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table 1. cOUntrY/reGiOn statistics sHOWinG
ParticiPants anD Oral/POster PresentatiOns in
aPsar 2013 tsUKUba, JaPan.
ParticiPants

Oral PresentatiOns

Japan

144

Japan

China

Korea

Germany

India

The Netherlands

Korea

India

Brazil

Canada

USA

Canada

Singapore

Russian Federation

Switzerland

Sweden

Taiwan

Russian Federation

Sweden

Malaysia

Taiwan

The Netherlands

Australia

Norway

Brazil

Switzerland

Estonia

Total

122

France

POster PresentatiOns

Indonesia

China

Italy

Japan

Malaysia

India

Norway

Korea

Total

231

Brazil

Italy

The Netherlands

Sweden

Total

from 22 countries/regions

(2nd), Martin Pfitzner (3rd), Yoshifumi Aoki, Tomohito
Asaka, Ram Avtar, Gen Oshiyama, Guang-Cai Sun, and
Masumi Yamada. Fig. 3 shows the YSA finalists at the
award ceremony.
VI. SUMMARY AND THE FORTHCOMING APSAR
The smallness of the above noshow number indicates the
high consciousness of the participants, resulting in proactive discussion in each session. Many attendees expressed
the plentifulness of inspirations in the discussion. Besides
the technical sessions, researchers and accompanying
persons enjoyed "Happi" (Japanese festival costume)
banquet with the participatory play of "Taiko" (Japanese
giant drums) and a variety of Japanese foods. On the last
day, many people, some with their families, visited the
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to look into
several types of satellite as well as experience the international space station with its facilities. In summary, all the
events seemed resonating with the participants. The next
APSAR will be held in Singapore in 2015.
ACkNOWlEDGMENT
The author is grateful to Dr. Paul Rosen of NASA, Mr. Kei
Suwa of Mitsubishi Electric Co. and Dr. Manabu Watanabe
of JAXA for their help in report preparation.
grs

PRRS 2014

8th IAPR Workshop on Pattern
Recognition in Remote Sensing
Proceedings were published by the APSAR 2013 organizing committee (IEEE GRSS Japan Chapter/IEICE Electronics
Society), which are accessible in the IEEE Xplore. Worldwide
17 companies and institutes participated in Exhibition and
gathered repeated visits of most active and global scientists
and engineers.
V. STUDENT PAPER AWARD
AND YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD
The two awards caused extremely keen competitions.
Finalists of the Student Paper Award (SPA) presented their
works on the first day just before the welcome reception
to make appeals at the international evaluation board.
Finalists are: Ryo Natsuaki (1st Prize), Fang Shang (2nd),
Masato Watanabe (3rd), Gang Liu, Daisuke Sato, KunWu,
and Junjun Yin. Fig. 2 is a SPA award ceremony photo at
the conference banquet. In parallel, the Young Scientist
Award (YSA) finalists were evaluated through their presentations and questions/answers in respective sessions.
Tough questions attacked the young elites. The finalists are: Minh Phuong Nguyen (1st Prize), Yu Morishita
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PRRS 2014 Chairs:
Jenny Q. Du, Mississippi State University, USA
Eckart Michaelsen, Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany
Bing Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Abstract submission:
March 31, 2014
Email: du@ece.msstate.edu
Notification of acceptance:
April 30, 2014
Early Registration:
May 21, 2014
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