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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 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

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.

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.

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).

The International Association for Pattern Recognition has updated its privacy policy.

Please direct any questions or concerns to privacy@iapr.org.

Through an agreement with Springer, proceedings of conferences published by Springer and endorsed or sponsored by the IAPR will be freely available four years after publication.

Click on this link to see what’s available now: http://www.iapr.org/publications/springer.php.

The Maria Petrou Prize is to be awarded biennially at ICPRs to a living female scientist/engineer who has made substantial contributions to the field of Pattern Recognition (or a closely related field), and whose past contributions, current research activity and future potential may be regarded as a model to both aspiring and established researchers. This Prize honors the memory of Professor Maria Petrou as a scientist and engineer of the first rank, and particularly in her role as a pioneer for women researchers and highly successful role model. She is widely recognized for her extensive contributions to the field of image processing and pattern recognition. She also made significant contributions to the growth of IAPR, covering significant leadership roles. The Prize consists of a suitably inscribed plaque and a cash amount.

Deadline for Submission of Nomination and Endorsement Forms is April 5, 2018.

Please see the Maria Petrou Prize page for details.