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Video source material from the Joint IAPR International Workshops on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR 2010) and Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR 2010) is now freely available online through videolectures.net at the following address:

http://videolectures.net/ssspr2010_cesme/

It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the 2010 J.K. Aggarwal Prize is Prof. Antonio Torralba from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The citation for the prize is:

“For algorithms and representations to exploit context in computer vision.”

Professor Torralba will receive his prize at the next ICPR 2010 that will take place in Istanbul on August 23-26, 2010. The time of the J.K. Aggarwal ceremony and lecture will be available soon.

Congratulations to Professor Torralba on this achievement.

Denis Laurendeau

IAPR Secretary

It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the K.S. Fu Prize 2010 is Professor Horst Bunke from the University of Bern.

The citation for the prize is:

“For pioneering work on syntactic and structural pattern recognition.”

Professor Bunke will receive his prize at the next ICPR 2010 that will take place in Istanbul on August 23-26, 2010. The K.S. Fu ceremony and lecture will be presented during the ICPR 2010 opening ceremony.

Congratulations to Professor Bunke on this achievement.

Denis Laurendeau

IAPR Secretary

A Detailed History of the IAPR is now available on the IAPR History page. The ExCo would like to thank Herbert Freeman and the Advisory Committee for compiling this excellent and comprehensive document.