MOCR 2011 - International Workshop on Multilingual OCR (MOCR)

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Category MOCR 2011

Deadline: June 15, 2011 | Date: September 17, 2011-September 18, 2011

Venue/Country: Beijing, China

Updated: 2011-05-15 13:26:20 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

The workshop will explore methodologies for multilingual document analysis systems with particular focus 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 workshop will provide a forum for technical discussions on three important themes:

progress in the last decade in multilingual OCR

adaptation and repurposing of proven methods for multilingual OCR

hard open research problems and promising new approaches

Contributions addressing (but not limited to) the following areas are invited:

Recognition Domains : Script and Language identification, Machine-print and handwriting

Evaluation Methodologies: Metrics, Standards, Ground truthing, Benchmark datasets

Multiple languages: Techniques applicable/retargetable to multiple languages/scripts

Document Analysis: Layout analysis, Reading order, Structured objects such as tables

Document types: Contemporary as well as historical documents, video text

Recognition methodologies: Techniques such as HMMs, suitable features, use of language models etc.

Instructions for submission of camera-ready copies of accepted papers can be found on the Submissions page.

Registration for the workshop will be handled by the ICDAR 2011 registration system.

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