The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), founded in 1978 by

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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 Pattern recognition is the automated recognition of patterns and regularities in data. It has applications in statistical data analysis, signal processing, image analysis, information retrieval, bioinformatics, data compression, computer graphi ...

, computer vision, and

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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

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(ISSN 0167-8655) *Machine Vision and Applications is published bimonthly by Springer Verlag *International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition is published quarterly by Springer Verlag

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

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* 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

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