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On request of the IAPR the Technical Committee on Statistical Pattern Recognition (TC1) established the a special award to commemorate Pierre Devijver, one of the founders of statistical pattern recognition, who left us all in 1996. It was decided to set up a Pierre Devijver Award Lecture, to be presented at regular TC1 workshops . The presenter would be selected from among outstanding scientists who had contributed significantly to the field of statistical pattern recognition. |
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The 2004 Pierre Devijver Award winner is Erkki Oja. He presented the Pierre Devijver Award Lecture during the Workshop on Statistical Pattern Recognition (SPR2004) in Lisbon, Portugal, August 18-20, 2004. Finding Clusters and Components by Unsupervised Learning |
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The 2002 Pierre Devijver Award winner is Anil K. Jain. He will present the Pierre Devijver Award Lecture during the Workshop on Statistical Pattern Recognition (SPR2002) in Windsor, Canada, 6-9 August 2002. The title of his presentation will be: Fingerprint classification and matching |
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The first ever winner of this award is Josef Kittler. He presented the Award Lecture during the joint SPR&SPRR Workshop in Alicante, August 2000. The TC1 decision was based on his outstanding scientific work in the field. Josef Kittler has been for many years the closest scientific collaborator of Pierre Devijver. His lecture was entitled: A Framework for Classifier Fusion: Is it still needed? |
The PDA Committee 2004 prepares the selection of the 2004 winner. She/he will be invited to present the Pierre Devijver Award Lecture at the Statistical Pattern Recognition Workshop in Lisbon, August 18-20, 2004. Nominations can be sent to one of the members of the committee, not later than October 15, 2003:
Dr. Tin Ho, Prof. Josef Kittler, Prof. Anil Jain, Prof. Mineichi Kudo, or to the chairman, Dr.Robert P.W. Duin