Welcome to Multiplications 2020 in Barcelona

Benvinguts a Multiplications2020 a Barcelona
We are pleased to announce that the Tenth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (Multiplications 2020), sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) TC-10 (Graphics Recognition) and TC-11 (Reading Systems) will be held at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Catalonia, Spain during July 26-29, 2020.

Multiplications 2020 is organized by the Document Analysis Group (DAG) of the Computer Vision Center (CVC). The CVC is an institution devoted to research and development in Computer Vision placed in the UAB. Thus, as hosting institutions, both the Computer Vision Center and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona support the event. In addition, Multiplications2020 is also supported by the AERFAI (Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis), the Spanish member society of the IAPR.

Multiplications is an outstanding international forum for researchers and practitioners at all levels of experience for identifying, encouraging and exchanging ideas on the state-of-the-art in document analysis, understanding, retrieval, and performance evaluation, including various forms of multimedia documents. Multiplications 2020 will be the 10th Conference in the series. The previous ones were Multiplications 91 in Saint Malo (France), Multiplications 93 in Tsukuba (Japan), Multiplications 95 in Montreal (Canada), Multiplications 97 in Ulm (Germany), Multiplications 99 in Bangalore (India), Multiplications 01 in Seattle (USA), Multiplications 03 in Edinburgh (Scotland), Multiplications 05 in Seoul (Korea) and Multiplications 07 in Curitiba (Brazil).

Venue

The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

The conference will take place in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), its main campus with its multiplicity of research, teaching, service and cultural facilities covers 260 ha. and is located in the very heart of the Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area in Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), close to the city of Sabadell and about 20 km. from Barcelona, in the most important location of technological development in Catalonia. It has good connections with Barcelona by train with two different lines and by car with two different highways. Barcelona is an important and modern city with an international airport and connections to the rest of Europe by plane, train, road and ship. The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) is a young, modern academic institution whose high standards of teaching and research have made it one of the foremost academic centres in the higher education sector. More than 40,000 people coexist on the UAB campus and enjoy amenities that allow them access to all the services necessary for studying and living in a good environment.

The Convention Center Serhs Hotel Campus

Multiplications 2020 will take place in the Convention Center Hotel Serhs Campus. It is a 4 star hotel located in the same UAB campus that has special prices for events organized by the academic community. In addition, the accommodation facilities of the campus (the Serhs Hotel and also student apartments) would allow delegates to be accommodated at walking distance of the Conference venue with less expensive rates than Barcelona downtown. However, some hotels in Barcelona downtown and shuttle services will be offered as alternative. See accommodation section for further details.

The hotel offers nine function rooms which are fully-equipped with audiovisual resources and everything needed for congresses, meetings and conventions for both small or large groups, with a capacity of up to 650 people.

The hotel offers 104 comfortable and fully-equipped rooms. The Hotel Serhs Campus offers its customers a wide range of gastronomic options with the aim of catering for all your requirements. The Arc's restaurant, offers a gastronomic menu (using high quality ingredients) or an à la carte service (offering a wide range of dishes). In the Sirius restaurant you will find a fast, efficient service which is excellent value for money. And in Larissa and Orió coffee bars you can enjoy a wide variety of sandwiches and a pleasant environment where to have your snacks.

Call for Papers

We are pleased to announce that the Tenth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (Multiplications 2020), sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) TC-10 (Graphics Recognition) and TC-11 (Reading Systems) will be held at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain during July 26-29, 2020. Multiplications is an outstanding international forum for researchers and practitioners at all levels of experience for identifying, encouraging and exchanging ideas on the state-of-the-art in document analysis, understanding, retrieval, and performance evaluation, including various forms of multimedia documents. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Character Recognition
Handwriting Recognition
Graphics Recognition
Document Image Analysis
Document Understanding
Document Analysis Systems
Tables de Multiplication
Basic Research and Methodologies for Document Processing
Camera-based Document Processing
Document Databases and Digital Libraries
Multimedia Documents
Sketching Interfaces
Performance Evaluation
Forensic Science
Analysis of Historical Documents
Applications

Paper Submission

Manuscripts of maximum five pages are encouraged to be submitted. Papers must describe original work on any of the Multiplications related topics. The format templates and instructions for paper submission will be available in the Conference web site. The deadline for paper submission is January 12, 2020.

