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J. K. Aggarwal Prize


Deadline for Submission of Nomination and Endorsement Forms is April 11, 2012

The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the third J.K. Aggarwal Prize in honor of Professor J.K. Aggarwal.

Professor Aggarwal is widely recognized for his extensive contributions to the field of pattern recognition and for his participation in IAPR’s activities.

The recipient is a young scientist, under the age of 40 at the date of the deadline for nominations, who has brought a substantial contribution to a field that is relevant to the IAPR community and whose research work has had a major impact on the field. The prize consists of a cash amount and a suitably inscribed certificate. The prize is derived from interest income from a special fund set up for this purpose.

The prize recipient shall be selected by the J. K. Aggarwal Prize Committee, subject to approval by the IAPR Governing Board, upon nomination by a member of a national member society of IAPR and by endorsement of four members, representing at least two member societies different from that of the nominators and nominee.

Members of the IAPR Executive Committee, as well as of the J.K. Aggarwal Prize Committee, shall be ineligible for the prize and may not serve as nominators or endorsers.

The 2012 prize will be presented at the

21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
Tsukuba, Japan
November 11-15, 2012

The prize recipient is expected to present an invited talk at the conference.

The nomination must be made on special nomination and the endorsement forms, and must be received no later than April 12, 2012. Both completed nomination and endorsement forms must be submitted in electronic form. The nominator as well as endorsers should email their completed forms directly to the Appointed Chairman of the J.K. Aggarwal Prize Committee via the specified email address:

Song-Chun Zhu Chair, J.K. Aggarwal Prize Committee
8125 Math Science Bldg. Box 951554
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095
USA
email: sczhu@stat.ucla.edu

J. K. Aggarwal Prize Nomination Forms:

Endorsement Form (.doc)
Nomination Form (.doc)



2012 Award Winner in Tsukuba, Japan

Professor René Vidal
"For outstanding contributions to the generalized principal component analysis (GPCA) and subspace clustering in computer vision and pattern recognition."

2010 Award Winner in Istanbul

Professor Antonio Torralba

2008 Award Winner in Tampa

Professor Song-Chun Zhu

2006 Award Winner in Hong Kong

Professor Bernhard Schölkopf

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