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The 2014-2016 term of the IAPR Executive Committee (ExCo) as well as that of the standing committees and of the leadership of technical committees (TCs) ended with the biennial Governing Board (GB) meeting during ICPR 2016 in Cancun, Mexico.

The IAPR GB elected new ExCo officers for the 2016-2018 term who have now taken office and started work on the association’s plans for the new term. One of the ExCo’s very first tasks is the appointment of standing committees and TC Chairs.

The 2016-2018 ExCo members elected are as follows:

President: Simone Marinai (Italy) simone.marinai@unifi.it
1^st Vice-President: Massimo Tistarelli (Italy) tista@uniss.it
2^nd Vice-President: Edwin Hancock (UK) edwin.hancock@york.ac.uk
Secretary: Alexandra Branzan-Albu (Canada) aalbu@uvic.ca
Treasurer: Apostolos Antonocopoulos (UK) a.antonacopoulos@primaresearch.org

Ingela Nyström (Sweden) ingela.nystrom@it.uu.se , the 2014-2016 President, assumes the ex officio post of Past President, completing the ExCo.

The IAPR Governing Board (GB), at its biennial meeting during ICPR 2016, examined and discussed five high-quality proposals for hosting ICPR 2020. The result of the GB vote was that Milan, Italy will be the location of ICPR in four years’ time (following ICPR 2018 in Beijing, China). The ICPR 2020 General Chairs are Rita Cucchiara (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) and Alberto Del Bimbo (University of Firenze, Italy).

The IAPR welcomes two new organizations, the Vietnam Association for Pattern Recognition (VAPR) and the Pakistani Pattern Recognition Society (PPRS).

Membership of these societies was approved on December 6, 2016, at the Governing Board meeting held in Cancun in conjunction with ICPR 2016.

14th IAPR/IEEE Int.l Summer School for
Advanced Studies on Biometrics for Secure Authentication

Biometrics for Personalization and Forensic Identification

Endorsed by the IAPR Technical Committee on Biometrics TC-4

Alghero, Italy – June 12-16 2017

Website: http://biometrics.uniss.it
Contact: tista@uniss.it

From the early days, when security was the driving force behind biometric research, today’s challenges go far
beyond security. Other applications, such as personalization of services, mobile computing and criminal
investigations, are among the most promising applications. Machine learning, Image understanding, Signal
analysis, Neuroscience, Forensic science, Digital forensics and other disciplines, converged in a truly
multidisciplinary effort to devise and build advanced systems to facilitate the interpretation of signals recorded
from individuals acting in a given environment. This is what we simply call today “Biometrics”.

For the last fourteen years, the International Summer School on Biometrics has been closely following
the developments in science and technology to offer a cutting edge, intensive training course, always up to
date with the current state-of-the-art.

For more information please see the Summer School on Biometrics 2017 Announcement.

It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the Maria Petrou Prize 2016 is Professor Michal Irani, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

The citation for the prize is:

“For pioneering contributions to space-time video analysis, motion estimation and image analysis by composition, and as a role model for early career researchers striving for excellence and rigour in the fields of computer vision and pattern recognition.”

Professor Irani will receive the prize at the ICPR 2016 that will take place in Cancun, Mexico on December 4-8, 2016. The prize ceremony and lecture will be presented during ICPR 2016.

Congratulations to Professor Irani on this achievement.

Ingela Nyström
IAPR President

It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the J. K. Aggarwal Prize 2016 is Professor Fei Fei Li, Stanford University, USA

The citation for the prize is:

“For seminal contributions to object and event classification using learning methodologies based on statistical and neuroscience principles.”

Professor Li will receive the prize at the ICPR 2016 that will take place in Cancun, Mexico on December 4-8, 2016. The prize ceremony and lecture will be presented during ICPR 2016.

Congratulations to Professor Li on this achievement.

Ingela Nyström
IAPR President

It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the King-Sun Fu Prize 2016 is Professor Robert Haralick, City University of New York (CUNY), USA

The citation for the prize is:

“For contributions in image analysis including remote sensing, texture analysis, mathematical morphology, consistent labeling, and system performance evaluation.”

Professor Haralick will receive the prize at the ICPR 2016 that will take place in Cancun, Mexico on December 4-8, 2016. The prize ceremony and lecture will be presented during ICPR 2016.

Congratulations to Professor Haralick on this achievement.

Ingela Nyström
IAPR President

NEW AT ICPR 2016: Coffee Break for Women at ICPR, Tuesday, December 6 at 10:00 am

Let’s talk! There is a steadily growing number of female researchers in our field who have much to learn from each other.

The first ever Coffee Break for Women at ICPR will follow the Maria Petrou Prize lecture on Tuesday, December 6, at 10:00 am. Please come and meet colleagues from around the world, make new friends, and share your personal stories about women working in various fields of pattern recognition.

The IAPR Executive Committee hopes that this event will foster new connections! All female attendees at ICPR, graduate students as well as and junior and senior researchers, are invited.

-The IAPR Executive Committee