International Association for Pattern Recognition
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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.
History
IAPR came into official existence in January 1978. Following the Second International Conference on Pattern Recognition in 1974 in Copenhagen, the Standing Committee approved the proposal to establish a permanent international professional organization; two years later, the Constitution was approved in Coronado and Executive Officers were elected.[2]
Today, the responsibility for the day-to-day running of IAPR is delegated to an Executive Committee, assisted by Standing and ad hoc committees. The authority of the Association is vested in the Governing Board, composed of representatives of the member organizations, who decide all important matters such as general policy, the programme of activities, admissions, elections, and budget.[3]
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 [4] is published quarterly by Springer Verlag
Conferences
IAPR Conferences
- The International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics
- The International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
- The International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
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.[7]
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
- ^ "IAPR". International Association for Pattern Recognition. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- ^ http://iapr.org/aboutus/history.php.
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{{cite web}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help); External link in|website=|title=(help); Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ "International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR)". Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ^ "ICDAR 2013". Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ^ "ICDAR 2015". Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ^ "Fellows and Awards". International Association for Pattern Recognition. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
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