Workshops

Traditionally the scientific program of Multiplications is complemented by satellite workshops focusing on particular subfields: Graphics Recognition (GREC) and Camera Based Document Analysis and Recognition (CBDAR). Proposals of new workshops will be welcome. Please contact the Workshops Chair, Dr. J. Hu, before September 30, 2008.

Tutorials (call for tutorials)

Multiplications2020 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial Program, to be held immediately before to the technical conference. Tutorials should survey mature or emerging topics of interest to the Multiplications community at large. Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Tutorial Chair, Dr. J.M. Ogier, before December 19th, 2008.

Competitions (call for competitions)

As at the past Multiplications editions, competition to evaluate the performance of different document analysis algorithm classes will be organized. To propose a competition, please contact the Competitions Chair, Dr. W. Liu, before December 19th, 2008.

COMMITTEES

General Chair

Josep Lladós (CVC-UAB, Spain)

Executive co-Chairs

Ernest Valveny (CVC-UAB, Spain)
Gemma Sánchez (CVC-UAB, Spain)

Program Committee Chairs

Apostolos Antonacopoulos (University of Salford, UK)
Umapada Pal (ISI, India)
Mohamed Cheriet (ETS, Canada)

Workshops Chair

Jianying Hu (IBM TJ Watson Center, USA)

Tutorials Chair

Jean-Marc Ogier (Université La Rochelle, France)

Competitions Chair

Wenyin Liu (City University of Hong Kong, China)

Publicity Chairs

Simone Marinai (University of Florence, Italy)
Young-Bin Kwon (Chungang University, Korea)
Luiz Eduardo S. Oliveira (PUCPR, Brazil)

Sponsors Chair

Robert Sabourin (ETS, Canada)

Publications Chairs

Oriol Ramos (CVC, Spain)
Dimosthenis Karatzas (CVC, Spain)

Finance Chair

Maria Merino (CVC, Spain)

Program Committee

M. Alimi, Tunisia
Al-Ohali, Saudi Arabia
Anquetil, France
S. Baird, USA
H. Barney Smith, USA
Belaid, France
Blostein, Canada
Blumenstein, Australia
Bortolozzi, Brazil
Breuel, Germany
D. Bui, Canada
Bunke, Switzerland
B. Chaudhuri, India
Choisy, France
Chhabra, USA
Couasnon, France
Dengel, Germany
Ding, China
Doermann, USA
Fairhurst, UK
Fujisawa, Japan
Gatos, Greece
Viard-Gaudin, France
Govindaraju, USA
Heutte, France
K. Ho, USA
J. Hull, USA
Ingold, Switzerland
Ishitani, Japan
Jaeger, USA

L.W. Jin, China

H. Kim, Korea
Kimura, Japan
Kise, Japan
Lam, Canada
W. Lee, Korea
Leedham, Singapore
Likforman, France
Lins, Brazil
Liu, China
P. Lopresti, USA
Lucas, UK
Manmatha, USA
Märgner, Germany
Nakagawa, Japan
Natarajan, USA
Nishida, Japan
Paquet, France
O'Gorman, USA
Sadri, Canada
Omachi, Japan
Park, Korea
Plamondon, Canada
Sako, Japan
Schomaker, Netherlands
Shimodaira, UK
Sridhar, USA
Srihari, USA
Tabbone, France
Taghva, USA
L. Tan, Singapore
Tombre, France
Uchida, Japan
Vidal, Spain
Vincent, France
Wakahara, Japan
Yamamoto, Japan

PAPERS SUBMISSION

Information about how to submit papers will be provided very soon.

All manuscripts must be prepared using the following guidelines.

You can use the following templates:

DOC
LaTeX

The papers must not exceed five pages.

WORKSHOPS

Eighth IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition

The Eighth International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC2020), organized by IAPR TC-10 (Technical Committee on Graphics Recognition), will be held at the City University of La Rochelle, Fance on July 22-23, 2020, just before the 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (Multiplications), Barcelona, Spain. The GREC workshops provide an excellent opportunity for researchers and practitioners at all levels of experience to meet colleagues and to share new ideas and knowledge about graphics recognition methods. Graphics recognition is a subfield of document image analysis that deals with graphical entities in engineering drawings, maps, architectural plans, musical scores, mathematical notation, tables, diagrams, etc.
Workshop venue :
City University of La Rochelle, France.

