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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:

• The King-Sun Fu Prize, Deadlines:  April 5, 2020 (nomination); April 7, 2020 (endorsements)
• The J. K. Aggarwal Prize, Deadline:  May 14, 2020 (all forms)
• The Maria Petrou Prize, Deadline:  April 5, 2020 (all forms)
• The IAPR Fellow Award, Deadline:  January 31, 2020 (all forms)

Newsletter is available in the Publications Section of the IAPR website.

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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

The 2012 edition of the TC4 flagship event, the International Conference on Biometrics (ICB) in New Delhi, India, facilitated the establishment of the “IAPR Young Biometrics Investigator Award” (YBIA) with an endowment fund. The objectives and criteria of this award are similar to the prestigious IAPR JK Aggarwal award, except that it will be given to outstanding scientists in the biometrics field.

The recipient of the award will be announced at ICB or IJCB (International Joint Conference on Biometrics) where the winner will be asked to deliver a plenary talk.

For nomination forms and more information, please visit the IAPR Young Biometrics Investigator Award page.

Call for Proposals to Host the 2020 International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB2020):

Deadline: January 15, 2019

The IAPR Technical Committee on Biometrics (TC-4) and the IEEE Biometrics Council (IEEE-BC) are pleased to invite proposals for hosting the 2020 International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2020) in the United States.

The IJCB combines two major biometrics annual research conferences – International Conference on Biometrics (ICB) and Biometrics Theory, Application and Systems (BTAS) conference – and is held in the United States. Similar events were held in 2011 (http://www.cse.nd.edu/IJCB_11/), 2014 (http://ijcb2014.org/) and 2017 (http://www.ijcb2017.org/ijcb2017/index.php), and proved to be successful as evidenced by the number of paper submissions and delegates in attendance.

The full Call for Proposals can be found here: https://www.cse.msu.edu/~rossarun/IJCB-2020-CFB_final_revised.pdf