========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS FIFTH IAPR INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GRAPHICS RECOGNITION - GREC 2003 Computer Vision Center, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain July 30-31, 2003 grec2003@cvc.uab.es http://www.cvc.uab.es/Grec2003 ========================================================================== We are pleased to announce that the Fifth International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC'2003), organized by IAPR TC-10 (Technical Committee on Graphics Recognition), will be held in the Computer Vision Center, Barcelona on July 30-31, 2003. 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'03 will continue the tradition of past workshops held at the Penn State University (USA), Nancy (France), Jaipur (India) and Kingston (Canada). LOCATION -------- The CVC is a center devoted to research and development in Computer Vision located in the campus of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, near Barcelona. Barcelona offers a combination of history and modern convenience for attendants to enjoy from the Gothic Quarter, Picasso Museum, or Gaudi's Güell Park and Sagrada Familia to the more recent Olympic Ring or the Maremagnum. During these dates, Barcelona celebrates its summer festival which is also called GREC'2003. 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. CONTEST ------- As at the past workshops, a graphics recognition contest will be held at GREC'2003. Two contests are being organized: - Arc segmentation. - Symbol recognition. For further details, visit the contest web site. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract Due: February 7, 2003 Acceptance Notification: April 11, 2003 Final Manuscript Due: May 23, 2003 COMMITTEES ---------- General Chair: Josep Lladós, Computer Vision Center -Computer Science Dept. Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, BarcelonaSpain josep@cvc.uab.es Program Co-Chair: Young-Bin Kwon, Dept. of Computer Engineering Chung-Ang University South Korea ybkwon@visionnet.cse.cau.ac.kr Local Arrangements Committee: Enric Martí (CVC-UAB) Gemma Sánchez (CVC-UAB) Ernest Valveny (CVC-UAB) Program Committee: Sergei Ablameyko, Belarus Gady Agam,USA Adnan Amin, Australia Dorothea Blostein, Canada Eugene Bodansky, USA Atul Chhabra, USA Luigi Cordella, Italy David Doermann, USA Dov Dori, Israel Dave Elliman, UK Georgy Gimelfarb, New Zealand Jianying Hu, USA Chew Lim Tan, Singapore Gerd Maderlechner, Germany Enric Martí, Spain Daisuke Nishiwaki, Japan Lawrence O'Gorman, USA Jean-Marc Ogier, France Tony Pridmore, UK Karl Tombre, France Toyohide Watanabe, Japan Liu Wenyin, China Marcel Worring, Netherlands