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In this issue…

Larry O’Gorman outlines ways you can contribute to your IAPR Newsletter.

Karl Tombre discusses TC guidelines for conferences and workshops, web site and educational materials and test datasets.

From the ExCo

Denis Laurendeau reviews the Governing Board meeting that took place in Portugal in June. Many interesting topics were discussed, including a call for nominations for the K-S Fu Prize to be awarded at ICPR2006 in Hong Kong.

Books, Books, Books

Salil Prabhakar reviews Kernel Methods for Pattern Analysis by John Shawe-Taylor and Nello Cristianini (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Call for Papers: ICPR2006

December 15th is the deadline for paper submissions to ICPR2006.

Call for Nominees: K-S Fu Prize

Nominations are being accepted for the K-S Fu Prize that will be awarded at ICPR 2006.

Conference & Workshop Reports:

MVA 2005 Conference Photos

PRIP 2005 8th International Conference on

Pattern Recognition and

Information Processing

MCS 2005 6th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems

GREC 2005 6th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition

NNLDAR05 1st IAPR TC3 Workshop on

Neural Networks and Learning

in Document Analysis and Recognition

ICIAP 2005 13th International Conference on

Image Analysis and Processing

Letters to the Editor

Usama Hasan offers insights into the issue of automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) that was described in “Pattern Recognition in Traffic Engineering” which appeared in the July, 2005, IAPR Newsletter.

Of interest…

This bulletin board has positions and a publication that will be of interest to IAPR members.

Volume 27 Number 4

October 2005

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION