S+SSPR 2018 Call for Papers

S+SSPR 2018 is a joint biannual event organized by Technical Committee
(Statistical Pattern Recognition Technique) and Technical Committee
(Structural and Syntactical Pattern Recognition) of the
International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR). 

Following
the trend of previous editions, S+SSPR 2018 will be held in close
proximity and shortly before the International Conference on Pattern
Recognition (ICPR).  This time the workshop s will be hosted by
Beihang University.  A uthors are invited to submit papers addressing
any topic in statistical, structural or syntactic pattern recognition
and their applications.  Possible topics of interest include, but are
n ot limited to 
SPR Topics
Classification; Prediction
Gaussian Processes; Randomized Algorithms
Multiple Classifiers; Ensemble Methods
Model Selection; Feature Selection
Dimensionality Reduction
Dissimilarity Representations
Metric Learning; Representation Learning
Multiple Instance Learning
Clustering
Semi-Supervised Learning; Weakly-supervised Learning
Active Learning; Novelty Detection
Deep Learning; Neural Networks
Adversarial Learning; Reinforcement Learning
Transfer Learning; Domain Adaptation
Data Complexity; Data Modeling
Security of Machine Learning

SSPR Topics
Structural Matching
Structural Complexity
Syntactic Pattern Recognition
Graph-theoretic Methods
Graphical Models
Structural Kernels
Spectral Methods
Spatio-Temporal Pattern Recognition
Structured Text Analysis
Stochastic Structural Models
Intelligent Sensing Systems
Multimedia Analysis
Multimedia Retrieval
Image Document Analysis
Image Understanding
Shape Analysis
Organization


Honorary Chair
Edwin  Hancock
University of York UK

General Chair
Xiao Bai
Beihang University China

SPR Chair
Tin Kam Ho
IBM Watson, USA

SSPR Chair
Richard Wilson
University of York, UK

Important Dates
Submission Deadline 15th April, 2018
Author Notification 15th May, 2018
Camera-ready Submission 1st June, 2018
Workshops  Dates 17th-19th August, 2018

Contact  Address        
E-mail: baixiao@buaa.edu.cn
Web: http://ssspr2018.buaa.edu.cn/

ProgrammeChairs
Antonio Robles-Kelly
Data61-CSIRO
Australia

Battista Biggio
University of Cagliari
Italy