<div dir="ltr"><h3 id="gmail-m_-6432543659395250620gmail-m_-4956397321580956980gmail-m_-6268928288900069260gmail-m_7098844512203966228gmail-m_-309237671986272500gmail-m_-1139504297638254686gmail-m_-5914441601677045308gmail-m_5877459378229919277gmail-m_-1693841208724688500gmail-m_2522473243972615881gmail-m_4548988265741471820gmail-m_3810846511310631558gmail-m_9169621892487355688gmail-m_-7908633166678884986gmail-m_4229733924575016551gmail-m_5146125080209370541gmail-m_1041739996496270710gmail-m_3853711880378550031gmail-m_5590849052228746836gmail-h.f1wop99o5jqr" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:18px 0px 0px;outline:none;font-weight:300;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.27;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;white-space:normal">Dear colleagues and researchers,</span><b><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;text-align:center;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;text-align:center;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><font size="4">            1st <span style="text-decoration-line:inherit">International workshop on Graph Representation Learning </span></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="text-decoration-line:inherit"><b><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><font size="4">             for Scanned Document Analysis (GLESDO)</font></span></b></span><span style="font-size:12pt"><b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;text-align:center;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(192,0,0)"> </span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;text-align:center;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(192,0,0)"><a href="https://www.glesdo-icdar2021.ml/" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://www.glesdo-icdar2021.ml</a></span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;text-align:center;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><font color="#ff0000">Deadline extension: May 15, 2021</font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="color:black"><span style="font-size:12pt">              </span><font size="4">    </font></span></b><font size="4"><span style="color:black;text-decoration-line:inherit">As part of The 16th </span><span style="color:black;text-decoration-line:inherit">International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition </span><span style="color:black;font-variant-ligatures:none;text-decoration-line:inherit">(ICDAR 2021)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color:black"> </span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;text-align:center;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="text-decoration-line:underline"><b><span style="color:black"><a href="https://icdar2021.org/" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://icdar2021.org/</a></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;text-align:center;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;text-indent:0cm;white-space:normal;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;text-align:center;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">September 5-10, 2021, Lausanne, Switzerland</span></p></span></span></div></h3><h3 id="gmail-m_-6432543659395250620gmail-m_-4956397321580956980gmail-m_-6268928288900069260gmail-m_7098844512203966228gmail-m_-309237671986272500gmail-m_-1139504297638254686gmail-m_-5914441601677045308gmail-m_5877459378229919277gmail-m_-1693841208724688500gmail-m_2522473243972615881gmail-m_4548988265741471820gmail-m_3810846511310631558gmail-m_9169621892487355688gmail-m_-7908633166678884986gmail-m_4229733924575016551gmail-m_5146125080209370541gmail-m_1041739996496270710gmail-m_3853711880378550031gmail-m_5590849052228746836gmail-h.f1wop99o5jqr" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:18px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-weight:300;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.27;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box"><font size="4">Context</font></span></span></div></h3><p id="gmail-m_-6432543659395250620gmail-m_-4956397321580956980gmail-m_-6268928288900069260gmail-m_7098844512203966228gmail-m_-309237671986272500gmail-m_-1139504297638254686gmail-m_-5914441601677045308gmail-m_5877459378229919277gmail-m_-1693841208724688500gmail-m_2522473243972615881gmail-m_4548988265741471820gmail-m_3810846511310631558gmail-m_9169621892487355688gmail-m_-7908633166678884986gmail-m_4229733924575016551gmail-m_5146125080209370541gmail-m_1041739996496270710gmail-m_3853711880378550031gmail-m_5590849052228746836gmail-h.jxka8zxzi2q9" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:14px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;padding-left:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">Robust reading, also known as automatic document image processing, is an essential task in various application areas such as data invoice extraction, subject review, medical prescription analysis, etc., and holds significant commercial potential. Several approaches are proposed in the literature, but datasets' availability and data privacy challenge it.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:14px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;padding-left:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">Considering the problem of information extraction from documents, different aspects must be taken into account, such as (1) document classification (2) text localization (3) OCR (Optical Character Recognition) (4) table extraction (5) key information detection. In this context, the graph-based approaches are attractive methods for document processing. In fact, graphs are a natural way to represent the connections among objects (text, blocks, images, etc.) and aim to discover novel and hidden knowledge from data. The extracted text from scanned documents can be represented in the shape of a graph to exploit the best features of their characteristics. On the other hand, understanding spatial relationships is critical for text document extraction results for some applications such as invoice analysis. The aim is to capture the structural connections between keywords (invoice number, date, amounts) and the main value (the desired information). An effective approach requires a combination of spatial and textual information.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:14px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;padding-left:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b>Objective</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:14px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;padding-left:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">This workshop aims to bring together an area for experts from industry, science, and academia to exchange ideas and discuss ongoing research in graph representation learning for scanned document analysis.