Abstract book (pdf) - ICPR 2010

Message from the General Chair
It is my great honor and privilege to welcome all of you to the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition.
In the past 40 years, this conference brought together the research communities of industry and academia, from all over
the world to discuss important issues, challenges, and solutions in Pattern Recognition related problems. The conference
has established itself as a forum at which research as well as practical aspects of pattern recognition are enthusiastically
addressed. We hope to continue this tradition by offering you another successful forum with an interesting program.
Once again we have a very strong technical program, with technical sessions on computer vision, pattern recognition and
machine learning, signal, speech, image and video processing, biometrics and human computer interaction, multimedia
and Document Analysis, Processing, and Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications. We are also fortunate to have distinguished
invited speakers: Christopher Bishop from Microsoft Research Cambridge, Shree K. Nayar Columbia University,
Prabhakar Raghavan from Yahoo! Research will share their experiences and vision with us. The conference also has
an extremely varied program: there will be 7 interesting tutorials that are an integrated part of the program, as well as 9
workshops that allow an even deeper focus on areas that are of interest to the conference participants. A new feature in the
program this year is the organization of 9 contests which will provide a setting where participants will have the opportunity
to evaluate their algorithms using publicly available datasets, and discuss technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters
active exchange of ideas.
A number of organizations, namely, Tüpraş (TR), Tübitak (TR), Havelsan (TR), Cybersoft (TR), Savronik (TR), Chryso
(TR), Star Alliance (TR), Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (USA), IBM Research (USA) and Elsevier (USA),
kindly served as supporters of the Conference. We are most grateful to these organizations for their financial support and
encouragement. The conference is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, continuing our desire to seek
closer collaboration between our two communities.
During this period, I have had the opportunity to work closely with some of the best people in our community. We are extremely
grateful to Prof. Müjdat Çetin and Osman Rahmi Fıçıcı, who worked day and night, beyond their professional duties
to make the conference a success. The success of any conference depends heavily on the quality of the selected papers.
For selecting the best out of many excellent submitted papers, we are indebted to the technical co-chairs Müjdat Çetin,
Kim Boyer and Seong-Whan Lee, all the track chairs, and the external referees for their hard work that has continued to
uphold the high standard that is now custom to this conference series.
Special thanks also to the conference organizing committee, in particular, Ayşın Ertüzün and Mustafa Ünel (Local arrangement
chairs), Cem Ünsalan (Publication chair), Fatoş Yarman Vural (Sponsorship chair), Anil Jain (Plenary speakers chair),
Hakan Erdoğan and Gülbin Akgül (Finance chairs), Olcay Kurşun (Exhibits chair), Denis Laurendeau, Arun Ross and
Birsen Yazıcı (Tutorial chairs), Selim Aksoy, Theo Gevers, Denis Laurendeau and Bülent Sankur (Workshop chairs), Selim
Aksoy, Zehra Çataltepe and Devrim Ünay (Contest chairs) and Pınar Duygulu, Enis Çetin (Publicity chairs). There would
be no conference without them. We also thank IAPR ex-co members and past chairs of this event for their continued
support and advice in helping us. We would also like to thank Sabancı University President Prof. Nihat Berker for his support
and encouragement. Our special thanks go to the Teamcon staff members, who provided critical support overseeing
all the logistics and making the smooth operation of the entire conference possible.
Finally, no conference can ever take place without the support of those individuals who submit their original research results,
or without the participants, who honor the conference with their presence.
We hope that you will find the conference both enjoyable and valuable, and also enjoy the architectural, cultural and
natural beauty of Istanbul, and Turkey.
Aytül Erçil
ICPR 2010 General Chair
Sabancı University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
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