International Association for Pattern Recognition

The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), founded in 1978 by Purdue University computer scientist King-Sun Fu, is an international association of non-profit, scientific, or professional organizations (being national, multi-national, or international in scope) concerned with pattern recognition, computer vision, and image processing in a broad sense. Normally, only one organization is admitted from any one country, and individuals interested in taking part in IAPR's activities may do so by joining their national organization.

Publications
The IAPR publishes four main academic publications of record:
 * The IAPR Newsletter is published quarterly
 * Pattern Recognition Letters is published monthly by Elsevier (ISSN 0167-8655)
 * Machine Vision and Applications is published bimonthly by Springer Verlag
 * International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition is published quarterly by Springer Verlag

Conferences
IAPR Conferences:
 * The International Conference on Pattern Recognition
 * 2014—Stockholm, Sweden
 * 2016—Santiago, Chile
 * 2018—Beijing, China
 * 2020—Milan, Italy
 * 2022—Montreal, Canada
 * The International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics
 * The International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
 * The International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
 * 2013—Washington, DC, USA
 * 2015—Nancy, France
 * 2017—Kyoto, Japan
 * 2019—Sydney, Australia

The IAPR Fellow Award has been awarded biennially since 1994 to recognize distinguished contributions to the field of pattern recognition.