CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Workshop on Document Layout Interpretation and its Applications (DLIA2001)
Advance program now available

September 9, 2001 (before ICDAR2001)
Seattle, Washington USA

WORKSHOP CHAIRS:

Thomas BREUEL, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA
Marcel WORRING, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

WORKSHOP ORGANIZER:

Andrew BAGDANOV, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed members):

Apostolos ANTONACOPOULOS, University of Liverpool, U.K.
Henry BAIRD, Xerox PARC, USA
Larry BAUM, The Boeing Company, USA
Horst BUNKE, University of Bern, Switzerland
Andreas DENGEL, DFKI, Germany
Jianying HU, Avaya Labs Research, USA
David DOERMANN, University of Maryland, USA
Hiromichi FUJISAWA, Hitachi CRL, Japan
Rolf INGOLD, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Yasuto ISHITANI, Toshiba Corporation, Japan
Koichi KISE, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Donato MALERBA, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Lawrence O'GORMAN, Veridicom, Inc., USA
Thomas PHELPS, UC Berkeley, USA
Larry SPITZ, Document Recognition Technologies, USA
Luc VINCENT, LizardTech, USA

OVERVIEW:

We would like to build on the successful DLIA 1999 workshop in Bangalore and bring together researchers in document layout analysis again for an exchange of ideas, discussions of applications and available tools, and discussions about future directions.

To reflect the evolving scope of the ICDAR research community, we are expanding the focus of the DLIA workshop. In addition to traditional, image-based layout analysis, we would like to encourage the participation of researchers working in the areas of multimedia document structure analysis, the analysis of the presentation and layout of common digital document formats (such as PDF, MS Word, XML, and HTML), and the application of such analysis to document indexing and retrieval.

TECHNICAL FOCUS:

The workshop will explore document layout interpretation and its application in document conversion to structured formats (XML, MS Word, etc.), genre recognition, document databases and retrieval, multimedia documents, and automatic hypertext creation.

Topics addressed during the workshop will include:

Layout analysis and page segmentation based either on general layout principles, document-specific grammars or models, or application specific constraints.
Abstraction principles and models of the document layout generation and analysis cycle.
Table understanding, including the detection, segmentation and interpretation of tabular data, as well as extraction and interaction with tables in all media (e.g., printed documents, ASCII documents, HTML, and other standard document formats).
Methods and systems that take advantage of document layout information for conversion to structured formats, hypertext creation, document management, and document databases.
Acquisition of document models and parameter settings using techniques from statistics or machine learning.
Application of document layout interpretation concepts to broader classes of documents, such as multimedia, hypertext, or other structured document formats.
Use of standardized methods for representation, interchange, and visualization of document layout interpretation results (e.g. XML, XSL/XSLT, and SVG).
Standardization and dissemination of resources that have already reached maturity and broad application within the DLIA research community (e.g. databases for training and evaluation, representation/interchange formats, and software).

WORKSHOP FORMAT:

This will be a one-day workshop for a maximum of about 50 participants. Each participant will submit an extended abstract. All participants are expected to contribute to the discussions. Abstracts will be published before the workshop. Ideally, these abstracts should be position papers representing a specific view of document layout interpretation of the researcher or research group.

Please refer to the advance program for additional details regarding the workshop schedule.

After the workshop, the organizing committee will compile a Workshop Summary, based on the working group notes, and make it available on the Web. It is hoped that the workshop will stimulate cooperative follow-on activities that will accelerate the pace of research in document layout interpretation and its applications.

USEFUL ADDRESSES:

ICDAR2001 Program Committee Homepage
ICDAR2001 Official Homepage
DLIA Resources Webpage

After the DLIA workshop in Bangalore, the organizers created a mailing list to act as an active forum for discussions pertaining to document layout interpretation. If you are interested in document layout interpretation, please consider joining and participating in the DLIA eGroup. You can join the discussion list by entering you email address in the form below: