Technical program

Eighth International Workshop on Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition (CBDAR 2019)
Sunday, 22 september 2019
Room: CB11.04.202, University of Technology Sydney(UTS) (More details on ICDAR 2019 website)

08h50 – 09h00Opening [slides]
09h00 – 10h00Keynote1 : Irregular Text Detection and Recognition by Professor Xiang Bai (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) [slides]
10h00 – 10h30Oral session 1

A new iterative cut and adaptive coordinate transform method for fast page outline detection and dewarping (Fengjun Guo, Yadong Li and Pengwei Liu) [slides]

Document Image Retrieval Based on Visual Saliency Maps (Fahimeh Alaei, Alireza Alaei, Umapada Pal and Michael Blumenstein) [slides]
10h30CBDAR 2019 Group photo
10h30 – 11h00Coffee Break
11h00 – 13h00Oral session 2

Summarizing Lecture Videos by Key Handwritten Content Regions (Bhargava Urala Kota, Kenny Davila, Saleem Ahmed, Alexander Stone, Srirangaraj Setlur and Venu Govindaraju)[slides] (CBDAR2019 Best paper (certificate))

Document detection in videos captured by smartphones using a saliency-based method (Minh On Vu Ngoc, Jonathan Fabrizio and Thierry Geraud) [slides]

Character Keypoint-based Homography Estimation in Scanned Documents for Efficient Information Extraction (Kushagra Mahajan, Monika Sharma and Lovekesh Vig) [slides]

Performance Comparison of Scanner and Camera-Acquired Data for Bangla Offline Handwriting Recognition (Nishatul Majid and Elisa H. Barney Smith)

OctShuffleMLT: A Compact Octave Based Neural Network for End-to-End Multilingual Text Detection and Recognition (Antonio Lundgren, Dayvid Castro, Estanislau Lima and Byron Bezerra) [slides]

Text-based Image Style Transfer and Synthesis (Yifan He, Jian Li and Anna Zhu) [slides]
13h00 – 14h00Lunch Break
14h00 – 14h30Oral session 3

FaSTExt: Fast and Small Text Extractor (Alexander Filonenko, Konstantin Gudkov, Aleksei Lebedev, Nikita Orlov and Ivan Zagaynov) [slides]

Face Detection in Camera Captured Images of Identity Documents under Challenging Conditions (Souhail Bakkali, Zuheng Ming, Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman and Jean-Christophe Burie) [slides]
14h30 – 15h30Keynote2: Beyond Text Detection and Recognition: Emerging Opportunities in Scene Understanding by Professor C. V. Jawahar (International Institute of Information Technology, India)
15h30 – 15h45Coffee break
15h45 – 17h45Special session on ICDAR2019 Robust Reading Challenges (RRC)
RRC on Reading Chinese Text on Signboard [slides-1] [slides-2]
RRC on Scanned Receipts OCR and Information Extraction [slides-1] [slides-2]
RRC on Arbitrary-Shaped Text
RRC on Large-scale Street View Text with Partial Labeling
RRC on Multi-lingual scene text detection and recognition [slides-1] [slides-2]
RRC on Scene Text Visual Question Answering [slides-1] [slides-2]
17h45 – 17h50Best paper award
Closing [slides]