Sci-ImageMiner 2026: Information Extraction from Atomic Layer Deposition/Etching (ALD/E) Scientific Figure

The proceedings of the Sci-ImageMiner ICDAR 2026 competitions compile the contributions of participating teams, providing a structured and peer-reviewed record of the diverse approaches developed for information extraction and reasoning from ALD/E scientific figures across multiple tasks. Their primary purpose is to document not only the top-performing methods on the leaderboard, but also the underlying ideas, design choices, and empirical insights that led to these results. This is particularly important because competition rankings alone do not capture the full spectrum of scientific progress, such as robustness, generalization, and failure analysis. By bringing together these works, the proceedings create a valuable resource for the community, enabling reproducibility, fostering comparison across methodologies, and encouraging deeper understanding of the challenges in classification, summarization, data extraction, and visual question answering. Ultimately, this collection contributes to advancing the field by transforming competition outcomes into lasting, citable knowledge that can guide future research in multimodal reasoning using scientific figures.

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Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sci-imageminer/home

Paper Submission Deadline: 10th April 2025 (AoE)

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Submission Guidelines

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For this competition, we plan to compile proceedings of the system description papers submitted by participants. The submissions are accepted in any of the following formats:

• Long Papers: Up to 15 pages, excluding references.
• Short Papers: Up to 8 pages, excluding references.

All accepted long and short papers will be published through TIB Open Conference Publishing (https://www.tib-op.org/ojs/).

For detailed formatting instructions, please refer to the following link.

https://sites.google.com/view/sci-imageminer/author-guidelines

Important Dates

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Paper Submission: 10th April 2026 (AoE)

Acceptance Notification: 25th April 2026 (AOE)

Camera-ready Version: 6th May 2026 (AOE)

Sci-ImageMiner 2026 Organizing Committee

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Fahad Ahmed, TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany

Jennifer D'Souza, TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany