16^th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR 2021

September 5-10, 2021, Lausanne, Switzerland

Call for Papers

16^th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR 2021 is the premier international event for scientists and practitioners involved in document analysis and recognition, a field of growing importance in the current age of digital transition. In 2021, the 16th edition of this flagship conference will be held for the first time in Switzerland.

The organizers are committed to holding a safe and secure ICDAR 2021 in the face of the current worldwide health crisis arising from COVID-19. In the event it becomes necessary, ICDAR 2021 will be held with options for remote “virtual” participation. All accepted papers will be published in the ICDAR 2021 proceedings, whether or not the conference takes place physically.

Topics of Interest

• Document image processing
• Physical and logical layout analysis
• Text and symbol recognition
• Handwriting recognition
• Document analysis systems
• Document classification
• Indexing and retrieval of documents
• Document synthesis
• Extracting document semantics
• NLP for document understanding
• Document summarization and translation
• Office automation
• Human document interaction
• Multimedia document analysis
• Mobile text recognition
• Pen‐based document analysis
• Scene text detection and recognition
• Graphics recognition
• Recognition of tables and formulas
• Historical document analysis
• Signature verification
• Document forensics and provenance analysis
• Medical document analysis
• Document analysis for social good
• Document analysis for literature search
• Gold-standard benchmarks and data sets

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