First Call for Papers



4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis

IbPRIA 2009

Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal

June 10-12, 2009



ORGANIZED BY:

Associação Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões (APRP)

Asociación Española de Reconocimiento de Formas y Análisis de Imágenes (AERFAI)



IbPRIA 2009 Web Page:

http://ibpria2009.isr.uc.pt



IbPRIA is an international event co-organized every two years by the Spanish and Portuguese Associations for Pattern Recognition, and sponsored by IAPR-International Association for Pattern Recognition. IbPRIA is a single track conference consisting of high quality, previously unpublished papers, presented either orally or as a poster, intended to act as a forum for research groups, engineers and practitioners to present recent results, algorithmic improvements and promising future directions in pattern recognition and image analysis.



SCOPE

The conference are looking for new theoretical results, techniques and main applications on any aspect of pattern recognition and image analysis, including but not restricted to the following topics:

Pattern Recognition

Image Analysis

Computer Vision

Multimedia Systems

Statistical and Structural Pattern Recognition

Machine Learning and Data Mining

Bioinformatics

Image Coding and Processing

Shape and Texture Analysis

Information Systems

Biometric Technologies

Speech Recognition

Document Processing

Character and Text Recognition

Robotics

Remote Sensing

Industrial Applications of Pattern Recognition

Special Hardware Architectures





PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers must be submitted electronically by December 2, 2008. Each paper will be blind-reviewed by at least two members of the program committee, and will be accepted based on its originality, significance and clarity. Papers should describe original and unpublished work on the topics of the conference, and should not exceed 8 pages.

All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, scheduled to be published in Springer LNCS Series. A copy of the proceedings will be distributed to all participants at the Conference.



IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of papers: December 2, 2008

Notification of acceptance: February 9, 2009

Camera-ready submission: February 27, 2009

Early registration: April 6, 2009

Conference: June 10-12, 2009



IbPRIA 2009 GENERAL CHAIRS:



Helder Araujo

ISR/University of Coimbra (Portugal)

Ana Maria Mendonça

INEB/University of Porto (Portugal)

Armando Pinho

IEETA/University of Aveiro (Portugal)

Maria Ines Torres

Univ. Pais Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (Spain)





CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT

ibpria09@fe.up.pt