Organizing Committee
Honorary Chair
George Nagy
RPI, USA
General Chair
David Doermann
University of Maryland, USA
Executive Co-Chairs
Venu Govindaraju
University at Buffalo, USA
Daniel Lopresti
Lehigh University, USA
Prem Natarajan
Information about and Sciences Institute,
University of Southern California, USA
Program Committee Chairs
Elisa Barney Smith
Boise State University, USA
Abdel Belaid
LORIA, France
Koichi Kise
Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Workshops Chair
Apostolos Antonacopoulos
University of Salford, UK
Tutorial Chair
Simone Marinai
University of Florence, Italy
Competitions Chairs
Volker Märgner
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Haikal El Abed
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Publications Chair
Srirangaraj (Ranga) Setlur
University at Buffalo, USA
Sponsorship Chair
Andreas Dengel
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, DFKI, Germany
Publicity Chairs
Wael Abd-Almageed
University of Maryland, USA
Srirangaraj (Ranga) Setlur
University at Buffalo, USA
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
Marcus Liwicki
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, DFKI, Germany
Josep LLadós
Centre de Visió per Computador, Barcelona, Spain
Technical Chair
Ed Sobczak
University at Buffalo, USA
Secretariat
Laura Stephens
Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA
Eugenia Smith
University at Buffalo, USA
Program Committee
Alimi Adel (Tunisia)Anquetil Eric (France)
Antonacopoulos Apostolos (UK)
Aouada Djamila (Luxembourg)
Artières Thierry (France)
Barrat Sabine (France)
Ben-Amara Najoua (Tunisia)
Blostein Dorothea (Canada)
Breuel Thomas (Germany)
Bui Tien D. (Canada)
Chaudhuri Bidyut B. (India)
Cheriet Mohamed (Canada)
Cordella Luigi Pietro (Italy)
Coüasnon Bertrand (France)
Dengel Andreas (Germany)
Dimosthenis Karatzas (Spain)
Eglin Véronique (France)
El Abed Haikal (Germany)
Fink Gernot (Germany)
Garain Utpal (India)
Gatos Basilis (Greece)
Hennebert Jean (Switzerland)
Heutte Laurent (France)
Impedovo Sebastiano (Italy)
Iwamura Masakazu (Japan)
Jawahar C.V. (India)
Kacem Afef (Tunisia)
Kavallieratou Ergina (Greece)
KC Santosh (France)
Kimura Fumitaka (Japan)
Koerich Ale (Brazil)
Krzyzak Adam (Canada)
Kwon Young-Bin (Korea)
Lamiroy Bart (France)
Likforman-Sulem Laurence (France)
Lins Raphael (Brazil)
Liu Cheng-Lin (China)
Liwicki Marcus (Germany)
Llados Josep (Spain)
Lu Yue (China)
Madhvanath Sriganesh (India)
Mahjoub Mohamed Ali (Tunisia)
Mammass Driss (Marroco)
Manmatha Raghavan (US)
Marcelli Angelo (Italy)
Margner Volker (Germany)
Murase Hiroshi (Japan)
Nakagawa Masaki (Japan)
Nishida Hirobumi (Japan)
Ogier Jean Marc (France)
Oh Il-Seok (Korea)
Ohyama Wataru (Japan)
Oliveira Luiz Eduardo S. (Brazil)
Omachi Shinichiro (Japan)
Ortega-Garcia Javier (Spain)
Pal Umapada (India)
Palaiahnakote Shivakumara (Singapore)
Park Jaehwa (Korea)
Plamondon Réjean (Canada)
Poulain D'Andecy Vincent (France)
Pratikakis Ioannis (Greece)
Prevost Lionel (France)
Qiang Huo (China)
Ramel Jean-Yves (France)
Riesen Kaspar (Switzerland)
Rigoll Gerhard (Germany)
Sarkar Prateek (US)
Saund Eric (US)
Setlur Srirangaraj (US)
Shafait Faisal (Australia)
Shijian Lu (China)
Srihari Sargur (US)
Sun Jun (China)
Tabbone Salvatore (France)
Taghva Kazem (USA)
Terasawa Kengo (Japan)
Tombre Karl (France)
Uchida Seiichi (Japan)
Vajda Szilard (US)
Viard-Gaudin Christian (France)
Vincent Nicole (France)
Wael Abd-Almageed (US)
Xiu Pingping (USA)
Zanibbi Richard (US)