Conference Programme


Day 1: Thursday, September 03, 2026

Session 1: (9:00 am - 10:30 am) Tables, Forms & Structured Extraction Venue: E17 (Vienna, Austria)
9:00 am - 9:15 am Opening Ceremony
9:15 am - 10:00 am Keynote 1: JORDY VAN LANDEGHEM - Parse, Reflect, Retrieve, Compile: An Agent Stack for Enterprise Document AI
10:00 am - 10:15 am O1: [Paper 46] POTATR: A Lightweight Image-to-Graph Model for Page-Level Table Extraction
10:15 am - 10:30 am O2: [Paper 42] Structured Handwritten Form Synthesis via Unsupervised Template Recovery and Field-Level Segmentation
10:30 am - 11:00 am Morning Coffee Break
Session 2: (11:00 am - 12:30 pm) Document-Centric AI, Retrieval & Reasoning Venue: E17 (Vienna, Austria)
11:00 am - 11:45 am Keynote 2: NIBAL NAYEF - From Retrieval to Reasoning: The Evolution of RAG-based Systems for Document-Centric AI
11:45 am - 12:00 pm O3: [Paper 36] Modeling "Musical Words" for Efficient Sequence Search in Handwritten Music Manuscripts
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm O4: [Paper 10] Graph-based Aggregation for Writer Identification and Retrieval
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm O5: [Paper 49] Reading Order Inference for Complex Document Layouts
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch Break
Session 3: (1:30 pm - 3:00 pm) Handwriting, Writer Identification & Related Document Analysis Venue: E17 (Vienna, Austria)
Poster Session I (1:30 pm - 3:00 pm) Venue: E17 (Vienna, Austria)
P1: [Paper 16] Criticality-Aware Evaluation of Table Understanding Systems on Synthetic ESG Documents
P2: [Paper 47] A Feasibility Study of Concept-Based XAI Classification Methods on Chart Images
P3: [Paper 27] Text Pixels Are Not Enough: A Controlled Study of Canvas Sensitivity in VLM-Based OCR
P4: [Paper 51] BZK-LE: A Dataset for Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Archival Document Layout Classification
P5: [Paper 17] Towards Zero-Shot Domain Generalization for ID Cards Presentation Attack Detection
P6: [Paper 25] PeopleGator: A Multimodal Benchmark for Person Identification in Historical Documents
P7: [Paper 29] Scale-Aware Feature-Level Encoding for Historical Document Stamp Detection
P8: [Paper 35] TrOCR for Medieval HTR: A Systematic Ablation Study with Cross-Dataset Validation
P9: [Paper 12] DocScribe: Handwriting-Aware Document Templating with Compact OCR-Free Models
P10: [Paper 52] Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models for End-to-End Diagram Recognition
P11: [Paper 53] Lect-Former: Localized Self-Attention Skip Connections for Whiteboard Content Extraction
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Afternoon Coffee Break
Demo Session (3:30 pm - 4:15 pm) Venue: E17 (Vienna, Austria)
D1: [Demo Paper 61] CrimeNER Demo: Named-Entity Recognition in the Crime Domain
D2: [Demo Paper 63] EpiSAM Demo: An Interactive System for Character Segmentation and Text-Line Extraction in Challenging Stone Inscriptions
D3: [Demo Paper 64] Multi Script OCR System for Handwritten Indic Manuscripts
D4: [Demo Paper 65] Arkindex: An Open-Source Infrastructure for AI-Based Processing of Cultural Heritage Collections
D5: [Demo Paper 66] Litmus: Zero Label Metric Design for AI Pipelines
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm Discussion Group

Day 2: Friday, September 04, 2026

Session 1: (9:00 am - 10:30 am) OCR, Layout & Recognition Systems Venue: E17 (Vienna, Austria)
9:00 am - 9:45 am Keynote 3: BRANDON SMOCK - TBC
9:45 am - 10:00 am O6: [Paper 43] Nutri-TabNet: Detection of Non-planar Nutrition Information Panels in Real-World Food Packaging
10:00 am - 10:15 am O7: [Paper 11] CollabScore OMR: A Hybrid System for Music Score Recognition
10:15 am - 10:30 am O8: [Paper 31] IndicPage-OCR: Robust Low-Resource Adaptation for Multi-Script Indic Handwritten Page Recognition
10:30 am - 11:00 am Morning Coffee Break
Poster Session I (11:00 am - 12:30 pm) Venue: E17 (Vienna, Austria)
P12: [Paper 5] Rethinking Text Color Estimation in Screen Documents: A Reliability-Aware Approach
P13: [Paper 20] Decoupled Prototype Memory Mechanism for Complex Table Recognition
P14: [Paper 21] A Recognition-Aware Multimodal Framework for Actual and Intended Text Transcription of Child Handwriting
P15: [Paper 37] Handwritten Devanagari Character Recognition: Conjunct Consonants Dataset Creation and Benchmarking with Transfer Learning
P16: [Paper 24] Text-Based Classification of Historical Notarial Documents from Noisy HTR Transcripts
P17: [Paper 50] Mind the Gaps: A Curated Benchmark for Form Field Detection
P18: [Paper 14] SciXplain: Structure-Aware Representation Learning for Scientific Method Diagrams
P19: [Paper 9] Decoding Romanian Law: A Fine-Tuned LLM Approach

SP1: [Short Paper 56] YOTO - You Only Train Once: Template-Specific Table Extraction from a Single Example
SP2: [Short Paper 58] Layout-Preserving Document Synthesis and LLM-Assisted Benchmarking for Low-Resource OCR: A Case Study on Nepali
SP3: [Short Paper 59] French PDF-to-Markdown Benchmark
SP4: [Short Paper 54] From Pen Strokes to Sleep States: Detecting Low-Recovery Days Using Sigma-Lognormal Handwriting Features
SP5: [Short Paper 55] Reconstructing Historical Manuscripts through MSI: The Potential of Contrast in Assessing Image Quality and Legibility
SP6: [Short Paper 57] Recall-First Stroke Grouping: A 53K-Parameter Symbol-Candidate Proposal Stage for Graph-Based Online Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch Break
Session 2: (1:30 pm - 3:00 pm) Enterprise and Industrial Document AI Venue: E17 (Vienna, Austria)
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm Keynote 4: SHERAZ AHMED - TBC
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm O9: [Paper 30] Edge-Aware Relation Prediction for Symbol-Level Structure Refinement in Online Handwritten Mathematical Expressions
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm O10: [Paper 33] End-to-End Camera-Based Analysis of Egyptian Hieroglyphic Textual Artifacts
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm Closing Ceremony and Awards
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Afternoon Coffee Break