DE 2012 - ACM-SAC 2012 CONFERENCE TRACK ON Document Engineering

Document Engineering is the branch of computer science that investigates systems for documents in any form and in all media. Document engineering is concerned with principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage, store, compact, access and maintain documents. The fields of document recognition and retrieval have grown rapidly in recent years. This development has been fueled by the emergence of new application areas such as the World Wide Web (WWW), digital libraries, and video- and camerabased OCR. The use of OCR is spreading from high-volume, niche domains to more general tasks, including the processing of noisy "real-world" documents, photocopies, and faxes.

Track Topics

These are the main areas of concern in:

Algorithms and systems for machine-printed and handwritten character and word recognition, especially for degraded documents (e.g., faxes);
Character and word segmentation techniques;
Identification and analysis of tables or equations;
Page segmentation, including hierarchical decomposition of documents into text regions, colored/textured background, halftones, line-art, etc;
Logical structure analysis, linguistic representation of structure and syntax-directed recognition of logical structure;
Raster-to-vector conversion of line-art, maps, and technical drawings;
Filtering and enhancement techniques for document images;
Document image compression;
Document degradation models;
Video and camera based OCR;
Applications of document recognition to the WWW and digital libraries;
Techniques to support spoken language access to document text (audio browsing of document databases);
Multilingual character recognition;
Other topics relating to document analysis and character recognition;
Impact of recognition accuracy on retrieval effectiveness;
Recovery and use of logical structure for retrieval;
Relevance feedback techniques for document retrieval;
Cross-language and multi-lingual retrieval;
Categorization and summarization of text documents and imaged documents;
Keyword spotting in document images;
Approximate string matching algorithms for OCR text;
Non-textual retrieval methods;
Image and multimedia search;
Interfaces for retrieval;
Benchmarking and evaluation issues;
Other topics relating to the retrieval of documents and document images.

Journal Publication

Papers presented will be selected for publication in a special issue of an international journal. The last two issues of the DE-Track were published in the J.UCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science by Springer.