ICPR2006 Inviteed Talks

Thank you to all who contributed reviews of the Keynote and Invited Talks presented at ICPR 2006.  Without you this Feature would not have been possible. 

~L. O’Gorman, ed.

The Keynote and Invited talks at ICPR2006 covered a wide variety of topics relevant to the IAPR Community.  The Feature Article in this issue of the IAPR Newsletter presents reviews of ten of these talks.

 

Keynote 1:

Fingerprints: Proving Ground for Pattern Recognition

By Anil Jain

(University Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University, USA)

 

Keynote 2:

Ensembles of Classifiers

By Lawrence O. Hall

(Professor, University of South Florida, USA)

 

Track 1 Invited Talk:

Variations on Variational Principles for Vision

By Olivier Faugeras

(Research Director, INRIA, France)

 

Track 2 Invited Talk:

Invariants for 2d and 3d Pattern Recognition Problems

By Hans Burkhardt

(Professor, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Germany)

 

Track 3 Invited Talk 1:

Computers in the Human Interaction Loop

By Alexander Waibel

(Carnegie Mellon University; University of Karlsruhe)

 

Track 3 Invited Talk 2:

Image Representation and Retrieval Using Support Vector Machine and Fuzzy C-means Clustering Based Semantical Spaces

By Prabir Bhattacharya

(Professor, Concordia University, Canada)

 

Track 4 Invited Talk 1:

Challenges for Data Mining in Distributed Sensor Networks

By Virginio Cantoni

(Professor, University of Pavia, Italy)

 

Track 4 Invited Talk 2:

Pattern Recognition in Video

By Rama Chellappa

(Minta Martin Professor of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park

 

Track 5 Invited Talk 1:

A Computational Model of Social Signalling

By Alex Pentland

(Professor, MIT Media Lab, USA)

 

Track 5 Invited Talk 2:

Kernel Machines for Computer Graphics

 By Bernhard Schölkopf

(Professor, MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Germany)