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It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the 2010 J.K. Aggarwal Prize is Prof. Antonio Torralba from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The citation for the prize is:

“For algorithms and representations to exploit context in computer vision.”

Professor Torralba will receive his prize at the next ICPR 2010 that will take place in Istanbul on August 23-26, 2010. The time of the J.K. Aggarwal ceremony and lecture will be available soon.

Congratulations to Professor Torralba on this achievement.

Denis Laurendeau

IAPR Secretary

It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the K.S. Fu Prize 2010 is Professor Horst Bunke from the University of Bern.

The citation for the prize is:

“For pioneering work on syntactic and structural pattern recognition.”

Professor Bunke will receive his prize at the next ICPR 2010 that will take place in Istanbul on August 23-26, 2010. The K.S. Fu ceremony and lecture will be presented during the ICPR 2010 opening ceremony.

Congratulations to Professor Bunke on this achievement.

Denis Laurendeau

IAPR Secretary

A Detailed History of the IAPR is now available on the IAPR History page. The ExCo would like to thank Herbert Freeman and the Advisory Committee for compiling this excellent and comprehensive document.

The nomination and endorsement forms for the 2010 King-Sun Fu Prize are available on the King-Sun Fu Prize page.

Deadline for nominations is January 10, 2010.

It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the 2008 J.K. Aggarwal
Prize is Prof. Song-Chun Zhu from the University of California in Los Angeles.

The citation for the prize is:

“For fundamental and pioneering contributions to a unified foundation for visual
pattern conceptualization, modeling, learning, and inference with applications
in computer vision and pattern recognition.”

Professor Zhu will receive his prize at the next ICPR 2008 that will take place
at the Tampa Convention Center on December 8-11, 2008. The J.K. Aggarwal ceremony and lecture have been
scheduled at 09:00-10:030 on Wednesday December 10, 2008.

Congratulations to Professor Zhu on this achievement.

Sincerely,

Denis Laurendeau

IAPR Secretary

It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the K.S. Fu Prize 2008 is Prof. Anil K. Jain from Michigan State University.

The citation for the prize is:

“For pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of pattern recognition, to computer vision, and design of biometric systems.”

Professor Jain will receive his prize at the next ICPR 2008 that will take place at the Tampa Convention Center on December 8-11, 2008. The K.S. Fu ceremony and lecture have been scheduled at 09:30-10:30 on Monday December 8, 2008.

Congratulations to Professor Jain on this achievement.

Denis Laurendeau

IAPR Secretary

The International Association for Pattern Recognition
(IAPR) is pleased to announce a call for nominations
for the following offices of the IAPR:

president,
1st and
2nd vice president,
secretary and
treasurer.

Informal suggestions are welcome from all members of the IAPR governing board (GB)
and other members of the IAPR community.
The nomination must include

the name,
the office for which the person should be considered and

a brief case for support (person’s qualification for the office).

These suggestions, which are not considered as formal nominations,
should reach the Chairman of the Nomination Committees until April 30, 2008
at the following address:

Subject: IAPR nomination
Walter G. Kropatsch
Vienna University of Technology
Institute of Computer Aided Automation
Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Group
Favoritenstr. 9/2/4, 1832
A-1040 WIEN / Austria
email: krw@prip.tuwien.ac.at (preferred)

Further details about the nomination process can be found in

the IAPR Constitution
the Bylaw section 5

and the Guidelines section 5.2

Walter G. Kropatsch
IAPR Chair of Nominating Committee

The King-Sun Fu Prize Nomination Deadline is May 31, 2008.

For further information and to download the nomination forms please visit the J. K. Aggarwal Prize section of the website.

J. K. Aggarwal Prize

The Fellow Nomination Deadline is February 28, 2008.

For further information and to download the nomination forms please visit the Fellow section of the website.

IAPR Fellows

The King-Sun Fu Prize Nomination Deadline is April 30, 2008.

For further information and to download the nomination forms please visit the King-Sun Fu Prize section of the website.

King-Sun Fu Prize