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:14px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;padding-left:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b>Topics of interests</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:14px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;padding-left:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b><br></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;padding-top:0px">We invite the submission of original works that are related -- but are not limited to -- the topics below:</p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:1pt 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Deep learning for graph </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:2pt 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Probabilistic graphical models for graphs </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:1pt 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Graph-based approaches for text mining </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:1pt 76pt 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.36371;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Graph-based approaches for a spatial component in a scanned document </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:1pt 76pt 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.36371;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Graph representation learning for NLP</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Graph-based approaches using kernels </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:2pt 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Spectral graph clustering </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:1pt 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Semi-supervised graph-based methods </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:2pt 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Dynamic graph analysis </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:1pt 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Information Retrieval and Extraction using Graph-based methods </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:1pt 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Knowledge graph for semantic document analysis </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:2pt 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Semantic understanding of document content </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:1pt 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Entity and link prediction in graphs </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:2pt 75pt 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.29553;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Merging ontologies with graph-based methods using NLP techniques </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:2pt 75pt 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.29553;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Cleansing and image enhancement techniques for scanned document </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:2pt 75pt 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.29553;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Document structure and layout learning </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:1pt 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● OCR based graph methods </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:1pt 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Font text recognition in a scanned document </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:2pt 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Table identification and extraction from scanned documents </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:1pt 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Handwriting detection and recognition in documents </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:1pt 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Signature detection and verification in documents </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:2pt 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Visual document structure understanding </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:1pt 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Visual Question Answering </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:2pt 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Invoice analysis </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:1pt 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Scanned documents classification </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:1pt 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">● Scanned documents summarization </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:1pt 0px 0px 19pt;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit">● Scanned documents translation </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:11pt 0px 0px;outline:none;font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b><font color="#000000">Submission</font></b><font color="#212121"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:11pt 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:Roboto;text-align:justify;white-space:normal">The workshop is open to original papers of theoretical or practical nature. Papers should be formatted </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;text-align:justify;white-space:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;vertical-align:baseline">according to </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;text-align:justify;white-space:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Ffr%2Fcomputer-science%2Flncs%2Fconference-proceedings-guidelines&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGhadQkou1B6uTwaCrX2p9HjIC9Iw" target="_blank" style="color:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none">LNCS instructions for authors</a></span><span style="font-family:Roboto;text-align:justify;white-space:normal">. </span><span style="box-sizing:border-b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le="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop, in order to present the paper</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial">. </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">For further instructions please refer to the<a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Ficdar2021.org%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNH7XM46MS3RAIWrZPxhn4Kc5onLjw" target="_blank" style="color:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none"> </a></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Ficdar2021.org%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNH7XM46MS3RAIWrZPxhn4Kc5onLjw" target="_blank" style="color:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none">ICDAR</a></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Ficdar2021.org%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNH7XM46MS3RAIWrZPxhn4Kc5onLjw" target="_blank" style="color:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none"> 2021</a></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline"> page.