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It is with great sadness that the Executive Committee has been informed that Professor Maria Petrou passed away on October 15, 2012. Her funeral will be at 17:00 (local time) on October 16, 2012 in Kalamaria Thessaloniki.

After a distinguished career at University of Surrey, she joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College in London UK in 2005. In 2009, she became the Director of the Informatics and Telematics Institute of CERTH in Thessaloniki Greece while retaining as part time her chair at Imperial College. In addition of being a distinguished researcher, Professor Petrou was also known as a very active member of the IAPR Community. She held many positions in the IAPR including Editor of the Newsletter, Treasurer of the Executive Committee and member of standing and technical committees.

Professor Petrou will be remembered as someone who was hardworking, dedicated to research and student training and, for those who worked with her closely, was also a person with a very special sense of humor. Professor Petrou will be sadly missed.

An obituary for Professor Petrou appeared in the United Kingdom in The Telegraph.

It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the J. K. Aggarwal Prize 2012 is Professor Rene Vidal, Johns Hopkins University, USA.

The citation for the prize is:

“For outstanding contributions to the generalized principal component analysis (GPCA) and subspace clustering in computer vision and pattern recognition.”

Professor Vidal will receive his prize at the ICPR 2012 that will take place in Tsukuba on November 11-15, 2012. The J. K. Aggarwal ceremony and lecture will be presented during the ICPR 2012.

Congratulations to Professor Vidal on this achievement.

Ingela Nyström

IAPR Secretary

Don’t miss the University of Notre Dame Distinguished Lecture Series by K.S. Fu Prize Winners.

http://www.cse.nd.edu/Fu_Prize_Seminars/

It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the King-Sun Fu Prize 2012 is Professor Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, USA.

The citation for the prize is:

“For pioneering contributions to statistical methods for image and video-based object recognition”

Professor Chellappa will receive his prize at the ICPR 2012 that will take place in Tsukuba on November 11-15, 2012. The K.-S. Fu ceremony and lecture will be presented during the ICPR 2012 opening ceremony.

Congratulations to Professor Chellappa on this prestigious achievement.

Ingela Nyström

IAPR Secretary

Call for bids to host ICPR 2016

The International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) is the major scientific event organized under
the auspices of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).

The aim of this conference is to bring together international experts to share their experiences and to promote research and development in Pattern Recognition.

The conference is hosted by an institution under the auspices of an endorsing IAPR member organisation
(national association).

Any such organisation interested in making a proposal to host an ICPR must proceed according to the rules
outlined in the latest version of the guidelines document (http://www.iapr.org/conferences/proposals.php).

It is expected that Proposers familiarise themselves with the guidelines for organising ICPR first, to fully
plan their bid. The submission of a bid implies full agreement with the guidelines and procedures for
organising the conference as well as with the IAPR constitution.

Note: the current version of the guidelines is identical to the previous one (dated 8 December 2009) with the
exception of point 3 of section 5.2 where the skeleton organizational structure is better clarified.

Bids to host ICPR 2016 must be submitted to the IAPR Conferences and Meetings Committee by July 28th 2012.

The selection of the conference venue will be made by the IAPR Governing Board (GB) during its meeting at
ICPR 2012 in Tsukuba.

Organizations interested to organize ICPR 2016 should submit the bid to Simone Marinai (simone.marinai@unifi.it)
C&M chair by July 28 2012.

Simone Marinai

IAPR C&M chair