News

Home

In Memoriam: Thomas S. Huang

The IAPR Executive Committee and the IAPR community were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Thomas Huang, one of the most prominent members of the IAPR family, both in terms of his scientific achievements and his significant service to the organization. Professor Huang received the IAPR’s most prestigious honor in 2002, the K.S. Fu Prize, among several additional awards and medals from other scientific societies. He served as a member of the IAPR Governing Board for 10 years as well a member of a number of Standing Committees. 

Our heartfelt condolences to Professor Huang’s immediate family and to his large extended (research) family and friends whose feeling of loss is matched in magnitude by the positive impact that Professor Huang had on them (see article in the April 2020 issue of the IAPR Newsletter). 

With deep sympathy,

Apostolos Antonacopoulos, IAPR President

In Memoriam: Reinhard Klette

It is with great sadness that I write this on behalf of the IAPR Executive Committee and the whole of the IAPR community following the passing of our colleague Reinhard Klette. I would like to express our heartfelt condolences to Reinhard’s family and many friends and colleagues whom he leaves behind too early.

In addition to his deep scientific achievements and impact on early career researchers, Reinhard has contributed wholeheartedly to the work and ethos of the IAPR since its early days. One remarkable feat that is unlikely to ever be replicated is that over his career Reinhard was the key driver (and later GB representative) for two different national associations to join the IAPR (it is very much worth reading about this in the current IAPR Newsletter)! Strongly committed to the IAPR and widely respected, he completed his long service by helping select candidates for the current ExCo as a member of the Nominating Committee (2016-2018).

With deep sympathy,

Apostolos Antonacopoulos, IAPR President

IAPR Prizes and Awards: Calls for Nominations

Biennially, at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition, the IAPR awards three prestigious prizes and names its Fellows. ICPR 2020 will take place September 13-18, 2020 in Milan, Italy.

Calls for Nominations have been posted at the IAPR website for:

In Memoriam: Alfredo Petrosino

On behalf of the IAPR Executive Committee and the IAPR community as a whole, I’d like to express our heartfelt sympathy to Alfredo’s family and friends. Their loss is also felt deeply by his colleagues at the Parthenope University, the CVPL (the Italian IAPR Member Society of which he was Vice-President), and the members of IAPR societies worldwide with whom he had been actively collaborating.

Alfredo made valuable contributions to the ethos and goals of the IAPR by passionately promoting best practices in Pattern Recognition research, particularly in his excellent work with training the next generations of researchers.

Sincere condolences,

Apostolos Antonacopoulos, IAPR President