19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, Florida, USA December 8-11, 2008 Web Page: http://www.icpr2008.org e-mail contact: Secretary@icpr2008.org Hosted by the University of South Florida In cooperation with the IEEE-CS Call for Papers - ICPR 2008 ICPR 2008 is the nineteenth conference of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). The ICPR 2008 will be an international forum for discussions on recent advances in the fields of Computer vision, Pattern recognition (theory, methods and algorithms), Image, speech and signal analysis, Multimedia and video analysis, Biometrics, Document analysis, and Bioinformatics and biomedical applications. Paper Submission Authors will be requested to submit their papers electronically through the conference website before April 8th, 2008. http://www.icpr2008.org Details on paper format for manuscript submission will be available at the conference web site. Tutorials ICPR 2008 invites interested researchers to send proposals for the Tutorial Program. Instructions for submitting tutorials will be available on the conference website. Important dates Deadline for paper submission: April 8, 2008 Deadline for tutorial submission: May 5, 2008 Deadline for workshop submission: January 15, 2008 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2008 Camera ready papers and author registration: August 8, 2008 End of early bird registration period: August 8, 2008 Conference Location ICPR 2008 will be held at the Tampa Convention Center. With pristine beaches, numerous parks, arts and science museums, and vibrant night life, Tampa Bay is a popular destination for tourists (http://www.visittampabay.com/). Conference secretariat: ICPR 2008 Computer Science and Engineering Department University of South Florida 4202 East Fowler Avenue, ENB 118 Tampa, FL 33620-5399 General Chairs M. Ejiri (Japan), R. Kasturi (USA), G. Sanniti di Baja (Italy) Program Chairs R. Duin (The Netherlands), D. Laurendeau (Canada), B. Lovell (Australia) Publicity and Sponsorship Chairs A. Campilho (Portugal), T. Matsuyama (Japan), G. Medioni (USA) Finance Chairs J. Bigun (Sweden), S. Tanimoto (USA) Demos, Exhibits and Contests Chairs L. Heutte (France), H. Ip (Hong Kong), D. Leandro Borges (Brazil) Workshops Chairs Y. Ohta (Japan), M. Pietikäinen (Finland) Tutorials Chairs S. Ablameyko (Belarus), M. Shah (USA) Publications Chairs G. Borgefors (Sweden), P. Flynn (USA) Local Arrangements Chair S. Sarkar (USA), D. Goldgof (USA) Advisory Committee J.K. Aggarwal (USA), H. Bunke (CH), Z. Chen (Taiwan), D. Duttamajumder (India), H. Freeman (USA) I. Gurevich (Russia), K. Ikeuchi (Japan), J. Kittler (UK) T. Pavlidis (USA), A. Sanfeliu (Spain), C. Suen (Canada) Conference Tracks and Track Co-Chairs Track 1 - Computer Vision Sven Dickinson (Canada) Jan-Olof Eklundh (Sweden) Kenichi Kanatani (Japan) Hsi-Jian Lee (Taiwan) (Area chair, applications) Track 2 - Pattern Recognition Hans Burkhardt (Germany) Joydeep Ghosh (USA) Tin Kam Ho (USA) Track 3 - Image, Speech, and Signal Processing Freddy Bruckstein (Israel) Sergios Theodoridis (Greece) Track 4 - Multimedia and Video Analysis Pierre Boulanger (Canada) Georgy Gimelfarb (New Zealand) Thierry Pun (Switzerland) Track 5 - Document Analysis Luigi Cordella (Italy) Bidyut B. Chaudhuri (India), Venu Govindaraju (USA) Track 6 - Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications Raj Acharya (USA) Bram van Ginneken (The Netherlands) Track 7 - Biometrics Seong-Whan Lee (Korea) Nalini Ratha (USA) Massimo Tistarelli (Italy)