IAPR Newsletter

Dear IAPR Community Members,

The April 2024 Issue of the IAPR Newsletter is now available:

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This is a special issue devoted to the ICDAR conference celebrated last year in San Jose, California. It contains the meeting reports from ICDAR23, GREC23 and HIP23, as well as an interview with an early career researcher who received one ICDAR Best Poster Award: Simon Corbillé.

This issue also includes a Memorial tribute to the IAPR fellow Edwin R. Hancock.

In addition, you will find:

• Calls for PAPERS
• Calls from the IAPR Education, Industrial Liaison, and ExCo Committees
• ICPR 2024 Call for Tutorials
• Calls for bids to host ICPR 2028
• News from the ExCo and Information from the IAPR Membership Committee for incorporating New Member Associations.
• News from the IAPR Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee
• Calls for Special Issues from Pattern Recognition Letters
• IAPR Technical Committee (TC) News: TC1, TC3, TC4, TC6, TC10 and TC12
• Other Meeting Reports from conferences: CVMI23, PReMI23, ICPRAM24, and the Winter School on Biometrics
• Bulletin Board
• Meeting and Education Planner

Enjoy your reading,

Heydi Méndez Vázquez
IAPR Newsletter Editor
CENATAV, Cuba
hmendez@cenatav.co.cu

Dear IAPR Community Members,

The January 2024 Issue of the IAPR Newsletter is now available:

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In this issue you will find:

• Reflections by Ruber Hernández García (General Chair of CIARP 2024)
• Calls for PAPERS
• Calls from the IAPR Education, Industrial Liaison, and ExCo Committees
• ICPR 2024 Call for Papers, Competitions, Workshops and Tutorials
• Calls for IAPR Prizes to be Awarded at ICPR 2024 and for IAPR Fellow Nominations
• Calls for bids to host ICPR 2028
• News from the ExCo and the Introduction of an International Conference Support Specialist
• “Getting to Know” Professor René Vidal, an IAPR Fellow for outstanding contributions to computer vision and pattern recognition.
• Interview with an early career researcher: Asma Bensalah, a phD student at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona who received an IAPR Research Scholarship
• News from the IAPR Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee
• Calls for Special Issues from Pattern Recognition Letters
• IAPR Technical Committee (TC) News: TC2, TC3, TC4, TC6, TC12, TC15, TC18 and TC20
• Meeting Reports from conferences: IbPRIA23, GbR23, IJCB23, ICCPR23, CVIP23, ACPR23, CIARP23, CCBR23, and SSDA23
• Bulletin Board
• Meeting and Education Planner

Enjoy your reading,

Heydi Méndez Vázquez
IAPR Newsletter Editor
CENATAV, Cuba
hmendez@cenatav.co.cu

Dear IAPR Community Members,

The October 2023 Issue of the IAPR Newsletter is now available:

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In this issue you will find:

• Reflections by Professor José Ruiz Shulcloper (President of the Cuban Association) on Pattern Recognition in Developing Countries
• Calls for PAPERS
• Calls from the IAPR Education Committee, Industrial Liaison Committee, and ExCo
• ICPR 2024 Call for Papers
• Open Calls for IAPR Prizes to be Awarded at ICPR 2024 and for IAPR Fellow Nominations
• Announcements of Improvements to the IAPR Website
• News from the IAPR Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee
• News from the ExCo and Essay from the Ad Hoc IAPR 50th Anniversary Committee
• Calls for Special Issues from Pattern Recognition Letters and Upcoming Special Issue Announcement
• Interview with an early career researcher: Orlando Grabiel Toledano-López, Best Paper Award winner at IWAIPR 2023
• A tribute In Memoriam Professor Dr. Roumen Kountchev
• IAPR Technical Committee (TC) News: TC2, TC4, TC6, TC9, TC12 and TC20
• Meeting Reports from conferences: DGMM 2022, ISPR 2023, ICPRS 2023, DeLTA 2023, MVA 2023 and Summer School on Biometrics 2023
• Reports from two students on 20th International Summer School on Biometrics
• Bulletin Board
• Meeting and Education Planner

Enjoy your reading,

Heydi Méndez Vázquez
IAPR Newsletter Editor
CENATAV, Cuba
hmendez@cenatav.co.cu

Dear IAPR Community Members,

The July 2023 Issue of the IAPR Newsletter is now available:

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In this issue you will find:

