International Association of Pattern Recognition

Professor Keiichi Abe

• Japan
  For contributions to structural pattern recognition and for service to IAPR

Professor Sergey V. Ablameyko

• Republic of Belarus
  For contributions to document image analysis and for service to IAPR

Professor Narendra Ahuja

• USA
  For contributions to computer vision, including texture analysis, dot pattern clustering, and image segmentation

Professor Jake K Aggarwal

• USA
  For contributions to computer vision and outstanding leadership of IAPR

Dr Carlo Arcelli

• Italy
  For contributions to digital geometry and mathematical morphology in image analysis

Professor Dr Eric Backer

• The Netherlands
  For contributions to fuzzy clustering and service to the IAPR

Dr Henry S. Baird

• USA
  For contributions to document analysis and for service to IAPR

Professor Eduardo Jose Bayro-Corrochano

• For contributions to geometric computing for perception action systems

Professor Bir Bhanu

• USA
  For contributions to pattern recognition and computer vision

Dr Prabir Bhattacharya

• USA
  For contributions to image understanding and processing.

Professor Josef Bigun

• Sweden
  For contributions to image understanding and for service to IAPR

Professor Alberto Del Bimbo

• Italy
  For contributions to image database management and for service to IAPR

Dr Ruud M Bolle

• USA
  For contributions to industrial computer vision and for service to IAPR

Professor Gunilla Borgefors

• Sweden
  For contributions to digital geometry and for outstanding service to IAPR

Kim L. Boyer

• USA
  For contributions to computer vision and for service to IAPR.

Professor Horst Bunke

• Switzerland
  For contributions to structural pattern recognition and for service to IAPR

Professor Hans Burkhardt

• Germany
  For contributions to the theory and application of invariants to pattern recognition and for service to IAPR.

Professor Terrence M. Caelli

• Canada
  For contributions to pattern recognition, image processing and machine learning.

Professor Virginio Cantoni

• Italy
  For contributions in architectures for computer vision and service to the IAPR

Professor Serge G. Castan

• France
  For contributions in computer vision, image understanding and parallel architecture for image processing and service to the IAPR

Professor Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri

• India
  For contributions to character recognition and speech synthesis in Indian language

Professor Ramalingam Chellappa

• USA
  For contributions to theory and applications of Markov Random Fields and computer vision

Professor Chi Hau Chen

• USA
  For contributions to pattern recognition and its applications to geophysical and underwater acoustics problems

Zen Chen

• For contributions to computer vision and related applications, and for service to IAPR

Professor Luigi Cordella

• Italy
  For contributions to image analysis and for service to IAPR

Rita Cucchiara

• For contributions to pattern recognition for video-surveillance

Professor Per-Erik Danielsson

• Sweden
  For contributions to image processing and service to the IAPR

Professor Larry S. Davis

• USA
  For contributions to computer vision and image understanding.

Professor Dr Andreas Dengel

• Germany
  For contributions to document understanding and for service to IAPR.

Professor Pierre A. Devijver

• France
  For contributions in pattern recognition and image processing and outstanding leadership in the IAPR

Professor Vito Di Gesú

• Italy
  For contributions to fusion methodologies, architectures for machine vision, and segmentation techniques and service to the IAPR

Xiaoqing Ding

• For contributions to OCR, face recognition, biometric technology and document image analysis

Professor Dov Dori

• Israel
  For contributions to document analysis recognition

Professor Michael J. B. Duff

• UK
  For contributions to architectures for parallel processing, and outstanding leadership in the IAPR

Dr Robert P.W. Duin

• The Netherlands
  For contributions to statistical pattern recognition and for service to IAPR.

Professor Charles R. Dyer

• USA
  For contributions to computer vision and image processing.

Professor Jan-Olof Eklundh

• Sweden
  For contributions to computer vision and for service to IAPR.

Dr Masakazu Ejiri

• Japan
  For contributions to the development of machine vision technology and for outstanding service to IAPR

Michael C. Fairhurst

• UK
  For contributions to pattern recognition.

Professor Marco Ferretti

• Italy
  For contributions to parallel architectures for image processing and for service to IAPR

Professor Leila De Floriani

• Italy
  For contributions to geometric modeling and algorithm design for computer vision applications

Patrick J. Flynn

• For contributions to research in three-dimensional object recognition systems and biometrics

Professor Herbert Freeman

• USA
  For outstanding contributions in image analysis and map data processing and leadership in the IAPR

Dr Hiromichi Fujisawa

• Japan
  For contributions to document analysis and for service to IAPR

Professor Edzard S. Gelsema

• The Netherlands
  For contributions to pattern recognition and service to the IAPR

Dr Lawrence O'Gorman

• USA
  For contributions to document analysis

Igor B. Gourevich

• Russian Federation
  For contributions to mathematical theory of image analysis and recognition, and for service to IAPR.

Venu Govindaraju

• USA
  For contributions to advances in handwriting recognition.

Michal Haindl

• Czech Republic
  For contributions to the theory and practice of model-based pattern recognition and for service to IAPR.

