Call for Papers

Pattern Recognition, Machine Intelligence and Biometrics

--- Expanding Frontiers

Editor Patrick S.P. Wang,  IAPR and ISIBM Fellow, to be published by

High Education Press (HEP) and Springer, May 2011

Invitation and Information for Authors

1. The first inauguration issue of this series of books has been planned to be published in memory of the late Prof. King-Sun Fu, pioneer of Pattern Recognition and founding President of IAPR who was born October 2, 1930 and passed away in April 29, 1985. 2011 will be his 81th birthday anniversary. Contributors to this first issue are now invited.

2. This book will be similar to the Springer/HEP edition in book style and format. Potential authors are encouraged to read the books about the format and style. More detailed manuscript formats are available from the following Springer web site:

     http://www.springer.com/authors/book+authors?SGWID=0-154102-12-417900-0 

    The final manuscript delivery should be in Word file (preferred) or Latex.

3. The book will include chapters with suggested 25 – 35 printed pages in average for each paper. 

4. This book will cover both background and introductory information of the topic and the major research results and/or applications. The book is to be published for wider audience and readerships including those in academia, industry, government laboratories, hospital doctors, commercial businessmen and entrepreneurs.

5. The deadlines are as follows. July 15, 2010 for the 1st draft, October 15, 2010 for the full manuscript, and the camera ready final manuscripts will be delivered to the publisher by December 1, 2010. An early response from authors is appreciated.

6. Authors are responsible to obtain permission for using copyrighted materials.

7. Please direct any question of the book to: Prof. Patrick S.P. Wang, IAPR and ISIBM Fellow, patwang@ieee.org, or pwang@acm.org       

 

The following is a tentative table of contents.

Preface

Part 1  Basic Methods in Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence
Part 2  Basic Methods in Machine Vision and Image Processing
Part 3  Fundamentals of Biometrics: fingerprint,  handwriting, voice, face, iris, palm, modal, etc
Part 4  Machine Vision, Pattern Recognition and Biometrics  in Life Sciences, Security  and

             Human ID

Part 5. System , Technology, Modeling and Simulation

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Please reply by May 30, 2010 : to patwang@ieee.org

[   ] I accept your invitation with proposed authors/chapter topic:

[   ] I cannot accept your invitation but I suggest my colleague to write the chapter.

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