IWRR 2014 - First International Workshop on Robust Reading

Interpreting written communication (textual or symbolic) is one of the most important human activities. It is, however, one of the most difficult ones for computers to realize and has been recognized as an unsolved challenge. In the community of Document Analysis and Recognition (DAR), research on unconstrained reading systems has been of central interest. The series of ICDAR Robust Reading Competition (RRC), which is held in conjunction with biannual International Conference of Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), has played an important role, especially, by providing standardized datasets that have become the de-facto evaluation benchmarks in the area and providing an opportunity to compare methods.
Recently, this kind of research, especially research on reading scene text, has attracted the interest and is increasingly accepted by the wider computer vision (CV) community. Papers on related topics have been consistently presented in major CV conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV and ACCV. In these papers, ICDAR RRC datasets are used as standard measures of methods.
Responding to this trend, we organize the First International Workshop on Robust Reading (IWRR 2014) in conjunction with ACCV 2014. The workshop aims at turning the spotlight on the challenge of unconstrained reading systems. The goal of the workshop is to attract the wider CV community to put research efforts on this challenging research topic, as well as to motivate many researchers from the DAR community to attend ACCV 2014.
Topics of Interest
include, but are not limited to:
Scene text localisation, segmentation, and recognition
Reading scene and/or overlaid text in video sequences
Text localisation, segmentation, and recognition in born-digital images
Restoration of camera captured documents (dewarping, deblurring, etc.)
Quality estimation and degradation modelling of camera-captured text
Performance evaluation and metrics
Applications such as translation, reading text for the blind, etc
Graphical content interpretation in complex settings
Keynote Talk
TBA
Submission and Publication
The workshop organizers welcome technical papers with novel, thought-provoking work and ideas relating to the workshop topics. All submissions must be formatted in ACCV 2014 format and contain original work that is not being published or under review elsewhere. Each submission will undergo a double-blind reviewing process. All accepted papers will be published online on the workshop website. More information can be found on the workshop website.
Inquiries
iwrr2014-inquiry-AT-ml.osakafu-u.ac.jp