Committees

Conference Chairs
Basilis Gatos, National Center for Scientific Research  “Demokritos”, Greece
Vassilis Katsouros, Athena Research and Innovation Center, Greece
Ioannis Pratikakis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Technical Program Chairs
Josep Llados, Centre de Visió per Computador, Spain
R. Manmatha, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
Chew Lim Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Competition Chairs
Apostolos Antonacopoulos, University of Salford, UK
Umapada Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Volker Märgner, Technischen Universität Braunschweig, Germany

Tutorial Chairs
Michael Blumenstein, Griffith University, Australia
Marcus Liwicki, DFKI, Germany

International Liaisons
Koichi Kise, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Thierry Paquett, Universite de Rouen, France
Venu Govindaraju, University of Buffalo, USA
Haikal El Abed, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

Publicity Chairs
Masaki Nakagawa,  Tokyo University of A&T, Japan
David Doermann, University of Maryland, USA

Program Committee
Abd-Almageed Wael (USA)
Alimi Adel (Tunisia)
Anquetil Eric (France)
Antonacopoulos Apostolos (UK)
Artieres Thierry (France)
Barrat Sabine (France)
Belaid Abdel (France)
Bhattacharya Ujjwal (India)
Blumenstein Michael (Australia)
Bui Tien (Canada)
Cao Huaigu (USA)
Chaudhuri Bidyut B. (India)
Cheriet Mohamed (Canada)
Dengel Andreas (Germany)
Doermann David (USA)
Eglin Véronique (France)
El Abed Haikal (Germany)
El-Sana Jihad (Israel)
Fairhurst Michael (UK)
Fink Gernot (Germany)
Fischer Andreas (Canada)
Fornés Alicia (Spain)
Frinken Volkmar (Japan)
Fujisawa Hiromichi (Japan)
Garain Utpal (India)
Granger Eric (France)
Hassner Tal (Israel)
Heutte Laurent (France)
Huo Qiang (China)
Iwamura Masakazu (Japan)
Jawahar C.V. (India)
Jin Lianwen (China)
Kanoun Slim (Tunisia)
Karatzas Dimosthenis (Spain)
Kavallieratou Ergina (Greece)
Kermorvant Christopher (France)
Kesidis Anastasios (Greece)
Kimura Fumitaka (Japan)
Kise Koichi (Japan)
Koerich Ale (Brazil)
Krzyzak Adam (Canada)
Lamiroy Bart (France)
Lebourgeois Frank (France)
Likforman-Sulem Laurence (France)
Lins Rafael (Brazil)
Liu Cheng-Lin (China)
Liwicki Marcus (Germany)
Lopresti Daniel (USA)
Louloudis Georgios (Greece)
Lu Shijian (China)
Lu Yue (China)
Madhvanath Sriganesh (India)
Maergner Volker (Germany)
Mammass Driss (Marroco)
Marcelli Angelo (Italy)
Marinai Simone (Italy)
Nakagawa Masaki (Japan)
Nikou Christophoros (Greece)
Ntirogiannis Konstantinos (Greece)
Ogier Jean-Marc (France)
Ohyama Wataru (Japan)
Oliveira Luiz (Brazil)
Omachi Shinichiro (Japan)
Ortega-Garcia Javier (Spain)
Pal Umapada (India)
Papamarkos Nikos (Greece)
Papavassiliou Vassilis (Greece)
Paquet Thierry (France)
Pirlo Giuseppe (Italy)
Plamondon Réjean (Canada)
Ramel Jean-Yves (France)
Sabourin Robert (Canada)
Sako Hiroshi (Japan)
Sanchez Joan Andreu (Spain)
Setlur Srirangaraj (USA)
Shafait Faisal (Germany)
Sherkat Nasser (UK)
Shivakumara Palaiahnakote (Singapore)
Slimane Fouad (Tunisia)
Stamatopoulos Nikolaos (Greece)
Sun Jun (China)
Terasawa Kengo (Japan)
Uchida Seiichi (Japan)
Vajda Szilard (USA)
Viard-Gaudin Christian (France)
Vidal Enrique (Spain)
Vincent Nicole (France)
Xiu Pingping (USA)
Zagoris Konstantinos (Greece)
Zanibbi Richard (USA)