<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><b>VINALDO: 3rd edition of International workshop on Machine vision and NLP for Document Analysis</b></div><div style="text-align:center"><strong style="border:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:bold;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102);text-align:start;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">Website:</strong><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:start;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"> </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/vinaldo3rdeditionofinternation/call-for-papers">https://sites.google.com/view/vinaldo3rdeditionofinternation/call-for-papers</a></div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.55;margin-top:10.5pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">In conjonction with <a href="https://icdar2026.org/">ICDAR 2026</a></span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">- Aug 30- Sep 04, 2026 • Vienna, Austria</span></b></p></div><b><div><a href="https://icdar2026.org/">https://icdar2026.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12pt 0px 0pt;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-weight:400;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.5819;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0pt;text-align:justify"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">Document understanding is essential in areas such as invoice extraction, medical record analysis, and legal document processing. While many workshops focus on pure vision-based tasks (OCR, layout analysis) or pure NLP tasks, VINALDO emphasizes the synergistic integration of computer vision and natural language processing for structured information extraction and semantic understanding of documents.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0pt 0px 12pt;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-weight:400;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.5819;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0pt;text-align:justify"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">This third edition of VINALDO highlights structured knowledge extraction from documents using multimodal approaches, with a focus on:</span></p><ul class="gmail-n8H08c gmail-UVNKR" style="list-style-type:square;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:6px 0px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:400"><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-TYR86d eD0Rn" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px 0px 0px 15pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;padding-top:0px"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 0pt 0pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.38;padding:0pt;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;text-indent:0pt"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">Knowledge Graphs (KGs) built from visual and textual cues</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-TYR86d eD0Rn" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px 15pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 0pt 0pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.38;padding:0pt;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;text-indent:0pt"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">Integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) with visual document understanding</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-TYR86d eD0Rn" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px 15pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;padding-bottom:0px"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 0pt 0pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.38;padding:0pt;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;text-indent:0pt"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">Multimodal representation learning for semantic retrieval</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12pt 0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-weight:400;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.5819;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0pt;text-align:justify"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">Our goal is to move beyond traditional document analysis by exploring how vision and language jointly enable structured, relational understanding particularly in complex documents like invoices, forms, and reports.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:15pt 0px 0pt;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-weight:400;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.5819;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0pt;text-align:justify"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Novelty for this edition:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:15pt 0px 0pt;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-weight:400;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.5819;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0pt;text-align:justify"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">After the success of</span><a class="gmail-XqQF9c" href="https://sites.google.com/view/vinaldo-workshop-icdar-2023/home" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:inherit;text-decoration-line:none"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">VINALDO 2023</span></a><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">, and</span><a class="gmail-XqQF9c" href="https://sites.google.com/view/vinaldo-workshop-icdar-2024/home" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:inherit;text-decoration-line:none"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">VINALDO 2024</span></a><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">,  in </span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">this third edition of the VINALDO workshop, we encourage the description of novel problems or applications for document analysis in the area of information retrieval that has emerged in recent years. In the last edition</span><a class="gmail-XqQF9c" href="https://sites.google.com/view/vinaldo-workshop-icdar-2024/home" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:inherit;text-decoration-line:none"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">VINALDO 2024</span></a><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline"> we highlighted a particular topic namely “</span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Knowledge Graphs and Multimodal approaches”.</span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12pt 0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-weight:400;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.5819;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0pt;text-align:justify"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">In this new edition, we aim to encourage </span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">novel and recent research on document analysis</span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline"> including, but not limited to, approaches that intersect with areas such as </span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Large Language Models (LLMs), Knowledge Graphs (KGs), and Natural Language Processing (NLP)</span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">. The VINALDO workshop focuses on the </span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">joint exploitation of visual and textual information</span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline"> for document understanding, while remaining open to a wide range of methods and perspectives.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12pt 0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-weight:400;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.5819;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0pt;text-align:justify"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">In particular, we highlight the growing importance of </span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">structured representations such as Knowledge Graphs extracted from document context</span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">, which are still underexplored despite their relevance across many application domains. We therefore welcome contributions that explore the combination of </span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">computer vision, NLP, and structured knowledge representations</span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">, as well as works that integrate NLP and vision techniques in innovative ways.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12pt 0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-weight:400;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.5819;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0pt;text-align:justify"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">We also encourage submissions that introduce </span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">new datasets, benchmarks, or real-world applications</span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline"> related to document analysis. Overall, the VINALDO workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from </span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">academia, industry, and applied research</span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline"> to exchange ideas, share experiences, and discuss ongoing challenges and advances in </span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">document analysis at the intersection of Computer Vision and NLP</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0pt 0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-weight:400;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.38;padding:0pt;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal">Researchers and practitioners all over the world, from both academia and industry, working in the areas of document and textual analysis. