Pierre Devijver Award

On request of the IAPR the Technical Committee on Statistical Pattern Recognition (TC1) established a special award to commemorate Pierre Devijver, one of the founders of statistical pattern recognition, who left us all in 1996. It was decided to set up a Pierre Devijver Award Lecture, to be presented at regular TC1 workshops. The presenter would be selected from among outstanding scientists who had contributed significantly to the field of statistical pattern recognition.

Pierre Devijver Award committee


The 2012 Pierre Devijver award committee was made up of: Prof. Luc Devroye, Prof. Bob Duin, Prof. Josef Kittler, Prof. Anil Jain, Prof. Erkki Oja, Dr Tin Kam Ho and Dr. Terry Windeatt as TC1 chairman. They have voted Prof. George Nagy as 2012 winner.
The Pierre Devijver Award assignment protocol is described here.

Pierre Devijver Award Winners:
The Pierre Devijver Award winner for 2010 was: Prof. Luc Devroye.
He presented the Pierre Devijver Lecture during the S+SSPR Workshop in Izmir, Turkey,August, 2010. The title of his presentation was:
Classification and Trees
The Pierre Devijver Award winner for 2008 was: Dr Tin Kam Ho.
She presented the Pierre Devijver Lecture during the S+SSPR Workshop in Orlando, Florida, December 4-6, 2008. The title of her presentation was:
Data Complexity Analysis
The 2006 Pierre Devijver Award winner was Robert P.W. Duin. He presented the Pierre Devijver Award Lecture during the Workshop on Statistical Pattern Recognition (SPR2006) in Hong Kong, Cina, 17-19 August, 2006. The title of his presentation was:
Structural inference of sensor-based measurements
The 2004 Pierre Devijver Award winner was Erkki Oja. He presented the Pierre Devijver Award Lecture during the Workshop on Statistical Pattern Recognition (SPR2004) in Lisbon, Portugal, August 18-20, 2004. The title of his presentation was:
Finding clusters and components by unsupervised learning
The 2002 Pierre Devijver Award winner was Anil K. Jain. He presented the Pierre Devijver Award Lecture during the Workshop on Statistical Pattern Recognition (SPR2002) in Windsor, Canada, 6-9 August 2002. The title of his presentation was:
Fingerprint classification and matching
The first ever winner of this award was Josef Kittler. He presented the Award Lecture during the joint SPR&SSPR Workshop (SSSPR 2000) in Alicante, August 2000. The TC1 decision was based on his outstanding scientific work in the field. Josef Kittler has been for many years the closest scientific collaborator of Pierre Devijver. His lecture was entitled:
A Framework for Classifier Fusion: Is it still needed?
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