Posted April 26, 2013
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Posted April 12, 2013
Special Edition of Pattern Recognition Letters: Celebrating the life and work of Maria Petrou
Maria Petrou was an outstanding scientist with a well developed sense of humour, and seemingly tireless energy. She had the ability to enliven whatever she became involved in. Although she worked for most of her professional life in the UK, she was born and died in Thessaloniki, and was proud of her Greek roots and the language, culture and intellectual traditions of her country of birth. She trained as an astronomer, but moved into the fields of pattern recognition and image analysis. She took a leading role in the IAPR, and made many innovative research contributions, some of which are set to have a lasting impact. She was a woman and devoted mother, who worked in fields where women are in a minority and has provided a role model for younger women scientists and engineers to follow. Those who came into contact with her were invariably impressed both by her incisive thinking and warm personality. She enriched the scientific lives of over 50 PhD students and numerous collaborators from all over the world. Sadly, she passed away on October 15 2012 after a brave battle with cancer, and will be greatly missed.
The aim of this special edition of Pattern Recognition Letters is to celebrate Maria’s life and work. The aim is to collect together both scientific articles and personal reflections which illuminate her contributions to our field. We encourage contributions from both those who worked with Maria, and those whose work was influenced by her.
Maria’s interests were broad, spanning image processing and analysis, remote sensing, medical image analysis, computer vision and, of course, pattern recognition. She was noted for her key contributions the trace transform, mixed pixel classification (remote sensing community), Hough, contextual classification (multi resolution MRF), and edge/line detection.
We invite three different types of contribution:
a) Short recollections of Maria and reflections on her life and work, that capture her personality and interests. We are particularly keen to receive photographs to illustrate these accounts. We would hope to edit both the photographs and accounts together into a montage capturing the different facets of her life and work.
b) Reviews that place her work in the context of the literature in the field, focus on her scientific contributions and assess their lasting influence.
c) Original scientific papers in the broad areas of Maria’s research interests, pointing out their relevance to her work. These could be posthumous papers with Maria as co-author, submitted by one of her collaborators or students.
Although we want the special edition to reflect Maria’s life and personal qualities, we expect that the bulk of papers in the Special Edition will be original scientific articles focused around her research interests.
Deadlines:
submission of papers for review – 1st June 2013
(submission open on http://ees.elsevier.com/prletters/ from 1st May 2013).
first reviews/decisions - 15th August 2013
revised papers – 1st October 2013
publication - 1st January 2014.
Josef Kittler
Edwin Hancock
Guest Editors.
Posted February 04, 2013
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Posted December 07, 2012
IAPR Executive Committee for 2012-2014
The 2010-2012 term of the IAPR Executive Committee (ExCo) as well as that of the standing committees and of the leadership of technical committees (TCs) ended with the biennial Governing Board (GB) meeting during ICPR2012 in Tsukuba, Japan.
The IAPR GB elected new ExCo officers for the 2012-2014 term who have now taken office and started work on the association's plans for the new term. One of the ExCo's very first tasks is the appointment of standing committees and TC Chairs.
The 2012-2014 ExCo members elected are as follows:
President: Kim Boyer (USA)
Vice President (1st): Tieniu Tan (China)
Vice President (2nd): Apostolos Antonacopoulos (UK)
Secretary: Ingela Nystrom (Sweden)
Treasurer: Aytul Ercil (Turkey)
Denis Laurendeau (Canada), the 2010-2012 President, assumes the ex officio post of Past President, completing the ExCo.
Posted December 07, 2012
The IAPR Governing Board (GB), at its biennial meeting during ICPR 2012, examined and discussed three high-quality proposals for hosting ICPR 2016.
The result of the GB vote was that Cancun, Mexico will be the location of ICPR in four years' time (following ICPR 2014 in Stockholm, Sweden).
Posted October 16, 2012
It is with great sadness that the Executive Committee has been informed that Professor Maria Petrou passed away on October 15, 2012. Her funeral will be at 17:00 (local time) on October 16, 2012 in Kalamaria Thessaloniki.
After a distinguished career at University of Surrey, she joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College in London UK in 2005. In 2009, she became the Director of the Informatics and Telematics Institute of CERTH in Thessaloniki Greece while retaining as part time her chair at Imperial College. In addition of being a distinguished researcher, Professor Petrou was also known as a very active member of the IAPR Community. She held many positions in the IAPR including Editor of the Newsletter, Treasurer of the Executive Committee and member of standing and technical committees.
Professor Petrou will be remembered as someone who was hardworking, dedicated to research and student training and, for those who worked with her closely, was also a person with a very special sense of humor. Professor Petrou will be sadly missed.
An obituary for Professor Petrou appeared in the United Kingdom in The Telegraph.
Posted October 09, 2012
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Posted September 23, 2012
It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the J. K. Aggarwal Prize 2012 is Professor René Vidal, Johns Hopkins University, USA.
The citation for the prize is:
"For outstanding contributions to the generalized principal component analysis (GPCA) and subspace clustering in computer vision and pattern recognition."
