Best student paper competition:
For the fifth year, the Best Student Paper will be selected among papers whose first authors are full-time students.The following are the competition rules:
- 1. A paper is eligible if the first author is a full-time student (enrolled in Undergraduate, Masters or Ph.D. program) at the time of submission or has completed a graduate program no more than a year before submitting the paper.
- 2. The student must be the first author.
- 3. To be considered in the competition, the author and his/her
advisor (if any) must confirm eligibility for the Award according to
Rules 1-2 by sending an email to:
before
September
17,
2010 September 25, 2010.
- 4. An award committee will be formed using program committee members who do not have students involved and who do not have any other conflict of interest.
- 5. The award committee will select and rank up to three candidate papers from the pool of participating papers based on the review comments of the initial submission and the final full paper.
- 6. The winning paper(s) will be decided by the award committee among selected candidates who present their paper at the conference.
- 7. The Award will be announced and presented at the conference.
- 8. The competition may be canceled if there are fewer than three eligible participating papers.
Past DRR best student paper awards:
DRR 2007:Derek Walvoord (Rochester Institute of Technology), Adding contextual information to improve character recognition on the Archimedes Palimpsest
DRR 2008:
P. Xiu (Lehigh University), Information-theoretic whole-book recognition
Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi (Illinois Institute of Technology) Ensemble LUT classification for degraded document enhancement
DRR 2009:
Sebastian Pena Saldarriaga (Universite de Nantes), On-line handwritten text categorization
DRR 2010:
Chen Huang (Tsinghua University), A word language-model-based contextual language processing on Chinese character recognition
Important dates:
July 7, 2010:
July 19, 2010:
Submission deadline
August 16,
2010:
September 17, 2010:
Official decisions
November 15, 2010:
Final manuscripts due