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:</span></p><ul class="gmail-n8H08c gmail-UVNKR" style="list-style-type:square;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:6px 0px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:400"><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-TYR86d eD0Rn" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px 0px 0px 15pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;padding-top:0px"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 0pt 0pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.38;padding:0pt;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;text-indent:0pt"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">Multimodal Knowledge Graph Construction from documents</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-TYR86d eD0Rn" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px 15pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 0pt 0pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.38;padding:0pt;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;text-indent:0pt"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">Vision-Language Models for Document Understanding</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-TYR86d eD0Rn" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px 15pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 0pt 0pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.38;padding:0pt;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;text-indent:0pt"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">Joint Entity and Relation Extraction from visual and textual content</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-TYR86d eD0Rn" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px 15pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 0pt 0pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.38;padding:0pt;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;text-indent:0pt"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">Structured Document Understanding with LLMs</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-TYR86d eD0Rn" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px 15pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 0pt 0pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.38;padding:0pt;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;text-indent:0pt"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">Multimodal Document Representation Learning</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-TYR86d eD0Rn" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px 15pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 0pt 0pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.38;padding:0pt;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;text-indent:0pt"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">Graph-Based Spatial and Semantic Reasoning in documents</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-TYR86d eD0Rn" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px 15pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 0pt 0pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.38;padding:0pt;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;text-indent:0pt"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">Integration of Knowledge Graphs and Vision Transformers</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-TYR86d eD0Rn" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px 15pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 0pt 0pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.38;padding:0pt;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;text-indent:0pt"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">Multimodal Invoice and Form Analysis</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-TYR86d eD0Rn" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px 15pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 0pt 0pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.38;padding:0pt;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;text-indent:0pt"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">Cross-modal Retrieval in Document Collections</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-TYR86d eD0Rn" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px 15pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;padding-bottom:0px"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 0pt 0pt;outline:none;text-decoration:inherit;font-size:13pt;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.38;padding:0pt;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;text-indent:0pt"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">Benchmarks and Datasets for Multimodal Document Understanding</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12pt 0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-weight:400;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.63645;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0pt;text-align:justify"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Note: Topics that are purely vision-based (e.g., OCR, table detection, handwriting recognition) or purely NLP-based are better suited to other ICDAR workshops. VINALDO focuses on their intersection.</span></p><p class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12pt 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.63645;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0pt;text-align:justify"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline"><u>Important Dates</u></span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:15pt 0px 0pt 36pt;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;font-size:13pt;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.44;text-indent:0pt;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0pt"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="font-weight:700;color:rgb(0,0,0);box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">Submission Deadline</span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="font-weight:400;color:rgb(0,0,0);box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">: </span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#ff0000" style="">May 5th, 2026 at 11:59pm AoE Time</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0pt 0px 0pt 36pt;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-weight:400;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.44;text-indent:0pt;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0pt"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Decisions Announced</span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">: May 15th, 2026, at 11:59pm AoE Time</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0pt 0px 0pt 36pt;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13pt;font-weight:400;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.44;text-indent:0pt;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0pt"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Camera Ready Deadline</span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;vertical-align:baseline">:</span><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline"> July 1, 2026</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:12pt 0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-weight:400;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.63645;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial;padding:0pt;text-align:justify"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:Roboto,Arial;font-weight:700;color:rgb(33,33,33);text-decoration-line:inherit;text-align:left;font-style:normal">Contact:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:14px 0px 0px 0pt;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-weight:400;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;padding-left:0pt;text-indent:15pt"><a class="gmail-XqQF9c" href="mailto:rim.hantach@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:inherit;text-decoration-line:none"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc gmail-aw5Odc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:inherit;text-decoration-line:underline">Rim Hantach</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-CDt4Ke" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:14px 0px 0px 0pt;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-weight:400;font-family:Roboto;line-height:1.55;padding-left:0pt;text-indent:15pt"><a class="gmail-XqQF9c" href="mailto:boutalbi.rafika@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:inherit;text-decoration-line:none"><span class="gmail-C9DxTc gmail-aw5Odc" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:inherit;text-decoration-line:underline">Rafika Boutalbi</span></a><sp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