Honorary Chair:
Sebastiano Impedovo University of Bari, Italy impedovo@di.uniba.it
General Chairs:
Adel M. Alimi University of Sfax, Tunisia adel.alimi@ieee.org	Volker Märgner Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany maergner@ifn.ing.tu-bs.de
Jean-Marc Ogier University of La Rochelle, France jean-marc.ogier@univ-lr.fr
Executive Chair:
Haikal El Abed GIZ, Technical Trainers College, Saudi Arabia elabed@ieee.org
Program Chairs:
Abdel Belaïd University of Lorraine, France abdel.belaid@loria.fr	Bidyut B. Chaudhuri Indian Statistical Institute, India bbc@isical.ac.in
Mohamed Cheriet ETS, Canada mohamed.cheriet@etsmtl.ca
Tutorials Chairs:
Venu Govindaraju University at Buffalo, USA venu@cubs.buffalo.edu	Marcus Liwicki Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany liwicki@dfki.uni-kl.de
Workshops Chairs:
Laurence Likforman-Sulem Telecom Paris Tech, France laurence.likforman @telecom-paristech.fr	Seiichi Uchida Kyushu University, Japan uchida@ait.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Competitions Chairs:
Apostolos Antonacopoulos U. Salford, United Kingdom a.antonacopoulos @primaresearch.org	Umapada Pal Indian Statistical Institute, India umapada@isical.ac.in
Liu Wenyin City Univ. Hong Kong, Hong Kong  csliuwy@cityu.edu.hk
Publicity Chairs:
Michael Blumenstein Griffith University, Australia m.blumenstein@griffith.edu.au	Josep Llados U. Autonoma Barcelona, Spain josep.llados@cvc.uab.es
Sponsors & Exhibitions Chairs:
Rolf Ingold Univ. Fribourg, Switzerland rolf.ingold@unifr.ch	Andreas Dengel DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany andreas.dengel@dfki.de
Doctoral Consortium Chairs:
Alicia Fornes Computer Vision Center, UAB, Spain afornes@cvc.uab.es	Gernot A. Fink Technische Univ. Dortmund, Germany gernot.fink@tu-dortmund.de
Publication Chair:
Mohamed Ben Halima University of Gabes, Tunisia mohamed.benhlima@ieee.org
Finance Chairs:
Habib M. Kammoun University of Sfax, Tunisia habib.kammoun@ieee.org	Mohamed Neji University of Gabes, Tunisia mohamed.neji@ieee.org
Local Organizing Chair:
Ali Wali University of Sfax, Tunisia ali.wali@ieee.org
Local Arrangement committee:
Yassine Aribi University of Sfax, Tunisia yassine.aribi.tn@ieee.org
Houssem Turki University of Sfax, Tunisia houssem.turki.tn@ieee.org	Wael Ouarda University of Monastir, Tunisia wael.ouarda@ieee.org

Areas Chairs:

Area 1 (Character & Symbol Recognition) Chairs:

Apostolos Antonacopoulos, Univ. Salford, UK

Thierry Paquet, Univ. Rouen, France

Area 2 (Printed/Handwritten Text Recognition) Chairs:

Andreas Dengel, DFKI, Germany

Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Telecom Paris Tech, France

Area 3 (Graphics Analysis & Recognition) Chairs:

Michael Blumenstein, Univ. Griffith, Australia

Bart Lamiroy, LORIA, France

Area 4 (Document Analysis) Chairs:

Elisa Barney-Smith, Boise State Univ., USA

Ergina Kavallieratou, Univ. Aegean, Greece

Area 5 (Document Understanding) Chairs:

Koichi Kise, Osaka Prefecture Univ., Japan

Umapada Pal, Indian Statistical Inst., India

Area 6 (Historical Documents & Digital Libraries) Chairs:

Najoua Ben Amara, Univ. Sousse, Tunisia

Josep Llados, Univ. Autonoma Barcelona, Spain

Area 7 (Document based Forensics) Chairs:

Venu Govindaraju, Univ. at Buffalo, USA

Marcus Liwicki, AI Research Center, Germany

Area 8 (Camera & Video based Scene Text Analysis) Chairs:

Masakazu Iwamura, Osaka Prefecture Univ., Japan

Chew Lim Tan, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

Program Committee:

Alaei Alireza, Univ. François-Rabelais Tours, France

Somaya Al-Maadeed, Qatar Univ., Qatar

Eric Anquetil, IRISA – INSA, France

Thierry Artieres, LIP6, Univ. Paris 6, France

Sabine Barrat, Univ. Tours, France

Hala Bezine, Univ. Sfax, Tunisia

Chakravarthy Bhagvati, Univ. Hyderabad, India

Anders Brun, Uppsala Univ., Sweden

Tien Bui, Concordia University, Canada

Syed Saqib Bukhari, DFKI, Germany

Jean-Christophe Burie, Univ. La Rochelle, France

Jin Chen, Lehigh University, USA

Youssouf Chherawala, Synchromedia Lab, Canada

Luigi P. Cordella, Univ. Napoli Federico II, Italy

Bertrand Coüasnon, Irisa / Insa, France

Mathieu Delalandre, Univ. Tours, France

Nachum Dershowitz, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel

Fadoua Drira, Univ. Sfax, Tunisia

Jihad Elsana, Univ. Negev Beer-Sheva, Israel

Véronique Eglin, LIRIS-INSA de Lyon, France

Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Synchromedia Laboratory, ETS, Canada

