[Corpora-List] CFP: HIP (Historical Document Imaging and Processing)

[Eric Ringger]

========== 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First International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing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collection and processing of historical documents.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     Historical Documents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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