September 17, 2011

In conjunction with ICDAR 2011

Beijing Friendship Hotel - Beijing, China

The organizers of AND 2011 and MOCR 2011 have decided to merge the two workshops for this year. The combined event, which will still take place just before ICDAR on Sept. 17, will be called the "Joint Workshop on Multilingual OCR and Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data" (J-MOCR-AND). The two topics are naturally related and we look forward to an exciting exchange of new work and research ideas.

Invited talk: "Multilingual and Noisy Data Challenges in Large-Scale Book Scanning" Ashok C. Popat

Workshop presentations (where available)

Online proceedings in ACM Digital Library.

Best Student Paper Awards

For the AND category:
* "Experiments with artificially generated noise for cleansing noisy text"
by Phani Gadde, Rahul Goutam, Rakshit Shah, Hemanth Bayyarapu and L. Venkata Subramaniam
Student authors: Phani Gadde, Rahul Goutam, Rakshit Shah, Hemanth Bayyarapu

For the MOCR category:
* "Lampung - a new handwritten character benchmark: Database, Labeling and Recognition"
by Akmal Junaidi, Szilard Vajda and Gernot A. Fink
Student author: Akmal Junaidi