IEE COLLOQUIUM ON APPLIED STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION Tuesday, 20 April 1999 to be held at The Midlands Engineering Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom Professional Group E5 (Signal processing) and the Pattern & Information Processing Group, DERA Malvern, United Kingdom The innovative application of advanced pattern recognition techniques is increasingly required to achieve the high levels of performance demanded by modern systems. It is therefore vital for engineers and scientists to develop their awareness and understanding of emerging and established techniques, and of their successful application. This colloquium will provide a focus for applied research in this area, drawing contributions both from industry and academia. It will increase awareness of developing techniques across a broad range of applications areas; and will be of interest to people working in all areas of statistical pattern recognition, addressing applications drawn (for example) from signal and image processing. A number of invited papers will be presented by leading researchers: some of these will take the form of illustrative tutorial sessions. Additional contributions are welcome, and a one page synopsis of proposed papers should be sent by Friday, 15 January 1999 to: Dr Amanda Goode, Senior Research Scientist, Pattern & Information Processing DERA Malvern, St Andrews Road, Great Malvern, Worcestershire WR14 3PS United Kingdom Tel: (+44) (0)1684 894366, Fax: (+44) (0)1684 894384 Email: goode@signal.dera.gov.uk