The ASAR2021 Organizing Committee invites proposals for Competitions that aim at evaluating the performance of algorithms and methods related to areas of Arabic and derived Script Analysis and Recognition.

 

You are cordially invited to submit a proposal, that should contain the following information:

 

• A brief description of the competition (not more than 1 page), including what the particular task under evaluation is and why this competition is of interest to the ASAR community.

• A draft of the outline of the competition describing competition schedule, the expected number of participants and its rationale, which data is planned to be used, how will the submitted methods be evaluated and which performance measures will be used.

• The names, contact information, and brief CVs of the competition organizers, outlining previous experience in performance evaluation and/or organizing competitions.

 

The following rules shall apply to the accepted competition:

 

• The name of the competition must be standardized by starting with “ASAR 2021” e.g. “ASAR 2021 Competition on …” or “ASAR 2021 … Competition.” 

• Datasets used in the competitions must be available on <IEEE DataPort>.

• Evaluation methodologies and metrics used must be described in detail so that results can be replicated later.

• Participants should not have access to the ground-truthed dataset until the end of the competition, the evaluation should be done by the organizers. 

• The basic length of reports of the competitions is the same as for the regular paper (i.e., 12-15 pages).

• The results of competitions will be announced during a dedicated session of the ASAR 2021 workshop.

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Submission Guidelines & Inquiries

 

All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail via: 4th.asar.2021@gmail.com

For any inquiries you may have regarding the competitions, please contact us via above email.

Important Dates

 

 

• March 31st, 2021: Competition Proposal Due

 

• April 2nd, 2021: Competition Acceptance Notification
   

• May 31st, 2021: Suggested deadline for competition participants
   

• July 1st, 2021: Initial Submission of Competition Reports Deadline
  (Papers must be sent directly to 4th.asar.2021@gmail.com)