DAS 2018 is the 13th edition of the single-track workshop focusing on system-level issues and approaches in document analysis and recognition. The workshop comprises invited speaker presentations, oral, poster, tutorial sessions as well as working group discussions.

DAS 2018 will be organized at TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology), in the heart of Vienna’s city center, which places the attendees within walking distance of a large variety of world-famous historical and cultural attractions. All submissions will undergo a rigorous review process with a minimum of 3 reviews considering the originality of work, the quality of research or analysis of experience, the relevance to document analysis systems, and quality of presentation.

Submissions:
Full papers: describing complete works of research (up to 6 pages)
Short papers: provide an opportunity to report on research in progress and to present novel positions on document analysis systems (up to 2 pages)
Demonstrations of novel systems, to be presented to the workshop as a whole during breaks between paper sessions (up to 2 pages)

Submission of a paper involves a commitment that, if accepted, one or more authors will attend the workshop.

Topics & Technologies:
Algorithms for graphics recognition
Authoring, annotation, and representation systems
Camera-based document image analysis
Document analysis for
- digital humanities
- libraries and archives
- mobile devices
Document databases and digital libraries
Document image analysis (DIA) systems
Document image watermarking
Document retrieval systems
Document understanding
Forensic document analysis
Historical document analysis
Information extraction from
document images
Multilingual document analysis
Multimedia document analysis
Page layout analysis