[iprcs] J. K. Aggarwal Prize 2008

[Irish Pattern Recognition and Classification Society]

Dear IPRCS members,

Please see below information on the IAPR ballot on:
the awarding of the J.K. Aggarwal Prize 2008 to Professor Song-Chun Zhu.
As President, I will return the vote for IPRCS by 4th September. I will return a vote that represents the views of the IPRCS members, and I would therefore appreciate any views that you have.

Best regards,

Bryan Scotney
(President, IPRCS)

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Professor Bryan Scotney
Director, Computer Science Research Institute and
Co-ordinator of Unit of Assessment 23 Computer Science and Informatics

Professor of Informatics
School of Computing and Information Engineering,
University of Ulster,
Cromore Road, Coleraine,
BT52 1SA, Northern Ireland

Tel.: +44 (0)28 70324648
Fax : +44 (0)28 70324499
Email: bw.scotney at ulster.ac.uk

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Denis Laurendeau 
To: Denis Laurendeau 
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 1:55 PM


OBJECT: J. K. Aggarwal Prize 2008

Québec City, July 21, 2008

Dear IAPR Governing Board members,
The J.K Aggarwal  Prize Committee consisting  of Professors  B.  Lovell (Chair),
Professor H. Ip,  Professor A.  Jain,  Professor G. Sanniti di  Baja,  Professor
B. Scholkopf, and  Professor K. Yamamoto,   is pleased to  unanimously recommend
Professor Song-Chun Zhu, University of California Los Angeles,  to receive  this
year's J.K. Aggarwal  Prize.  The Committee  was  most impressed  by   Professor
Zhu's  scientific  contributions  and accomplishments.
The Committee's proposed citation is:
"For fundamental and pioneering contributions to a unified foundation for visual
pattern conceptualization, modeling,  learning, and inference  with applications
in computer vision and pattern recognition."
The countries of  the endorsers are:  the United States  of America, China,  the
United Kingdom.  The nominator is from the United States of America.
In the past 15 years, the nominee, in collaboration with his advisor Prof. David
Mumford, colleagues  (Profs. Yingnian  Wu and  Alan Yuille),  and students,  has
developed  a   statistical  modeling,   learning,  and   inference  approach  to
constructing a  unified, and  sound foundation  of computer  vision and  pattern
recognition. His  approach has  been influenced  by the  general pattern  theory
pioneered by Prof.  Ulf Grenander. The  nominee's contributions have  profoundly
impacted many areas  of computer vision  and pattern recognition.  The nominee's
major contributions are summarized below.
+ A minimax entropy learning scheme.
+ A unified model of texture.
+ PDEs bridging statistical learning and image processing
+ Stochastic Inference algorithm for image segmentation and parsing.
+ A stochastic grammar, And-Or graph and top-down/bottom-up inference.
+ A mathematical framework for learning visual vocabulary: textons, primal
  sketch, and deformable models.
Prizes and Awards
2007 Changjiang Scholar, Ministry of Education China.
2007 Marr Prize honorary nomination, 11th ICCV at Rio, Brazil.
2003 Marr Prize, 9th ICCV at Nice, France
2001 Young Investigator Award, Office of Navy Research
2001 Sloan Fellow. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
2001 Career Award. The National Science Foundation
2000 Invited l0 lectures at The Abdus Salum Int'l Centre for Theoretical
Physics, Italy.
2000 College Research Achievement Award, OSU,
1999 Marr Prize honorary nomination, 7th ICCV at Corfu.
1999 Invited lecture at the Institute of Henri Poincare, Paris. France.
1995 Jury Prize, Harvard University.
1992 Harvard Fellowship, Harvard Graduate School of Art and Sciences
According to the statutes,  the J. K. Aggarwal  Prize is subject to  approval by
the  IAPR Governing Board. I would therefore appreciate if you could let me have
(by email (preferred), fax or air  mail) your vote on the above  recommendation.
Your vote is due by September 4, 2008.

Sincerely,
Denis Laurendeau
IAPR Secretary

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Ballot Sheet (also attached as PDF file)
Vote on J. K. Aggarwal Prize 2008
E-mail to: Denis.Laurendeau at gel.ulaval.ca
or fax to: Denis Laurendeau + 1 418 656-3594
(or use any other means of written communication)
Vote is due by September 04, 2008


______I approve the awarding of J. K. Aggarwal Prize 2008 to Professor Song-Chun Zhu.

______I do not approve the awarding of J. K. Aggarwal Prize 2008 to Professor Song-Chun Zhu.

______I abstain from voting on this issue

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