Call for Papers
PDF version 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 preserved, 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
- 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 author identification...)
- 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
Workshop format
Two days: Thursday & Friday. Podium presentations, keynote talks, panel discussions, & breakout working groups. Single track (except working groups). 100% participation, i.e. every attendee will give a presentation. On-site printed Proceedings.The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE , and indexed by IEEE Xplore.
Two classes of submissions
- Regular Papers
5-20 pages, unformatted, written in English, online submission in PDF (click here), will be indexed by IEEE Xplore and archivally published in IEEE - Abstracts of Remarks
1-5 pages, not refereed, unpublished
Important dates
| Full papers due | |
| Notification of acceptance | Shortly |
| Camera-ready manuscript in IEEE format due | February 10, 2006 |
| Short Abstracts due | |
| Conference date | April 27-28, 2006 |
Information http://liris.cnrs.fr/dial2006/
Inquiries dial2006@liris.cnrs.fr