Document Recognition and Retrieval XVII Best Student Paper Award

For the fourth year, an award will be presented for the best paper submitted and presented by a student (see rules of the competition 2010 below). 

This year, the prize is co-sponsored by SPIE and Institut Telecom

The winner of the last Best Student Paper Competition organized within DRR 2009, is Mr. Sebastian Pena Saldarriaga from Universite de Nantes (France)

************************** Rules for Best Student Paper Award 2010**************************

1. A paper is eligible if the first author is a full-time student (enrolled in Undergraduate, Masters or Ph.D. program) at the time of submission or has completed a graduate program no more than a year before submitting a paper.

2. The student must be the first author.

3. In order to be considered for the competition, the author and his/her advisor (if any) must :

(1). Confirm eligibility for the Award according to the Rules 1 to 2 at the initial submission;

(2). Select to participate in the competition by registering before September 15, 2009 by email to the chairs.

4. The conference can elect to cancel the competition if there are fewer than three eligible participating papers.

5. The conference program committee (PC) will select and rank up to three candidate papers from the eligible participating papers based on the review comments of the initial abbreviated paper (So please do your best with your initial submission) and the final full version.

6. Then PC will decide on the Best Paper at the conference among the selected candidates presenting their paper at the conference.

7. Any PC member serving as the coauthor of a participating paper or having any other conflict of interest will be excluded from the reviewing and judging participating papers.

8. The Award will be announced and presented at the conference.