Minutes of IPRCS AGM, Thursday 4 September 2003

1. Attendance at the AGM: about 15.  Local organisers, Philip
   Morrow and Bryan Scotney, were thanked for a very
   enjoyable IMVIP conference.  
2. IMVIP 2004 will be organized by Kenneth Dawson-Howe
   in TCD.  Dates: 1-3 September 2004.  Web site:
   http://www.cs.tcd.ie/IMVIP2004
3. Reports were received from IPRCS Treasurer, Jon 
   Campbell - included healthy balance in the EUR account,
   with the GBP account now closed, but very few registrations
   have been paid; IPRCS Secretary, Fionn Murtagh - included
   web area, and email list; and IPRCS President, Paul Whelan,
   who mentioned that ICPR'04 will be held in Cambridge (GB),
   and the IAPR Newsletter is going electronic only. 
4. Issue arising from reports: The cost of the IPRCS web area
   was discussed and it may be decided to go for a cheaper 
   redirection provider.  (We pay only for redirecting 
   www.iprcs.org to a CS, QUB, web server.)
5. Following discussion on member subscriptions it was 
   decided to (i) go for personal subs in future rather than 
   team or group ones, and (ii) integrate subs closely with 
   IMVIP conferences, so that - for example - 20 euro extra 
   is taken in at IMVIP which will be the individual membership
   subscription for the following year.  In this way, IMVIP
   attendance brings the additional benefit of a year's IPRCS
   membership.  Meanwhile individual membership is of course
   possible independently of IMVIP participation.
6. Noel Murphy raised the issue of CIVR - Conference on Video
   Retrieval, to be held in DCU on 21-23 July 2004.  (The 
   information retrieval event, SIGIR, will be immediately 
   after, in Sheffield.)  It was agreed that IPRCS would be 
   a "cooperating" organisation in regard to CIVR.  Noel
   expects to have reduced fees for IPRCS members attending
   CIVR.
7. The organisers of IMVIP 2003 again produced a nice 
   proceedings volume.  Future options for a selection of 
   papers appearing in a journal were discussed, e.g. 
   Image and Vision Computing (Elsevier).  IVC had expressed
   interest in the past, and have special issues arising out
   of the BMVA's annual conferences.  Paul Whelan will check 
   out the status of this with IVC, having consulted with 
   Adam Winstanley.  
8. Short courses or tutorials along the lines of what SPIE 
   organise, in conjunction with IMVIP: proposals to Ken 
   Dawson-Howe.