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Pattern Recognition Letters
is seeking original and unpublished manuscripts for a Special Issue on Frontiers in Handwriting Processing, scheduled for publication in 2012.
Pattern
Recognition Letters (http://ees.elsevier.com/patrec/) is an
official publication of the International Association for Pattern
Recognition. The goal of this Special Issue is to bring the cutting
edge research work being conducted in the area of computer processing
of human handwriting.
We invite original
contributions that provide novel solutions to challenging problems.
Submitted papers can address theoretical or practical aspects of
progress and directions in handwriting processing research. During the
past years there have been significant progress in a number of areas of
handwriting processing. Contributions of survey articles by leading
researchers are also welcome.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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 Handwriting Recognition Techniques
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Preprocessing and Segmentation Techniques
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Multiple
Sources and Multiple Experts
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Innovative
Approaches in Handwriting Recognition
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Soft
Computing for Handwriting Processing and Understanding
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Systems and
Architectures
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Metrics,
Protocols and Performance Evaluation
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Error
Reduction and Performance Enhancement
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Writer
Verification and Identification
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Motor Models
for Writing and Drawing
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Human
Reading Models and Psychological Aspects
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Document and
Image Retrieval Techniques
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Handwritten
Annotations in Documents
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Forensic
Studies and Security Issues
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Multimedia
Systems
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Color
Information Utilization
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WWW
Applications
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PDA, Smart
Pen, Smart Whiteboard and Remote Applications
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Cognitive
Studies of Handwriting
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Handwritten
CAPTCHA and other handwriting based security systems
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Submission of
manuscripts:
Authors are encouraged to submit their papers electronically by using
online manuscript submission at: http://ees.elsevier.com/patrec/
To ensure
that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the
special issue, it is important that authors select the acronym
"Special Issue: FHP" of this special issue when they reach the "Article
Type" step in the submission process.
All papers will be rigorously refereed and will
undergo a very competitive selection process. The length of your
manuscript should not exceed 7000 words, plus the necessary figures and
tables. Papers already submitted or presented in a Conference may be
submitted for this Special Issue provided the authors have obtained
significant new results or developed significant new methods over and
above what was already submitted or presented at a Conference.
Submission period:
The Elsevier Editorial
System (http://ees.elsevier.com/patrec/)
will be set in due time to allow authors to upload their contributions
to the special issue in the period October 1, 2011 October 30, 2011.
Important dates:
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Manuscript submission deadline:
First notification:
Revised manuscript submission:
Notification
of final decision:
Publication
of special issue:
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October 30, 2011
January 31, 2012 *
March 31, 2012 *
November 30, 2012 *
2013 *
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* tentative dates
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Guest Editors:
B. B. Chaudhuri
Indian
Statistical Institute
Kolkata, India
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M. Shridhar
University
of Michigan
Dearborn, Michigan, USA
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F. Kimura
Mie
University
Japan
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J. H. Kim
KAIST
South Korea
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E. Anquetil
IRISA
France
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U. Bhattacharya
Indian
Statistical Institute
Kolkata, India
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Please download FHP Special Issue Call for Papers:
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