CFP Special Issue PAA journal

[ESPAA]

PATTERN ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS JOURNAL

http://www.dcs.exeter.ac.uk/paa

Springer-Verlag Ltd.

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR SPECIAL ISSUE ON 

'DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION'

(Guest Editor- Adnan Amin, University of New South Wales, 
Australia)

(DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION: 1 April, 1999).

Optical Character Recognition and document image analysis 
have become very important areas of research. Advanced 
computer and communication technologies now offer better 
ways to store, retrieve, and distribute this information. 
Document Image Analysis and Recognition (DIAR) research 
provides the technology for automated systems for 
extracting and organising information from paper based 
documents. Generally, these applications apply image 
processing and pattern recognition techniques. A document 
image may contain text, graphics, pictures, or a 
combination of these. Some commercial products are already 
available such as OCR systems for reading pages of   
machine printed text, but research is still required to 
improve their performance and the full range of real world
variability in typography, image quality, and context. 
Performance evaluation of DIAR systems requires 
experimental design, a large train and test database, and 
sophisticated analysis of the results.

The aim of this special issue is to show-case the 
state-of-the-art achievements in DIAR. Submitted papers 
should report the solution of a significant open problem: 
theoretical, algorithmic, and systems-architectural studies 
are welcome, as are papers describing practical 
applications supported by performance evaluation on a large 
scale.

Topics appropriate for this special issue include, but are 
not limited to:

x Document analysis algorithms and tools 
x Physical and logical page/image segmentation 
x Character and symbol recognition methods 
x Pre- and Post-processing algorithms 
x Graphical object recognition (e.g. maps and engineering 
drawings) 
x System performance measures 
x Recognition/classification methodologies for DIAR systems 
x Innovative and industrial applications 

Send four copies of your manuscript (marked "DIAR SPECIAL 
ISSUE") by April 1, 1999 to the following address:

Sameer Singh, Editor-in-Chief, Pattern Analysis and 
Applications, Department of Computer Science, University of
Exeter, Exeter EX4 4PT, UK

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Oliver Jenkin
Editorial Secretary
Pattern Analysis and Applications
Department of Computer Science
University of Exeter 
Exeter EX4 4PT
tel: +44-1392-264066
fax: +44-1392-264067
email: espaa at exeter.ac.uk
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