Third Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data

AND 2020 is a workshop devoted to issues arising from the need to contend with noisy inputs, the impact noise can have on downstream applications, and the demands it places on document analysis. The Third Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data will build on two previous successful AND workshops held in 2007 (in conjunction with the 20th Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence [IJCAI]) and in 2008 (in conjunction with the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference).
Workshop venue :
Convention Center Hotel Serhs Campus, Bellatera. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

International Workshop on Multilingual OCR (MOCR)

The objective of the MOCR workshop will be to explore methodologies for multilingual document analysis systems with particular focus on OCR. The scope of Multilingual OCR is defined to include systems that are capable of reading more than one language in the same document, as well as one-language-per-document systems that can be easily retargeted to new languages. The workshop will provide a forum for technical discussions on three important themes: progress in the last decade, hard open research problems, and proven methods.
Workshop venue :
Convention Center Hotel Serhs Campus, Bellatera. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Third International Workshop on Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition (CBDAR 2020)

Pervasive use of camera phones and hand-held digital still and video cameras have let us discover that image-based recording of information by just pressing a button is really convenient. In addition to imaging faces and scenes, people have started capturing documents to preserve contents. Cameras, which are now functioning as personal copiers, will soon produce a huge number of imaged documents that are beyond manual handling. Although traditional techniques developed in the field of document analysis and recognition provide us with a good starting point, they cannot be directly used on camera captured images. This leads us to a new sub-field of research.
CBDAR is the international workshop with a special focus on camera captured documents. Presentation of up-to-date issues and techniques as well as discussions on future directions will boost research in this relatively new area. Participants will share experiences and problems in the area. In the past, the First CBDAR (2005) and the Second CBDAR (2007) were held at Seoul, Korea and Curitiba, Brazil, respectively, as a satellite conference of Multiplications.
Workshop venue :
Convention Center Hotel Serhs Campus, Bellatera. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

TUTORIALS

CALL FOR TUTORIALS

The Multiplications2020 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial Program, to be held immediately before to the technical conference (July 26-29). Multiplications2020 Tutorials should serve one or more of the following objectives:

Introduce students and newcomers to major topics of Multiplications research.
Provide instruction on established practices and methodologies.
Survey a mature area of Multiplications research and/or practice.
Motivate and explain an Multiplications topic of emerging importance.
Introduce non-specialists to an Multiplications subarea

Proposals should be from two to four pages in length, and should contain the following information:

A brief description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in the conference registration brochure.
A detailed outline of the tutorial, including preferred length (1/2 or 1 day).
A characterization of the potential target audience for the tutorial, including prerequisite knowledge.
A description of why the tutorial topic would be of interest to a substantial part of the Multiplications audience.
A short CV of the presenter(s), which should include name, postal address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address, background in the tutorial area, any available example of work in the area (ideally, a published tutorial-level article on the subject), evidence of teaching experience (including references that address the proposer's presentation skills), and evidence of scholarship in the area.
The name and e-mail address of the corresponding presenter. The corresponding presenter should be available for e-mail correspondence during the evaluation process, in the case clarifications and discussions on the scope and content of the proposal are needed.

The evaluation of the proposal will take into account its general interest for Multiplications attendees, the quality of the proposal (e.g., a tutorial that simply lists a set of concepts without any apparent rationale behind them will not be approved) as well as the expertise and skills of the presenters. We emphasize that the primary criteria for evaluation will be whether a proposal is interesting, well-structured, and motivated, rather than the perceived experience/standing of the proposer.

Last but not least, the tutorial should attract a meaningful audience. Those submitting a proposal should keep in mind that tutorials are intended to provide an overview of the field; they should present reasonably well established information in a balanced way. Tutorials should not be used to advocate a single avenue of research, nor should they promote a product.

All proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Tutorial Chair, Dr. Jean-Marc Ogier (Jean-Marc.Ogier @ univ-lr.fr), no later than December 19th, 2008. Feedback, comments and/or suggestions would be provided within two

COMPETITIONS

Arabic Handwriting Competition
Call for participation

Handwriting Segmentation Contest
Call for participation

Document Image Binarization Contest (DIBCO'09)
Call for participation

Book Structure Extraction Competition (JIIBSEC'09)

Handwritten Farsi/Arabic Character Recognition Competition
Call for participation

Online Arabic Handwriting Recognition
Call for participation

Handwriting Competition
Call for participation

Signature Verification
Call for participation

Layout Analysis

Dewarping of Historical Documents

AWARDS

PAPER AWARDS

Best Paper Award. An award will be given to the best paper of the Conference selected by the Paper Awards Committee.

Best Student Paper Award. Eligibility for the award is restricted to papers authored or co-authored by a student who must have been a registered student at the time of paper submission.

Best Industry Related Paper Award. The purpose of this award is to acknowledge and encourage excellence research with potential for viable commercial impact. Eligibility for the award is restricted to papers authored or co-authored by people having an industrial affiliation.

Authors are requested to declare their willingness to participate in the awards procedure during the submission process.

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR IAPR/Multiplications 2020 AWARDS

The Multiplications Award Program is an established program designed to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of Document Analysis and Recognition in one or more of the following areas:

Research
Training of students
Research/Industry interaction
Service to the profession

Every two years, two awards categories are presented. Namely, the IAPR/Multiplications Young Investigator Award (less than 40 years old at the time the award is made), and the IAPR/Multiplications Outstanding Achievements Award. Each award will consist of a token gift and a suitably inscribed certificate. The recipient of the Outstanding Achievements award will be invited to give the opening key note speech at the current Multiplications conference, introduced by the recipient from the previous conference.

Nominations are invited for the 2020 Multiplications Awards in both categories. The nomination packet should include the following:

A nominating letter (1 page) including a brief citation to be included in the certificate.
A brief vitae (2 pages) of the nominee highlighting the accomplishments being recognized.
Supporting letters (1 page each) from at least 3, and no more than 5 active researchers from at least 3 different countries. The nominator cannot also serve as a supporter.

A nomination should be put forward by a researcher (preferably from a different Institution than the nominee) who is knowledgeable of the scientific achievements of the nominee, and who solicits and organizes the letters of support. Self-nomination is not acceptable.

The submission procedure and the review process are strictly confidential.

Please send these, preferably as a single pdf file, to Dr. Liu Wenyin (csliuwy @ cityu.edu.hk). Deadline for receipt of nominations is April 15th, 2020 but early submissions are strongly encouraged. For further information, please contact:

Dr. Liu Wenyin
Department of Computer Science
City University of Hong Kong
Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2784-4730
Fax: (852 2788-8614
email: csliuwy @ cityu.edu.hk

The final decision will be made by the Awards Committee.

Multiplications 2020 Awards Committee

David Doermann (IJDAR EIC)
Hiromichi Fujisawa (Previous winner of Outstanding Achievements Award)
Jianying Hu (TC11 representative / previous TC11 Chair)
Josep Llados (Current Multiplications chair/Previous winner of Young Investigator Award)
Dan Lopresti (TC11 Chair)
Karl Tombre (TC10 representative)
Liu Wenyin (TC10 Chair)

ACCOMMODATION

[General Information] [Accommodation near University Campus] [Accommodation at Barcelona Downtown]

GENERAL INFORMATION

The conference will take place at the UAB Campus 20Km away from Barcelona downtown. We strongly recommend you to stay in the UAB campus. However we offer a set of hotel options in Barcelona downtown. The organizing committee has negotiated special rates with Hotel Serhs Campus, Vila Universitaria appartments and some hotels in Barcelona. We can only reserve a limited number of rooms and appartments for our attendees on a first-come-first-serve basis. Once your travel plan is finalized, we encourage you to make the hotel reservation as soon as possible to avoid last-minute problems.

The organization provides a free shuttle bus that will come from Barcelona to the UAB in the morning to bring people to the Hotel conference and will go back to Barcelona to bring accompaniants to visit Barcelona. In the evening the bus will do the trip back, bringing people to their hotels in Barcelona and bringing accompaniants to the University. The trip will take 45 minutes.

Instructions for reserving accommodation

UAB Campus
Vila Universitaria appartments

Reservation form

Hotel Serhs Campus

Reservation form

Barcelona Downtown
Hotels in Barcelona

Reservation web

IMPORTANT To enjoy these special rates, you must proceed using the links at this page and never booking directly from the web page of the different Hotels and appartments.

