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   Volume 30, Number 1 January 2008  | 
 
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   INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION  | 
 

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   Published in association with the IAPR website, www.iapr.org  | 
 
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   Calls for Papers  | 
 
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   In this issue… 
 The (Frustrating) State of Peer Review While acknowledging his belief that “most good work is published and most peer-reviewed published work is good”, Larry O’Gorman presents his frustrations with some aspects of the peer review process and solicits input from the readership on this topic. 
 Denis Laurendeau, IAPR Secretary, shares the latest news from the IAPR Executive Committee. 
 Books, Books, Books 
 Antonio-Jose Sanchez-Salmeron reviews Dynamic Vision for Perception and Control of Motion by Ernst D. Dickmanns 
 Scott F. Smith reviews Bioinformatics by Andrzej Polanski and Marek Kimmel 
 Nicolas Loménie reviews Introduction to Clustering Large and High-dimensional Data by Jacob Kogan 
 L. Venkata Subramaniam reviews by Ronen Feldman and James Sanger 
 Jason Dowling reviews Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms by David J. C. Makay 
 Conference and Workshop Reports: 
 14th International Conference on 
 2nd IAPR International Workshop onPattern Recognition in Bioinformatics
 5th International Conference on Computer Recognition Systems 
 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications 
 2nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence 
 Submit your papers! The deadline is 8 April 2008. Then, start getting ready for ICPR 2008 in Tampa, Florida! 
 Call for Nominees: K-S Fu Prize The deadline is 30 April 2008. Nomination s are being accepted for the K-S Fu Prize that will be awarded at ICPR 2008. 
 Call for Nominees: J.K. Aggarwal Prize The deadline is 31 May 2008. Nominations are being accepted for the J.K. Aggarwal Prize that will be awarded at ICPR 2008. 
 * TPAMI is taking applications for Editor-in-chief. * Contact Larry O’Gorman for free books! * Check out the Calls for Submissions to the Journal of Pattern Recognition Research (JPRR) and to a Special Issue of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing on Multimodal Biometric Systems. 
 Bob Fisher sent in an email to introduce ground-truth labeled video sequences with interacting groups with a link to the BEHAVE web site. 
 Chart of some upcoming IAPR and non-IAPR conferences of interest to the IAPR community.  | 
 
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   IAPR Newsletter Articles, announcements, book reviews, conference and workshop reports 
 Contact the editor: logorman@avaya.com 
 Deadline: March 27 2008  | 
 
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   Call for Submissions  | 
 
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   International Conference on Image and Signal Processing Cherbourg-Octeville, France Deadline: January 25, 2008 July 1-3, 2008  | 
 
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   8th International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems Nara, Japan Deadline: March 1, 2008 September 17-19, 2008  | 
 
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   19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Tampa, Florida deadline: April 8, 2008 December 8-11, 2008  | 
 
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   10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition  | 
 
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   V International Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects Puerto de Andratx, Mallorca, Spain Deadline: February 22, 2008 July 9–11, 2008  | 
 
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   13th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition Havana, Cuba Deadline: March 31, 2008 September 9–12, 2008  | 
 
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   IAPR-TC19 Workshop on Computer Vision for Cultural Heritage Vienna, Austria Deadline: April 7, 2008 August 25–28, 2008  | 
 
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   3rd IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics Melbourne, Australia Deadline: April 15, 2008 October 15–17, 2008  | 
 
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   Joint IAPR International Workshops on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition and Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition Orlando, Florida, USA Deadline: May 4, 2008 December 4-6, 2008  | 
 
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   To be presented at the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 08) Tampa, Florida, USA Deadline: April 20, 2008 December 8-11, 2008  | 
 
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   To be presented at the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 08) Tampa, Florida, USA Deadline: May 31, 2008 December 8-11, 2008  |