CALL FOR PAPERS Special Session on Pattern Analysis and Recognition (PAR'2009) http://cisedu.us/cis/hpcs/09/main/storageDocs.jsp?doc=/storage/docs/hpcs/09/sessions/SS1-PAR2009-CFP.htm As part of the 2009 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2009) http://cisedu.us:80/cis/hpcs/09/main/callForPapers.jsp in conjunction with The International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2009) June 21-24, 2009 Leipzig, Germany The special session on Pattern Analysis and Recognition aims to bring together researchers in the fields of Pattern Recognition. The special session will address recent advances in theory, methodologies and applications. It is meant to promote the discussion and presentation of new research and development in the area of pattern recognition and applications. We encourage original contributions from work on the following areas and other related topics: * Feature selection and extraction * Classification * Clustering * Multi-classifiers * Descriptors * Logical and combinatorial methods * Segmentation * Filtering * Object recognition * Face recognition * Character, graphical and text recognition * Neural network * Fuzzy methods * Syntactical methods * Statistical methods * Hybrid methods * Computer vision * Image understanding * Image compression and coding * Image description and recognition * Multimedia processing * Applications Paper Submission You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to pattern analysis and recognition. Please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 7 double-column IEEE formatted pages, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 350 words. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS'09 conference for presenting the paper at the session. Accepted papers will be published by ECMS in the conference proceedings. Papers should be submitted as attachments to: valev@math.bas.bg. Your submission will be acknowledged within 48 hours. If accepted, final papers will follow the format that HPCS follows which will be posted on the web site. If you have any questions about paper submission or the session, please contact the session organizer. Important Dates: * Full Paper Submission Deadline: ----------- February 27, 2009 * Notification of Acceptance: ----------------- March 20, 2009 * Camera-Ready papers Due: ----------------- April 17, 2009 Session Organizer Prof. Ventzeslav Valev, IAPR Fellow Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Sofia, Bulgaria Phone: + 359 2 979-2830 Fax: + 359 2 971-3649 Email: valev@math.bas.bg Program Committee All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the session international program committee members. * Prof. Asai Asaithambi, University of South Dakota, USA * Prof. Jan-Olof Eklundh, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden * Dr. Tin Kam Ho, Bell Laboratories, USA * Prof. Joachim Hornegger, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany * Prof. Marek Kurzynski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland * Prof. Mariofanna Milanova, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA * Prof. Petia Radeva, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain * Prof. Bulent Sankur, Bosphorus University, Turkey * Dr. Jose Ruiz Shulcloper, Advanced Technologies Applications Center, Cuba If you have any questions about conference paper submission, please contact conference Program Chair: Waleed W. Smari, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469-0226, USA, Voice: (937) 229-2795, Fax: (937) 229-4529, Email: Waleed.Smari@notes.udayton.edu. For information about the HPCS conference in general, please contact the General Chairs or consult the conference web site at http://cisedu.us:80/cis/hpcs/09/main/callForPapers.jsp.