Word spotting in Alice's adventures underground using multi scale integral orientation features
Asim Imdad Wagan, Stéphane Bres, Hubert Emptoz · 2010
It is the pleasure of the organizing committee to welcome all participants to the 2010 IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS). This year's workshop is being held June 9-11th in Boston, Massachusetts, a location situated in the heart of beautiful New England in the northeastern United States. Boston has a rich history that dates back to the 1600's and was a major focal point in the history of the American Revolution and America's fight for independence. Over the years, Boston has developed into a center for industrial, academic and cultural excellence and draws millions of visitors each year. DAS 2010 is the ninth workshop in a series. The first DAS was held in Kaiserslautern, Germany in 1994, and was followed by Malvern, PA (1996); Nagano, Japan (1998); Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2000); Princeton, NJ (2002); Florence, Italy (2004); Nelson, New Zealand (2006) and Nara, Japan (2008). The DAS tradition is to bring together industry, academic and government researchers interested in many aspects of document analysis systems and to provide opportunities for fruitful interaction and collaboration. This year's workshop is organized as a three-day, single track event, with oral and poster presentations, as well as working group discussions on the second and third afternoons. Special sessions on contributed datasets and a keynote talk on this same topic provide a compelling theme, and we hope this focus will help push the field toward greater sharing of data and accepted standards for evaluation. This year, we received 91 submissions from 25 countries on six continents. The papers were reviewed by 45 members of our research community and an international program committee representing 16 different countries. The overall quality was excellent and we have chosen 28 full papers for oral presentation and 37 as poster papers, as well as 15 short papers that will be presented either as posters or in a special short oral format. In addition, six groups are scheduled to present live demos during the poster sessions. Full papers underwent the standard peer review process and will appear in the official workshop proceedings to be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series, available online as part of the ACM Digital Library. The short papers are included in the unofficial hardcopy proceedings distributed at the event as well as on the DAS 2010 website.