CIARP 2013 - 18th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition CIARP 2013

18th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition
CIARP 2013
November 20th - 23th, 2013/ Havana, Cuba
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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CIARP 2013 (http://www.ciarp.org) will be held in Havana, Cuba, from November 20th to 23th, 2013. This conference is organized by the Cuban Association for Pattern Recognition (ACRP), the Advanced Technologies Applications Center (CENATAV) of Cuba; and will be sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and by the Mexican Association for Computer Vision, Neural Computing and Robotics (MACVNR), the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP), the Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI), the Special Interest Group on Pattern Recognition of the Brazilian Computer Society (SIGPR-SBC), the Chilean Association for Pattern Recognition (ChAPR), and the Argentine Society for Pattern Recognition (SARP-SADIO).
CIARP 2013 will include the following features, traditionally characterizing CIARP conferences:

CIARP-IAPR AWARD TO THE BEST PAPER
PROCEEDINGS PUBLISHED BY SPRINGER IN THE LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCES SERIES

SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS (CONTACTS WITH EDITORS ARE GOING ON)
4 TUTORIALS GIVEN BY J. PEI, F. ROLI, G. SANNITI DI BAJA, AND T.TAN
AND A NEW PRIZE: MEDAL “AURORA PONS-PORRATA”
The 18th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2013, will be as usual a forum for exchanging scientific results and experiences, as well as for sharing new knowledge and increasing the co-operation between research groups in pattern recognition and related areas.
The technical program will include three invited keynote lectures given by internationally renowned researchers:

Tieniu Tan
National Laboratory on Pattern Recognition of China

Jian Pei
Simon Fraser University, Canada

Fabio Roli
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Cagliari, Italy

The CIARP-IAPR Award to the best paper
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An award, consisting of a cash prize and a certificate, will be given to the author(s) of the Best Paper registered and presented at CIARP 2013.
Aim of this award is to acknowledge and encourage excellence, originality and innovativeness of new models, methods and techniques with an outstanding theoretical contribution and practical application to the field of pattern recognition and/or data mining.
The selection of the winner will be based on the wish of the author(s) to be considered for the prize, the evaluation and recommendations from members of the Program Committee and the evaluation of the CIARP-IAPR Award Committee. The committee consists of Josef Kittler, Jian Pei, Fabio Roli, Gabriella Sanniti di Baja and Tieniu Tan. This committee, carefully chosen to avoid conflicts of interest, will evaluate each nominated paper in a second review process, which will also include the quality of the poster and/or oral presentation.

The Medal “Aurora Pons-Porrata”
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We welcome nominations for the Aurora Pons Porrata Award. This iberoamerican anual prize is given to a living woman in recognition of an outstanding technical contribution to the field of pattern recognition or data mining, and consists of a cash amount, a suitably inscribed certificate and a medal.
Anyone woman is eligible to be nominated, except for the current members of the APP Award Committee.
To initiate a nomination, a nominator must submit an Aurora Pons Porrata Award Nomination Form. Any member of a national pattern recognition society can serve as nominator, except for the nominee herself and the current members of the APP Award Committee.
Each nomination must be endorsed by at least one recommendation letter, from a member of an iberoamerican pattern recognition society (different from the nominator).
Electronic Nomination and Endorsement forms should be submitted no later than August 24, 2013.
Please address your data through email to the chair of the APP Award Committee, Edel Garcia Reyes,
To: egarcia-AT-cenatav.co.cu
Subject: APP Award 2013

Each electronic submission will be acknowledged by an email containing the submitted form.
CIARP has had a good performance, especially in the last 10 conferences. Its Proceedings appeared in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), the number of submissions has been about 250 and the rejection rate has been higher than 50%. To enhance the visibility of the best submissions and to stimulate further good scientific papers we are planning to invite the best papers to prepare an extended version for a respective special issue of the prestigious journals (contacts with editors are going on).
Based on the reviews of our highly qualified program committee about 125 paper will be accepted for the conference. From this we will organize the special issues. This second selection will be based on the following procedure:
* cluster all accepted papers around a common "theme"; the idea is that a particular topic enhances the attractiveness of the special issue more than just a digest of the best contributions;
* rank the papers within each cluster according to their scientific quality and potential for substantial extension for the journal;
* select the clusters for the special issues depending on this ranking;
*invite authors to submit a substantially extended version for the special issue that should be significantly different.
Each of the themes will be coordinated by one member of the PC and the final decision will be taken in agreement with the journal. The Invited Editors of the Special Issues will be Jose Ruiz-Shulcloper and Gabriella Sanniti di Baja.

