Volume 30, Number 4 October 2008 |
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION |
Newsletter Editor: Lawrence O’Gorman email: log@ieee.org web site: lpogorman.googlepages.com
Layout Editor: Linda J. O’Gorman email: logorman@alumni.duke.edu |
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Published in association with the IAPR website, www.iapr.org |
Calls for Papers |
In this issue…
Six Years of Pattern Recognition Progress Lawrence O’Gorman, retiring IAPR Newsletter Editor, reviews the past six years of advancements in the field of Pattern Recognition (many of which were reported on in this Newsletter)
Denis Laurendeau issues the final “From the ExCo” column from the outgoing Executive Committee. A new ExCo will be elected at the Governing Board Meeting at ICPR 2008.
IAPR Newsletter Report: 2006-08 Lawrence O’Gorman, reports statistics, changes, and progress on the Newsletter over the last 2 year term.
Early December in Florida--lots to do! Start in Orlando with S+SSPR 2008, then move on to Tampa for PRRS 2008, and don’t miss ICPR2008!!
INSIDE the IAPR: New Education Committeee & Resources web site Bob Fisher outgoing chair of the IAPR Education Committee introduces the new web site and discusses its future.
Books, Books, Books
Kai Huang reviews Principles, Methods, and Applications by Thomas Luhmann, Stuart Robson, Stephen Kyle, and Ian Harley
Zheng Lui reviews Applications in Bioinformatics and Web Intelligence by Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay and Sankar K. Pal
David Suter reviews An Approximation Theory Viewpoint by Felipe Cucker, Ding Xuan Zhou
Simone Marinai reviews Character Recognition Systems— A Guide for Students and Practitioners by Mohamed Cheriet, Nawwaf Kharma, Cheng-Lin Liu, and Ching Y. Suen
Petra Wiederhold reviews Geometry of Locally Finite Spaces by Vladimir A. Kovalevsky
L. Venkata Subramaniam reviews Document Analysis and Recognition by Simone Marinai and Hiromichi Fujisawa (Eds.)
Tim Patterson reviews From Gestalt Theory to Image Analysis— By Agnes Desolneux, Lionel Moisan, and Jean-Michel Morel
Conference and Workshop Reports:
3rd International Conference on
Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition
Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects
Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data
IWCF 20082nd International Workshop onComputational Forensics
11th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
"Digital Cultural Heritage—Essential for Tourism"
13th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition
CFP for special issue of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part B: Cybernetics on “New Advances in Video-based Gait Analysis and Applications: Challenges and Solutions”
Chart of some upcoming IAPR and non-IAPR conferences of interest to the IAPR community. |
IAPR Newsletter Articles, announcements, book reviews, conference and workshop reports
Send directly to: logorman@alumni.duke.edu
Deadline: December 21, 2008 |
Call for Submissions |
3rd International Conference on Biomentrics |
10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition |
IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications May 20–22, 2009 |
16th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis |
2nd Computational Color Imaging Workshop Saint Etienne, France |
15th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy Deadline: January 31, 2009 |
Sixth Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision Kelona, British Columbia, Canada Deadline: January 30, 2009 |