Keynote Speakers
ICPR2020 Invited Keynote Speakers
Max Welling
University of Amsterdam and Qualcomm, NL
Equivariant
graph neural networks and their applications
Mihaela van der Schaar
University of Cambridge, UK
AutoML and interpretability: powering the machine learning revolution in healthcare
Pietro Perona
Caltech – California Institute of Technology and Amazon Web Services, USA
Measuring algorithmic bias in face analysis — towards an experimental approach
David Doermann
University of Buffalo, USA
Document Integrity in an AI World
ICPR2020 Award Keynote Speakers
2020 King-Sun Fu Prize
Ching Yee Suen
Concordia University CA
From Handwriting to Human Personality and Facial Beauty
The citation for the prize is:
“For pioneering research and exceptional contributions to handwriting recognition and document understanding in theory, practice, and education.”
2020 J. K. Aggarwal Prize
Abhinav Gupta
Carnegie Mellon University and Facebook AI Research, USA
Towards Self-supervised Curious Robots
The citation for the prize is:
“For pioneering contributions to unsupervised and self-supervised learning in computer vision and robotics.”
2020 Maria Petrou Prize
Maja Pantic
Imperial College and Facebook Research, UK
Emotional AI, Faces & Deep Fakes
The citation for the prize is:
“For contributions to artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in computer vision and machine learning applied to automatic analysis of human faces, machine understanding of human behaviour, and multimodal recognition of human emotions.”
Statistics
For the first time ICPR2020 implemented a two-round review process:
FIRST REVIEW ROUND
1554 submissions reviewed
- Accepted: 554
- To be revised and resubmitted: 579
- Rejected: 421
- Withdrawn: 15
- Acceptance rate: 35,6%
SECOND REVIEW ROUND
1696 submissions reviewed (496 revised versions, 1200 new submissions)
- Accepted revised versions: 305
- Accepted new submissions: 552
- Rejected: 839
- Withdrawn: 2
- Acceptance rate revised versions: 61,4%
- Acceptance rate new submissions: 46%
FINAL REVIEW RATES
- Acceptance rate new submissions (one review round): 40,1% (1106 over 2754)
- Acceptance rate revised versions (two review rounds): 61,4% (305 over 496)
- Overall acceptance rate: 43,4% (1411 over 3250)
- Overall Oral acceptance rate: 4,4% (144 over 3250)
- Withdrawn after decision: 4
REGISTERED AUTHORS
- Registered main conference authors: 1407
- Registered demo authors: 27
- Participant countries: 56
Conference Organizing Team
The top Conference in Pattern Recognition and a Team with a strong scientific qualification
General Chairs
Rita
Cucchiara
Univ. of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Alberto Del Bimbo
Univ. of Firenze, Italy
Stan Sclaroff
Boston Univ., USA
Program Chairs
Kim
Boyer
Univ. of Albany, USA
Brian C. Lovell
Univ. of Queensland, Australia
Marcello Pelillo
Univ. of Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy
Nicu Sebe
Univ. of Trento, Italy
Rene Vidal
Johns Hopkins Univ., USA
Jingyi
Yu
Shanghai Tech Univ., China
Track Chairs
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning for Pattern Analysis
Ehsan Elhamifar (Northeastern Univ. USA) Zhouchen Lin (Peking Univ., China), Fabio Roli (Univ. of Cagliari, Italy), Marina Meila (Univ. of Washington, USA) - Biometrics, Human Analysis and Behavior Understanding
Octavia Camps (Northeastern Univ., USA), Stan Z. Li (Westlake University, China), Massimo Tistarelli (Univ. of Sassari, Italy), Yunhong Wang, (Beihang Univ. China) - Computer Vision Robotics and Intelligent Systems
Lale Akarun (Bogazici University, Turkey), Luigi Di Stefano (Univ. of Bologna, Italy), Javier Ruiz-del-Solar (Univ. of Chile, Chile), Yoichi Sato (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) - Document and Media Analysis
Simone Marinai (Univ. of Firenze, Italy), Kyong Mu Lee (Seoul National Univ., Korea), Elisa Ricci (Univ. of Trento, Italy), Cees Snoek, (Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Changsheng Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) - Image and Signal Processing
Sebastiano Battiato (Univ. of Catania, Italy), Andrea Cavallaro (Queen Mary Univ. of London, UK), Ana Fred (Technical Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal), Shiguang Shan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Tutorial Chairs
Vittorio Murino
Univ. of Verona, Italy
Sudeep Sarkar
Univ. of South Florida, USA
Challenge Chairs
Marco Bertini
Univ. of Firenze, Italy
Hugo Jair Escalante
INAOE and CINVESTAV National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico
Women in ICPR Chairs
Alexandra
Branzan Albu
Univ. of Victoria, Canada
Maria De
Marsico
Univ. Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Special Issue initiative Chair
Michele Nappi
Univ. of Salerno, Italy
Web Chair
Andrea
Ferracani
Univ. of Firenze, Italy
Publication Chair
Roberto
Vezzani
Univ. of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Workshop Chairs
Giovanni Maria Farinella
Univ. of Catania, Italy
Tao Mei
JD.COM, China
Demo & Exhibit Chairs
Lorenzo
Baraldi
Univ. Modena Reggio Emilia, Italy
Bruce A. Maxwell
Colby College, USA
Lorenzo
Seidenari
Univ. of Firenze, Italy
Corporate Relations Chairs
Corporate Relations Chair for Europe
Fabio
Galasso
Univ. of Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Corporate Relations Chair for North America
Matt Leotta
Kitware, Inc. NY USA
Corporate Relations Chair for Asia
Zhongchao Shi
Lenovo Corporation
Local Chairs
Matteo
Matteucci
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Paolo
Napoletano
Univ. of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Financial Chairs
Cristiana Fiandra
The Office srl, Italy
Vittorio Murino
Univ. of Verona, Italy
Sponsors
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