Organization:International Association for Pattern Recognition

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International Association for Pattern Recognition
AbbreviationIAPR
Formation1978; 48 years ago (1978)
FounderKing-Sun Fu
FieldsMachine learning
Websitehttps://www.iapr.org

The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), is an international association of organizations dedicated to computer vision or pattern recognition. It only admits one organization per country or territory. Individual people participate in the IAPR through their own country or territory's organization.[1]

The IAPR was founded by Purdue University computer scientist King-Sun Fu in 1978.[2]

Publications

The IAPR publishes four main academic publications of record:

  • The IAPR Newsletter, which is published quarterly
  • Pattern Recognition Letters, which is published monthly by Elsevier (ISSN 0167-8655)
  • Machine Vision and Applications, which is published bimonthly by Springer Verlag
  • International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition,[3] which is published quarterly by Springer Verlag

Conferences

Conferences run by the IAPR include:

  • The International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)[4]
    • 2014—Stockholm, Sweden[5]
    • 2016—Santiago, Chile[6]
    • 2018—Beijing, China[7]
    • 2020—Milan, Italy[8]
    • 2022—Montreal, Canada[9]
    • 2024—Biswa Bangla Convention Centre, Kolkata, India[10]
  • The International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB)
  • The International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (PRIA)
  • The International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)
    • 2013—Washington, DC, USA[11]
    • 2015—Nancy, France[12]
    • 2017—Kyoto, Japan[13]
    • 2019—Sydney, Australia
    • 2021—Lausanne, Switzerland[14]
    • 2023—San Jose, California, USA[15]

The IAPR Fellow Award has been awarded biennially since 1994 to recognize distinguished contributions to the field of pattern recognition.[16]

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