Professor Vidal will receive his prize at the ICPR 2012 that will take place in Tsukuba on November 11-15, 2012. The J. K. Aggarwal ceremony and lecture will be presented during the ICPR 2012.
Congratulations to Professor Vidal on this achievement.
Ingela Nyström
IAPR Secretary
Posted September 13, 2012
Don’t miss the University of Notre Dame Distinguished Lecture Series by K.S. Fu Prize Winners.
http://www.cse.nd.edu/Fu_Prize_Seminars/
Posted August 14, 2012
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Posted August 12, 2012
It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the King-Sun Fu Prize 2012 is Professor Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, USA.
The citation for the prize is:
"For pioneering contributions to statistical methods for image and video-based object recognition"
Professor Chellappa will receive his prize at the ICPR 2012 that will take place in Tsukuba on November 11-15, 2012. The K.-S. Fu ceremony and lecture will be presented during the ICPR 2012 opening ceremony.
Congratulations to Professor Chellappa on this prestigious achievement.
Ingela Nyström
IAPR Secretary
Posted June 07, 2012
Call for bids to host ICPR 2016
The International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) is the major scientific event organized under the auspices of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).
The aim of this conference is to bring together international experts to share their experiences and to promote research and development in Pattern Recognition.
The conference is hosted by an institution under the auspices of an endorsing IAPR member organisation (national association).
Any such organisation interested in making a proposal to host an ICPR must proceed according to the rules outlined in the latest version of the guidelines document (http://www.iapr.org/conferences/proposals.php).
It is expected that Proposers familiarise themselves with the guidelines for organising ICPR first, to fully plan their bid. The submission of a bid implies full agreement with the guidelines and procedures for organising the conference as well as with the IAPR constitution.
Note: the current version of the guidelines is identical to the previous one (dated 8 December 2009) with the exception of point 3 of section 5.2 where the skeleton organizational structure is better clarified.
Bids to host ICPR 2016 must be submitted to the IAPR Conferences and Meetings Committee by July 28th 2012.
The selection of the conference venue will be made by the IAPR Governing Board (GB) during its meeting at ICPR 2012 in Tsukuba.
Organizations interested to organize ICPR 2016 should submit the bid to Simone Marinai (simone.marinai@unifi.it) C&M chair by July 28 2012.
Simone Marinai
IAPR C&M chair
Posted April 28, 2012
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Posted January 28, 2012
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Posted October 21, 2011
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Posted July 26, 2011
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Posted July 14, 2011
Announcement of IAPR/ICDAR 2011 Awards Recipients
The IAPR Technical Committees on Graphics Recognition (TC10) and Reading Systems (TC11) are pleased to announce the recipients of the IAPR/ICDAR 2011 Awards.
The IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award is presented to Prof. Sargur Srihari for his outstanding and continued contributions to research and education in handwriting recognition and document analysis, and services to the community.
Prof. Srihari will deliver the Opening Keynote Speech at ICDAR2011 in Beijing on “Probabilistic Graphical Models in Machine Learning”.
The IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award is presented to Masakazu Iwamura for his outstanding contributions to camera-based document analysis and document image retrieval.
Congratulations to the awardees!
The awards ceremony will be held during ICDAR2011 in Beijing, China.
Posted April 28, 2011
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Posted January 28, 2011
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Posted October 25, 2010
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Posted September 21, 2010
Video source material from the Joint IAPR International Workshops on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR 2010) and Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR 2010) is now freely available online through videolectures.net at the following address:
http://videolectures.net/ssspr2010_cesme/
Posted April 28, 2010
It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the K.S. Fu Prize 2010 is Professor Horst Bunke from the University of Bern.
The citation for the prize is:
"For pioneering work on syntactic and structural pattern recognition."
Professor Bunke will receive his prize at the next ICPR 2010 that will take place in Istanbul on August 23-26, 2010. The K.S. Fu ceremony and lecture will be presented during the ICPR 2010 opening ceremony.
Congratulations to Professor Bunke on this achievement.
Denis Laurendeau
IAPR Secretary
Posted April 28, 2010
It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the 2010 J.K. Aggarwal Prize is Prof. Antonio Torralba from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The citation for the prize is:
"For algorithms and representations to exploit context in computer vision."
Professor Torralba will receive his prize at the next ICPR 2010 that will take place in Istanbul on August 23-26, 2010. The time of the J.K. Aggarwal ceremony and lecture will be available soon.
Congratulations to Professor Torralba on this achievement.
Denis Laurendeau
IAPR Secretary
Posted April 28, 2010
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Posted February 01, 2010
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Posted October 31, 2009
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Posted October 08, 2009
A Detailed History of the IAPR is now available on the IAPR History page. The ExCo would like to thank Herbert Freeman and the Advisory Committee for compiling this excellent and comprehensive document.
Posted August 26, 2009
The nomination and endorsement forms for the 2010 King-Sun Fu Prize are available on the King-Sun Fu Prize page.
Deadline for nominations is January 10, 2010.