</span></p><p style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:11pt 0px 0px;outline:none;font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b><font color="#000000">Important dates</font></b><font color="#212121"><br></font></span></p><p style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:11pt 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p><ul style="list-style-type:square;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:6px 0px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap"><li dir="ltr" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 15pt;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;padding-top:0px"><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;outline:none;font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;line-height:1.55;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><span style="font-weight:inherit">Workshop paper submission due: </span><b><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;vertical-align:baseline">May</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;vertical-align:baseline"> 15</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;vertical-align:baseline">, 2021</span></b></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px 0px 15pt;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55"><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;outline:none;font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;line-height:1.55;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">Workshop paper notifications: <span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;vertical-align:baseline">June 21, 2021</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px 0px 15pt;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55"><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;outline:none;font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;line-height:1.55;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">Workshop paper camera-ready versions due: <span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;vertical-align:baseline">July 05, 2021</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px 0px 15pt;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;padding-bottom:0px"><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;outline:none;font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;line-height:1.55;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">Workshop: September 05, 2021 (Half-Day)</p></li></ul><h3 id="gmail-m_-6432543659395250620gmail-m_-4956397321580956980gmail-m_-6268928288900069260gmail-m_7098844512203966228gmail-m_-309237671986272500gmail-m_-1139504297638254686gmail-m_-5914441601677045308gmail-m_5877459378229919277gmail-m_-1693841208724688500gmail-m_2522473243972615881gmail-m_4548988265741471820gmail-m_3810846511310631558gmail-m_9169621892487355688gmail-m_-7908633166678884986gmail-m_4229733924575016551gmail-m_5146125080209370541gmail-m_1041739996496270710gmail-m_3853711880378550031gmail-m_5590849052228746836gmail-h.at4f69o678dt" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:18px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-weight:300;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.27;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box"><font size="4">Publication</font></span></span></div></h3><p dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:11pt 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;white-space:pre-wrap;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:14px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;padding-bottom:0px;white-space:pre-wrap">Accepted papers will be published <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">in the ICDAR 2021 proceeding.</span></p><h3 id="gmail-m_-6432543659395250620gmail-m_-4956397321580956980gmail-m_-6268928288900069260gmail-m_7098844512203966228gmail-m_-309237671986272500gmail-m_-1139504297638254686gmail-m_-5914441601677045308gmail-m_5877459378229919277gmail-m_-1693841208724688500gmail-m_2522473243972615881gmail-m_4548988265741471820gmail-m_3810846511310631558gmail-m_9169621892487355688gmail-m_-7908633166678884986gmail-m_4229733924575016551gmail-m_5146125080209370541gmail-m_1041739996496270710gmail-m_3853711880378550031gmail-m_5590849052228746836gmail-h.px6khf2olkac" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:16pt;font-weight:300;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.27;padding-top:0px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box"><br></span></span></div></h3><h3 id="gmail-m_-6432543659395250620gmail-m_-4956397321580956980gmail-m_-6268928288900069260gmail-m_7098844512203966228gmail-m_-309237671986272500gmail-m_-1139504297638254686gmail-m_-5914441601677045308gmail-m_5877459378229919277gmail-m_-1693841208724688500gmail-m_2522473243972615881gmail-m_4548988265741471820gmail-m_3810846511310631558gmail-m_9169621892487355688gmail-m_-7908633166678884986gmail-m_4229733924575016551gmail-m_5146125080209370541gmail-m_1041739996496270710gmail-m_3853711880378550031gmail-m_5590849052228746836gmail-h.px6khf2olkac" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-weight:300;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.27;padding-top:0px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box"><font size="4">Workshop Chairs</font></span></span></div></h3><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:14px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box">  Rim Hantach</span></span>, Engie, France</p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:14px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;white-space:pre-wrap">  <span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box">Rafika Boutalbi</span></span>, Trinov, France - University of Stuttgart, Germany</p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:14px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;white-space:pre-wrap">  <span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box">Philippe Calvez</span></span>, Engie, France</p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:14px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;white-space:pre-wrap">  <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box">Balsam Ajib</span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">, T</span>rinov, France</p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:14px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;padding-bottom:0px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:14px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;white-space:pre-wrap">  <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box">Thibault Defourneau</span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:13pt;vertical-align:baseline">, Trinov, France</span></p></div>