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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Dear Members of d-scribes mailing list,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Please find below the announcement for two competitions in conjunction with the forthcoming 18<sup>th</sup> International Conference of Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition ICFHR2022 (<a href="http://icfhr2022.org/">http://icfhr2022.org/</a>), which will be held in Hyderabad, India, on December 4-7.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>The first one is organized by the Pattern Recognition Lab of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg and d-scribes project. It focuses on Glyph (character) localization and Character classification of Ancient Greek Letters on Papyri. See details on the competition website<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="https://lme.tf.fau.de/competitions/icfhr2022-competition-on-detection-and-recognition-of-greek-letters-on-papyri/">https://lme.tf.fau.de/competitions/icfhr2022-competition-on-detection-and-recognition-of-greek-letters-on-papyri/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>The second is organized by a team from Shamoon College of Engineering and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel on on Classification of Medieval Hebrew Script Types and Modes. See their announcement below.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Do not hesitate to share with interested colleagues.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Wishing you a very pleasant summer,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=IT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>d-scribes.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>=======================================</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black'>I am pleased to share that with my colleagues, we are organizing a Competition on Classification of Medieval Hebrew Script Types and Modes (ICFHR2022 Competition - CMHSTM22). <br>This competition is organized in conjunction with the International Conference of Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition ICFHR2022 (</span><a href="http://icfhr2022.org/" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>http://icfhr2022.org/</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black'>), which will be held in Hyderabad, India, on December 4-7.<br><br>The competition link:<br></span><a href="https://lnkd.in/d2sTXfDR" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/cmhstm22t1</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black'><br><br>Please share with your colleagues and friends who may be interested.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US> -- <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#674EA7'>Irina Rabaev, Ph.D</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#674EA7'>Software Engineering Department,</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#674EA7'>Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer Sheva, 84100, Israel</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=IT style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#674EA7'>E-mail: </span><a href="mailto:irinar@ac.sce.ac.il" target="_blank"><span lang=IT style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif'>irinar@ac.sce.ac.il</span></a><span lang=IT><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=IT><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>