ICFHR 2014 - 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition

Fourteenth International Conference on Frontiers of Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2014), sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) TC-10 (Graphics Recognition) and TC-11 (Reading Systems). The Conference will be held in the island of Crete, Greece from September 1-4th, 2014. ICFHR is the premier international forum for researchers and practitioners in the document analysis community for identifying, encouraging and exchanging ideas on the state-of-the-art technology in document analysis, understanding, retrieval, and performance evaluation. The term document in the context of ICFHR encompasses a broad range of documents from historical forms such as palm leaves and papyrus to traditional documents and modern multimedia documents.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Handwriting Recognition Techniques
Cursive Script Recognition
Symbol, Equation, Sketch and Drawing Recognition
Handwritten Document Processing and Understanding
Computational Linguistics and Information Integration
Web-Based Applications
Handwritten Databases and Digital Libraries
Information Extraction & Retrieval
Document Characterization
Form Processing
Word spotting
Bank-Check Processing
Historical Document Processing
Forensic Studies and Security Issues
Writer Verification and Identification
Performance Enhancement and System Evaluation
Electronic Ink and Pen-Based Systems
Paper Submission
Manuscripts of a maximum length of six pages are encouraged to be submitted. Papers must describe original work on any of the ICFHR related topics. The format templates and instructions for paper submission will be available on the Conference web site. The deadline for paper submission is February 29, 2014.
Important Dates
10 February 2014: Paper Submission
21 April 2014: Acceptance Notification
12 May 2014: Camera Ready Papers