Invitation to IWFHR-9

You are cordially invited to submit a paper to the 9th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR-9), which will take place on October 26-29, 2004 at Hitachi Central Research Laboratory (HCRL), Kokubunji, Tokyo, Japan. The IWFHR series of workshops provides a forum for researchers and engineers in the areas of online and offline recognition of handwriting for the processing of handwritten documents and forms in all languages, and pen-based interface for mobile devices and other information systems. The workshop is the ninth of this series, and the technical sessions will be extended to 3.5 days for the first time. The program committee invites the submission of original papers for inclusion in the workshop. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, and the authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work in the form of oral presentations or posters. All papers and presentations will be in English.

Topics of Interest:

  • Online and offline handwriting recognition
  • Preprocessing and segmentation
  • Feature extraction such as Gabor filter, wavelet transformation, etc.
  • Information integration
  • Linguistic post-processing
  • Performance evaluation
  • Classifier combination
  • Asian character recognition
  • Writer identification and signature verification
  • Handwritten diagram recognition
  • Handwritten mathematical equation recognition
  • Image search and retrieval algorithms
  • Theoretical approaches including cognitive aspects and motor aspects
  • Application systems such as e-Learning, e-Government, digital archives, and entertainment applications
  • Digital pen and its applications
  • Mobile device applications
  • User interface issues
  • Standardization issues

Features of the workshop:

The organizing committee is happy to announce that the workshop will feature the follwoing:
  • Technical tours supported by Japanese industrial companies, such as Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, and Toshiba
  • Panel discussion participated by specialists at postal services of five different countries (Canada, Germany, Japan, UK and USA)
  • Tutorial sponsored by Microsoft.
  • A-half-day excursion for a Hakone area using a chartered bus.

If you are interested in joining these featuring events, you need to make reservations when you make a registration. The available seats are limited, and it is reserved on the first-come-first-serve basis.