Call For Papers

Sixth IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition - GREC 2005

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

August 25-26, 2005

http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/grec2005

 

 

We are pleased to announce that the Sixth International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC’2005), organized by IAPR TC-10 (Technical Committee on Graphics Recognition), will be held at the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong on August 25-26, 2005, just before the 8th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), Seoul, Korea. The GREC workshops provide an excellent opportunity for researchers and practitioners at all levels of experience to meet colleagues and to share new ideas and knowledge about graphics recognition methods. Graphics recognition is a subfield of document image analysis that deals with graphical entities in engineering drawings, maps, architectural plans, musical scores, mathematical notation, tables, diagrams, etc. GREC'05 will continue the tradition of the following past workshops:

 

o        GREC'95 in University Park, Pennsylvania, USA, August, 1995, LNCS Volume 1072, Springer, 1996.

o        GREC'97 in Nancy, France, August, 1997, LNCS Volume 1389, Springer, 1998.

o        GREC'99 in Jaipur, India, August, 1999, LNCS Volume 1941, Springer, 2000. 

o        GREC’01 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Sep. 7-8, 2001. LNCS Volume 2390, Springer, 2002.

o        GREC’03 in Barcelona, Spain, July 30-31, 2003. LNCS Volume 3088, Springer, 2004.

 

In addition, since this will be GREC’s 10th anniversary, more exciting programs and events will also be considered.

 

Location

The City University of Hong Kong is located at one of the city centers, with convenient and efficient public transportation to almost all important sites in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong airport is a top 5 transfer center of transportation in Asia. There are more than 10 direct flights everyday between Hong Kong and Seoul, run by Korean, Asiana, Cathay Pacific, etc. A normal flight takes about 2.5-3 hours.

 

Workshop Format

The program will be organized in a single-track 2-day workshop. It will comprise several sessions dedicated to specific topics. For each session, there will be an invited presentation describing the state of the art and stating the open questions for the session's topic, followed by a number of short presentations that will contribute by proposing solutions to some of the questions or presenting results of the speaker's work. Each session will be concluded by a panel discussion.

Topics

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

  • Raster-to-vector techniques.
  • Recognition of graphical primitives.
  • Recognition of graphic symbols in charts, diagrams, and drawings.
  • Interpretation of engineering drawings, maps, tables, and other graphical documents.
  • Graphics-based information retrieval.
  • 3-D models from multiple 2-D views (line drawings).
  • Description of complete systems for interpretation graphic documents.
  • Performance evaluation in graphics recognition.
  • Authoring, editing, storing and presentation systems for graphics multimedia documents.

Paper Submission

Extended abstracts of maximum two pages have to be sent through the workshop web site. Afterwards, authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to send the full paper. The full text of all contributed papers will be available in proceedings distributed at the workshop. After the workshop, the program committee plans to publish revised versions of selected papers as an LNCS Volume, Springer Verlag.

 

Contests

As at the past workshops, we plan to continue some kinds of contests on graphics recognition at GREC'2005. Currently we have the two candidates:

Anyway, we are still open to other suggestions. Anyone who wants to run similar or other contest please contact the workshop chairs.

 

Important Dates

Abstract Due:                        April 18, 2005

Acceptance Notification:      May 16, 2005

Final Manuscript Due:          June 27, 2005

 

Organizers:

 

General Chair

Liu Wenyin

Department of Computer Science

City University of Hong Kong

Tat Chee Ave., KLN, Hong Kong

Tel: (852) 2784 4730

Fax: (852) 2788 8614

csliuwy@cityu.edu.hk

http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~liuwy/

 

Program Co-Chair

Josep Lladós

Computer Vision Center -

Computer Science Dept.

Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona,

Bellaterra, Barcelona

Spain

josep@cvc.uab.es