2019
CPAMI Director Fakhri Karray has been elevated to IEEE Fellow. According to the IEEE (the largest technical professional organization in the world), the Fellow grade is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation.
2018
Professor Fakhri Karray, CPAMI Director, inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
CPAMI members publish their latest work in the prestigious journal Nature.
2017
Professor Andrew K.C. Wong, Dr. Peiyuan Zhou and Mr. Antonio Sze-To are the recipients of the Best Paper Award at the 13th International Conference on Data Mining 2017 (DMIN'17) held in Las Vegas, USA. The title of the paper is Discovering Deep Knowledge from Relational Data by Attribute-Value Association.
2016
The most cited article since 2011 in Pattern Recognition Journal authored by CPAMI members: Survey on speech emotion recognition: Features, classification schemes, and databases
2015
Professor Mohamed Kamel has been selected as the 2015 recipient of the IEEE Canada A.G.L. McNaughton Gold Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems. Established in 1969, the McNaughton Gold Medal is IEEE Canada's highest honour and is awarded to outstanding Canadian engineers recognized for their exemplary contributions to the engineering profession.
Most Cited and Downloaded Article in Information Fusion: Article by CPAMI members, which is most downloaded and most cited in the Elsevier's Journal “Information Fusion” since 2011: Multisensor data fusion: A review of the state-of-the-art
Professor Mohamed Kamel has been elected as fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Please read the full article.
2013
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Best Paper Award Runner–up:
Ahmed Farahat, Ahmed Elgohary, Ali Ghodsi, and Mohamed Kamel, “Distributed Column Subset Selection on MapReduce”, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'13), pp. 171-180.
16th International Conference on Information FUSION Best Paper Award Runner-Up:
K. Golestan, F. Karray, M. S. Kamel, “High Level Information Fusion Through a Fuzzy Extension to Multi-Entity Bayesian Networks in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks”, the 16th International Conference on Information FUSION (ICIF2013), pp. 1180-1187, 2013.
NIPS 2013 Workshop on Transfer Learning and Multi-TaskBest Abstract Award:
Yun-Qian Miao, Ahmed Farahat, and Mohamed Kamel, “Class-wise Density-ratios for Covariate Shift”, NIPS 2013 Workshop on Transfer Learning and Multi-Task, 2013.
2012
Pattern Recognition Journal Best Paper Award Honorable Mention for papers published in 2009:
Kong, A., Zhang, D., and Kamel, M., “A Survey of Palmprint Recognition” Pattern Recognition, Vol. 42, No.7, pp. 1408-1418, 2009
2011
Pattern Recognition Journal Best Paper Award for papers published in 2011:
Moataz ElAyadi, M. S. Kamel, F. Karray, ““Survey on speech emotion recognition: Features, classification schemes, and databases”, PatternRecognition,Volume 44, Issue3, Pages 572–587, March 2011.
2009
2nd International Workshop on Semantic Aspects in Data Mining part of ICDM 2009 Best Paper Award:
Ahmed K. Farahat and Mohamed S. Kamel, “Document clustering using semantic kernels based on term-term correlations”, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Aspects in Data Mining, ICDM, 2009, pp. 459-464