- IAPR Fellows
- Alphabetical List
- Chronological List
- Call for Nominations
The prestigious IAPR Fellow award was introduced in 1994 and since then is biennially conferred on persons to acknowledge their distinguished contributions to the field of pattern recognition and to IAPR activities.
According to the Constitution and Bylaws of IAPR, the number of fellows elected every two years must not exceed 0.25% of the total IAPR membership. Both service to IAPR and scientific contributions to the field of pattern recognition are taken into account in the selection process.
The IAPR Fellow Committee is in charge to perform the selection process and solicits nominations of high quality.
For the term 2006-2008, the Fellow Committee consists of Horst Bunke, Hans Burkhardt, Charles Dyer, Igor Gourevitch, Yuichi Ohta and Gabriella Sanniti di Baja.
The recipients selected in the 2008 selection process will be honored with a certificate at the 19th ICPR in Tampa, Florida, USA.
Professor Keiichi Abe
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Japan
For contributions to structural pattern recognition and for service to IAPR
Professor Sergey V. Ablameyko
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Republic of Belarus
For contributions to document image analysis and for service to IAPR
Professor Narendra Ahuja
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USA
For contributions to computer vision, including texture analysis, dot pattern clustering, and image segmentation
Professor Jake K Aggarwal
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USA
For contributions to computer vision and outstanding leadership of IAPR
Dr Carlo Arcelli
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Italy
For contributions to digital geometry and mathematical morphology in image analysis
Professor Dr Eric Backer
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The Netherlands
For contributions to fuzzy clustering and service to the IAPR
Dr Henry S. Baird
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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
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USA
For contributions to pattern recognition and computer vision
Dr Prabir Bhattacharya
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USA
For contributions to image understanding and processing.
Professor Josef Bigun
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Sweden
For contributions to image understanding and for service to IAPR
Professor Alberto Del Bimbo
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Italy
For contributions to image database management and for service to IAPR
Dr Ruud M Bolle
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USA
For contributions to industrial computer vision and for service to IAPR
Professor Gunilla Borgefors
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Sweden
For contributions to digital geometry and for outstanding service to IAPR
Kim L. Boyer
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USA
For contributions to computer vision and for service to IAPR.
Professor Horst Bunke
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Switzerland
For contributions to structural pattern recognition and for service to IAPR
Professor Hans Burkhardt
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Germany
For contributions to the theory and application of invariants to pattern recognition and for service to IAPR.
Professor Terrence M. Caelli
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Canada
For contributions to pattern recognition, image processing and machine learning.
Professor Virginio Cantoni
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Italy
For contributions in architectures for computer vision and service to the IAPR
Professor Serge G. Castan
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France
For contributions in computer vision, image understanding and parallel architecture for image processing and service to the IAPR
Bhabatosh Chanda
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For contributions to the theory and practice of digital image processing and analysis.
Professor Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri
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India
For contributions to character recognition and speech synthesis in Indian language
Professor Ramalingam Chellappa
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USA
For contributions to theory and applications of Markov Random Fields and computer vision
Professor Chi Hau Chen
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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
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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
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Sweden
For contributions to image processing and service to the IAPR
Emlyn Roy Davies
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For contributions to the theory and practice of machine vision and its promotion through education, authorship and society activities.
Professor Larry S. Davis
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USA
For contributions to computer vision and image understanding.
Professor Dr Andreas Dengel
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Germany
For contributions to document understanding and for service to IAPR.
Professor Pierre A. Devijver
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France
For contributions in pattern recognition and image processing and outstanding leadership in the IAPR
Professor Vito Di Gesú
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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
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Israel
For contributions to document analysis recognition
Professor Michael J. B. Duff
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UK
For contributions to architectures for parallel processing, and outstanding leadership in the IAPR
Dr Robert P.W. Duin
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The Netherlands
For contributions to statistical pattern recognition and for service to IAPR.
Professor Charles R. Dyer
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USA
For contributions to computer vision and image processing.
Professor Jan-Olof Eklundh
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Sweden
For contributions to computer vision and for service to IAPR.
Dr Masakazu Ejiri
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Japan
For contributions to the development of machine vision technology and for outstanding service to IAPR
Michael C. Fairhurst
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UK
For contributions to pattern recognition.
Professor Marco Ferretti
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Italy
For contributions to parallel architectures for image processing and for service to IAPR
Mário A. T. Figueiredo
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For contributions to unsupervised and supervised learning, image analysis, and wavelet-based image restoration.
Robert B. Fisher
- For contributions to 3D computer vision and the development of online resources important to the research community.
Professor Leila De Floriani
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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
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USA
For outstanding contributions in image analysis and map data processing and leadership in the IAPR
Dr Hiromichi Fujisawa
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Japan
For contributions to document analysis and for service to IAPR
Professor Edzard S. Gelsema
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The Netherlands
For contributions to pattern recognition and service to the IAPR
Dr Lawrence O'Gorman
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USA
For contributions to document analysis
Igor B. Gourevich
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Russian Federation
For contributions to mathematical theory of image analysis and recognition, and for service to IAPR.
