Call for Papers
Any question? Contact us at ost2021@unifr.ch
Scope
Following the success of the two first editions of the International Workshop on Open Services and Tools for Document Analysis (ICDAR-OST) that have been organized within the previous ICDAR events in 2017 and 2019, we are organizing a third edition in the same spirit as the previous ones aiming to promote open tools and services (for processing, evaluation or visualization), as well as facilitating public dataset usage, in the domain of Document Image Analysis (DIA) Research. This edition of the workshop has a particular focus on sharing DIA methods and reproducing experiments. Such methods, tools or datasets should observe the principles of being reusable (I can use it on my data), transferable (I can use it on my premises) and reproducible (I can obtain the same results).
The accepted contributions are presented during interactive pitch and demo sessions, enabling authors to advertise their work, identify potential issues and solutions in their approach, as well as igniting collaboration with other participants. While this is encouraged, releasing tools with a free/open-source license is not required.
ICDAR-OST is a one-day workshop. It comprises interactive pitch and demo sessions, group brainstormings, and a keynote speech.
Guidelines for authors
For this edition, authors are invited to submit two types of paper :
Full papers describing complete works of research (12-15 pages). They will undergo a rigorous review process with a minimum of 2 reviews considering the originality of work.
Short papers providing an opportunity to report on research in progress and to present novel positions on graphic recognition (up to 6 pages).
Accepted papers (full and short papers) will be published in a Springer LNCS volume dedicated to all ICDAR workshops.
The submitted papers will respect the same policy and conditions of ICDAR 2021 conference papers. Papers should be formatted according to the instructions and style files provided by Springer. The LaTeX template for LNCS can be downloaded here. It is also available on Overleaf.
You can also see the author instructions on ICDAR Website for the format or download the LNCS Guidelines for authors.
Submission
Original Software Papers introduce a newly released method, tool, service or format. Authors can submit papers to promote and showcase finished or ongoing work that are publicly available, preferably under an open source license. Details about installation, code source availability, documentation and evolution will be expected is this format promoting the dissemination of reusable software.
Easychair submission page for ICDAR-OST 2021: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdarost2021
We will follow a single blind review process and each paper will be reviewed by at least two reviewers.
Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Fully Open Source Tools
Web Services for Document Image Analysis
Collaborative Platforms
Creating Ground Truth
Performance Evaluation
Coordination systems for DAR
Deployment of document image processing tools for production
All methods or tools related to Document Image Analysis Research in general
Important dates
Submission deadline:
May 20, 2021EXTENDED: June 07, 2021Notification of acceptance: June 28, 2021
Camera ready: July 03, 2021
Workshop date: September 05, 2021
Camera-Ready Instructions
Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume dedicated to all ICDAR workshops.
Camera ready submission of workshop papers are due by july 3, 2021.