CIARP2012 Call for Papers The 17 th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition CIARP 2012 will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 3 – 6, 2012, and is organized by the Argentine Society for Pattern Recognition (SARP). This conference is a forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical and applied pattern recognition, for the exchange of scientific results and experiences, and for the growth of the co-operation between research groups. This conference is supported by the following scientific associations: International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), Cuban Association for Pattern Recognition (ACPR), Mexican Association for Computer Vision, Neural Computing and Robotics (MACVNR), Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP), Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI), Special Interest Group on Pattern Recognition of the Brazilian Computer Society (SIGPR-SBC),Chilean Association for Pattern Recognition (AChiRP) and Argentine Association for Pattern Recognition (SARP). As in previous years, at the CIARP Conference about 200 contributions will be presented. The program committee will evaluate papers for technical quality, merit, novelty and clarity of presentation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Applications of Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Techniques in PR Bioinformatics Clustering Computer Vision Data Mining DB, Knowledge Bases and Linguistic Tools Discrete Geometry Document Processing and Recognition Fuzzy and Hybrid Techniques in PR Image Coding, Processing and Analysis Kernel Machines Logical Combinatorial PR Mathematical Morphology Mathematical Theory of PR Medical Imaging Natural Language Processing and PR Neural Networks for PR Parallel and Distributed PR Pattern Recognition Principles Robotics & Remote Sensing Applications of PR Cognitive Humanoid Vision Shape and Texture Analysis Signal Processing and Analysis Special Hardware Architectures Statistical Pattern Recognition Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition Voice and Speech Recognition Video analysis Paper Submission: Prospective authors are invited to contribute to the conference by electronically submitting a full paper in English of no more than 8 pages including illustrations, results and references. They will be requested to submit their papers electronically through the conference website before March 16th, 2012. The accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of the CIARP'2012, which will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science - LNCS series. The papers should be prepared following the instructions from Springer LNCS series available at: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 At least one of the authors must have registered for the paper to be published. Currently, conversations are been held in order to publish selected papers in an international journal. Important Dates: Deadline for paper submission March 16, 2012 Notification of paper acceptance May 18th 2012 Camera ready papers and author registration June 15th 2012 Conference Location: CIARP2012 will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina CIARP2012 will offer severals tutorials courses in selected pattern recognition topics. The tutorials are addressed to all CIARP participants who are interested in