Volume 31, Number 4 October 2009

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION

Newsletter

Newsletter Editor:

Alexandra Branzan Albu

email: aalbu@ece.uvic.ca

Home page:  www.ece.uvic.ca/~aalbu/

 

Associate Editor for Book Reviews:

Arjan Kuijper

email:  arjan.kuijper@igd.fraunhofer.de

Home page:  www.igd.fraunhofer.de/~akuijper/

 

Layout Editor:

Linda J. O’Gorman

email:  logorman@alumni.duke.edu

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Calls for Papers

In this issue…

 

Global Pattern Recognition:   Fraunhofer IGD

Arjan Kuijper discusses the interesting research going on at Fraunhofer IGD.

 

Getting to Know...J.K. Aggarwal, IAPR Fellow

In the premier article in the new series, Getting to Know...IAPR Fellows, J.K. Aggarwal explains the context for and the challenges of human activity recognition.

 

From the ExCo

IAPR Secretary Denis Laurendeau shares news from the IAPR Executive Committee.

 

INSIDE the IAPR:  Arjan Kuijper, Associate Editor for Book Reviews

Arjan Kuijper, the new IAPR Newsletter Associate Editor for Book Reviews, tells us a bit about himself.

 

BooksBooksBooks

A list of all book reviews that have been published in the IAPR Newsletter followed by the most recent reviews:

 

Egon L. van den Broek reviews

Handbook of Texture Analysis

by

Majid Mirmehdi, Xianghua Xie, and Jasjit Suri, editors

 

Apostolos Georgakis reviews

Markov Random Field Modeling in Image Analysis

by Stan Z. Li

 

 IAPR Conference and Workshop Reports:

 

SCIA 2009

16th Scandinavian Conference on

Image Analysis

 

GREC 2009

Eighth IAPR International Workshop

on Graphics Recognition

 

ICDAR 2009

10th International Conference on

Document Analysis and Recognition

 

ICIAP 2009

15th International Conference on

Image Analysis and Processing

 

VSMM 2009

15th International Conference on

Virtual Systems and Multimedia

 

 Non-IAPR Workshop Report:

 

CTIC 2009

2nd Workshop on

Computational Topology in

Image Context

 

ICPR 2010 deadlines approaching

Get your submissions in now for workshop proposals (deadline:  November 16, 2009).  Paper submission deadline is January 15, 2010. 

 

Call for Nominations: K-S Fu Prize

The deadline is January 10, 2010.  Nomination s are being accepted for the K-S Fu Prize that will be awarded at ICPR 2010 in Istanbul, Turkey. 

 

Call for Nominations: J.K. Aggarwal Prize

The deadline is February 10, 2010.  Nominations are being accepted for the J.K. Aggarwal Prize that will be awarded at ICPR 2010.

 

Call for Nominations: IAPR Fellows

The deadline is November 28, 2009.  Nominations are being accepted for IAPR Fellow awards that will be presented at ICPR 2010.

 

Of Interest...

Free books available for review and an invitation to review new software.

 

Conference Planner

Chart of some upcoming IAPR and non-IAPR conferences of interest to the IAPR community.

IAPR Newsletter

Articles, announcements, book reviews,

conference and workshop reports

 

Contact the editor: 

Alexandra Branzan Albu, aalbu@ece.uvic.ca

 

Deadline:  December 7, 2009

Call for Submissions

ICISP 2010

International Conference on

Image and Signal Processing 2010

Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada

Deadline:  January 22, 2010
June 30-July 2, 2010

CIP 2010

2nd International Workshop on

Cognitive Information Processing

Elba Island (Tuscany), Italy

Deadline:  January 10, 2010

June 14-16, 2010

ANNPR 2010

4th International Workshop on

Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition

Cairo, Egypt

Deadline: November 1, 2009

April 11-13, 2010

ICFHR 2010

12th International Conference on

Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition

Kolkata, India

Deadline: February 15, 2010

November 16–18, 2010

ICPR 2010

20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Istanbul, Turkey

Deadline: January 15, 2010

August 23-26, 2010

IWCF 2010

4th International Workshop on Computational Forensics

Tokyo, Japan

Deadline: June 25, 2010

November 11-12, 2010

DAS 2010

Ninth IAPR International Workshop on

Document Analysis Systems
Cambridge, MA, USA
Deadline: December 1, 2009
June 9–11, 2010

MCS 2010

9th International Workshop on

Multiple Classifier Systems
Cairo, Egypt
Deadline: November 19, 2009
April 7-9, 2010

S+SSPR 2010

Joint IAPR International Workshops on

Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition  (SSPR2010)

and

Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR2010)

Cesme, Izmir, Turkey
Deadline: February 1, 2010
August 18–20, 2010

King-Sun Fu Prize 2010

To be presented at the

20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010)

Istanbul, Turkey

Deadline: January 10, 2010

August 23-26, 2010

J.K. Aggarwal Prize 2008

To be presented at the

20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010)

Istanbul, Turkey

Deadline: February 10, 2010

August 23-26, 2010

ICDAR2011

11th International Conference on

Document Analysis and Recognition

Beijing, China

Deadline: ?

September 18-21, 2011

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