FW: CFP: ICDAR2001 Newspaper Segmentation Contest

[Patrick Cazaux <patrick.cazaux@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

J'ai reçu ça. Je suppose que ça doit intéresser certains d'entre vous. Pour
ma part, je n'y comprends goutte.

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> De : "A. Antonacopoulos" <A.Antonacopoulos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date : Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:53:38 +0000
> À : A.Antonacopoulos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Objet : CFP: ICDAR2001 Newspaper Segmentation Contest
> 
> 
> THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPER SEGMENTATION CONTEST
>                     at ICDAR'2001
>                  
>               http://www.lpa.gr/contest
>                  
>                CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
>                  
>                  
> The  aim  of  this  contest is to evaluate  all  existing
> algorithms  for document image segmentation that  can  be
> applied  to  Newspaper page segmentation. Many algorithms
> for  page  segmentation  have been  proposed  by  several
> research  groups dealing with document image  processing.
> However,  many  of  these  algorithms  are  not  directly
> applicable  to  newspaper images, which  present  special
> problems.   The  most  significant  problems   identified
> include   the   complex   layout  of   newspaper   pages,
> particularly  the  oldest ones, where  text  columns  are
> located  very close to each other in a haphazard way,  as
> well  as  the  poor scanning results derived  from  paper
> material that was originally of low print quality or  has
> deteriorated through time. Another important problem  for
> newspaper  page  segmentation is the layout  habits  that
> seem to have changed repeatedly.
> 
> We  have  selected to evaluate the tracing of  all  basic
> entities that appear in most newspaper pages and cover  a
> time  period  from the beginning of the previous  century
> till  today.  We  selected entities that belong  to  text
> regions, lines and images/drawings.
> 
> Training and test sets:
> 
> Both  training and test sets come from Greek and  English
> newspapers.  The  Greek newspapers  are  "TO  VIMA"  (THE
> TRIBUNE) and "ELETHERON VIMA" (FREE TRIBUNE) and we  have
> selected front pages from years 1922, 1940 and 1968. Both
> newspapers  are  published by Lambrakis Press  S.A..  The
> English  speaking newspaper is the "International  Herald
> Tribune"  and  we  have selected front pages  from  years
> 1900, 1925 and 1950.
> 
> Performance Evaluation:
> 
> The  performance evaluation method that will be  used  is
> based  on  counting  the number of  matches  between  the
> entities  detected by the algorithm and the  entities  in
> the  ground truth. We use a global MatchScore  table  for
> all entities whose values are calculated according to the
> intersection of the ON pixel sets of the result  and  the
> ground  truth.  In  order to evaluate  the  detection  of
> newspaper page components, we employ a global performance
> metric that combines the average values of detection rate
> and recognition accuracy.
> 
> Participating benefits:
> 
> We    will   collect   all   segmentation   results   and
> automatically   rank  all  efforts.  The   best   working
> algorithms will appear in a report that will be  prepared
> by the contest organisers. Authors of the highest ranking
> algorithms will be invited to prepare papers that will be
> included  at ICDAR 2001 proceedings and presented  in  an
> oral session during the conference.
> 
> Important dates:
> 
> Register Interest & Download Training set:           ASAP
> Download Test set:                              May 1, 2001
> E-mail results and algorithm description:            May 14,2001
> Results announcement & notification to participants
> with best working algorithms to prepare a paper:     May 16,2001
> Submission of all papers:                            June 4, 2001
> Notification of acceptance:                          June 11, 2001
> Camera-ready manuscripts received:                   June 30, 2001
> 
> Organizing Committee:
> 
> Dr Basilis Gatos
> Head of Research
> Lambrakis Press Archives
> Department of Digital Technologies
> 8, Heyden Street,
> 104 34 Athens, Greece
> Tel: +30-1-8252680, +30-1-8252540
> Fax: +30-1-8250040
> E-mail: bgatos@xxxxxx
> URL: http://www.lpa.gr
> 
> Dr Apostolos Antonacopoulos
> Lecturer, Dept. of Computer Science
> The University of Liverpool
> Chadwick Building, Peach Street
> Liverpool, L69 7ZF, U.K.
> Tel.: +44 (151) 794 3695
> Fax.: +44 (151) 794 3715
> E-mail: aa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> URL: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~aa
> 
> 

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