these topics. Final information about the tutorials will be given as the advance program becomes available. URL: http://ciarp2012.cenatav.co.cu Contact: ciarp2012@dc.uba.ar General Co-Chairs Luis Alvarez León and Luis Gómez Déniz, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Marta E. Mejail and Julio Jacobo, Universidad de Buenos Aires Organizing Committee Julio Jacobo, María Elena Buemi, Norberto Goussies, Daniel Acevedo, Marcelo Mottalli, Francisco Gómez Fernandez, Sebastián Ubalde, Marta Mejail University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Steering Committee: ------------------- Alberto Sanfeliu, AERFAI Espana Alvaro Pardo, APRU Uruguay Cesar Beltran-Castanon, PAPR Peru Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano, MACVNR Mexico César Enrique San Martín Salas, UDEC Chile Helder Araujo, APRP Portugal Hemerson Pistori, SIGPR-SBC Brazil Jose Ruiz-Shulcloper, ACRP Cuba Marta Mejail, SARP Argentina Program Committee: (Not all still confirmed) ------------------ Akihiro Sugimoto (National Institute of Informatics-Japan) Akira Asano (Hiroshima University-Japan) Alejandro Cesar Frery Orgambide (UFAL-Brazil) Alessandro Koerich (PUCPR-Brazil) Andrés Almansa (Telecom-Paris-Tech, Francia) Allan Hanbury (Information Retrieval Facility-Austria) Alvaro Pardo (UCU-Uruguay) Ana María Martínez Enríquez (CINVESTAV-Mexico) Anderson Rocha (UNICAMP-Brazil) André Gagalowicz (INRIA-France) André Ponce Leon (USP-Brazil) Andrea Torsello (UNIVE-Italy) Andreas Dengel (DFKI-Germany) Andrew Bagdanov (UAB-Spain) Angélica Muñoz Meléndez (INAOE-Mexico) Ana Ruedin (UBA-Argentina) Anna Reali (USP-Brazil) Antoni Grau (UPC-Spain) Armando Pinho (UA-Portugal) Arturo Diaz Pérez (CINVESTAV-Mexico) Arun Ross (West Virginia University-USA) Atsushi Imiya (Chiba University-Japan) Aurelio Lopez (INAOE-Mexico) Aurora Pons-Porrata (CERPAMID-Cuba) Beatriz Sousa Santos (UA-Portugal) Berarnardino Castillo Toledo (CINVESTAV-Mexico) Biqin Song (Hubei University-China) Boris Escalante Ramírez (UNAM-Mexico) Carlo Sansone (UNINA-Italy) Carlos Alberto Reyes Garcia (INAOE-Mexico) Cesar Beltran Castanon (UCSM-Peru) César Enrique San Martín Salas (UFRO-Chile) Claudio Castellanos Sánchez (CINVESTAV-Mexico) Claudio M. Debat (UdelaR-Uruguay) Claudio R. Jung (UFRGS-Brazil) Cristian Munteanu (ULPGC - Spain) Da-Chuan Cheng (CMU-China) Daniel Acevedo (UBA-Argentina) David Menotti (UFOP-Brazil) Dibio Borges (UnB-Brazil) Eduardo Bayro Corrochano (CINVESTAV-Mexico) Elsa Moschetti (UNRC-Argentina) Fátima Sombra (UFC-Brazil) Florence Tupin (Telecom ParisTech-France) Francesc Ferri (UV-Spain) Francisco Escolano (University of Alicante-Spain) Francisco Gómez Fernández (UBA-Argentina) Gerard Chollet (Telecom ParisTech-France) Gernot Fink (TU Dortmund-Germany) Gunilla Borgefors (University of Uppsala-Sweden) Gutemberg Guerra Filho (University of Texas at Arlington-USA) Hans du Buf (UALG-Portugal) Héctor Allende (UTFSM-Chile) Heinrich Niemann (Erlangen-Nürnberg University-Germany) Hélio Pedrini (UNICAMP-Brazil) Hemerson Pistori (UCDB-Brazil Herman Gomes (UFCG-Brazil) Huiyu Zhou (QUB-UK) Humberto Sossa Azuela (IPN-Mexico) Ismael López Juárez (CINVESTAV-Mexico) Jacques Facon (PUCPR-Brazil) Javier Hernando (UPC-Spain) Jesús A. González Bernal (INAOE-Mexico) Jingen Liu (University of Michigan-USA) João Marques (UFCG-Brazil) João Miguel Raposo Sanches (UTL-Portugal) João Paulo