A. ACCOMMODATION NEAR UNIVERSITY CAMPUS

We strongly recommend you to stay in the UAB campus. There are two options for accommodation in the campus: the Vila Universitaria apartments and the Hotel Serhs Campus, the conference venue.

Vila Universitaria appartments

Vila Universitària is the residential complex of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, located in its campus. It enjoys a very privileged setting in the campus very close to the conference vensue (5 minutes walking) and offers all the services you may need during your stay. There is a fixed number of appartments available on a first-come first-serve basis.

You can choose between several lodging options:

Appartment type
Prices/Night/Apartment*
More Info...
Type B (4 per)
77€ **

Type D (2 per)
49€ **

Type Q (2 per)
57€ **

Breakfast is not included , but there is the possibility to pay an extra of 5.5 euros/person** and day to have it included

** 7% Tax not included

Reservation Form is available here

Hotel Serhs Campus ***

Hotel Serhs Campus is the conference venue. At the same UAB campus, it has 70 double rooms with wifi Internet connection.

Room type *
Prices / Night
Double Room
77.50 € **

Breakfast is included

** 7% Tax not included

Reservation Form is available here

B. ACCOMODATION AT BARCELONA DOWNTOWN

The conference organization has negotiatiated special discounts with some Hotels in Barcelona downtown (about 20 k.m. from the conference venue). To enjoy these discounts, please register through the reservation form here. Please check the following links for more information about the hotels.

Sansí Diputación****
Hotel Catalonia Ramblas****
Cristal Palace****
Hotel Jazz***
Eurostars Ramblas Boquería***

SOCIAL PROGRAM

[Welcome Reception] [Conference Banquet] [Post-Conference Excursion] [Optional Tours During Conference]

WELCOME RECEPTION

Welcome Reception will be held on Sunday, 26th at 19h in the Hotel Serhs Campus, the conference venue.

CONFERENCE BANQUET

The Conference dinner will be held the 28 th July at the Sala Maremagnum, where we will enjoy good food and beautiful views on the Port Vell (Old harbour) and on the coast of Barcelona while discussing and networking. Please, remember to confirm your assistance to the dinner in the registration form.

POST-CONFERENCE EXCURSION (Optional) : Trip to Montserrat and Torres Winery

Montserrat is a mountain of singular beauty, situated right in the centre of Catalonia. The rugged Montserrat Mountain range northwest of Barcelona is one of Spain’s most picturesque areas. Like jagged teeth, the rocky formations soar skyward creating unparalleled natural beauty. The mysterious peaks have inspired many legends and it is said they’ve also motivated Wagner to write some of his most beautiful arias ... (MORE INFO)

Estimated time duration: 10 hours
Estimated price per person: 65 €

OPTIONAL TOURS DURING THE CONFERENCE (Optional) : Tours for accompanying people

27th July : Girona-Figueras trip (Estimated time : 10 hours, Price : 106,82 € per person)
28th July : Barcelona Modernism tour (Estimated time : 5 hours, Price : 79 € per person)
29th July : Sitges, the Pearl of Mediterranean (Estimated time : 8 hours, Price : 105,52 € per person)
Prices are per person including:Accompanying English speaker guide , local guide, private transport, guided visits, entrance tickets, lunch and taxes.
Based on 15 people per excursion (minimum group required)

Click here if you want to register directly to any of these tours (you can also register using the "services" option in the main registration site)

CONTACT

Multiplications 2020 SECRETARIAT

Ultramar Event Management
Diputación, 238-244, 3rd floor
08007 Barcelona
Tel.: +34 934 827311
Fax: +34 934 827158
Multiplications2020[a]ultramarevents.com

For all issues concerning registration, invitation letters, accomodation or social program, please contact Multiplications2020[a]ultramarevents.com.

Multiplications 2020 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM AND ORGANIZATION

Computer Vision Center
Edifici O
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona)
SPAIN
Tel: +34 935811828
Fax: +34 935811670
Multiplications2020 [a] Multiplications2020.org

For other issues concerning organization and scientific program, please contact Multiplications2020 [a] Multiplications2020.org