Posted July 31, 2009
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Posted April 20, 2009
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Posted January 29, 2009
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Posted October 16, 2008
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Posted September 30, 2008
It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the K.S. Fu Prize 2008 is Prof. Anil K. Jain from Michigan State University.
The citation for the prize is:
"For pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of pattern recognition, to computer vision, and design of biometric systems."
Professor Jain will receive his prize at the next ICPR 2008 that will take place at the Tampa Convention Center on December 8-11, 2008. The K.S. Fu ceremony and lecture have been scheduled at 09:30-10:30 on Monday December 8, 2008.
Congratulations to Professor Jain on this achievement.
Denis Laurendeau
IAPR Secretary
Posted September 30, 2008
It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the 2008 J.K. Aggarwal
Prize is Prof. Song-Chun Zhu from the University of California in Los Angeles.
The citation for the prize is:
"For fundamental and pioneering contributions to a unified foundation for visual pattern conceptualization, modeling, learning, and inference with applications in computer vision and pattern recognition."
Professor Zhu will receive his prize at the next ICPR 2008 that will take place at the Tampa Convention Center on December 8-11, 2008. The J.K. Aggarwal ceremony and lecture have been scheduled at 09:00-10:030 on Wednesday December 10, 2008.
Congratulations to Professor Zhu on this achievement.
Sincerely,
Denis Laurendeau
IAPR Secretary
Posted July 01, 2008
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Posted March 19, 2008
The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the following offices of the IAPR:
president,
1st and
2nd vice president,
secretary and
treasurer.
Informal suggestions are welcome from all members of the IAPR governing board (GB) and other members of the IAPR community. The nomination must include
the name,
the office for which the person should be considered and
a brief case for support (person's qualification for the office).
These suggestions, which are not considered as formal nominations, should reach the Chairman of the Nomination Committees until April 30, 2008 at the following address:
Subject: IAPR nomination
Walter G. Kropatsch
Vienna University of Technology
Institute of Computer Aided Automation
Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Group
Favoritenstr. 9/2/4, 1832
A-1040 WIEN / Austria
email: krw@prip.tuwien.ac.at (preferred)
Further details about the nomination process can be found in
the IAPR Constitution
the Bylaw section 5
and the Guidelines section 5.2
Walter G. Kropatsch
IAPR Chair of Nominating Committee
Posted March 14, 2008
IAPR Statement of Ethics
We, the members of the IAPR and its member societies, commit ourselves to the highest ethical and professional conduct and declare that:
IAPR Ethical Requirements for Authors
The IAPR requires that all authors wishing to present a paper declare that the paper is substantially original; that is, the manuscript as a whole, or for the most part, is novel, has not been published in (or even submitted to) any journals and has not been presented at any other conferences. If previous versions of the manuscript were published or presented, appropriate references must be given and substantial justification for presentation of the current version must be presented.
The IAPR strictly prohibits any plagiarism; that is, the work of others must not be "borrowed" and presented as the authors' own work, regardless of the size of the borrowed portion.
The IAPR frowns upon "no-show behavior" at IAPR-related conferences and workshops, meaning that an author registers to make a presentation but does not show up for it. If such behavior is unavoidable due to urgent and unexpected personal matters, the author is strongly urged to notify the event organizer of the situation as soon as possible. If prior notification is impossible, the organizer should be advised after the fact of the reason for the author's absence.
The IAPR retains the rights to eliminate any papers in violation of these Requirements and to take appropriate action against individuals repeatedly violating these Requirements and assumes no responsibility for any resulting loss of reputation or opportunity of such individuals or for any inconvenience related to the future work of such individuals.
Posted January 28, 2008
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Posted January 23, 2008
The King-Sun Fu Prize Nomination Deadline is May 31, 2008.
For further information and to download the nomination forms please visit the J. K. Aggarwal Prize section of the website.
Posted January 17, 2008
The Fellow Nomination Deadline is February 28, 2008.
For further information and to download the nomination forms please visit the Fellow section of the website.
Posted January 01, 2008
The King-Sun Fu Prize Nomination Deadline is April 30, 2008.
For further information and to download the nomination forms please visit the King-Sun Fu Prize section of the website.
Posted October 01, 2007
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Posted April 15, 2007
Posted December 31, 2006
See the IAPR Conference Listing for details.
Posted May 01, 2003
As a service to the community at large, the ExCo sends out a mail, approximately once a month, with short announcements of scientific events in the interest field of the IAPR. This mail is sent to all Technical Committee chairs and all Governing Board members, with the request to forward it to the all members of their respective societies or committees. To avoid this being perceived as additional spam, rather than as a service, the ExCo policy is
* to keep each announcement short -- for instance, for a conference or workshop, the announcement basically contains the title, date and place of the event, the submission deadline, and a pointer to a web site with more information
* to only send one single announcement for each event -- i.e. no reminder, second call for papers, or whatever.
The ExCo reserves the right to make exceptions to this general rule in specific cases (e.g. for major IAPR events such as the ICPR).
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