IAPR Best Paper Award at CIARP 2008

We are pleased to announce that an award, consisting of a cash prize and a certificate, will be given to the author(s) of the Best Paper registered and presented at CIARP 2008.
The aim of this award is to acknowledge and encourage excellence, originality and innovativeness of new models, methods and techniques with an outstanding theoretical contribution and practical application to the field of pattern recognition and/or data mining.
The selection of the winner will be based on the wish of the author to be considered for the prize, the evaluation and recommendations from members of the Program Committee and the evaluation of the Award Committee. This committee, carefully chosen to avoid conflicts of interest, will evaluate each nominated paper in a second review process, which will include the quality of the poster and/or oral presentation.

AWARD Committee

Josef Kittler

Department of Electrical Engineering of Surrey University
United Kingdom

Gabriella Sanniti

Istituto di Cibernetica, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Pozzuoli, Napoli, Italy

Karl Tombre

Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, Director of LORIA and of INRIA Lorraine, France

Michael W. Berry

Dept. of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, United States of America

Alberto Del Bimbo

Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Facoltà di Ingegneria Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy