Editorial Board

Honorary Editor-in-Chief

Ching Yee Suen, Personal Website
Concordia University, Canada

Email: [email protected]

Research Interests: Handwriting recognition, Computer analysis and recognition of documents, Detection of fake coins, Design of license plates for automobiles, Human personality, Facial Beauty

Short Bio: Prof. Suen has served at numerous national and international professional societies as President, Vice-President, Governor, and Director. He has given 45 invited/keynote and 300 regular papers at conferences and 200 invited talks at various industries and academic institutions around the world. He has been the Principal Investigator or Consultant of 30 industrial projects. His research projects have been funded by the ENCS Faculty and the Distinguished Chair Programs at Concordia University, FCAR (Quebec), NSERC (Canada), the National Networks of Centres of Excellence (Canada), the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and the industrial sectors in various countries, including Canada, France, Japan, Italy, and the United States.
Prof. Suen has supervised 130 doctoral and master's students to completion, and guided/hosted 100 long-term visiting scientists and professors. He is a fellow of the IEEE (since 1986), IAPR (1994), and the Academy of Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada (1995). Currently, he is the Emeritus Editor-in-Chief of the journal of Pattern Recognition, an Adviser or Associate Editor of 5 other journals, and Editor of a new book series on Language Processing and Pattern Recognition. Actually he has held previous positions as Editor-in-Chief, or Associate Editor or Adviser of 6 other journals. He is not only the founder of four conferences: ICDAR, IWFHR/ICFHR, ICPRAI, and VI, but has also organized more than 12 international conferences including ICPR, ICDAR, ICFHR, ICPRAI, ICCPOL, and as Honorary Chair of numerous international conferences. In 1997, he created the IAPR ICDAR Awards, to honour both young and established outstanding researchers in the field of Document Analysis and Recognition.

Editor-in-Chief

Concordia University, Canada

Email: [email protected]

Research Interests: Computer vision; Image processing; Neural networks; Pattern recognition

Short Bio: Adam Krzyzak received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland, in 1977 and 1980, respectively, D.Sc. degree (habilitation) in computer engineering from the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland in 1998 and the title of Professor from the President of ‘Poland in 2003. Since 1983, he has been with the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, where he is currently a Professor. In 1983, he held an International Scientific Exchange Award in the School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1991, the Vineberg Memorial Fellowship at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology and, in 1992, Humboldt Research Fellowship at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany. He visited the University of California Irvine, Information Systems Laboratory at Stanford University, Riken Frontiers Research Laboratory, Japan, Stuttgart University, Technical University of Berlin,University of Saarlandes and Technical University Darmstadt. His current research interests include nonparametric statistics, deep learning theory and applications and classification. He published about 400 papers including over 140 journal papers.
He has been an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and an Associate Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition Journal and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. He is a co-author of the book A Distribution-Free Theory of Nonparametric Regression, New York: Springer, 2002. He has been a General Co-chair of the IAPR Workshop on Statistical, Syntactic and Structural Pattern Recognition 2022, Co-chair of the Program Committee of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance 2013 and has served on program committees of numerous international conferences. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the IAPR.