The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), is an international association of organizations dedicated to

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pattern recognition Pattern recognition is the task of assigning a class to an observation based on patterns extracted from data. While similar, pattern recognition (PR) is not to be confused with pattern machines (PM) which may possess PR capabilities but their p ...

. It only admits one organization per country or territory. Individual people participate in the IAPR through their own country or territory's organization. The IAPR was founded by

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in 1978.

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

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(ISSN 0167-8655) *Machine Vision and Applications, which is published bimonthly by

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*International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, which is published quarterly by

Conferences

Conferences run by the IAPR include: * The International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) ** 2014—Stockholm, Sweden ** 2016—Santiago, Chile ** 2018—Beijing, China ** 2020—Milan, Italy ** 2022—Montreal, Canada ** 2024— Biswa Bangla Convention Centre, Kolkata, India * 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 ** 2015—Nancy, France ** 2017—Kyoto, Japan ** 2019—Sydney, Australia ** 2021—Lausanne, Switzerland ** 2023—

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

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:International Association for Pattern Recognition Computer science organizations Information technology organizations International organizations based in the United States International learned societies Organizations established in 1976 Computer science-related professional associations