Volume 32, Number 1 January 2010 |
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION |
Newsletter Editor: Alexandra Branzan Albu email: aalbu@ece.uvic.ca Home page: www.ece.uvic.ca/~aalbu/
Associate Editor for Book Reviews: Arjan Kuijper email: arjan.kuijper@igd.fraunhofer.de Home page: www.igd.fraunhofer.de/~akuijper/
Layout Editor: Linda J. O’Gorman email: logorman@alumni.duke.edu |
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Calls for Papers |
In this issue…
Global Pattern Recognition: The ImageCLEF Benchmark Henning Müller and Theodora Tsikrika discuss this multilingual and multimodal image annotation and retrieval benchmark and invite IAPR members to participate.
Getting to Know...Nalini K. Rahtha, IAPR Fellow Nalini Ratha talks about the key role of secure biometrics in our world.
Pattern Recognition in the Media: Language Linda O’Gorman, IAPR Secretariat and IAPR Newsletter Layout Editor, introduces a new series of articles on examples pattern recognition in the popular media.
IAPR Secretary Denis Laurendeau shares news from the IAPR Executive Committee.
INSIDE the IAPR: Becoming an IAPR Member Society Professor Chew Lim Tan, Membership Committee Chair, describes the history of the Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA) of Singapore as an example of how national pattern recognition societies become members of IAPR.
A list of book reviews previously published in the IAPR Newsletter.
IAPR Conference and Workshop Reports:
Third Workshop on Analytics for
13th International Conference on Computer Analysis of
15th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for
Techniques and Applications 2009
Deadline for early registration is May 14, 2010.
Call for Nominations: J.K. Aggarwal Prize The deadline is February 10, 2010. Nominations are being accepted for the J.K. Aggarwal Prize that will be awarded at ICPR 2010.
A free book available for review and an announcement of a new method for smooth-continuous data reconstruction.
Chart of some upcoming IAPR and non-IAPR conferences of interest to the IAPR community. |
IAPR Newsletter Articles, announcements, book reviews, conference and workshop reports
Contact the editor: Alexandra Branzan Albu, aalbu@ece.uvic.ca
Deadline: March 22, 2010 |
Call for Submissions |
12th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition Kolkata, India Deadline: February 15, 2010 November 16–18, 2010 |
4th International Workshop on Computational Forensics Tokyo, Japan Deadline: June 25, 2010 November 11-12, 2010 |
17th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis Ystad Saltsjöbad, Sweden Deadline: December 15, 2010 May 23-27, 2011 |
To be presented at the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010) Istanbul, Turkey Deadline: February 10, 2010 August 23-26, 2010 |
11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Beijing, China Deadline: March 1, 2011 September 18-21, 2011 |
International Conference on Image and Signal Processing 2010 Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada Deadline: February 14, 2010 |