• Calls for PAPERS
• Calls from the IAPR Education Committee, Industrial Liaison Committee, and ExCo
• ICPR 2024 Preliminary Call for Papers and Open Calls for IAPR Prizes to be Awarded
• Calls for Special Issues from Pattern Recognition Letters and Upcoming Special Issue Announcement
• “Getting to Know” and “Her Story” of Josiane Zerubia, an IAPR Fellow for contributions to stochastic image modelling for classification, segmentation, and object detection in remote sensing.
• Interview with an early career researcher: Dmitry Demidov, Best Student Paper Award winner at VISAPP 2023
• News from the IAPR Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee: details about a volume series devoted to research by women
• News from the ExCo and details about the new IAPR Ad-hoc Committee on Hybrid Conferences
• Reflections of a phD. student granted the IAPR Research Scholarship
• IAPR Technical Committee (TC) News: TC3, TC4, TC5, TC6, TC12, TC15 and TC18
• Meeting Reports from conferences: ICFHR 2022, ICPRAM 2023, VISAPP 2023, IWBF 2023 and MCPR 2023
• Bulletin Board
• Meeting and Education Planner

Enjoy your reading,

Heydi Méndez Vázquez
IAPR Newsletter Editor
CENATAV, Cuba
hmendez@cenatav.co.cu

Dear IAPR Community Members,

The April 2023 Issue of the IAPR Newsletter is now available:

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In this issue you will find:

• CALLS for PAPERS
• Calls from the IAPR Education Committee, Industrial Liaison Committee, and ExCo
• Open Calls for IAPR Prizes to be Awarded at ICPR 2024
• Calls for Special Issues from Pattern Recognition Letters
• Reflections by Professor Massimo Tistarelli, who received the IEEE Biometrics Council Meritorious Service Award, on 20 Years of International Biometrics Summer School
• Interview with an early career researcher: Josselin Lefèvre, Best Student Paper Award winner at DGMM 2022
• News from the IAPR Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee
• News from the ExCo and details about IAPR Research Scholarships program
• ICPR 2024 Preliminary Call for Papers
• IAPR Technical Committee (TC) News: TC3, TC4, TC6, TC7, TC11, TC12 and TC19
• Meeting Reports from conferences: IJCB 2022 and ANNPR 2022
• Report from Winter School on Biometrics 2023 and Student Reports.
• Bulletin Board
• Meeting and Education Planner

Enjoy your reading,

Heydi Méndez Vázquez
IAPR Newsletter Editor
CENATAV, Cuba
hmendez@cenatav.co.cu

Dear IAPR Community Members,

The January 2023 Issue of the IAPR Newsletter is now available at:

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In this issue you will find:

• CALLS for PAPERS
• Calls from the IAPR Education Committee, Industrial Liaison Committee, and ExCo
• ICPR 2024 Preliminary Call for Papers
• Open Calls for IAPR Prizes to be Awarded at ICPR 2024
• News from the ExCo and more details about IAPR Prizes
• Interviews with early and later career researchers:
  • Ajmal Mian, IAPR Fellow
  • Leandro José Rodriguez-Hernandez, Best Student Paper Award winner at MCPR 2022
• A column in Memoriam to Prof. R. L. Kashyap
• A new column from the IAPR Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee
• IAPR Technical Committee (TC) News:TC1, TC3, TC4, TC6, TC10, TC12, TC15 and TC18
• Meeting Reports from different conferences: DAS 2022, ICPRS 2022, MCPR 2022, CVMI 2022, CVIP 2022, ICCPR 2022 and IVCNZ 2022
• Bulletin Board
• Meeting and Education Planner

Enjoy your reading,

Heydi Méndez Vázquez
IAPR Newsletter Editor
CENATAV, Cuba
hmendez@cenatav.co.cu

Greetings from the staff of the IAPR Newsletter!

The October 2022 Issue of the IAPR Newsletter is now available at: 

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FEATURES IN THIS ICPR 2022 SPECIAL ISSUE:

• From the President’s Desk:  Comments from Arjan Kuijper, IAPR President 2022-24
• Getting to Know…Sergio Escalera, IAPR Fellow
• IAPR…The Next Generation:  Pritish Sahu, winner of the 2022 Best Student Paper Award at ICPR 2022
• INSIDE the IAPR:  The IAPR Welcomes the Colombian Association of Pattern Recognition (ACORP)
• *NEW* ICPR 2024 Preliminary Call for Papers
• ICPR 2022 Highlights
• ICPR 2022 Co-located Workshop Reports:  S+SSPR 2022

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:

• CALLS for PAPERS
• Calls from the IAPR Education Committee, Industrial Liaison Committee, and ExCo
• *NEW* First Open Call for Nominations for the K. S. Fu, J. K. Aggarwal, and Maria Petrou
• Prizes to be given at ICPR 2024 in Kolkata, India
• IAPR Technical Committee (TC) News:  TC20
• Bulletin Board
• Meeting and Education Planner

Wishing you all happy reading!

