MOCR 2017: 6th International Workshop on Multilingual OCR Kyoto TERRSA Kyoto, Japan, November 11, 2017 |
Conference website | http://cubs.buffalo.edu/MOCR2017/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mocr2017 |
Submission deadline | July 10, 2017 |
MOCR2017 will provide a forum for highlighting current research on multilingual document analysis systems with particular emphasis on OCR.
The scope of `Multilingual OCR' is defined to include systems that are capable of reading more than one language in the same document, as well as one-language-per- document systems that can be easily retargeted to new languages. The proposed workshop will provide a forum for technical discussions on three important themes: i) recent progress in the field and promising new techniques , ii) attempts to identify and address 'hard' open research problems, and iii) performance evaluation of multilingual OCR systems.
Organizers
Venu Govindaraju
University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA
Prem Natarajan
ISI, University of Southern California, USA
Santanu Chaudhury
CEERI, India
Srirangaraj Setlur
University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA
Submission Guidelines
MOCR 2017 invites the submission of original, previously unpublished work and welcomes submissions which are closely related to work submitted to ICDAR 2017. This workshop employs single-blind review, in which referees remain anonymous for the authors throughout the process.
The workshop's proceedings will be published by IEEE CPS, along with the proceedings of the main conference, ICDAR 2017.
Papers should not exceed 5 printed pages in IEEE format. Please check the main conference site (http://u-pat.org/ICDAR2017/) for full details on the formatting instructions.
The templates used for ICDAR 2017 will also be used for MOCR 2017:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
Submission and reviews will be managed through the Easy Chair Conference Management System:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mocr2017
IAPR Ethical Requirements: MOCR 2017 organisers are bound by the IAPR Statement of Ethics. By submitting a paper to this Conference all authors implicitly agree to be bound by the IAPR Ethical Requirements for Authors.
List of Topics
- Proven Methodologies for OCR: Efficacy of existing methodologies for Latin script to other scripts
- Mixed languages: Techniques applicable/retargetable to multiple languages/scripts; documents containing multiple languages/scripts,
- Newer languages/ Scripts: Techniques for dealing with problems of scripts for which OCR technology has not matured
- Document Analysis: Language and script identification, layout analysis, reading order
- Special domains: Scene text and video text, mathematical formulas; tables; abbreviations; annotations
- Degraded and historical documents
- Domain knowledge: Colloquialism, dialect, language models
- Evaluation Methodologies: metrics, standards, ground truth; benchmark datasets
- Demo systems
Publication
MOCR 2017 proceedings will be published alongwith ICDAR 2017 through IEEE CPS.
Venue
The conference will be held at the Kyoto TERRSA in Kyoto, Japan on Saturday, November 11, 2017.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to mocr2017@easychair.org