The IAPR is an international association of non-profit scientific or professional organizations (being national, multinational or international in scope) concerned with pattern recognition, computer vision and image processing in a broad sense.
The major event in the IAPR calendar is the biennial International Conference which attracts scientists, researchers and practitioners in the field from all over the world; here they are able to listen, to learn, to educate and to exchange ideas with their colleagues.
IAPR has established a number of Technical Committees (working groups with only a single level technical specialities and to further the objectives of the Association. Each committee has a distinct purpose of scope and is under the responsibility of a chairman appointed by the IAPR President. These committees organize regular or special meetings and workshops as well as collaborative activities with other organizations.
The goal of Technical Committee 11, is to promote the exchange of information on research projects dealing with text processing using both static and dynamic methods for printed or handwritten document understanding. The major areas of research concerned by this committee are: on-line and off-line character recognition, document processing and understanding, cursive script recognition, automatic signature verification, modeling of handwriting generation and perception. Professor Rejean Plamondon initiated the UNIPEN project from within TC-11.
Professor Rejean Plamondon Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal C.P. 6079, Succ, "A" Montreal, QC H3C3A7, Canada Phone: +1 (514) 340-4539 Fax: +1 (514) 340-4147 Email: ha03@music.mus.polymtl.ca
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