{"id":45,"date":"2024-10-03T07:21:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T07:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.premiasg.org\/web\/our-mission\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T13:37:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T13:37:10","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.premiasg.org\/web\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The mission of Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association is to provide a platform for researchers, lecturers, engineers, practitioners and students and to promote the study, education, research and applications of the theory, methods, and practices of pattern recognition and machine intelligence in the real world.<\/span><\/p>

The Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA) is the IAPR member society from Singapore.\u00a0 The formation of PREMIA can be traced back to the year 2002.\u00a0 In August of that year, during ICPR 2002 in Quebec City, Canada, Prof. Rangachar Kasturi, then IAPR President approached Prof. Chew Lim Tan from the National University of Singapore, inviting him to form an IAPR society in Singapore. Prof. Kasturi felt that there should be a sufficient number of researchers in the area of pattern recognition in Singapore to form such a society.\u00a0 Prof. Tan agreed to explore the possibility.\u00a0 During the conference, Prof. Tan also asked several conference delegates from other countries about their experience in forming their national IAPR societies.\u00a0 In December 2002, Prof. Sergey Ablameyko, then Chairman of the IAPR Membership Committee, contacted via email a few people in Singapore, including Prof. Tan, suggesting the formation of a national society in Singapore.\u00a0 Prof. Kasturi also later clarified some doubts that Prof. Tan raised in his email reply to Prof. Ablameyko.<\/span><\/p>


In the ensuing months, Prof. Tan held discussions with several colleagues and contacts in the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University.\u00a0 They were quite positive towards the formation of an IAPR society. Further meetings were held, and a draft constitution was worked out.\u00a0 Meanwhile, more researchers from the two universities as well as several research institutes and the industry were also contacted.\u00a0 The feedback was quite encouraging.\u00a0 After some deliberation, we decided to name the society the Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association with the acronym PREMIA.
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PREMIA aims to provide a forum for scientists and engineers in Singapore who are interested in pattern recognition and machine intelligence research.\u00a0 Specifically, the topics of research interest include\u00a0computer vision, image processing, speech analysis, robotics, multimedia, document analysis, character recognition, knowledge engineering, fractal analysis and intelligent control, statistical techniques, neural networks,\u00a0evolutionary programming, fuzzy logic, machine learning, and hardware implementation.\u00a0\u00a0Furthermore, PREMIA is to be affiliated with IAPR so as to provide a link for our local researchers to the international community.
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The following were the founding members of PREMIA as members of the Pro Tem Committee set up in November 2003:\u00a0 President Chew Lim Tan (National University of Singapore), Vice-President Charles Graham Leedham (Nanyang Technological University), Treasurer Terence Sim (National University of Singapore), Secretary Teck Khim Ng (National University of Singapore), and Committee Members \u00a0 Kai Kuang Ma (Nanyang Technological University), Daming Shi (Nanyang Technological University), and Ji He (National University of Singapore).
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In February 2004, PREMIA was officially registered with the Registrar of Societies, Singapore. In April 2004, PREMIA was admitted as a member of IAPR.\u00a0 Since then, PREMIA has actively organized events such as seminars, short courses, annual members\u2019 nights, best student paper awards, student travel grants for attending ICPR, sponsorship of international conferences held in Singapore, etc.\u00a0 Our current and past activities can be found on our website at\u00a0www.premiasg.org
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