Iapr-tc11.org Website Review

iapr tc11 is the international as*ociation for pattern recognition (iapr) technical committee number 11. iapr tc11 is concerned with the theory and applications of reading systems. we seek to study and develop systems that recognize character content and structure in research areas. iapr's technical committee no. 11 (tc11) is concerned with work in docu*ent image processing, optical character recognition (ocr), handwriting recognition, and more generally the an*lysis and recognition of information in docu*ents. for a list of research areas recognition of printed texts as well as recognition of handwritten material, both off-line (from images) and on-line (from pen-and touch-based computing devices). an*lysis of electronic docu*ents such as web pages and pdf files is also of interest to tc11. these topics cover all levels of docu*ent processing, starting with image or planar coordinates obtained from sensors, through image and signal-processing stages, feature extraction and selection, and algorithms used to segment, clas*ify and parse docu*ent contents. reading system applications. applications include digital libraries, pen-based computing, check and mail reading, signature verification, web mining and content repurposing, web security using human interactive proofs, textual content an*lysis in videos, and historical tc11 newsletters are published once a month. the tc11 newsletter archive contains all newsletters released since 2000, along with some in order to receive the iapr tc11 newletters, please join the tc11 mailing list. you can do so by filling in this form if you are already a member of this service, you can simply log in to your account, search for the mailing list (iapt-tc11) and subscribe. congratulations to the icfhr award winners, kenny davila and richard zanibbi (best paper), eugen rusakov, leonard rothacker, hyunho. mo, and gernot a. fink (best student paper), and harald scheidl, stefan fiel, and robert sablatnig (best poster). congratulations to the das award winners, daniel stromer (best student paper), and praveen krishnan, katrik dutta, and c. v. jawahar.