The PRASA 2004 Archive: A Snapshot of Pattern Recognition Before Deep Learning

Explore the surviving index.html of PRASA 2004, a mid-2000s pattern recognition conference archive with 34 papers on speech, vision, and biometrics — before deep learning took over.

Inside the PRASA 2003 Archive: Pattern Recognition in South Africa

A look at the PRASA 2003 proceedings archive—40 papers on computer vision, speech, and machine learning from a South African symposium, with honest methods and low-resource innovations.

The PRASA 2003 Archive: A Time Capsule of Pattern Recognition Research

Explore the PRASA 2003 symposium index page—a raw HTML archive of pattern recognition papers from South Africa. Discover the research topics, hardware constraints, and digital preservation lessons.

Inside the PRASA 2003 Archive: A Snapshot of Mid-2000s Pattern Recognition

Explore the PRASA 2003 conference archive — scanned proceedings from a mid-2000s pattern recognition meeting, covering speech, vision, and low-resource language research.

PRASA 2002 Symposium Archive: A Snapshot of Pattern Recognition Before Deep Learning

Explore the PRASA 2002 symposium archive — 30 papers on speech, document analysis, computer vision, and biometrics from a time when SVMs ruled and deep learning was a decade away.

Inside the PRASA 2001 Digital Archive: A Time Capsule of Pattern Recognition Research

Explore the hand-coded HTML archive of the 2001 Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa symposium, featuring 28 papers on language identification, digit recognition, and more.

Table of Contents in HTML: How Mid-2000s Researchers Structured Digital Proceedings

How the humble HTML table of contents enabled navigation of early digital conference proceedings in pattern recognition, speech, and computer vision research.

Karin van Wyk and the Contacts 3 Organising Committee: A Mid-2000s Milestone

Explore the role of Karin van Wyk on the organising committee of the 2006 Contacts 3 workshop, a milestone for speech technology in under-resourced African languages.

John Morkel and the 3rd Contacts Workshop: How a Small Gathering Shaped Low-Resource Speech Technology

The 2006 Contacts workshop in Stellenbosch, chaired by John Morkel, brought together speech and vision researchers to focus on under-resourced African languages. Learn about the committee’s decisions and technical highlights.

The Contacts 3 Workshop: How a Small 2006 Conference Shaped Applied Pattern Recognition

Inside the Contacts 3 workshop in Cape Town (2006): Fred Nicolls’ committee that bridged speech, vision, and biometrics, and its lasting impact on open science and low-resource AI.