The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), founded in 1978 by
Purdue University
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computer scientist
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, is an international association of non-profit, scientific, or professional organizations (being national, multi-national, or international in scope) concerned with
pattern recognition
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,
computer vision
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, and
image processing
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in a broad sense. Normally, only one organization is admitted from any one country, and individuals interested in taking part in IAPR's activities may do so by joining their national organization.
Publications
The IAPR publishes four main academic publications of record:
*The IAPR Newsletter is published quarterly
*Pattern Recognition Letters is published monthly by
Elsevier
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(ISSN 0167-8655)
*Machine Vision and Applications is published bimonthly by
Springer Verlag
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*International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition is published quarterly by
Springer Verlag
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Originally founded in 1842 in ...
Conferences
IAPR Conferences:
* The International Conference on Pattern Recognition
** 2014—Stockholm, Sweden
** 2016—Santiago, Chile
** 2018—Beijing, China
** 2020—Milan, Italy
** 2022—Montreal, Canada
* The
International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics
* The
* The
International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
** 2013—Washington, DC, USA
** 2015—Nancy, France
** 2017—Kyoto, Japan
** 2019—Sydney, Australia
The IAPR Fellow Award has been awarded biennially since 1994 to recognize distinguished contributions to the field of pattern recognition.
References
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Computer science organizations
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Organizations established in 1976
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