IEEE Computer Society PAMI Technical Committee

Welcome to the PAMI TC Home page. The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence has about 2800 members who are interested in computer vision, image processing, speech processing, pattern recognition, and artificial intelligence. Our purpose is to foster communication and collaboration among practitioners in the field.

• Activities
• Recent Newsletters
• Conferences and Workshops
• Committees
• Officers
• History
• Becoming a Member
• Related Links

Activities

One of the key activities of the PAMI TC is the PAMI TC e-mail list. To join the PAMI TC, go to http://www.computer.org/signup/ To update your e-mail address or other information, contact membership@computer.org

Recent Newsletters

• July 2003
• January 2003
• November 2002
• September 2002
• Fall 2001
• Summer 2001
• Spring 2001
• Winter 2001
• Fall 2000
• Summer 2000
• Spring 2000

Conferences and Workshops

The PAMI TC regularly sponsors the following major conferences:

• CVPR: Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, held every year in North America, except in years when ICCV is in North America
• ICCV: International Conference on Computer Vision, which is held approximately every two years, rotating among the continents of Asia, North America, and Europe
• WACV: Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, held approximately every two years

CVPR and ICCV are usually accompanied by numerous Short Courses and Workshops. In addition, other workshops may be sponsored throughout the year by the PAMI TC. For information on upcoming meetings, check here. If you'd like to propose a meeting, send e-mail to the Chair There is information about past conferences and ideas on how to set up a conference here.

Committees

The PAMI TC is organizing several committees to carry out various activities:

• A Steering Committee to advise the Chair on policy matters
• A Conferences Committee to help organizers ensure high-quality meetings

Officers

• Chair: Chuck Dyer
• Vice Chair for Conferences: Terry Boult
• Vice Chair for European Liaison: Jim Crowley
• Secretary and Treasurer: John Kender
• IAPR Representatives: 3 with 6-year terms, plus the TC Chair
  • Chuck Dyer (As TC Chair)
  • Anil Jain (2004)
  • Rangachar Kasturi (2006)
  • Kim Boyer (2008)

Current terms of service end in December 2003. If you might like to participate in various ways in the Technical Committee, send e-mail to the Chair.

History

The TC was started in Fall 1965 as the Pattern Recognition Subcommittee of the Data Acquisition and Transformation Committee of the Computer Society. The initial members were A. S. Hoagland (IBM), chair; Arthur Hamburgen (IBM), Laveen Kanal (Philco), Bruce H. McCormick (Illinois), Azriel Rosenfeld (Maryland), and Bernard Widrow (Stanford). The committee organized the first Pattern Recognition Workshop, which was held in Puerto Rico in October 1966; by May 1966 it had been upgraded from Subcommittee to Committee. The second workshop was held in Delft, The Netherlands in August 1968. The third one was referred to in the minutes as an International Conference; apparently it was the same as Satosi Watanabe's Frontiers of Pattern Recognition Conference, and was held in Hawaii in January 1971.

• Past Officers of the PAMI TC and the Transactions on PAMI
• History of Major Conferences
• Awards Presented at Major PAMI-Sponsored Conferences
• Minutes of Meetings
• Newsletter

For a time, the PAMI TC had a printed newsletter. It's mostly been superseded by the Web and Newsgroups, but there is a Web site for the issues that were printed.

Becoming a Member

To become a member of the PAMI TC, just fill out the appropriate form here.

Note: If you think you are a member and have not received our newsletter in September 2002 or November 2002, you probably have given the IEEE Computer Society an invalid e-mail address (of about 3000 people in the PAMI-TC, about 2000 have provided e-mail addresses, and about 800 of those are invalid). To update your e-mail address, send a message to membership@computer.org

Related Links

There are other Web sites that do a good job of covering important resources for the PAMI community:

• The IEEE Computer Society is the parent organization of the PAMI TC
• The Transactions on PAMI Journal is the primary publication of PAMI TC
• The CMU Computer Vision Home Page (text-only version) has pointers to almost everything -- research groups, image databases, etc.
• Bob Fisher's CVOnline Compendium of Computer Vision
• Keith Price's list of Computer Vision Conferences
• Keith Price's Annotated Vision Bibliography

Also note the related newsgroups: comp.ai.vision and sci.image processing.

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Last revised: 26 June 2003 by Chuck Dyer