Papa (UNESP-Brazil) Joceli Mayer (UFSC-Brazil) Jordi Gonzàlez (UAB-Spain) Jorge Rivera-Rovelo (Universidad Anahuac Mayab-Mexico) José Fco. Martínez-Trinidad (INAOE-Mexico) José-Miguel Banedí (UPV-Spain) José Refugio Vallejo (University of Guanajuato-Mexico) Jose Salvador Sanchez (Universitat Jaume I-Spain) Josef Bigun (Halmstad University-Sweden) Josep Llados (UAB & CVC - Spain) Juan Valentín Lorenzo Ginori (UCLV-Cuba) Julio Jacobo Berlles(UBA-Argentina) Jun Zhang (Waseda University-Japan) Karina Gibert (UPC-Spain) Karl Tombre (INRIA-France) Karmele Lopez de Ipiña (EHU-Spain) Klaus Tönnies (Magdeburg University-Germany) Laurent Heutte (Université de Rouen-France) Leopoldo Altamirano (INAOE-Mexico) Lev Goldfarb (IIS-Canada) Liangpei Zhang (Wuhan University-China) Luc Brun (GREYC-France) Luciano Silva (UFPR-Brazil) Luciano Vieira Dutra (INPE-Brazil) Luis Alvarez León (ULPGC - Spain) Luis Gomez Deniz (ULPGC - Spain) Luis Eduardo Falcon (Tecnologico de Monterrey-Mexico) Luis Enrique Sucar (INAOE-Mexico) Luis Gerardo de la Fraga (CINVESTAV-Mexico) Luz Abril Torres-Méndez (CINVESTAV-Mexico) M. Inés Torres (Universidad del País Vasco-Spain) Manuel Graña Romay (Universidad del País Vasco-Spain) Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (INAOE-Mexico) Marcel Brun (UNMdP-Argentina) Maria Frucci (Istituto di Cibernetica "E.Caianiello"-Italy) María Elena Buemi (UBA-Argentina) Maria Petrou (CERTH-Greece) Mario Castelán (CINVESTAV-Mexico) Mario Vento (UNISA-Italy) Marta Mejail (UBA-Argentina) Martin Kampel (TUWIEN-Austria) Max A. Viergever (UU-Netherlands) Meijuan Yang (CAS-China) Michal Haindi (UTIA-Czech Republic) Michel Westenberg (Eindhoven University of Technology-Netherlands) Miguel Arias Estrada (INAOE-Mexico) Miguel Moctezuma (UNAM-Mexico) Nahum Kiryati (Tel Aviv University-Israel) Nancy Arana (CINVESTAV-Mexico) Nelson Mascarenhas (UFSCAR-Brazil) Neucimar Leite (UNICAMP-Brazil) Nicolas Rougon (Telecom SudParis-France) Norberto Goussies (UBA-Argentina) Odemir Bruno (USP-Brazil) Olga Bellon (UFPR-Brazil) Pablo de Cristóforis (UBA-Argentina) Pedro Pina (IST-Portugal) Peter Sturm (INRIA-France) Petia I. Radeva (UAB & CVC-Spain) Petra Perner (IBAI-Germany) Pingkun Yan (Philips Research North America-USA) Pranab Mohanty (Aware-USA) Qieshi Zhang (Waseda University-Japan) Reinhard Klette (University of Auckland-New Zealand) Ricardo Torres (UNICAMP-Brazil) Robert Sablatnig (Institute of Computer Aided Automation-Austria) Robert Sabourin (ETSMTL-Canada) Roberto Rodriguez (ICIMAF-Cuba) Sang-Woon Kim (Myongji University-South Korea) Sergio Cano (UO-Cuba) Shengrui Wang (Université de Sherbrooke-Canada) Soraia Musse (PUCRS-Brazil) Susana Ferrero (UNRC-Argentina) Tadamasa Sawada (Purdue University-USA) Teófilo de Campos (University of Surrey-UK) Tin Kam Ho (Bell Labs-USA) Ulisses Braga-Neto (Texas A&M University-USA) Vasileios Zografos (Linköping University-Sweden) Ventzeslav Valev (IMI-Bulgaria) Vitaly Kober (CICESE-Mexico) Vittorio Murino (IIT-Italy) Volodymyr Ponomaryov (IPN-Mexico) Walter Kosters (LIACS-Netherlands) Witold Pedrycz (University of Alberta-Canada) Xianbin Cao (BUAA-China) Xiaoqiang Lu (CAS-China) Xiaoyi Jiang (Universität Münster-Germany) Xiumei Wang (Xidian University-China) Xuelong Li (University of London-UK) Yi Tang (CAS-China) Yung-Kuan Chan (NCHU-Taiwan) Zoltan Kato (University of Szeged-Hungary) Zongyi Liu (Amazon-USA)