____________________________________________________________________________ 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 IbPRIA is a single track conference consisting of high quality, previously unpublished papers, presented either orally or as a poster, intended to act as a forum for research groups, engineers and practitioners to present recent results,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 Papers should describe original and unpublished work on the topics of the conference, and should not exceed 8 pages.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