The statutory powers and duties of the Education Committee are laid
down in the Constitution in Section 8.1 and
in the Bylaws in Section 13.7. The aim of the Committee is to search
out, collect together and develop
educational material (texts, films and videos, lists of speakers, etc.)
for the information of IAPR members and
their associates. It should be a relatively large Committee so as to
widen the net for information collection. The
geographic dispersion of its members are both its strength and its
weakness since it is difficult to maintain
co-operative activity over long distances. Thus good communication
is a particularly important factor in this
Committee.
The committee attends to three major items of business:
1.Selection of the winning paper for the Piero Zamperoni
Best Student Paper Award (see Appendix 7.6).
2.Support of special meetings related to education in
pattern recognition, image processing, and closely
related areas. The organisation of workshops,
about educational issues in pattern recognition,
co-ordinated with the ICPR is within the scope
of the committee.
3.Development and/or Review of Curricula. The committee
is the natural body within the IAPR to collect
and review syllabi and other course material
for the field of pattern recognition. The committee should help
to maintain a web page with information for
teachers and students who wish to find out about the typical or
recommended order of topics for courses on
pattern recognition. A way for the IAPR Education
Committee to be effective is to maintain awareness,
and if possible, personal contacts with members of
committees of large societies such as the
IEEE and ACM who have major curriculum efforts involved with
pattern recognition, artificial intelligence,
robotics, image processing, and computer vision.