Venu Govindaraju
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USA
For contributions to advances in handwriting recognition.
Michal Haindl
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Czech Republic
For contributions to the theory and practice of model-based pattern recognition and for service to IAPR.
Professor Edwin Hancock
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UK
For contributions to structural and statistical pattern recognition, and to computer vision
Professor Robert M. Haralick
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USA
For contributions to computer vision, image processing, and mathematical morphology and service to the IAPR
Professor Jean Paul Haton
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France
For contributions to speech recognition
Vaclav Hlavac
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Czech Republic
For contributions to pattern analysis and image processing.
Tin Kam Ho
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USA
For contributions to multiple classifier systems, statistical pattern recognition, document image analysis and recognition, and for service to IAPR.
Professor Thomas S. Huang
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USA
For contributions to computer vision and image processing, including motion analysis and image compression and service to the IAPR
Dr Jonathan J Hull
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USA
For contributions to document image analysis and for service to IAPR
Atsushi Imiya
- For contributions to randomized model fitting approaches in pattern recognition and computer vision, and to discrete geometry.
Professor Sebastiano Impedovo
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Italy
For contributions to handwriting recognition and document analysis, and for service to IAPR
Professor Seiji Inokuchi
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Japan
For contributions to 3D computer vision and service to IAPR
Horace, H.S. Ip
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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
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USA
For contributions to statistical pattern recognition and range data analysis and for service to IAPR
Dr Ramesh C. Jain
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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
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The Netherlands
For contributions to special purpose architectures and service to IAPR
Mohamed S. Kamel
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For contributions to fundamental, applied and industrial problems in pattern recognition and neural networks.
Professor Laveen N. Kanal
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USA
For outstanding contributions to Markov random field models, search strategies, hybrid linguistic-statistical models and reasoning in uncertain domains
Professor Rangasami L. Kashyap
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USA
For outstanding contributions to pattern classification and computer vision
Professor Rangachar Kasturi
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USA
For contributions to document analysis and for service to IAPR
Professor Masakazu Kidode
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Japan
For contributions to new architectures for pattern recognition and service to the IAPR
Professor Jin H Kim
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Korea
For contributions to handwritten oriental scripts recognition
Professor Josef Kittler
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UK
For contributions to computer vision and pattern recognition, and for Outstanding leadership in IAPR
Professor Walter G. Kropatsch
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Austria
For contributions to image processing and remote sensing and service to the IAPR
Mineichi Kudo
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For contributions to pattern classification and feature extraction.
B.V.K. Vijaya Kumar
- For contributions to frequency domain pattern recognition methods
Professor Seong-Whan Lee
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Korea
For contributions to document understanding and for service to IAPR
Professor Ales Leonardis
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Slovenia
For contributions to computer vision and for service to IAPR.
Professor Stefano Levialdi
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Italy
For contributions to architectures for parallel image processing and and service to the IAPR
Professor Martin D Levine
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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
Brian C. Lovell
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For contributions to video and medical image analysis and service to the IAPR.
Dr Gerd Maderlechner
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Germany
For contributions to pattern recognition, interpretation technologies and their applications and service to the IAPR
Professor Dwijesh Kr. Dutta Majumder
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India
For contributions to pattern recognition, image processing, computer vision and artificial intelligence and service to the IAPR
Professor Takashi Matsuyama
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Japan
For contributions to image understanding and for service to IAPR
Dr Gerard G. Medioni
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USA
For contributions to pattern recognition and computer vision.
Vittorio Murino
- For contributions to the design of probabilistic (graphical) methods for pattern recognition
Fionn Murtagh
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For contributions to clustering and analysis of massive and high dimensional data, with applications to astronomy.
Professor Piero Mussio
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Italy
For contributions to image description and interpretation, and for service to IAPR
Professor Makoto Nagao
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Japan
For contributions to image analysis and recognition and service to the IAPR
Professor Hans-Hellmut Nagel
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Germany
For contributions to image sequence analysis
Professor George Nagy
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USA
For contributions to document image analysis and for service to IAPR
Masaki Nakagawa
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For contributions to handwriting recognition and its applications.
Professor Yasuaki Nakano
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Japan
For contributions to recognition of handwritten characters, document analysis and for service to IAPR
Professor Heinrich Niemann
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Germany
For contributions to pattern recognition with applications to speech processing and image understanding, and for service to IAPR.
Dr Hirobumi Nishida
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Japan
For contributions to structural pattern recognition and for service to IAPR
Mark Nixon
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For contributions to biometrics and computer vision.
Yuichi Ohta
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Japan
For contributions to computer vision and vision-based approach to image media, and for service to IAPR.
Professor Erkki Oja
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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
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Japan
For contributions to motion analysis and for service to IAPR
Professor Sankar K. Pal
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India
For contributions to pattern recognition and image processing using soft computing.
Professor Jussi P.S. Parkkinen
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Finland
For contributions to color and multispectral image processing, and for service to IAPR.
