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HP Competition on Automated Mosaicing of Torn Paper Documents

ICVGIP 2008
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Congratulations Encouragement Award Winners!!

Mr. Santosh Kumar Adarkatti and Mr. Shreyamsha Kumar B. K
Research Staff
Central Research Laboratory
(R&D Unit of Bharat Electronics)
Bangalore

The winners get an award of Rs. 10,000/- and free registration and AC-III train fare to ICVGIP venue at Bhubaneswar.

Introduction

The goal is to seamlessly stitch randomly torn paper documents in an automated fashion. The state of the art can
handle up to 50 torn pieces. The challenge is to come up with an innovative algorithm that could potentially handle more pieces, or implement existing algorithms in a faster way. The training dataset would be provided, and the test dataset would be used to compare entries. The training dataset would contain the original document as well as the torn pieces.

The method has innumerable applications in the fields of information forensics, heritage preservation etc.

Participants should register for the competition at their earliest convenience and not after July 15, 2008. Registration indicates an intention to enter rather than a firm commitment.
Final submission of algorithm code is due on August 15, 2008. A token registration fee of Rs. 250/- will be charged for each submission.
Sample data will be provided to participants as a collection of image files in standard formats. Images of both torn and original document will be provided.
We also require submission of a brief algorithm description (plain text or PDF).
Participants not submitting results by the deadline will be automatically disqualified from the competition.
The criterion for evaluation is a combination of accuracy, efficiency and novelty of the approach.
Results of evaluation will be communicated to all participants within four weeks of submission of codes.
The winners will be informed individually via email.
Results and awards for the winning entries, will be presented at the ICVGIP 2008 to be held at Bhubaneswar. Winners will be provided to and fro 2nd class train fare to the conference venue.
The organizing committee’s decision is final

If you intend to enter then please register. Registration information, details of data etc are provided below.

Important Dates

July 15, 2008 Registration deadline
August 15, 2008 Last date for submission of results
September 15, 2008 Results communicated to participants
Results will be announced at ICVGIP 2008 conference

Data

Sample Image Set 1: Torn pieces, Original document
Sample Image Set 2: Torn pieces, Original document

Literature

Here are two papers which describe two exisiting approaches to the problem.

1. A. Biswas, P. Bhowmick, and B. B. Bhattacharya, Reconstruction of Torn Documents Using Contour Maps, In Proc. ICIP 2005, III:517-520.

2. L Zhu, Z Zhou and D Hu, Globally Consistent Reconstruction of Ripped-Up Documents, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Volume 30 , Issue 1 (January 2008)

Competition Registration

ONLY REGISTERED ENTRIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO SUBMIT CODE IN COMPETITION.

Note that you may register for and enter the competition even if you do not plan to attend ICVGIP 2008

Once you've registered, we can then inform you of any updates.

Please send an email to <iamrajarshi@gmail.com> with the following information by July 15, 2008. The subject of email should be ICVGIP HP Competition. You will be provided a login and password once you register.

1. Name(s)

2. email (only one)
3. Affiliation
4. Designation

Submitting Your Entry

1. Only registered teams are allowed to submit their entries.
2. Submission should include the following:
    i. Code and executable of the algorithm in prescribed platform and language.
    ii. A description of the algorithm in pdf or word or text format.
    iii. Registration fee of Rs. 250/-
    iv. A declaration form.

Prescribed Languages for Code Submission:
Language: C/Java/Matlab

Registration fee should be payed as Bank Draft in favor of - ICVGIP 2008 payable at Kharagpur

The draft should be mailed to:

Prof. P K Biswas
Organizing Chair ICVGIP 2008
Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunication Engg.
IIT Kharagpur 721302

Along with the draft the particpants should mail a signed version of the following declaration.

"We hereby certify that the code submitted by us for the HP Competition at ICVGIP 2008 has not been plagiarised from any sources. We also grant judges the authority to examine the code for benefiting the judgement of winners."

Signature of all Members of Team

RESULTS

Winners will be decided based on accuracy, efficiency and novelty. Decision of the judges is final.

Prizes

Winners: Rs. 15,000.00
Runners: Rs. 10,000.00
Third Place : Rs. 5000.00

Winners, runners and third place holders will be provided to and from 2nd class train fare to ICVGIP 2008 conference at Bhubaneswar. One member per team will be provided free registration at ICVGIP 2008.