland) Dublin City Univ.
Larry SPITZ (New Zealand) DocRec Technologies Ltd.
Sargur SRIHARI (USA) Univ. at Buffalo, NY
Chew Lim TAN (Singapore) National Univ. of Singapore