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The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) is an international association of non-profit, scientific or professional organizations (being national, multi-national, or international in scope) concerned with pattern recognition, computer vision, and image processing in a broad sense. Normally, only one organization is admitted from any one country, and individuals interested in taking part in IAPR's activities may do so by joining their national organization.[1]

Purpose

The aims of IAPR are to promote pattern recognition and the allied branches of engineering together with the related arts and sciences, to advance international co-operation in the field of interest to stimulate research, development, and the application of pattern recognition in science and human activity, to further the dissemination and exchange of information on pattern recognition in the broad sense, and to encourage education in all aspects of the field of interest. In achieving these aims, IAPR fulfills the need for better world-wide communication and increases understanding among practitioners of all nations in the role that machine intelligence can play in accelerating technical and scientific progress.

Technical Committees

Areas of pattern recognition currently represented by technical committees are: Statistical Pattern Recognition, Structural and Syntactical Pattern Recognition, Neural Networks and Computational Intelligence, Benchmarking and Software, Special Hardware and Software Environments, Remote Sensing and Mapping, Machine Vision Applications, Biomedical Applications, Graphics Recognition, Reading Systems, Multimedia and Visual Information Systems, Pattern Recognition in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Signal Analysis for Machine Intelligence, Graph Based Representations, Algebraic and Discrete Mathematical Techniques, Machine Learning and Data Mining, Discrete Geometry, Cultural Heritage Applications, and Bioinformatics.

Publications

The IAPR publishes four main academic publications of record:

  • The IAPR Newsletter is published quarterly
  • Pattern Recognition Letters is published monthly by Elsevier (ISSN 0167-8655)
  • Machine Vision and Applications is published bimonthly by Springer Verlag
  • International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition [2] is published quarterly by Springer Verlag

Conferences

The major event in the IAPR calendar is the biennial International Conference on Pattern Recognition, which attracts scientists, researchers, and practitioners in the field from all over the world; here they are able to listen, to learn, to educate, and to exchange ideas with their colleagues.

Conferences have been held, and are proposed, in Washington (1973), Copenhagen (1974), Coronado (1976), Kyoto (1978), Miami (1980), Munich (1982), Montreal (1984), Paris (1986), Rome (1988), Atlantic City (1990), The Hague (1992), Jerusalem (1994), Vienna (1996), Brisbane (1998), Barcelona (2000), Quebec (2002), Cambridge (2004), Hong Kong (2006), Tampa (2008), Istanbul (2010), Tsukuba (2012), and Stockholm (2014).[3]

IAPR Conferences

For a current list of IAPR sponsored conferences, please see: http://iapr.org/conferences/

Awards

The IAPR Fellow Award

The prestigious IAPR Fellow Award was introduced in 1994 and since then is biennially conferred on persons to acknowledge their distinguished contributions to the field of pattern recognition and to IAPR activities.[6]

According to the Constitution and Bylaws of IAPR, the number of fellows elected every two years must not exceed 0.25% of the total IAPR membership. Both service to IAPR and scientific contributions to the field of pattern recognition are taken into account in the selection process.

The IAPR Fellow Committee is in charge to perform the selection process and solicits nominations of high quality.

ICDAR Awards

An ICDAR Award Program has been established to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of Document Analysis and Recognition in one or more of the following areas:

  • Research
  • Training of students
  • Research/Industry interaction
  • Service to the Profession

Every two years, two awards categories are presented. Namely, the Outstanding Achievement Award and the Young Researcher Award (less than 40 years old at the time the award is made). Each award consists of a token gift and a suitably inscribed certificate. The recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award is also invited to deliver the Opening Keynote Speech at ICDAR.

A call for nominations is circulated by TC10 and TC11 about six months before an ICDAR takes place.

For a current list of IAPR award winners, please see: http://iapr.org/fellowsandawards/

References

  1. ^ "IAPR". International Association for Pattern Recognition. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  2. ^ "International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR)". Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  3. ^ "IAPR Conferences". International Association for Pattern Recognition. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  4. ^ "ICDAR 2013". Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  5. ^ "ICDAR 2015". Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  6. ^ "Fellows and Awards". International Association for Pattern Recognition. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
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