For more information please visit http://www.ibpria2011.ulpgc.es PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS IbPRIA 2011 - 5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis http://www.ibpria2011.ulpgc.es Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, June 8-10, 2011 IbPRIA is an international event co-organised 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 IbPRIA is a single track conference consisting of high quality, previously unpublished papers, presented either orally or as a poster, intended to act as a forum for research groups, engineers and practitioners to present recent results,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 November 19 , 2010. Each paper will be blind-reviewed by at least two reviewers 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 Papers should describe original and unpublished work on the topics of the conference, and should not exceed 8 pages. Authors should refer to the Author\\\'s Instructions on Springer\\\'s LNCS web site for more information on paper format and to download the style/template files. Please note that instructions on Springer\\\'s web site may refer to the \\\"camera-ready\\\" version of a paper. Authors can use the same instructions for their first submission, as well as for the camera-ready version upon acceptance of their papers. (Authors are not required to submit a copyright form with their first submission). All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, and will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (Springer LNCS). A copy of the proceedings will be distributed to all participants at the Conference. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers November 19, 2010 Notification of acceptance January 19, 2011 Camera-Ready February 2, 2011 Conference June 8, 2011