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 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 the 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 prize recipient shall be selected by the Prize Committee, subject to approval by the IAPR Governing Board, upon nomination 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 nominators.

 

Members of the IAPR Executive Committee, as well as of the Award Committee, shall be ineligible for the prize and may not serve as nominators or endorsers.

 

The 2006 prize will be presented at the

 

International Conference on

Pattern Recognition (ICPR)

Hong Kong

20-24 August 2006

 

 

The nomination must be made on a special nomination and the endorsement forms (in the MS Word format), and must be received by the Award Committee Chairman no later than 15 January 2006. Both completed and signed nomination and endorsement forms must be submitted in the paper form (no electronic submission). The nominator as well as endorsers should mail their completed forms directly to the chairman of the Prize Committee:

 

Prof. J. K. Aggarwal, Chair K-S. Fu Prize Committee

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

The University of Texas at Austin,

1 University Station C0803

Austin, Texas, USA 78712-0240

email: aggarwaljk@mail.utexas.edu