Professor Edwin Hancock

• UK
  For contributions to structural and statistical pattern recognition, and to computer vision

Professor Robert M. Haralick

• USA
  For contributions to computer vision, image processing, and mathematical morphology and service to the IAPR

Professor Jean Paul Haton

• France
  For contributions to speech recognition

Vaclav Hlavac

• Czech Republic
  For contributions to pattern analysis and image processing.

Tin Kam Ho

• USA
  For contributions to multiple classifier systems, statistical pattern recognition, document image analysis and recognition, and for service to IAPR.

Professor Thomas S. Huang

• USA
  For contributions to computer vision and image processing, including motion analysis and image compression and service to the IAPR

Dr Jonathan J Hull

• USA
  For contributions to document image analysis and for service to IAPR

Professor Sebastiano Impedovo

• Italy
  For contributions to handwriting recognition and document analysis, and for service to IAPR

Professor Seiji Inokuchi

• Japan
  For contributions to 3D computer vision and service to IAPR

Horace, H.S. Ip

• Hong Kong
  For contributions to theory and application of deformable model for image segmentation and pattern recognition, and for service to IAPR.

Professor Anil K. Jain

• USA
  For contributions to statistical pattern recognition and range data analysis and for service to IAPR

Dr Ramesh C. Jain

• USA
  For contributions to machine vision research.

Xiaoyi Jiang

• For contributions to range image analysis and structural pattern recognition, and for service to IAPR

Dr ir Pieter P. Jonker

• The Netherlands
  For contributions to special purpose architectures and service to IAPR

Professor Laveen N. Kanal

• USA
  For outstanding contributions to Markov random field models, search strategies, hybrid linguistic-statistical models and reasoning in uncertain domains

Professor Rangasami L. Kashyap

• USA
  For outstanding contributions to pattern classification and computer vision

Professor Rangachar Kasturi

• USA
  For contributions to document analysis and for service to IAPR

Professor Masakazu Kidode

• Japan
  For contributions to new architectures for pattern recognition and service to the IAPR

Professor Jin H Kim

• Korea
  For contributions to handwritten oriental scripts recognition

Professor Josef Kittler

• UK
  For contributions to computer vision and pattern recognition, and for Outstanding leadership in IAPR

Professor Walter G. Kropatsch

• Austria
  For contributions to image processing and remote sensing and service to the IAPR

B.V.K. Vijaya Kumar

• For contributions to frequency domain pattern recognition methods

Professor Seong-Whan Lee

• Korea
  For contributions to document understanding and for service to IAPR

Professor Ales Leonardis

• Slovenia
  For contributions to computer vision and for service to IAPR.

Professor Stefano Levialdi

• Italy
  For contributions to architectures for parallel image processing and and service to the IAPR

Professor Martin D Levine

• Canada
  For contributions in computer vision and biomedical image processing and outstanding leadership in the IAPR

Ching-Chung Li

• For contributions to biomedical pattern recognition and multiresolution image processing

Dr Gerd Maderlechner

• Germany
  For contributions to pattern recognition, interpretation technologies and their applications and service to the IAPR

Professor Dwijesh Kr. Dutta Majumder

• India
  For contributions to pattern recognition, image processing, computer vision and artificial intelligence and service to the IAPR

Professor Takashi Matsuyama

• Japan
  For contributions to image understanding and for service to IAPR

Dr Gerard G. Medioni

• USA
  For contributions to pattern recognition and computer vision.

Vittorio Murino

• For contributions to the design of probabilistic (graphical) methods for pattern recognition

Professor Piero Mussio

• Italy
  For contributions to image description and interpretation, and for service to IAPR

Professor Makoto Nagao

• Japan
  For contributions to image analysis and recognition and service to the IAPR

Professor Hans-Hellmut Nagel

• Germany
  For contributions to image sequence analysis

Professor George Nagy

• USA
  For contributions to document image analysis and for service to IAPR

Professor Yasuaki Nakano

• Japan
  For contributions to recognition of handwritten characters, document analysis and for service to IAPR

Professor Heinrich Niemann

• Germany
  For contributions to pattern recognition with applications to speech processing and image understanding, and for service to IAPR.

Dr Hirobumi Nishida

• Japan
  For contributions to structural pattern recognition and for service to IAPR

Yuichi Ohta

• Japan
  For contributions to computer vision and vision-based approach to image media, and for service to IAPR.

Professor Erkki Oja

• Finland
  For contributions to pattern recognition and image processing and and service to the IAPR

B. John Oommen

• For contributions to fundamental and applied problems in syntactic and statistical pattern recognition

Professor Shinji Ozawa

• Japan
  For contributions to motion analysis and for service to IAPR

Professor Sankar K. Pal

• India
  For contributions to pattern recognition and image processing using soft computing.

Professor Jussi P.S. Parkkinen

• Finland
  For contributions to color and multispectral image processing, and for service to IAPR.

