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NEW AT ICPR 2016: Coffee Break for Women at ICPR, Tuesday, December 6 at 10:00 am

Let’s talk! There is a steadily growing number of female researchers in our field who have much to learn from each other.

The first ever Coffee Break for Women at ICPR will follow the Maria Petrou Prize lecture on Tuesday, December 6, at 10:00 am. Please come and meet colleagues from around the world, make new friends, and share your personal stories about women working in various fields of pattern recognition.

The IAPR Executive Committee hopes that this event will foster new connections! All female attendees at ICPR, graduate students as well as and junior and senior researchers, are invited.

-The IAPR Executive Committee

The International Association for Pattern Recognition supports our academic community in Turkey

After the attempted coup in Turkey earlier in July, the Turkish government has taken measures that have restricted researchers’ and teachers’ freedom of expression and thereby academic freedom in the country. A significant number of academics has been dismissed or suspended from their duties.

Freedom of expression and academic freedom are fundamental rights. Respecting these rights is important not only for the quality of academic research and higher education, but also for the well-functioning of the society at large. Therefore, the measures and restrictions directed at academics and researchers in Turkey are worrisome. Both the European University Association (EUA) and the organization Scholars at Risk have already espressed their support for the academic community in Turkey.

On behalf of the IAPR Executive Committee, I share this statement with the IAPR community. We express concern and urge a prompt resolution. We also affirm our strong support for our Turkish colleagues, researchers and academics. At the same time, we welcome the decision by the Turkish authorities to allow academics to travel and to attend conferences, such as the upcoming International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) in Cancun on December 4—8, 2016.

Uppsala July 29, 2016

Sincerely,

Ingela Nyström
President of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)

Information:

Response from the Council of Higher Education

EUA statement condemning the forced resignation of 1577 university deans

SAR urges expression of support for Turkey’s threatened higher education sector

Computer vision is the science and technology of making machines that see. It is concerned with the theory, design and implementation of algorithms that can automatically process visual data to recognize objects, track and recover their shape and spatial layout.

The tenth edition of the International Computer Vision Summer School aims to provide both an objective and clear overview and an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art research in Computer Vision. The last decade has seen a revolution in the theory and application of computer vision and machine learning. In this special edition we look at the future: what will happen next?

The courses will be delivered by world renowned experts in the field, from both academia and industry, and will cover both theoretical and practical aspects of real Computer Vision problems as well as examples of their successful commercialisation.

The school aims to provide a stimulating opportunity for young researchers and Ph.D. students. The participants will benefit from direct interaction and discussions with world leaders in Computer Vision. Participants will also have the possibility to present the results of their research, and to interact with their scientific peers, in a friendly and constructive environment.

For more information please visit the ICVSS 2016 web site.

Calls for Nominations have been posted for the following IAPR Awards:

King Sun Fu Prize
Maria Petrou Prize
J. K. Aggarwal Prize

The deadline for nominations is April 30th, 2016.

The deadline for submission of IAPR Fellow Award Nominations and Endorsements has been extended from January 31, 2016 to February 29, 2016.

For more information please visit: IAPR Fellow Award

The 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition will be held in Cancun, Mexico, December 2016, hosted by the Mexican Association for Computer Vision, Neurocomputing and Robotics (MACVNR).

ICPR will be an international forum for discussions on recent advances in the fields of Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning and Computer Vision, and on applications of these technologies in various fields.

Please visit: www.icpr2016.org

The IAPR welcomes two new organizations, the Malaysian Image Analysis and Machine Intelligence Association (MIAMI) and the Association of Sustainable Innovation in Tunisia (SIT).

Membership of these societies was approved on August 26, 2014, at the Governing Board meeting held in Stockholm in conjunction with ICPR 2014.

Do you represent a company that provides products or services related to pattern recognition, computer vision or image processing in a broad sense? Then consider becoming an IAPR Industrial Affiliate.

The official Call for Membership can be found here.

Contact the IAPR Industrial Liaison Committee for further information.

The IAPR Governing Board (GB), at its biennial meeting during ICPR 2014, examined and discussed two high-quality proposals for hosting ICPR 2018. The result of the GB vote was that Beijing, China will be the location of ICPR in four years’ time (following ICPR 2016 in Cancun, Mexico). The ICPR 2018 General Chair is Tieniu Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Santanu Chaudhury
“For contributions to the field of image analysis and recognition”

David Doermann
“For contributions to the field of document image analysis and recognition and service to theIAPR”

Mohamed Doudi
“For contributions to 3D shape analysis and retrieval and related applications”

Marco Gori
“For contributions to neural networks and machine learning models for pattern recognition”

Xiaofei He
“For contributions to pattern recognition and manifold learning”

De‐Shuang Huang
“For contributions to neural networks and biological data processing”

Umapada Pal
“For contributions to Indian multi‐script document processing, handwriting recognition andservice to IAPR”

Sharathchandra Pankanti
“For contributions to application of computer vision and pattern recognition technologies to
video analytics, public safety and security”

Andrea Prati
“For contributions to low‐ and high‐level algorithms for video surveillance”

Anuj Srivastava
“For contributions to statistical techniques on nonlinear manifolds for applications in patternrecognition, and shape analysis of curves and surfaces.”

Jie Tian
“For contributions to fingerprint recognition and medical imaging”

Matthew Turk
“For contributions to computer vision and vision‐based interaction”

Liang Wang
“For contributions to video understanding and pattern recognition”

Changsheng Xu
“For contributions to multimedia content analysis”

Shuicheng Yan
“For contributions to computer vision and pattern recognition”