[image 01922] Re: CFP of the First International Workshop on coMics ANalysis, Processing and Understanding (MANPU2016)

[Motoi Iwata]

image-MLの皆様，Document-MLの皆様

大阪府立大学の岩田です．

国際会議ICPR2016にて開催される，
  The First International Workshop on coMics ANalysis, Processing and Understanding (MANPU2016)
という併設ワークショップの続報です．

MANPU2016の名にふさわしく，漫画を題材としたCFPを新たにWebサイトに掲載しましたので，是非ご覧ください．
http://manpu2016.imlab.jp/

また，ICPR2016の early-bird registration 締切が1週間延びたのに伴い，
論文の投稿締切も，以下の通り 8月17日に延ばしました．

Important dates (updated on July 14, 2016)
-------------------
Paper submission deadline:       August 17, 2016
Notification of acceptance:      September 8, 2016
End of early-bird registration:  September 12, 2016
Workshop day:                    December 4, 2016
-------------------

漫画を対象とした研究を幅広く応募していますので，
これを機に投稿をご検討いただければ幸いです．


On 2016/06/30 21:48, Motoi Iwata wrote:
> image-MLの皆様，Document-MLの皆様
>
> 大阪府立大学の岩田です．
>
> 国際会議ICPR2016にて開催される，
>  The First International Workshop on coMics ANalysis, Processing and Understanding (MANPU2016)
> という併設ワークショップのご案内です．
>
> 漫画を対象とした研究を，幅広く応募しています．
>
> 論文の投稿締切は，8月10日です．
> ワークショップの開催日は，12月4日（ICPR2016本会議の前日）です．
>
> 投稿をご検討いただければ幸いです．
>
>
> =======  CFP – ICPR WS 1st International Workshop on coMics ANalysis, Processing and Understanding =======
>
>                                    Call for papers
>
>                         The First International Workshop on
>                    coMics ANalysis, Processing and Understanding
>                           (in conjunction with ICPR 2016)
>               December 4, 2016,  Cancun Center, Cancun, Q.Roo, Mexico
>
>                              http://manpu2016.imlab.jp
>
>
> Comics is a medium constituted of images combined with text and other visual information
> in order to narrate a story. Nowadays, comic books are a widespread cultural expression
> all over the world. The market of comics continues to grow, for example, the market in Japan
> is about 4.25 billion USD in 2015. Moreover, from the research point of view, comics images
> are attractive targets because the structure of a comics page includes various elements
> (such as panels, speech balloons, captions, leading characters, and so on), the drawing of
> which depends on the style of the author and presents a large variability.
> Therefore, comics image analysis is not a trivial problem and is still immature compared
> with other kinds of image analysis.
>
>
> Scope and Topics
> -------------------
> The scope of this workshop includes, but is not limited to,
> - Comics Image Processing
> - Comics Analysis and Understanding
> - Comics Recognition
> - Comics Retrieval and Spotting
> - Comics Enrichment
> - Reading Behavior Analysis
> - Comics Generation
> - Copy protection – Fraud detection
> - Physical/digital comics interfaces
>
>
> Important dates
> -------------------
> Paper submission deadline:       August 10, 2016
> Notification of acceptance:      September 1, 2016
> End of early-bird registration:  September 5, 2016
> Workshop day:                    December 4, 2016
>
>
> Datasets
> -------------------
> To evaluate the proposed works, participants will be able to use the following datasets
> that are publicly available. Researchers can request to download them at each website.
> - eBDtheque consists of 100 images with ground truth for panels, speech balloons, tails, text lines, leading characters.
>    http://ebdtheque.univ-lr.fr/
> - Manga109 consists of over 20 thousand images of 109 volumes (21,142 images).
>    http://www.manga109.org/index_en.php
>
>
> Paper Submissions
> -------------------
> The proceedings of MANPU2016 will be published in the ACM Digital Library within its
> International Conference Proceedings Series. Manuscripts should be formatted using
> the ACM proceedings templates(http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html/).
> The manuscript length is 6 pages maximum. Only PDF files are accepted. MANPU2016 follows
> a single-blind review process. Authors are required to include their names and affiliations
> in their papers. Dual submission or concurrent submission to the MANPU2016 workshop
> and other conference or journal are not allowed.
>
> Submission web site
> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=manpu2016
>
>
> General Co-Chairs
> -------------------
> Kiyoharu Aizawa          (Japan)
> Koichi Kise              (Japan)
> Jean-Marc Ogier          (France)
>
>
> Program Co-Chairs
> -------------------
> Jean-Christophe Burie    (France)
> Motoi Iwata              (Japan)
> Toshihiko Yamasaki       (Japan)
>
>
> Program Committee
> -------------------
> Ying Cao                 (Hong Kong)
> Wei-Ta Chu               (Taiwan)
> Mathieu Delalandre       (France)
> Clément Guérin           (France)
> Seiji Hotta              (Japan)
> Dimosthenis Karatzas     (Spain)
> Johannes Kopf            (USA)
> Rynson W. H. Lau         (Hong Kong)
> Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman (France)
> Yusuke Matsui            (Japan)
> Mitsunori Matsushita     (Japan)
> Naoki Mori               (Japan)
> Satoshi Nakamura         (Japan)
> Srikanta Pal             (France)
> Christophe Rigaud        (France)
> Akihiko Shirai           (Japan)
> Takaaki Shiratori        (USA)
> Wong Tien-Tsin           (Hong Kong)
>
>
> Workshop Secretariat
> manpu2016-inquiry ＠ m.cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp
>
> -----
> Endorsed by the IAPR
>

-- 
Motoi IWATA, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Intelligent Media Processing Group
Graduate School of Engineering
Osaka Prefecture University
Sakai, Osaka, Japan
+81 72 254 9281
E-mail: iwata ＠ cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp