CIPPRS is the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (CIPPRS), is a special interest group of the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) and is the national representative organization of and the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR). CIPPRS has was established in the 1970's. It's key annual activity is the sponsorship of the Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), formerly know as Vision Interface (VI). CRV (and previously VI) have a tradition of being co-located with AI and GI, a pair of conferences focused on on artificial intelligence and on computer graphics and human-computer interfaces. This year, a 4th conference, Precarn's Intelligent Systems (IS) will also be held jointly with the 3 other conferences.

In 2009 CRV2009 will take place on May 25-27 in Kelowna, British Columbia. The focus of the conference includes Computer Vision, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition as well Robot Vision and Medical Imaging. The conference also has a tradition of welcoming papers on sensor-based robotics and virtual reality. The conference is sponsored by CIPPRS and IAPR. Please go to www.computerrobotvision.org for details.

CIPPRS/CRV adheres the IAPR Ethical Requirements for Authors:

The IAPR requires that all authors wishing to present a paper declare that the paper is substantially original; that is, the manuscript as a whole, or for the most part, is novel, has not been published in (or even submitted to) any journals and has not been presented at any other conferences. If previous versions of the manuscript were published or presented, appropriate references must be given and substantial justification for presentation of the current version must be presented. The IAPR strictly prohibits any plagiarism; that is, the work of others must not be "borrowed" and presented as the authors' own work, regardless of the size of the borrowed portion. The IAPR frowns upon "no-show behavior" at IAPR-related conferences and workshops, meaning that an author registers to make a presentation but does not show up for it. If such behavior is unavoidable due to urgent and unexpected personal matters, the author is strongly urged to notify the event organizer of the situation as soon as possible. If prior notification is impossible, the organizer should be advised after the fact of the reason for the author's absence. The IAPR retains the rights to eliminate any papers in violation of these Requirements and to take appropriate action against individuals repeatedly violating these Requirements and assumes no responsibility for any resulting loss of reputation or opportunity of such individuals or for any inconvenience related to the future work of such individuals.

For information about the purpose of CIPPRS or about joining CIPPRS download the following files:

Latex and Word style files can be found on the Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision

IMPORTANT: Please note that John Barron, the CIPPRS treasurer, will only be able to process membership requests for 2009 until March 20th.

Joint conference information