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Call for Papers HIP’23 - 7th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing

Submission deadline: April 28, 2023. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hip23 Workshop: August 24, 2023. Venue: San José, California, USA. Website: https://blog.sbb.berlin/hip2023/#info

Description

HIP’23 will be held in conjunction with ICDAR2023https://icdar2023.org/, on August 24th, 2023 in San José, USA. The workshop brings together researchers working with historical documents and intends to be complementary and synergistic to the work in analysis and recognition featured in the main sessions of ICDAR, the premier international forum for researchers and practitioners in the document analysis community.

Workshop topics include (but are not limited to):

* Imaging and Image Acquisition * Imaging for fragile materials * Multispectral imaging * Camera-based/non-invasive acquisition * Case studies/applications * Digital Archiving Considerations * Compression issues * Measuring essential resolution (colour, spatial) and metadata * Modelling of document image degradation * Historical Collections * Military records, personal journals, church records, medieval manuscripts, etc. * Scientific, technical and educational documents * Government archives, documents from the world cultural heritage, multi-language

* Document Restoration/Improving readability * Removing or minimizing damages, defects, ink-bleed * Completing and filling in missing pieces based on context, prior knowledge * Machine-learning algorithms for enhancement based on example images * Interactive tools from a user viewpoint * Learning from user-directed image enhancement

* Document Content Acquisition * Automated or semi-automated transcription (OCR, OLR) * Machine-learning algorithms for content extraction, including recurrent neural networks, auto-encoders, transformers, and unsupervised feature learning * Content recognition based on surrounding and supporting context * Annotation * Evaluation metrics and methods * Ontologies for modelling historical document content * Content-based retrieval

* Family History Documents and Genealogies * Personal, Family, National and Historical Collections of Family Genealogy and Histories * Extracting and linking names, dates, places, etc. * Extracting, linking and piecing together personal and family histories and narratives * Discovering historical social networks

* Automated Classification, Grouping and Hyperlinking of Historical Documents * Style identification (of printed text, dating or author identification) * Searching for documents over the internet * Web-based navigation within/among document images * Search/query, retrieval, summarization or condensation of document images * Document collecting, clustering, linking and analysis technologies * Parallel tagging of images, transcripts, and other document layers

* Digital Humanities applications of document analysis and recognition * Computer Vision for Computational History * Digital methods and tools for the study of historical documents * Crowdsourcing

* Natural Language Processing for Historical Documents * Lemmatization, Part-of-speech tagging, Stemming * Information extraction: named entity recognition, disambiguation and linking, reference extraction, relationship extraction * Semantic Parsing * Sentiment Analysis * Text Summarization

Visit HIP past editions’ program for more information: https://blog.sbb.berlin/hip2023/#info.

For work focusing on handwriting/paleography, we recommend you have a look at IWCP2023https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/iwcp2023.html.

Submission instructions and publication:

Submissions are received until April 28, 2023 (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) via Easychairhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hip23 and undergo review by the members of the Program Committee. Papers must not exceed 6 pages in length (including references). It is not required to anonymize the submission, but authors are welcome to do so if they prefer it. Acceptance notifications will be sent out June 1, 2023.

Accepted camera-ready submissions should be sent by July 9, 2023 as PDF via email to kai[dot]labusch[at]sbb.spk-berlin.de for publication in the ACM Digital Libraryhttps://dl.acm.org/ (see also the Proceedingshttps://dl.acm.org/conference/hip/proceedings of previous editions). Authors should use the current ACM SIG Conference Proceedings Templatehttp://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template/ to prepare their papers. Note that ACM has created a new LaTeX template and updated the existing Word templates. Authors also need to apply the ACM Computing Classification Systemhttp://www.acm.org/about/class/2012 (CCS) according to the ACM SIG Conference Proceedings Template.

Important dates (Time zone: Anywhere on Earthhttps://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe):

* Submission Deadline: April 28, 2023 * Acceptance Notification: June 1, 2023 * Camera Ready: July 9, 2023 * Workshop: August 24, 2023

Program committee:

https://blog.sbb.berlin/hip2023/#people

Organizers:

Clemens Neudecker (General Chair) Apostolos Antonacopoulos (HIP Series Chair) Christian Clausner (Program Chair) Maud Ehrmann (Program Chair) Kai Labush (Publication Chair) Randy Wilson (Local Arrangements Chair) William Barrett (Honorary Chair)