10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition organised by CVC

The Computer Vision Center located at UAB has organised, from 26 to 29 July, the tenth edition of ICDAR (International Conference on Documentary Analysis and Recognition), the most important biennial conference in the field of analysis and automatic recognition of documents. Over 300 specialists will be participating in this year's edition. The conference will take place at the SERHS Campus Hotel and will include guest speaker Aly Conteh, manager of the mass digitisation programme at the British Library and one of the main experts in the matter.

21/07/2009

The technology for the analysis and automatic recognition of documents allows information to be extracted automatically from any type of document which has been digitally converted with the use of either a scanner or a camera. Its usefulness become obvious in a variety of applications such as in the security and personal identification sector (recognition and authentication of passports, ID cards and other personal documents, validation of signatures, etc.); in the preservation of cultural contents (digitisation and access to the contents of collections belonging to archives, libraries, periodical libraries, etc.); in the management of company files (automatic classification of incoming documents and letters, automatic recognition of specific types of documents: forms, invoices, applications, etc.); or in the leisure and entertainment sector (detection and recognition of texts based on images taken with digital cameras, mobile phones or videos).

The most recent technical advances in this field will be debated in this year's edition of ICDAR, which has been organised by the Document Analysis Group (DAG) of the CVC, in collaboration with AERFAI (Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis).

The conference is structured as a technical programme with seven different topics, three posters and one competition. There will also be four tutorials offered by renowned experts of the field. One of the highlights of the conference will be offered on Monday 27 July at 4:20 pm, with guest speaker Aly Conteh, Digitisation Programme Manager at the British Library, member of the European's Commission Expert Group on Digitisation and Digital Preservation and consultant to UK government departments on digitisation matters. Conteh will be talking about the current project at the British Library, one of the largest in the world in terms of research, to digitise 25 million pages of 19th Century books and 4 million pages of newspapers from the 17th Century.

More information on ICDAR