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北方交大袁保宗、文富荣因剽窃而被撤消已发表的文章

这是编辑发表在Pattern Recognition Letters第26卷的撤稿并向读者道歉的信.

Pattern Recognition Letters 26 (2005) 685–686

Article retraction: Least-squares fitting for deformable superquadric 
model based on orthogonal distance 

We regret to inform our readers that authors of this article in a 
recent issue of Pattern Recognition Letters by Furong Wen, Baozong 
Yuan (PRL 25(8) 2004, 933–941) had violated the professional ethical 
codes by duplicating large portions of text from the following two 
articles:
(1) Ahn, S.J., Rauh, W., Cho, H.S., Warnecke, H.-J., 2002. Orthogonal 
distance fitting of implicit curves and surfaces, IEEE Transactions on 
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 24(5), 620–638.
(2) Ahn, S.J., Rauh, W., Warnecke, H.-J., 2001. Least-squares 
orthogonal distances fitting of circle, sphere, ellipse, hyperbola, 
and parabola, Pattern Recognition 34(12), 2283– 2303.
without quotation marks and proper citation, and without permission.
Editors of PRL consider this a severe infringement of professional 
ethics and therefore retract the publication of the above mentioned 
article by Wen and Yuan. The editors regret this unfortunate 
occurrence and relay the enclosed apologies by the offending authors 
to Drs. S.J. Ahn, W. Rauh, H.S. Cho, and H.-J. Warnecke, IEEE, Pattern 
Recognition Society, and our readers.
In reviewing a manuscript for publication, the editorial team rely 
heavily on the integrity of the authors and we trust the truth of 
their declaration of originality. Unfortunately there were times when 
we were misled.
We thank Dr. Ahn for alerting us to this incident, and we sincerely 
hope that the scientific community will continue to cooperate in 
enforcing the professional ethical codes so that this situation will 
not be repeated.

Tin Kam Ho
Editor-in-Chief
Regular Issues

Authors' apologies
I would like to give my deep and wholehearted apology to the concerned 
parties (the original authors, IEEE-PAMI, PR Society, and PRL readers) 
for my improper citation and clarification. I referred to the papers 
authored by Drs. S.J. Ahn, W. Rauh, H.-J. Warnecke and H.S. Cho, and 
improperly used parts of the papers without marking them as quotations. 
Nor did I fully clarify that my work was based on the original idea of 
the papers and my contribution was an application of their original 
method to solve a deformable SQ fitting problem. I should also give my 
public apology to the co-author of the paper, my supervisor Professor 
Baozong Yuan. He knew nothing about the paper (such as the submission, 
the revision and the publication of the paper) until I gave the 
published copy to him in June 2004. The whole case is none of his 
business and I take all responsibilities. This incident will be a 
serious lesson for me.
Furong Wen
2004.11.16

I agree with the PRL editors
 decision to retract the article and 
would like to thank the original authors Drs. S.J. Ahn, W. Rauh, H.-J. 
Warnecke and H.S. Cho as well as the PRL editors for alerting me on 
this very unfortunate incident. The incident has given me a helpful 
warning message in the future supervision and education of all my 
students. As the supervisor of the first author, I feel regrettable to 
the readers and all the affected parties (the original authors, IEEE, 
Pattern Recognition Society, the Publishers and the PRL editors).
Baozong Yuan
2004.11.16
Available online 5 February 2005

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