Seventh IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition - GREC 2007

Grand Hotel Rayon - Curitiba - Brazil

September 20-21, 2007

http://www.iapr-tc10.org/grec2007

We are pleased to announce that the Seventh International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC'2007), organized by IAPR TC-10 (Technical Committee on Graphics Recognition), will be held at the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Curitiba (Brazil) on September 20-21, 2007, just before the 9th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR). The GREC workshops provide an excellent opportunity for researchers and practitioners at all levels of experience to meet colleagues and to share new ideas and knowledge about graphics recognition methods. Graphics Recognition is a subfield of document image analysis that deals with graphical entities in engineering drawings, maps, architectural plans, musical scores, mathematical notation, tables, diagrams, etc. GREC'07 will continue the tradition of past workshops held at the Penn State University (USA), Nancy (France), Jaipur (India), Kingston (Canada), Barcelona (Spain), and Hong Kong (China).

Location

This will be the first edition of GREC workshop held at the same location of the ICDAR conference. It will facilitate people to attend to both events.

Workshop Format

The program will be organized in a single-track 2-day workshop. It will comprise several sessions dedicated to specific topics. For each session, there will be an invited presentation describing the state of the art and stating the open questions for the session's topic, followed by a number of short presentations that will contribute by proposing solutions to some of the questions or presenting results of the speaker's work. Each session will be concluded by a panel discussion.

Topics:

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Raster-to-vector techniques.
  • Recognition of graphical primitives.
  • Recognition of graphic symbols in charts, diagrams, and drawings.
  • Interpretation of engineering drawings, maps, tables, and other graphical documents.
  • Graphics-based information retrieval.
  • 3-D models from multiple 2-D views (line drawings).
  • Description of complete systems for interpretation graphic documents.
  • Performance evaluation in graphics recognition.
  • Authoring, editing, storing and presentation systems for graphics multimedia documents.

Paper Submission

Extended abstracts of maximum two pages have to be sent through the workshop web site. Afterwards, authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to send the full paper. The full text of all contributed papers will be available in proceedings distributed at the workshop. After the workshop, the program committee plans to publish revised versions of selected papers as an LNCS Volume, Springer Verlag.

Contests

As at the past workshops, contests on graphics recognition will be held at GREC'2007. Two contests are being organized:

Important Dates

Abstract Due:                                 May 14, 2007
Acceptance Notification:                 June 10, 2007
Camera-ready Abstracts Due:         June 30, 2007
Final Manuscript Due (for web proceedings):   July 31, 2007