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The 2012-2014 term of the IAPR Executive Committee (ExCo) as well as that of the standing committees and of the leadership of technical committees (TCs) ended with the biennial Governing Board (GB) meeting during ICPR 2014 in Stockholm, Sweden.

The IAPR GB elected new ExCo officers for the 2014-2016 term who have now taken office and started work on the association’s plans for the new term. One of the ExCo’s very first tasks is the appointment of standing committees and TC Chairs.

The 2014-2016 ExCo members elected are as follows:

President: Ingela Nyström (Sweden) ingela.nystrom@it.uu.se
1^st Vice-President: Massimo Tistarelli (Italy) tista@uniss.it
2^nd Vice-President: Simone Marinai (Italy) simone@dsi.unifi.it
Secretary: Alexandra Branzan-Albu (Canada) aalbu@uvic.ca
Treasurer: Apostolos Antonocopoulos (UK) a.antonacopoulos@primaresearch.org

Kim L. Boyer (USA) kim@ecse.rpi.edu , the 2012-2014 President, assumes the ex officio post of Past President, completing the ExCo.

A special edition of Pattern Recognition Letters, titled “Celebrating the life and work of Maria Petrou”, is now available online via the following link:

Celebrating the life and work of Maria Petrou

It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the J. K. Aggarwal Prize 2014 is Associate Professor Arun Ross, Michigan State University, USA

The citation for the prize is:

“For contributions that advance the state of art in biometric technologies and extend biometric infrastructure.”

Professor Ross will receive his prize at the ICPR 2014 that will take place in Stockholm on August 25-28, 2014. The J. K. Aggarwal ceremony and lecture will be presented during the ICPR 2014.

Congratulations to Professor Ross on this achievement.

Ingela Nyström
IAPR Secretary

J. K. Aggarwal Prize page

2014 Award Winner in Stockholm

Professor Jitendra Malik
For contributions to fundamental algorithms and their theoretical underpinnings in computer vision.

Visit the King-Sun Fu Prize page.

Please see the Senior Biometrics Investigator Award page for details.

Bids to host ICPR 2018 must be submitted to the IAPR Conferences and Meetings Committee by May 24th 2014.

The selection of the conference venue will be made by the IAPR Governing Board (GB) during its meeting at ICPR 2014 in Stockholm, Sweden.

See the ICPR Proposals page for more information.