[image 03052] Call for Participation: ICFHR 2018 (Aug 5-8, Niagara Falls, USA)

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手書き文字認識系の国際会議であるICFHR2018 (Aug.5-8, 2018 @ Niagara Falls) をご案内いたします．
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Call for Participation:  ICFHR 2018   (Aug 5-8, Niagara Falls, USA)
http://icfhr2018.org 

The 16th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2018) 
will be held August 5-8, 2018 in Niagara Falls (USA) at the Niagara Falls Conference & Event Center. 
ICFHR is the flagship conference for handwriting recognition research and applications. 
The conference brings together experts from academia and industry to share their experiences and 
advance research in all aspects of handwriting recognition technologies. 

This promises to be an excellent meeting. We have a strong program that includes state-of-the-art 
work in handwriting recognition techniques and applications, which will take place just a few minutes 
by foot from Niagara Falls. The welcome reception the on August 5th will be held at the 
Top of the Falls restaurant, situated directly beside the falls themselves 
(https://www.niagarafallsstatepark.com/attractions-and-tours/top-of-the-falls).

Sponsors for the conference include MyScript, a world leader in handwriting recognition technologies.

Registration and conference details are provided below. Please share this note with any who might 
be interested!

Registration 

Registration for the conference is now open: http://icfhr2018.org/register.html. There are currently
hotel blocks available, including one for students (http://icfhr2018.org/travel.html).

    June 15   Early Registration 
    July  31   Late Registration

Conference Details

Our keynote speakers are Kevin Knight (https://viterbi.usc.edu/directory/faculty/Knight/Kevin) and 
Gregory R. Crane (http://www.dh.uni-leipzig.de/wo/gregory-crane), leading experts in NLP and the 
Digital Humanities, respectively.

The conference program is now online: http://icfhr2018.org/program.html, including sessions on 
word and graphics spotting/extraction in handwritten documents and videos, document segmentation,
signature/writer verification, and deep learning and data augmentation techniques for handwriting 
recognition tasks.

We will have three interesting tutorials on deep learning, word spotting in document images (esp. historical 
documents) and forensic document examination: http://icfhr2018.org/tutorial-list.html. These tutorials
will take place on August 5th, before the main conference.

Questions

If you have questions regarding registration, please send email to register ＠ icfhr2018.org. For more general
inquiries, please send email to questions ＠ icfhr2018.org.

Thank you very much for your time, and hope to see you in Niagara Falls this August.

Best wishes,

Richard Zanibbi, Venu Govindaraju, and R. Manmatha
(Co-Chairs, ICFHR 2018)


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