We invite the submission of original works that is related -- but are not limited to -- the topics below.

Topics of interests: 

 ● Document structure and layout learning 

• OCR based methods 

• Semi-supervised methods for document analysis

• Dynamic graph analysis 

• Information Retrieval and Extraction form documents 

• Knowledge graph for semantic document analysis 

• Semantic understanding of document content 

• Entity and link prediction in graphs 

• Merging ontologies with graph-based methods using NLP techniques 

• Cleansing and image enhancement techniques for scanned document 

• Font text recognition in a scanned document 

• Table identification and extraction from scanned documents 

• Handwriting detection and recognition in documents 

• Signature detection and verification in documents 

• Visual document structure understanding 

• Visual Question Answering 

• Invoice analysis 

• Scanned documents classification 

• Scanned documents summarization 

• Scanned documents translation 

• Graph-based approaches for a spatial component in a scanned document 

• Graph representation learning for NLP

Submission: 

The workshop is open to original papers of theoretical or practical nature. Papers should be formatted according to LNCS instructions for authors. VINALDO 2023 will follow a double-blind review process. Authors should not include their names and affiliations anywhere in the manuscript. Authors should also ensure that their identity is not revealed indirectly by citing their previous work in the third person and omitting acknowledgments until the camera-ready version. Papers have to be submitted via the workshop's EasyChair submission page.

We welcome the following types of contributions:

• Full research papers (12-15 pages): finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Workshop topics

• Short papers (6-8 pages): ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, opened to discussion.

Please include in the paper title "Full paper: Title" or "Short paper: Title" to precise the contribution type. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop, in order to present the paper. For further instructions, please refer to the ICDAR 2023 page.

Important dates: 

• Submission Deadline: May 1, 2023 at 11:59pm Pacific Time

• Decisions Announced: May 28, 2023, at 11:59pm Pacific Time

• Camera Ready Deadline: June 4, 2023, at 11:59pm Pacific Time

• Workshop: To be announced (August 24-26, 2023)

Publication: 

Accepted papers will be published in the ICDAR 2023 proceedings.

Contact:

       Rim Hantach

       Rafika Boutalbi