*** IEEE ASAR 2017 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***
---  International Workshop on Arabic Script Analysis and Recognition (ASAR 2017)  ---
*** LORIA, Nancy, France  ***
3-5 April 2017

Website: http://asar.ieee.tn/
Registration (deadline 15 March 2017): https://www.regonline.com/asar2017
Non authors students: $220
Non authors professional members: $330

 It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the IEEE International Workshop on Arabic Script Analysis and Recognition (ASAR 2017), which will be hosted by LORIA laboratory (University Lorraine, France), in collaboration with the REGIM-Lab. (University of Sfax, Tunisia), and will be held in Nancy (France) from April 3-5, 2017.
ASAR 2017 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Region 8, IEEE France section, IEEE Tunisia section, and IAPR.

  The IEEE ASAR 2017 workshop provides an excellent opportunity for researchers and practitioners at all levels of experience to meet colleagues and to share new ideas and knowledge about Arabic script document analysis and recognition methods. The workshop enjoys strong participation from researchers in both industry and academia.


PLENARY SPEAKERS: http://asar.ieee.tn/speakers/
Christopher Kermorvant, Founder of Teklia, France
Gernot A. Fink, TU Dortmund University, Germany

Preliminary Program: 

Monday 3 April 2017

• 8am: Registration
• 9am: Opening
• 9:30am: Keynote 1
• 10:30am: Break
• 11:00am: Oral Session 1 : Text Detection and Recognition in Videos and Scenes
• 12:40pm: Lunch
• 2pm: Oral Session 2 : Segmentation
• 3:40pm: Break
• 4:10pm: Oral Session 3: Online handwriting and health services
• 6:00pm: Welcome Reception

Tuesday 4 April 2017

• 9am: Oral Session 4 : Datasets
• 10:20am: Break
• 10:50am: Discussion group and Synthesis
• 12:40pm: Lunch
• 1:45pm: Oral Session 5: Feature-based Recognition
• 3:25pm: Break
• 3:55pm: Oral Session 6: Historical documents
• 7:45: Gala Dinner

Wednesday 5 April 2017

• 9:30am: Keynote
• 10:30am: Break
• 11am: Oral Session 7: Text and Style recognition
• 12:40pm: Lunch
• 1:45pm: Oral Session 8: Neural and Graphical  models
• 3:05pm: Break
• 3:35pm: Awards + Closing