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October 2024 Newsletter

Dear IAPR Community Members,

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

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In this issue you will find:

  • Introduction to the new IAPR’s Assistant Secretariat
  • A list of ICPR2024 workshops, tutorials and competitions with direct links to them, as well as information about keynote speakers and registration
  • Announcement of IAPR Prize Winners for 2024
  • Interview with an early career researcher: Chiara Camerota, a phD student at University of Florence, who received an IAPR Research Scholarship
  • “Getting to Know” Professor Mayank Vatsa, an IAPR Fellow for contributions in Secure Biometrics Recognition
  • Calls for PAPERS
  • Calls from the IAPR Education, Industrial Liaison, and ExCo Committees
  • News and information from the IAPR Executive Committee
  • Essay from the IAPR Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee
  • Calls for Special Issues from Pattern Recognition Letters
  • IAPR Technical Committee (TC) News: TC1&TC2, TC11
  • Meeting Reports from conferences: ROBOVIS24, VISAPP24, ISPR24, DeLTA24, ICPRAI24, S+SSPR24
  • Bulletin Board
  • Meeting and Education Planner
  • New: Production schedule for the next IAPR Newsletter, including deadlines for content

Enjoy your reading,

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

New IAPR Secretariat Email Addresses

The email changes mentioned below came into effect on Monday, October 21, 2024. Please make a note and update your Contacts accordingly.

IAPR is thrilled to welcome Rosemary Green as the Assistant IAPR Secretariat, managing day-to-day administration of the Office of the Secretariat. Email:  secretariat@iapr.org

Linda O’Gorman will continue to run the Office of the Secretariat, providing higher-level support to the Governing Board, ExCo, and other committees. Email:  exec-secretariat@iapr.org

Read more about Rosemary and her background in the October issue of the IAPR Newsletter, which will be published at the end of the month.

IAPR Major Prize Winners Announced

The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Announces the Winners of Its Major Prizes

The King-Sun Fu, J. K. Aggarwal and Maria Petrou Prizes will be presented formally at the 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition that will take place December 1-5, 2024, in Kolkata, India.

Honoring King-Sun Fu, J. K. Aggarwal and Maria Petrou, three pioneers in the field of Pattern Recognition, these awards are presented every two years.

The King-Sun Fu Prize is the highest honor bestowed by IAPR. The award was established to honor the memory of Professor Fu, instrumental in founding IAPR and its first President, who is widely recognized for his extensive and pioneering contributions to the fields of pattern recognition and machine intelligence.

The 2024 King-Sun Fu Prize recipient is Tin Kam Ho (IBM Research, USA) “For pioneering contributions to multi-classifier systems, random decision forests, and data complexity analysis.”

The J. K. Aggarwal Prize is given to a young scientist who has brought substantial contributions to a field that is relevant to the IAPR Community and whose research work has had a major impact on the field. Professor Aggarwal is widely recognized for his extensive contributions to the field of pattern recognition and for his many contributions to IAPR’s activities.

The 2024 J. K. Aggarwal Prize recipient is Xiaolong Wang (UC San Diego, USA) “For his groundbreaking contributions to advancing visual representation learning, utilizing self-supervised and attention-based models to establish fundamental frameworks for creating versatile, general-purpose pattern recognition systems”

The Maria Petrou Prize honors the memory of Professor Maria Petrou as a scientist of the first rank and particularly her role as a pioneer for women researchers. The prize is given to a living woman scientist/engineer who has made substantial contributions to the field of Pattern Recognition and whose activities may be regarded as a model to both established and aspiring researchers.

The 2024 Maria Petrou Prize recipient is Guoying Zhao (University of Oulu, Finland) “For contributions to video analysis for facial micro-behavior recognition and remote bio-signal reading (RPPG) for heart rate analysis and face anti-spoofing”

July 2024 Newsletter

Dear IAPR Community Members,

The July 2024 Issue of the IAPR Newsletter is now available at:

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In this issue you will find:

  • Calls for PAPERS
  • A list of ICPR2024 workshops with direct links and submission deadlines
  • Calls from the IAPR Education, Industrial Liaison, and ExCo Committees
  • Calls for bids to host ICPR 2028
  • News and information from the IAPR Executive Committee
  • A tribute In Memoriam Professor Dr. Luigi Cordella
  • News from the IAPR Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee
  • Calls for Special Issues from Pattern Recognition Letters
  • “Getting to Know” Professor Jean-Luc Dugelay, an IAPR Fellow for contributions to face recognition and soft biometrics
  • IAPR Technical Committee (TC) News: TC4, TC6, TC9, TC10, TC12, TC15, TC18
  • Meeting Reports from conferences: DGMM24, MCPR2024
  • Bulletin Board
  • Meeting and Education Planner

Enjoy your reading,

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

Did you attend NATO ASI 1983 and 1986?

Help us identify “Who’s Who at NATO ASI 1983 and 1986?”

Thanks to Virginio Cantoni, we have two group photos from NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) meetings in 1983 (Cetraro) and 1986 (Maratea).

We need your help identifying the participants. Check out the photos and complete the forms.

1983 – Cetraro:  https://forms.gle/kx2WhzgfpoQxw71w9
1986 – Maratea:  https://forms.gle/kgJRsWVyohGWTCVy8

Submissions may also be made to secretariat@iapr.org. Please include the year of the meeting along with the number and name of the participant in the email.

Participants of NATO ASI 1983 posing for an outdoor picture at Cetraro.
NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) 1983 – Cetraro
https://forms.gle/kx2WhzgfpoQxw71w9
Participants of NATO ASI 1986 posing for an outdoor picture at Maratea.
NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) 1986 – Maratea
https://forms.gle/kgJRsWVyohGWTCVy8

Thank you for your help!

The IAPR 50th Anniversary Committee

April 2024 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

Call for Nominations – Pierre Devijver Award

The Pierre Devijver Award commemorates Pierre Devijver, one of the founders of statistical pattern recognition. The award is presented at a special lecture at S+SSPR to an outstanding scientist who has contributed significantly to the field of statistical pattern recognition.

We call for nominations of candidates for the 2024 award. The lecture will be presented at S+SSPR 2024, the IAPR Joint International Workshops on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR 2024) and Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR 2024):

https://sites.google.com/view/s-sspr-2024/

For more information, please see the Pierre Devijver Award page.

January 2024 Newsletter

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

Nomination Deadlines Announced for Prizes and Awards at ICPR 2024

Please use the links below to view the Call for Nomination pages for these prizes and awards to be presented at ICPR 2024.

The King-Sun Fu, J. K. Aggarwal, and Maria Petrou Prize Committees have announced the following deadline schedule:

  • Preliminary nomination deadline:  January 31, 2024; nomination forms must be submitted by this date; these and previously submitted nominations may be modified until the Endorsement/final deadline, but no new nominations will be accepted after the nomination deadline.
  • Endorsement/final deadline:  March 31, 2024; all endorsements must be submitted and all forms related to the nomination must be complete and final by this date.

The IAPR Fellow Award:

  • Nomination and Endorsement deadline:  March 31, 2024; all nominations and endorsements must be received by this date.