The pervasiveness and widespread availability of camera phones, hand-held digital still/video cameras and more recently wearable cameras have led the community to recognize camera captured images as a promising and growing field of research for document analysis and recognition. Document digitization techniques are gradually getting closer to camera based solutions, offering certain advantages (e.g. for scanning large scale or fragile documents), and presenting interesting new challenges and open problems which cannot be directly resolved by traditional techniques.

Building on the success of the previous six CBDAR workshops in 2005 (Seoul, Korea), 2007 (Curitiba, Brazil), 2009 (Barcelona, Spain), 2011 (Beijing, China), 2013 (Washington DC, USA), and 2015 (Nancy, France), CBDAR 2017 will be held in Kyoto, Japan in conjunction with ICDAR 2017. The aim of the workshop is to provide a natural link between document image analysis and the wider computer vision community by attracting cutting edge research on the topic.


Topics of Interest:

Camera based acquisition of written information
Restoration of camera captured documents (dewarping, deblurring, etc.)
Camera-based document analysis and recognition
Document image quality assessment / estimation
Image degradation models for camera captured characters/documents
Text extraction from scene images
Text in video
Document image retrieval
Device constrained techniques and algorithms
Performance evaluation and metrics
Mobile OCR
Smartphone-based document scanning
Applications
Feature extraction in camera capture situations


Workshop Chairs:

Lluis Gomez-Bigorda (Computer Vision Centre, Spain)
Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman (L3i Laboratory, University of La Rochelle, France)
Dimosthenis Karatzas (Computer Vision Centre, Spain)


Programme Committee:

Xiang Bai, (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Michael Blumenstein, (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Syed Saqib Bukhari, (DFKI, Germany)
Joseph Chazalon, (L3i Laboratory, University of La Rochelle, France)
Mickaël Coustaty, (L3i Laboratory, University of La Rochelle, France)
Basilis Gatos, (NCSR Demokritos, Greece)
Petra Gomez-Krämer, (L3i Laboratory, University of La Rochelle, France)
Masakazu Iwamura, (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
C.V. Jawahar, (International Institute of Information Technology, India)
Cheng-Lin Liu, (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Gaofeng Meng, (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Nibal Nayef, (L3i Laboratory, University of La Rochelle, France)
Lukas Neumann, (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)
Umapada Pal, (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
Marçal Rusinyol, (Computer Vision Centre, Spain)
Jun Sun, (Fujitsu R&D Center, China)
Ernest Valveny, (Computer Vision Centre, Spain)
Jerod Weinman, (Grinnell College, USA)
Cong Yao, (Megvii Technology Inc., China)
Anna Zhu, (Wuhan University of Technology, China)