The 3rd IWRR workshop will be held in Perth, Australia, in conjunction with ACCV2018.

The workshop aims at bringing together computer vision researchers and practitioners with an interest in reading systems that operate on images acquired in unconstrained conditions, such as scene images and video sequences, born-digital images, wearable camera and lifelog feeds, social media images, etc. The particular focus of the workshop is on the automatic extraction and interpretation of textual content in images, and applications that use textual information obtained automatically by such methods.

IWRR2018 invites the submission of original, previously unpublished work and welcomes re-submissions of improved versions of papers that have been rejected in the ACCV2018 conference reviewing process.

Workshop proceedings with accepted papers will be published along with the ACCV conference proceedings by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

The topics of interest include among others:

- Word spotting and end-to-end reading systems

- Scene text based image retrieval

- Joint modelling of textual and visual information

- Text localisation, segmentation, and recognition in scene and born-digital images

- Reading and tracking scene and/or overlaid text in video sequences

- Robust reading applications (e.g. translation, reading text for the blind etc)

- Performance evaluation and metrics

- Restoration of camera captured documents (dewarping, deblurring, etc.)

- Quality estimation and degradation modelling of camera-captured text