Stay safe,

Jing Dong
IAPR Newsletter Editor
Ph.D., Full Professor, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
jdong@nlpr.ia.ac.cn

Greetings from the staff of the IAPR Newsletter!

The July 2022 Issue of the IAPR Newsletter is now available at:

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FEATURES IN THIS ISSUE:

• From the Editor’s Desk: Call for articles related to “Pattern Recognition for Humanitarian Purposes”
• Getting to Know…Adam Krzyżak, IAPR Fellow, “My adventure with statistical pattern recognition”
• IAPR…The Next Generation: Diego Rodriguez, winner of the 2022 Best Poster Award at VISAPP 2022
• The IAPR ExCo on Reforming Technical Committee 20 (formerly named Bioinformatics)
• See you @ ICPR 2022 in Montréal!
• IAPR Technical Committee Workshops @ ICPR 2022

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:

• CALLS for PAPERS
• Calls from the IAPR Education Committee, Industrial Liaison Committee, and ExCo
• News from the IAPR Executive Committee (ExCo)
• IAPR Technical Committee (TC) News: TC1, TC3, TC4, TC7, TC12 and TC15
• Meeting Reports: ICPRAM 2022, VISAPP 2022, ICPRAI 2021, IGS 2021 and IbPRIA 2022
• Bulletin Board
• Meeting and Education Planner

Wishing you all happy reading!

Stay safe,
Jing Dong
IAPR Newsletter Editor
Ph.D., Full Professor, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
jdong@nlpr.ia.ac.cn

The April 2022 Issue of the IAPR Newsletter is now available:

April 2022 Newsletter (pdf)

IN THIS ISSUE you will find:

• From the Editor’s Desk:  Add your voice to theirs, Gender Visibility in the Pattern Recognition Community, a collection of Her Stories
• CALLS for PAPERS
• Calls from the IAPR Education Committee, Industrial Liaison Committee, and ExCo
• IAPR…The Next Generation: Vishal M. Patel, winner of the 2021 Young Biometrics Investigator Award at IJCB 2021
• From the ExCo: News plus Gender Visibility in the Pattern Recognition Community, Part 2
• In Memoriam: Sargur N. Srihari
• ICPR 2022 Registration, Workshops, and Challenges
• IAPR Technical Committee (TC) News:  TC1, TC4, TC5, TC6, TC7, TC12, TC18 and TC19
• Meeting Reports: CIARP Porto, ACPR 2021, DICTA 2021, CVIP 2021, WSB 2022, and ISPR 2022
• Bulletin Board: Pattern Recognition Letters Special Issues
• Meeting and Education Planner

Wishing you all happy reading!

Stay safe,
Jing Dong
IAPR Newsletter Editor
Associate Professor, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
jdong@nlpr.ia.ac.cn

The January 2022 Issue of the IAPR Newsletter is now available at:  

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IN THIS ISSUE you will find:

— “Going against the main stream:  turning penny stocks into blue chips” by   Masaki Nakagawa, recipient of the 2021 ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award
— CALLS for PAPERS
— Calls from the IAPR Education Committee, Industrial Liaison Committee, and ExCo
— Calls for Nominations for Awards to be presented at ICPR 2022
— Call for Bids to Host ICPR 2026!
— IAPR…The Next Generation:  Alexander Mattick
— From the ExCo:  News plus Encouraging diversity in Summer/Winter Schools and IAPR Prizes and Awards
— In Memoriam:  Michael Duff
— ICPR 2022 Call for Papers, Workshops, Tutorials and Challenges
— IAPR Technical Committee (TC) News:  TC4, TC9, TC12, TC18 and TC19 
— Meeting Reports, ICDAR 2021 Section:  ICDAR 2021, Awards, and Workshops
— Meeting Reports:  PRIP 2021 and IWAIPR 2021
— Bulletin Board
— Meeting and Education Planner

Wishing you all happy reading!

Stay safe,
Jing Dong
IAPR Newsletter Editor
Associate Professor, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
jdong@nlpr.ia.ac.cn