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In Memoriam: Alfredo Petrosino
On behalf of the IAPR Executive Committee and the IAPR community as a whole, I’d like to express our heartfelt sympathy to Alfredo’s family and friends. Their loss is also felt deeply by his colleagues at the Parthenope University, the CVPL (the Italian IAPR Member Society of which he was Vice-President), and the members of IAPR societies worldwide with whom he had been actively collaborating.
Alfredo made valuable contributions to the ethos and goals of the IAPR by passionately promoting best practices in Pattern Recognition research, particularly in his excellent work with training the next generations of researchers.
Sincere condolences,
Apostolos Antonacopoulos, IAPR President
Call for Nominations – Young Biometrics Investigator Award
The 2012 edition of the TC4 flagship event, the International Conference on Biometrics (ICB) in New Delhi, India, facilitated the establishment of the “IAPR Young Biometrics Investigator Award” (YBIA) with an endowment fund. The objectives and criteria of this award are similar to the prestigious IAPR JK Aggarwal award, except that it will be given to outstanding scientists in the biometrics field.
The recipient of the award will be announced at ICB or IJCB (International Joint Conference on Biometrics) where the winner will be asked to deliver a plenary talk.
For nomination forms and more information, please visit the IAPR Young Biometrics Investigator Award page.
Call for Proposals – IJCB2020
Call for Proposals to Host the 2020 International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB2020):
Deadline: January 15, 2019
The IAPR Technical Committee on Biometrics (TC-4) and the IEEE Biometrics Council (IEEE-BC) are pleased to invite proposals for hosting the 2020 International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2020) in the United States.
The IJCB combines two major biometrics annual research conferences – International Conference on Biometrics (ICB) and Biometrics Theory, Application and Systems (BTAS) conference – and is held in the United States. Similar events were held in 2011 (http://www.cse.nd.edu/IJCB_11/), 2014 (http://ijcb2014.org/) and 2017 (http://www.ijcb2017.org/ijcb2017/index.php), and proved to be successful as evidenced by the number of paper submissions and delegates in attendance.
The full Call for Proposals can be found here: https://www.cse.msu.edu/~rossarun/IJCB-2020-CFB_final_revised.pdf
2018 IAPR Fellows
Michael Bronstein (Switzerland)
“For contributions to 3D data acquisition, processing, representation and analysis”
Andrea Cavallaro (UK)
“For contributions to image processing and multi-sensor scene understanding”
C. L. Philip Chen (Hong Kong)
“For contributions to machine learning algorithms and applications to image processing, security, recognition, and classification”
Songcan Chen (China)
“For contributions to fuzzy clustering, feature extraction, and pattern classification”
Sven J. Dickinson (Canada)
“For contributions to shape perception, object recognition, perceptual organization, and graph-based methods in computer vision”
Jean-Luc Dugelay (France)
“For contributions to face recognition and soft biometrics”
Janne T. Heikkilä (Finland)
“For contributions to 3D computer vision and image analysis”
Ujjwal Maulik (India)
“For contributions to pattern recognition and machine learning, with applications to image analysis and computational biology”
Javier Ortega-Garcia (Spain)
“For contributions to biometric recognition, especially in behavioral traits including speech and handwritten and human-device interactions”
Paul L. Rosin (UK)
“For contributions to image processing and computer vision”
Arun A. Ross (USA)
“For contributions that significantly advance biometric technologies; extend considerably its infrastructure; and enable its continuing scientific advances”
Bernt Schiele (Germany)
“For contributions to large-scale object recognition, human detection and pose estimation”
Ling Shao (UK)
“For contributions to human action recognition and video understanding”
Dinggang Shen (USA)
“For contributions to biomedical applications of pattern recognition and medical image analysis”
Richa Singh (India)
“For contributions to face recognition and pattern classification”
Jingdong Wang (China)
“For contributions to multimedia search, similarity search, attention analysis, and video surveillance”
Yunhong Wang (China)
“For contributions to biometrics, computer vision, and pattern recognition”
Junsong Yuan (Singapore)
“For contributions to human action and gesture analysis”
Pong Chi Yuen (Hong Kong)
“For contributions to subspace learning and information fusion for visual recognition”
Huaguang Zhang (China)
“For contributions to stability analysis of recurrent time-delay neural networks and identification of weak signals”
Technical Committee Approved
A new Technical Committee, IAPR TC5 on Computer Vision for Underwater Environmental Monitoring, was approved on August 22, 2018, at the Governing Board meeting held in Beijing, China, in conjunction with ICPR 2018.
Indonesian Society Approved
The IAPR welcomes a new organization, the Indonesian Association for Pattern Recognition (INAPR).
Membership of was approved on August 22, 2018, at the Governing Board meeting held in Beijing, China, in conjunction with ICPR 2018.
ICPR 2022 Venue Announcement
The venue of ICPR 2022 will be Montréal, Canada (following ICPR 2020 in Milan, Italy).
This venue was selected by the IAPR Governing Board (GB), at its biennial meeting during ICPR 2018. The ICPR 2022 General Chair is Michael Jenkin (York University, Canada); Program Chairs are Michael Brown (York University, Canada), Henrik Christensen (University of California, San Diego, USA) and Gregory Dudek McGill University, Canada).
IAPR Privacy Policy
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Call for Nominations for the 2018 J. K. Aggarwal Prize
April 30, 2018, is the deadline for nominations and endorsement forms for the 2018 J. K. Aggarwal Prize to be presented at ICPR 2018 in August in Beijing.
This prize is given in honor of Professor J.K. Aggarwal, who 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.
Please see the J. K. Aggarwal Prize page for forms and details.