Professor Theo Pavlidis

• USA
  For contributions to computer graphics and image processing and service to the IAPR

Professor Shmuel Peleg

• Israel
  For contributions to image analysis and computer vision and service to the IAPR

Petra Perner

• For contributions to image interpretation by developing methods for case-based reasoning, machine learning and data mining, and for service to IAPR

Professor Maria Petrou

• UK
  For contributions to image processing and for service to IAPR

Professor Matti K. Pietikainen

• Finland
  For contributions to machine vision and its applications in industry and service to the IAPR

Professor Re'jean Plamondon

• Canada
  For contributions to handwriting and document recognition and service to the IAPR

Dr Pavel Pudil

• Czech Republic
  For contributions to statistical pattern recognition and for service to IAPR

Fabio Roli

• Italy
  For contributions to pattern recognition and its applications and multiple classifier systems.

Professor Azriel Rosenfeld

• USA
  For outstanding contributions to pattern recognition and image processing and leadership in the IAPR

Professor Toshiyuki Sakai

• Japan
  For contributions to pattern recognition and outstanding leadership in the IAPR

Katsuhiko Sakaue

• For contributions to computer vision and its applications

Hiroshi Sako

• Japan
  For contributions to the development and application of machine vision technology for factory and office automation.

Professor H Samet

• USA
  For contributions to hierarchical data structures for image analysis and representation

Professor Alberto Sanfeliu

• Spain
  For contributions to syntactic and structural pattern recognition and service to the IAPR

Dr Gabriella Sanniti di Baja

• Italy
  For exceptional service to IAPR and for contributions to image analysis

Professor Jürgen Schürmann

• Germany
  For contributions to character recognition and polynomial classifiers, and for the service to IAPR

Mubarak Shah

• For contributions to motion-based recognition and shape from shading in computer vision

Professor Linda G Shapiro

• USA
  For contributions to computer vision and structural pattern recognition

Professor Yoshiaki Shirai

• Japan
  For contributions to three-dimensional object recognition and for service to IAPR

Professor Jean-Claude Simon

• France
  For contributions in pattern recognition and outstanding leadership in the IAPR

Professor Jack Sklansky

• USA
  For contributions to pattern recognition, machine vision and medical imaging and service to the IAPR

Professor Arnold W M Smeulders

• The Netherlands
  For contributions to image analysis and content-based image database retrieval

Professor Franc Solina

• Slovenia
  For contributions to interpretation of range images and for service to IAPR.

A. Lawrence Spitz

• New Zealand
  For contributions to document recognition and for service to IAPR.

Professor Sargur N. Srihari

• USA
  For contributions to character recognition and for service to IAPR

Professor Ching Y. Suen

• Canada
  For contributions to optical character recognition and document understanding and service to the IAPR

Dr Johji Tajima

• Japan
  For contributions to color image processing and 3D vision.

Professor Mikio Takagi

• Japan
  For contributions to image processing and pattern recognition and service to the IAPR

Tieniu Tan

• For contributions to computer vision and pattern recognition

Yuan Y. Tang

• Hong Kong
  For contributions to wavelet analysis, pattern recognition and document analysis.

Professor Steven L Tanimoto

• USA
  For contributions to image processing

Dr Torfinn Taxt

• Norway
  For contributions to multispectral image analysis

Christopher J. Taylor

• UK
  For contributions to the theory and practice of computer vision and medical image analysis, and for service to IAPR.

Professor Jun-ichiro Toriwaki

• Japan
  For contributions to medical image analysis and for service to IAPR

Professor Saburo Tsuji

• Japan
  For contributions to computer vision and for outstanding service to IAPR

Professor Ventzeslav Valev

• Bulgaria
  For contributions to pattern recognition theory and for service to IAPR

Svetha Venkatesh

• Australia
  For contributions to the formulation and extraction of semantics in multimedia data.

Mario Vento

• Italy
  For contributions to graph based learning and matching techniques, and for service to IAPR.

Professor Gianni L. Vernazza

• Italy
  For contributions to image processing and pattern recognition.

Professor Enrique Vidal-Ruis

• Spain
  For contributions to syntactic pattern recognition

Professor Max A. Viergever

• The Netherlands
  For contributions to biomedical applications of computer vision and pattern recognition, and for service to IAPR.

Juan Jose Villanueva

• Spain
  For contributions to research and the transfer of innovation and technology in computer vision.

Professor Patrick S. P Wang

• USA
  For contributions to pattern recognition, optical character recognition and service to the IAPR

Professor Harry Wechsler

• USA
  For contributions to computer vision and pattern recognition, and for service to IAPR

Professor Lei Xu

• Hong Kong
  For contributions to studies on Randomized Hough Transform and combination of multiple classifiers.

Professor Kazuhiko Yamamoto

• Japan
  For contributions to character recognition and for service to IAPR

Professor Hong Yan

• Hong Kong
  For contributions to document image analysis

Professor Ian T Young

• The Netherlands
  For contributions to image analysis and pattern recognition

David Zhang

• For contributions to biometrics technologies and systems