CALL FOR PAPERS
10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2012)
March 27-29th, 2012
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/das2012/

We are pleased to announce the 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems will take place at the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, during March 27-29th, 2012. The 10th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis  Systems will build on the tradition established by past DAS workshops held  in Kaiserslautern, Germany (1994); Malvern, PA (1996); Nagano, Japan (1998); Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2000); Princeton, NJ (2002); Florence, Italy (2004);  Nelson, New Zealand (2006); Nara, Japan (2008); and Cambridge USA (2010). As usual DAS is a 100% participation, single-track workshop with guest speakers, oral, poster, and demo sessions as well as working group discussions. The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE (TBC). After the workshop, it is planned that selected papers will be chosen for a journal special issue.

 The program committee invites the submission of original and unpublished contributions for inclusion in the workshop. All papers and presentations will be in English. Topics to be dealt with include but are not limited to:

 * Document image analysis (DIA) systems
* Algorithms for graphics recognition
* Analysis methods for historic documents
* Camera-based/Video document image analysis
* Document analysis for the Internet
* Performance evaluation
* Page layout analysis
* Information extraction from document images
* Multilingual document analysis
* Document databases and digital libraries
* Document retrieval systems
* Forensic document analysis
* Multimedia systems
* Authoring, annotation, and presentation systems
* Applications


Full papers must be accompanied by an abstract summarizing the contribution the paper makes to the field. Maximum full paper length is 5 pages in two-column IEEE format. All papers will be peer reviewed, and accepted papers will be included in the proceedings.

 Authors are also invited to submit short (poster) papers for late-breaking results and for demo presentations. Short papers should be at most 2 pages in two-column IEEE format and the short papers may not be included in the proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES (tentative)

 Full Paper Submission:                              September 30, 2011
Notification of Acceptance:                                         November 30, 2011
Camera-Ready Papers Due:                                     December 31, 2011
Short Paper Submission:                                             December 20, 2011
Notification of Acceptance (short paper):              January 15, 2012
Conference:                                                                      March 27-29th, 2012

Workshop Chair:
Michael Blumenstein, Griffith University, Australia

Program Co-Chairs:
Umapada Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Seiichi Uchida, Kyushu University, Japan

Local Arrangements & Publicity Chair:
Graham Leedham, University of New England, Australia

Local Arrangements Committee:
Abdul Sattar, Griffith University, Australia
Brijesh Verma, Central Queensland University, Australia
Brian Lovell, University of Queensland, Australia

Publicity Committee:
Marcus Liwicki, DFKI, Germany
Prateek Sarkar, Xerox PARC, USA

Program Committee (See full list in the attached CFP)

Contact:
DAS 2012 Secretariat:
Email: das2012@griffith.edu.au
Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus
Queensland 4222
Australia