Maria Petrou, editor and researcher (1953-2012)

摘要

I met Maria several times at small workshops in Germany including the Dagstuhl seminar on the theoretical foundations of computer vision in Dagstuhl and the 2nd MLDM workshop (Second International Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition) . I remember Maria from these experiences. Maria was the invited editor of the special issue of Pattern Recognition Letters for the 2nd MLDM. I submitted a contribution to this special issue of PRL and my paper was conditionally accepted with the wording that "The paper will be accepted after linguistic correction." As is usual for non-English-speaking authors, it was difficult for me to prepare a flawless manuscript in English. My final draft was linguistically checked by a native English speaker and the corrected version seemed to be satisfactory. I printed out the final manuscript and sent it to Maria by air mail since this was before the era of online submission through the internet. After several weeks, I received a reply from her with corrections on my printed manuscript and the comment "Please correct again." In particular, the definitive articles needed correcting. Thanks to her linguistic editing, the contents of the paper was much clearer. I should say that Maria is the corresponding author of the paper. Sadly, I will not have any more manuscripts with her correction by red ink.