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The Australian
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www.aprs.org.au
Member for Australia of the
International Association for Pattern Recognition
www.iapr.org
The
idea of APRS was born in 1989 when some Australians attended an IAPR sponsored
meeting in Finland and had discussions
with IAPR member organisations. That same year, Prof Mike Duff from University
College London (who was IAPR secretary at the time) was invited speaker at an
IREE conference on Image Processing in Canberra. He encouraged the
formation of an Australian Pattern Recognition body as there was much interest
in the area here.
The society was
launched at a Special Interest Group meeting at
Monash University in February 1990, as
part of the Australian Computer Science Conference. A constitution was drafted
that month and about 40 initial members were recruited, most in Victoria and
Melbourne. By 1991 the society had almost doubled in numbers and the first
national conference, DICTA-91, was held in Melbourne in December 1991. The
following year, State branches were introduced so that local meetings could be
organised, and these currently operate in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. Other states have
nominated representatives as contact persons for APRS liaison.
Since 1991,
specialist workshops and national conferences have been held in alternate
years; most recently DICTA2002 held jointly with ACCV2002 in Melbourne. This follows on from the successful hosting
of ICPR98 in Brisbane, the premier meeting of the IAPR.
The APRS
produces a newsletter approximately quarterly which is distributed with the
IAPR world newsletter. Members enjoy discounts at technical meetings sponsored
by APRS. Total membership has now reached nearly 150.
FIELDS OF INTEREST
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- Statistical
pattern recognition
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- Structural
pattern recognition
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- Image coding
and processing
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- Shape and
texture analysis
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- Biomedical
pattern analysis
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- Natural
language analysis
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- Special
hardware architectures
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Full Membership:
$30 per annum
Student
Membership: $15 per annum
For
more information contact:
Brian
Lovell
President
of the APRS
lovell@itee.uq.edu.au
ph: (07) 33654134