*PREMIA NEWSLETTER (ISSUE 2)*

*Members' Spotlight: Dr. Graham Leedham*

Who needs PIN numbers and passwords when your face and vein patterns
will do the trick? Welcome to the world of biometrics - the stuff of
the new Forensics and Security (ForSe) Lab at the School of Computer
Engineering.  Read the full story on NTU staff
digest<http://www.ntu.edu.sg/corpcomms2/StaffDigest/2006/SD0406.pdf>April
issue (page 3).

If you would like to share your new research work with PREMIA members,
please email to kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg.

*PREMIA short course*

Following the success of our last short course, we are pleased to
announce a short course for "Digital Image Processing Fundamentals:
Theory and Applications", sponsored by
TechSource<http://www.techsource.com.sg/index.asp>to be offered as
follows:

Instructor: Dr Terence Sim Date: 12-14 July (3x7 hours: 9.00 am-1.00
pm, 2.00pm-5.00pm) Venue: Programming Lab 2, S15 02-14, School of
Computing, NUS

Abstract:

This short course provides an introduction to basic image processing
techniques with some exposure of the latest advanced development. The
course aims at strengthening the attendees the fundamental principles
in image acquisition, image processing and manipulation to better
serve effective application of these techniques in real
applications. Some real-life examples will be used to reinforce the
teaching. Matlab/C instructions implementing the image processing
techniques will be demonstrated to the attendees.  Hands-on sessions
are planned to reinforce the principles learned in the
course. Attendees can contact the instructor before July if they wish
their own images to be used in their hands-on session as well as the
objective of processing these images.

Registration is limited and only a limited number of seats are still
open for the course.  Click
here<http://www.premia-sg.org/index.php?option=com_events&task=showevent&event_id=14>to
get more information and registration instructions.

*AGM 2006 cum Members' Night in August*

The 2006 Annual General Meeting (AGM) in August is approaching.  This
year, we would like to make it a special event by organizing it as a
Members' Night.  All members (full members as well as student members)
are
invited free of charge to the event which will be held on 11 Augus
(Friday) at Antica Room I, level 2, Orchard Parade Hotel, 1 Tanglin
Road.  We will begin the night with a talk entitled "Data Mining
Demystified" by Prof. Koh Hian Chye, Dean, School of Business, SIM
University. A limited number of copies of Prof. Koh's book on Data
Mining will also be given to attending members that night subject to
availability of stock by courtesy of Prof. Koh. After the talk,
members are invited to a buffet dinner while we will also conduct the
AGM plus election at the same time. Further details about the
registration the AGM/Members' Night will be sent to members nearer the
date. Also, this is the election year for our AGM.  Members will be
invited in due course to nominate members for election to the board
for the term 2006-2008.

*Upcoming Asia/Pacific Rim IAPR conferences and events*

[MVA 07]: 16-18 May 2007 Tokyo - 10th International Conference on
Machine Vision Applications.  Deadline 15 Dec 2006

[ICPR 06]: 20-24 August 2006 Hong Kong - 18th International Conference
on Pattern Recognition.

[S+SSPR 06]: 17-19 August Hong Kong - International Workshops on
Statistical, Syntactical and Structure Pattern Recognition

A full list of conferences is available directly from the IAPR website
at: http://www.iapr.org/conferences


*IAPR newsletter*

Get the latest issue from PREMIA website http://www.premia-sg.org or
IAPR website http://www.iapr.org/Newsletter06-02/.


*PREMIA Members' benefits*

Join PREMIA, a chapter of the International Association of Pattern
Recognition (IAPR) <http://www.iapr.org/>. Benefits of PREMIA
membership include:

- All the benefits of IAPR membership, including the quarterly IAPR e-
Newsletter, and a 10% discount in registration fees for all IAPR
conferences and workshops <http://www.iapr.org/conferences/>.

- PREMIA Members enjoy discounted or free attendance at local PREMIA
events, including industry outreach activities, focused seminars,
conferences, courses, or lectures.

... among other privileges.  If you are not a PREMIA member yet, come
join us at http://www.premia-sg.org/content/view/9/55/

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