Deadline for Submission of Nomination and Endorsement Forms:
Nomination Forms: April 5, 2020
Endorsement Forms: April 7, 2020
The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the King-Sun Fu Prize in honor of the memory of Professor King-Sun Fu. (Professor Fu's biography appeared in the IEEE Trans. PAMI, May 1986 and is also available in pdf form at http://dataclustering.cse.msu.edu/KSFu_Biography.pdf.)
Videos and slides of talks given by the most recent recipients of the KS Fu Prize can be retrieved from this website.
Professor Fu was instrumental in the founding of IAPR, served as its first president, and is widely recognized for his extensive contributions to the field of pattern recognition.
This biennial prize is given to a living person in recognition of an outstanding technical contribution to the field of pattern recognition, and consists of a cash amount and a suitably inscribed certificate. The prize is derived from interest income from a special fund set up for this purpose.
The nomination must be made by a member of a national member society of IAPR and by endorsement of at least five members, representing at least two member societies different from that of the nominator. The prize recipient shall be selected by the Prize Committee, subject to approval by the IAPR Governing Board. Members of the IAPR Executive Committee, as well as of the Prize Committee, shall be ineligible for the prize and may not serve as nominators or endorsers.
The 2020 prize will be presented at the
25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
Milan, Italy
September 13-18, 2020 January 10-15, 2021
The prize recipient is expected to present an invited talk at the conference and to provide a contribution to the special issue of Pattern Recognition Letters, which will include extended versions of all papers that received an IAPR award at the most recent ICPR.
The nomination must be made on special nomination and the endorsement forms. Nomination forms must be received no later than April 5, 2020; endorsements no later than April 7, 2020.
Both completed nomination and endorsement forms must be submitted in electronic form. The nominator as well as endorsers should email their completed forms directly to the Appointed Chair of the K . S. Fu Prize Committee at the specified email address:
Prof. Em. Gunilla Borgefors
Chair, K. S. Fu Prize Committee
gunilla.borgefors@it.uu.se
King-Sun Fu Prize Nomination Forms:
Endorsement Form (.doc)
Nomination Form (.doc)
Matti Kalevi Pietikäinen
For fundamental contributions to texture analysis and facial image analysis.
Professor Robert Haralick
For contributions in image analysis including remote sensing, texture analysis, mathematical morphology, consistent labeling, and system performance evaluation.
Professor Jitendra Malik
For contributions to fundamental algorithms and their theoretical underpinnings in computer vision.
Professor Rama Chellappa
For pioneering contributions to statistical methods for image- and video-based object recognition.
Professor Horst Bunke
For pioneering work on syntactic and structural pattern recognition.
Professor Anil K. Jain
Professor Josef Kittler
Professor J. K. Aggarwal
Professor Thomas S. Huang
Professor Theo Pavlidis
Professor Jean-Claude Simon
Professor Teuvo Kohonen
Professor Herbert Freeman
Professor Leveen Kanal
Professor R.L. Kashyap
Professor Azriel Rosenfeld