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IAPR/ICDAR 2011 Awards Recipients
Announcement of IAPR/ICDAR 2011 Awards Recipients
The IAPR Technical Committees on Graphics Recognition (TC10) and Reading Systems (TC11) are pleased to announce the recipients of the IAPR/ICDAR 2011 Awards.
The IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award is presented to Prof. Sargur Srihari for his outstanding and continued contributions to research and education in handwriting recognition and document analysis, and services to the community.
Prof. Srihari will deliver the Opening Keynote Speech at ICDAR2011 in Beijing on “Probabilistic Graphical Models in Machine Learningâ€.
The IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award is presented to Masakazu Iwamura for his outstanding contributions to camera-based document analysis and document image retrieval.
Congratulations to the awardees!
The awards ceremony will be held during ICDAR2011 in Beijing, China.
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S+SSPR 2010 Workshop Video Available
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:
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J.K. Aggarwal Prize 2010 Awarded to Prof. Antonio Torralba
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
K.S. Fu Prize 2010 Awarded to Prof. Horst Bunke
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