China News Service, Beijing, August 24 (Reporter Sun Zifa) The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced on the 24th that the 26th International Pattern Recognition Conference opened in Montreal, Canada on August 22, local time. The chairman of the International Pattern Recognition Association was at the opening ceremony. It was announced at the meeting that the association decided to award this year's highest award in the field of international pattern recognition, the Fu Jingsun Award, to researcher Tan Tieniu, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Center for Intelligent Perception and Computing of the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the field of pattern recognition. .
This is the first time that the highest award in the field of international pattern recognition has been awarded to scholars outside North America and Europe since its establishment in 1988.
The Fu Jingsun Award was established by the International Pattern Recognition Association. It is named after Professor Fu Jingsun, the pioneer of the international pattern recognition discipline and the late Chinese-American scientist. The award will be approved, and one person will be awarded at a time. It aims to recognize living scholars who have outstanding academic achievements and have made outstanding contributions to the development of international pattern recognition. It is a lifetime achievement award and the highest award in the field of international pattern recognition. Important academic awards in the field of artificial intelligence.
Before this year, 17 scholars have won the Fu Jingsun Award, all of them are well-known scholars in the field of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, all from North America and Europe.
Academician Tan Tieniu is the first recipient of the award from outside North America and Europe.
Pattern recognition aims to study and realize human perception, recognition and judgment, and is the basic research content of artificial intelligence.
Academician Tan Tieniu has been engaged in pattern recognition and artificial intelligence-related fields for a long time. He is a pioneer in pattern recognition research such as iris recognition and gait recognition. His research results have been widely used in some important fields of national economy and people's livelihood.
It is understood that Tan Tieniu is also a foreign academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering of the United Kingdom, an academician of the Academy of Sciences for Developing Countries, and a foreign academician of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. A leader in the field of artificial intelligence.
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