First International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP) (HIP 2011)

CALL FOR PAPERS

========== Call for Papers: HIP 2011 =============================

Call for Papers:

First International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP)
Beijing, China, Sept. 16-17, 2011, (at ICDAR 2011)
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~hdocp

HIP seeks to bring together archivists, curators and researchers, from private industry, government, and academia, who are involved in all aspects of imaging, collection and processing of historical documents. The workshop will feature
a keynote by Mr. ZHANG Zhiqing, Deputy Director of the National Library of
China (NLC) (http://www.nlc.gov.cn/en/service/acbooks.htm) Workshop attendees will also participate in a post-workshop visit to the NLC to view a variety of special collections.

HIP topics of interest include:
* Imaging and Image Acquisition
* Digital Archiving Considerations
* Historical Collections
* Document Restoration/Improving readability
* Content Extraction
* Family History Documents and Genealogies
* Automated Classification, Grouping and Hyperlinking of Historical Documents
See http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~hdocp for full details.

Authors should submit original work using guidelines found at
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~hdocp/. Accepted papers will be published in
the printed conference proceedings, available to participants at the workshop, and electronically as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series.

Important Dates:
June 10, 2011 Manuscripts due
July 10, 2011 Acceptance notification
August 10, 2011 Camera-ready manuscript due
August 10, 2011 Advance registration due

Registration:
Full Registration USD $100
Student Registration USD $50

General Chairs:
William A. Barrett (Brigham Young University)
Michael S. Brown (National University of Singapore)

Program Chair:
R. Manmatha (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)

Organizing Chair:
Jake Gehring (Manager, FamilySearch Data Operations, USA)
Ms. Long Wei (Research Librarian, National Library of China)

Program Committee:
Apostolos Antonacopoulos* Josep Lladós
Mohamed Cheriet Shijian Lu
Xiaoqing Ding Simone Marinai
David Doermann Heath Nielson
Scott Eldredge Liangrui Peng
Basilis Gatos Alexandra Psarrou
Venu Govindaraju Jack Reese
C.J. Jawahar Eric Ringger
LianWen Jin Zhixin Shi
George Landon Chew Lim Tan
Cheng-Lin Liu Eugene Walach

Competition:
Historical Document Layout Analysis* For details visit:
http://www.primaresearch.org/ICDAR2011_competition
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