Professor Theo Pavlidis
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USA
For contributions to computer graphics and image processing and service to the IAPR
Professor Shmuel Peleg
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Israel
For contributions to image analysis and computer vision and service to the IAPR
Marcello Pelillo
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For contributions to graph-theoretic and optimization-based approaches in pattern recognition and computer vision.
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
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UK
For contributions to image processing and for service to IAPR
P. Jonathon Phillips
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For contributions to face recognition and evaluation methodologies.
Professor Matti K. Pietikainen
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Finland
For contributions to machine vision and its applications in industry and service to the IAPR
Professor Re'jean Plamondon
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Canada
For contributions to handwriting and document recognition and service to the IAPR
Dr Pavel Pudil
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Czech Republic
For contributions to statistical pattern recognition and for service to IAPR
Nalini K. Ratha
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For contributions to biometric authentication.
Fabio Roli
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Italy
For contributions to pattern recognition and its applications and multiple classifier systems.
Professor Azriel Rosenfeld
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USA
For outstanding contributions to pattern recognition and image processing and leadership in the IAPR
Professor Toshiyuki Sakai
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Japan
For contributions to pattern recognition and outstanding leadership in the IAPR
Katsuhiko Sakaue
- For contributions to computer vision and its applications
Hiroshi Sako
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Japan
For contributions to the development and application of machine vision technology for factory and office automation.
Professor H Samet
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USA
For contributions to hierarchical data structures for image analysis and representation
Professor Alberto Sanfeliu
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Spain
For contributions to syntactic and structural pattern recognition and service to the IAPR
Dr Gabriella Sanniti di Baja
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Italy
For exceptional service to IAPR and for contributions to image analysis
Sudeep Sarkar
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For contributions to computer vision, particularly perceptual organization, segmentation and grouping, and to the evaluation of vision algorithms.
Professor Jürgen Schürmann
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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
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USA
For contributions to computer vision and structural pattern recognition
Professor Yoshiaki Shirai
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Japan
For contributions to three-dimensional object recognition and for service to IAPR
Professor Jean-Claude Simon
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France
For contributions in pattern recognition and outstanding leadership in the IAPR
Professor Jack Sklansky
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USA
For contributions to pattern recognition, machine vision and medical imaging and service to the IAPR
Professor Arnold W M Smeulders
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The Netherlands
For contributions to image analysis and content-based image database retrieval
Professor Franc Solina
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Slovenia
For contributions to interpretation of range images and for service to IAPR.
A. Lawrence Spitz
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New Zealand
For contributions to document recognition and for service to IAPR.
Professor Sargur N. Srihari
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USA
For contributions to character recognition and for service to IAPR
David G. Stork
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For contributions to pattern recognition education, machine learning, speech recognition, and the application of computer vision to the study of art.
Professor Ching Y. Suen
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Canada
For contributions to optical character recognition and document understanding and service to the IAPR
Tamás Szirányi
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For contributions to stochastic models and learning methods for video event analysis, and to energy optimization-based image and video segmentation.
Dr Johji Tajima
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Japan
For contributions to color image processing and 3D vision.
Professor Mikio Takagi
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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
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Hong Kong
For contributions to wavelet analysis, pattern recognition and document analysis.
Professor Steven L Tanimoto
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USA
For contributions to image processing
Dr Torfinn Taxt
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Norway
For contributions to multispectral image analysis
Christopher J. Taylor
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UK
For contributions to the theory and practice of computer vision and medical image analysis, and for service to IAPR.
Massimo Tistarelli
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For contributions to computer vision, and biometrics research and education.
Professor Jun-ichiro Toriwaki
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Japan
For contributions to medical image analysis and for service to IAPR
Professor Saburo Tsuji
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Japan
For contributions to computer vision and for outstanding service to IAPR
Professor Ventzeslav Valev
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Bulgaria
For contributions to pattern recognition theory and for service to IAPR
Svetha Venkatesh
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Australia
For contributions to the formulation and extraction of semantics in multimedia data.
Mario Vento
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Italy
For contributions to graph based learning and matching techniques, and for service to IAPR.
Professor Gianni L. Vernazza
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Italy
For contributions to image processing and pattern recognition.
Professor Enrique Vidal-Ruis
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Spain
For contributions to syntactic pattern recognition
Professor Max A. Viergever
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The Netherlands
For contributions to biomedical applications of computer vision and pattern recognition, and for service to IAPR.
Juan Jose Villanueva
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Spain
For contributions to research and the transfer of innovation and technology in computer vision.
Professor Patrick S. P Wang
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USA
For contributions to pattern recognition, optical character recognition and service to the IAPR
Professor Harry Wechsler
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USA
For contributions to computer vision and pattern recognition, and for service to IAPR
Professor Lei Xu
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Hong Kong
For contributions to studies on Randomized Hough Transform and combination of multiple classifiers.
Professor Kazuhiko Yamamoto
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Japan
For contributions to character recognition and for service to IAPR
Professor Hong Yan
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Hong Kong
For contributions to document image analysis
Professor Ian T Young
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The Netherlands
For contributions to image analysis and pattern recognition
David Zhang
- For contributions to biometrics technologies and systems