11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
From the website:
We are pleased to announce that the Eleventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2011), sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) TC-10 (Graphics Recognition) and TC-11 (Reading Systems), will be held at BEIJING FRIENDSHIP HOTEL, Beijing, China during September 18-21, 2011.
ICDAR 2011 is organized by the Center for Intelligent Image and Document Information Processing (CIDIP) of Tsinghua University, the Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) and the Chinese Association of Automation(CAA). The CIDIP group has long devoted to research and development in the fields of document analysis, face recognition and biometric technology. CASIA is one of the earliest institutions in China involving pattern recognition and document analysis research.
ICDAR is an outstanding international forum for researchers and practitioners at all levels of experience for identifying, encouraging and exchanging ideas on the state-of-the-art in document analysis, understanding, retrieval, and performance evaluation, including various forms of multimedia documents. ICDAR 2011 will be the 11th Conference in the series. The previous ones of this series were ICDAR’91 in Saint Malo (France), ICDAR’93 in Tsukuba (Japan), ICDAR’95 in Montreal (Canada), ICDAR’97 in Ulm (Germany), ICDAR’99 in Bangalore (India), ICDAR’01 in Seattle (USA), ICDAR’03 in Edinburgh (Scotland), ICDAR’05 in Seoul (Korea), ICDAR’07 in Curitiba (Brazil), and ICDAR’09 in Barcelona (Spain).
Since topic maps grew out of document analysis/indexing, I don’t suppose document analysis conferences are too far afield. 😉