Gernot Fink, TU Dortmund Univ., Germany

Andreas Fischer, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada

Alicia Fornés, Computer Vision Center, UAB, Spain

Volkmar Frinken, Kyushu University, Japan

Djamel Gaceb, LIRIS-INSA de Lyon, France

Utpal Garain, Indian Statistical Inst., India

Basilis Gatos, Inst. of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR Demokritos, Greece

Eric Granger, ETS, Canada

Tarek M. Hamdani, Taibah Univ., Saudi Arabia

Rachid Hedjam, Synchromedia, Canada

Jean Hennebert, Univ. Fribourg, Switzerland

Pierre Héroux, Univ. Rouen, France

Laurent Heutte, Univ. Rouen, France

Jonathan Hull, Ricoh Innovations California Research Center, USA

Qiang Huo, Microsoft Research Asia, China

C.V. Jawahar, IIIT, Hyderabad, India

Lianwen Jin, South China Univ. Technology, China

Afef Kacem, UTIC, ESSTT, Tunisia

Dimosthenis Karatzas, Computer Vision Centre, Spain

Christopher Kermorvant, A2iA Paris, France

Monji Kherallah, Univ. Sfax, Tunisia

Soo-Hyung Kim, Chonnam National Univ., Republic of Korea

Ale Koerich, PUCPR, Brazil

Young-Bin Kwon, Chung-Ang Univ., Republic of Korea

Frank Lebourgeois, LIRIS-INSA Lyon, France

Aurélie Lemaitre, IRISA, Univ. Rennes 2, France

Rafael Dueire Lins, Cidade Univ., Brazil

Cheng-Lin Liu, Inst. of Automation, China

Daniel Lopresti, Lehigh Univ., USA

Georgios Louloudis, Inst. of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR Demokritos, Greece

Shijian Lu, Inst. Infocomm Research, Singapore

Tong Lu, Nanjing Univ., China

Muhammad Imran Malik, DFKI, Germany

Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman, Univ. La Rochelle, France

Driss Mammass, Ibn Zohr Univ., Morocco

R. Manmatha, Univ. Massachusetts, USA

Angelo Marcelli, DIEM – Univ. Salerno, Italy

Simone Marinai, University Florence, Italy

Ikram Moalla, LIRIS / Univ. Sfax, Tunisia

Hiroshi Murase, Nagoya Univ., Japan

Panduranga Nagabhushan, Univ. Mysore, India

Masaki Nakagawa, Tokyo Univ. of Agri.& Tech., Japan

Sourour Njah, Univ. Sfax, Tunisia

Il-Seok Oh, Chonbuk National Univ., Korea

Wataru Ohyama, Mie University, Japan

Luiz Oliveira, UFPR, UK

Shinichiro Omachi, Tohoku Univ., Japan

Shivakumara Palaiahnakote, Univ. Malaya, Malaysia

Liangrui Peng, Tsinghua University, China

Giuseppe Pirlo, Univ. Bari Aldo Moro, Italy

Réjean Plamondon, Univ. Montreal, Canada

Vincent Poulain D’Andecy, ITESOFT, France

Ioannis Pratikakis, DUTH, Greece

Lionel Prevost, Univ. Antilles Guyane, France

Nicolas Ragot, Univ. Tours, France 

Jean-Yves Ramel, Univ. Francois-Rabelais, France

Sheikhfaisal Rashid, Technical Univ. Kaiserslautern, Germany

Oriol Ramos Terrades, Univ. Autònoma Barcelone, Spain

Kaspar Riesen, Univ. Applied Sciences & Arts, Switzerland

Partha Roy, Samsung, India

Marçal Rusiñol, Univ. Autonoma Barcelona, Spain

Robert Sablatnig, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria

Prateek Sarkar, Google, USA

Lambert Schomaker, Univ. Groningen, The Netherlands

Srirangaraj Setlur, Univ. at Buffalo, USA

Faisal Shafait, Univ. Western Australia in Perth, Australia

Samia Snoussi Maddouri, ENIT, Tunisia

Sargur Srihari, CEDAR, Univ. at Buffalo, USA

Bolan Su, Inst. Infocomm Research, Singapore

Jun Sun, Fujitsu R&D Center Co., China

Salvatore-Antoine Tabbone, LORIA, France

Kengo Terasawa, Future Univ. Hakodate, Japan

Karl Tombre, Univ. Lorraine, France

Szilard Vajda, Nat. Library of Medicine, USA

Ernest Valveny, UAB, Spain

Christian Viard-Gaudin, Univ. Nantes, France

Enrique Vidal, UPV, Spain

Nicole Vincent, Univ. Paris 5 Descartes, France

Liu Wenyin, City Univ. Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Lior Wolf, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel

Safwan Wshah, State Univ. Buffalo, USA

Pingping Xiu, Microsoft, USA

Su Yang, Fudan Univ., Japan

Richard Zanibbi, Rochester Inst. Technology, USA