Special Track/Session for Africa / the Middle East and the Francophone States

Special track/session for Africa / the Middle East and the Francophone States

Call for Papers on ICCMIT2018

“Document Analysis and Recognition (DAR)”

Organized by:

1. Pr. Monji KHERALLAH, (Chair)

Faculty of Sciences, University of Sfax, Tunisia

2. Pr. Abdessamad MALAOUI, (Co-Chair)

Sultan Moulay Slimane University,Beni Mellal, Morocco

3. Pr. Najiba DAGOUGUI, (Co-Chair)

Elmanar University, Tunisia

Objectives and Motivation

Document Analysis and Recognition Group (DARG) is a group whose goal is to unify the community including academic and industrial working groups on the handwritten script and the document analysis. Many fields are topic of interest such as historical image and document analysis; signal processing, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, and information retrieval. The objectives of this special session are to bring together the Arabic researchers in automatic processing of the Arabic language domain and industry experts and to establish relations of co-operation and research in this field, to expose and to exchange ideas around the themes of the Arabic handwritten document.

Scope and Interests

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

· Character Recognition

· Handwriting Recognition

· Graphics Recognition

· Document Image Analysis

· Document Understanding

· Document Analysis Systems

· Basic Research and Methodologies for Document Processing

· Camera-based Document Processing

· Document Databases and Digital Libraries

· Multimedia Documents

· Sketching Interfaces

· Performance Evaluation

· Forensic Science

· Analysis of Historical Documents

· Applications

Scientific Committee:

1. Pr. Monji Kherallah. Sfax University, Tunisia

2. Pr. Najiba Dagougui. Elmanar University, Tunisia

3. Pr. Mohamed Adel Alimi. Sfax University, Tunisia

4. Pr. Najoua Ben Amara. Sousse University, Tunisia

5. Pr. Mohamed Ali Mahjoub. Sousse University, Tunisia

6. Pr. Sami Gazzeh. Sousse University, Tunisia

7. Pr. Mohamed Ben Ammar. Northern Borders University, Rafha Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

8. Pr. Abdessamad Malaoui. Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal, Morocco

9. Pr. Belaid Bouikhalene. Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal, Morocco

10. Pr. Mohamed Eleuch. Manouba University, Tunisia

11. Pr. Anis Mezgani. Sfax University, Tunisia

12. Pr. Faten Kallel. Sfax University, Tunisia

13. Pr. Rania Maalej. Sfax University, Tunisia

14. Pr. Ansar Heni. Sfax University, Tunisia

15. Pr. Ramzi Zouari. Sousse University, Tunisia

Paper Submission:

The submissiveness of the communication propositions: Will make itself under electronic format via E – mail . Three evaluators, members of the scientific committee, will value every proposition.

All instructions and templates for submission can be found in the ICCMIT2018 website:

http://www.iccmit.net/. The accepted papers will be published by IEEE and it will appear on IEEE-Explore. Also, the best articles will be invited to be published again after expansion as book chapter in IGI Book as well as Journal of Information Retrieval "ACM Index journal".

Important Dates:

Authors are requested to consider the following conference important dates and deadlines.

Full paper submitted for revision in electronic form / Feb. 01, 2018
Notification of acceptance / Feb. 15, 2018
Conference registration / Feb. 15, 2018
Final paper submission and author's camera ready paper / March 2, 2018
Conference Dates / April 2 - 4, 2018

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