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.
The deadline for the call for nominations is May 15, 2024.
On request of the IAPR, the Technical Committee on Statistical Pattern Recognition (TC1) established a special award to commemorate Pierre Devijver, one of the founders of statistical pattern recognition, who left us all in 1996. It was decided to set up a Pierre Devijver Award Lecture: https://sites.google.com/view/iapr-tc1/pierre-devijver-award
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/
Venice, Italy
September 9-11, 2024
The winner will be expected to deliver the Pierre Devijver Award Lecture in person during the workshop.
We solicit nominations for outstanding candidates for the award to be selected from leading scientists who have contributed significantly to the field of statistical pattern recognition and closely cognate fields. The award committee (consisting of the previous Pierre Devijver award winners) will evaluate the nominations to select the awardee.
Please forward the name of your nominees by email to the TC1 chair ambra[dot]demontis[at]unica.it with a maximum of two nominations per nominator using [IAPR-TC1-PDA] as the subject line no later than May 15, 2024.
2022 Award Winner in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Yoshua Bengio
2020 Award Winner in An Online Event
Fabio Roli
For his seminal contributions to ensemble learning and multiple classifier systems, and for his extended service to the IAPR TC1.
2018 Award Winner in Beijing,China
Edwin R. Hancock
Professor Hancock presented the Pierre Devijver Award Lecture during the S+SSPR Workshop in Fragrance Hill, Beijing, China, on August 17, 2018.
2016 Award Winner in Merida, Mexico
Mário Figueiredo
Professor Figueiredo presented the Pierre Devijver Award Lecture during the S+SSPR Workshop in Merida, Mexico, December 1, 2016.
2012 Award Winner in Miyajima-Itsukushima, Hiroshima
George Nagy
Professor Nagy will present a talk on Estimation, Learning and Adaptation Systems at S+SSPR2012 in Miyajima-Itsukushima, Hiroshima, on November 8, 2012.
2010 Award Winner in Izmir, Turkey
Luc Devroye
Professor Devroye presented the Pierre Devijver Lecture during the S+SSPR Workshop in Izmir, Turkey, August, 2010. The title of his presentation was:
Classification and Trees
2008 Award Winner in Orlando, Florida
Tin Kam Ho
We are very happy to announce that the Pierre Devijver Award winner for 2008 is: Dr Tin Kam Ho.
She will present the Pierre Devijver Lecture during the next S+SSPR Workshop in Orlando, Florida, December 4-6, 2008. The title of her presentation was:
Data Complexity Analysis
2006 Award Winner in Hong Kong, China
Robert P.W. Duin
The 2006 Pierre Devijver Award winner was Robert P.W. Duin. He presented the Pierre Devijver Award Lecture during the Workshop on Statistical Pattern Recognition (SPR2006) in Hong Kong, Cina, 17-19 August, 2006. The title of his presentation was:
Structural inference of sensor-based measurements
2004 Award Winner in Lisbon, Portugal
Erkki Oja
The 2004 Pierre Devijver Award winner was Erkki Oja. He presented the Pierre Devijver Award Lecture during the Workshop on Statistical Pattern Recognition (SPR2004) in Lisbon, Portugal, August 18-20, 2004. The title of his presentation was:
Finding clusters and components by unsupervised learning
2002 Award Winner in Windsor, Canada
Anil K. Jain
The 2002 Pierre Devijver Award winner was Anil K. Jain. He presented the Pierre Devijver Award Lecture during the Workshop on Statistical Pattern Recognition (SPR2002) in Windsor, Canada, 6-9 August 2002. The title of his presentation was:
Fingerprint classification and matching
2000 Award Winner in Alicante, Spain
Josef Kittler
The first ever winner of this award was Josef Kittler. He presented the Award Lecture during the joint SPR&SSPR Workshop (SSSPR 2000) in Alicante, August 2000. The TC1 decision was based on his outstanding scientific work in the field. Josef Kittler has been for many years the closest scientific collaborator of Pierre Devijver. His lecture was entitled:
A Framework for Classifier Fusion: Is it still needed?