TOPICS OF INTERESTS
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Topics include, but are not limited to:

Applications of Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence Techniques in PR
Bioinformatics
Clustering
Cognitive Humanoid Vision
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
Shape and Texture Analysis
Signal Processing and Analysis
Special Hardware Architectures
Statistical Pattern Recognition
Syntactical and Structural PR
Video analysis
Voice and Speech Recognition
Image, Video, and Knowledge Bases
Linguistic Tools for Pattern Recognition
Fuzzy and Hybrid Techniques in PR

PAPER SUBMISSION
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Prospective authors are invited to contribute to the conference by submitting full papers by the Online Conference Service OCS http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-..., by June 15, 2013 at the latest through the submission option in the CIARP 2013 webpage (http://www.ciarp.org). Submissions should be written in English and their length should not exceed 8 pages including illustrations, results and references. Accepted contributions must be presented at the conference in English. All submissions will be peer reviewed for originality, technical content and relevance to the theme of CIARP 2013 by three members of the Program Committee. The final acceptance will be based upon double blind peer review of the full-length paper.
All accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of the CIARP 2013, which will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Submissions should be prepared by following the instructions of Springer for the LNCS series. (See http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,,5-164...)
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and to present the communication at the conference, if it is accepted.
In addition to the manuscript, the submission should include a summary page with title, authors' names, affiliation and address, telephone, fax and e-mail, up to three keywords and answers to the following questions (please answer each separately):
1. What is the original contribution of this work?
2. Why should this contribution be considered important?
3. What is the most closely related work by others and how does this work differ?
4. How can other researchers make use of the results of this work?
5. Has this work been presented / submitted elsewhere?
6. Which form of presentation is preferred: Oral or Poster?

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be confirmed)
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Ablameyko, S. V. (Belurus)
Aggarwal, J. K. (USA)
Aguilar Castro, J. L. (Venezuela)
Alquezar Mancho, R. (Spain)
Altamirano-Robles, L. (Mexico)
Allende, H (Chile)
Asano, A. (Japan)
Attila, K. (Hungary)
Avilés Cruz, C. (Mexico)
Bacón, J. (Brasil)
Bayro-Corrochano, E. (Mexico)
Benediktsson, J.A. (Iceland)
Berlanga-Llavori, R. (Spain)
Bezdek, J. (USA)
Bigun, J. (Swedish)
Bloch, I. (France)
Bonastre, J. F. (France)
Bourlard, H. (Switzerland)
Brady, M. (UK)
Bunke, H. (Switzerland)
Caldas Pinto, J.R. (Portugal)
Campillo, A. (Portugal)
Cano, S. (Cuba)
Carrasco-Ochoa, J. A. (Mexico)
Cesar, R. (Brasil)
Corchado, E. (Spain)
Dasarathy, B.V. (USA)
d'Ávila-Mascarenhas, N. (Brasil)
De Baets, B. (Belgium)
Del Bimbo, A (Italy)
Del Lungo, A. (Italy)
Chetverikov, D. (Hungary)
Duin, R. P. W. (Netherlands)
Duncan, J. (USA)
Eklundh, J.O. (Swedish)
Ercil, A. (Turkey)
Escalante Ramírez, B. (Mexico)
Facon, J. (Brasil)
Falcone Sampaio, P. R. (Brasil)
Figueroa-Nazuno, J. (Mexico)
Fred, A. (Portugal)
Fukuda, T. (Japan)
Furlanello, C. (Italy)
Furui, S. (Japan)
Galbiati, J. (Chile)
García Reyes. E. (Cuba)
Gelbukh, A. (Mexico)
Ghosh, J. (USA)
Gibert Oliveras, K. (Spain)
Gimelfarb, G. (New Zealand)
Ginori, J.V.L. (Cuba)
Goldfarb, L. (Canada)
Gomez Gil, M. P. (Mexico)
Gordillo, J. L. (Mexico)
Gori, M. (Italy)
Govindaraju, V. (USA)
Graña Romay, M. (Spain)
Grau, A. (Spain)
Gurevich, I. (Rusia)
Haindl, M. (Czech Republic)
Hanbury, A. (Austria)
Hancock, E. (UK)
Heutte, L. (France)
Hlavac, V. (Czech Republic)
Ho, T. K. (USA)
Hua-Zhou, Z. (China)
Jacobo, J. (Argentina)
Jiang, X. (Germany)
Kampel, M. (Austria)
Kasturi, R. (USA)
Kittler, J. (UK)
Klette, R. (New Zealand)
Kober, V. (Mexico)
Kosters, W. (Netherlands)
Kropatsch, W. G. (Austria)
Kuncheva, L. I. (UK)
Laurendeau, D. (Canada)
Levachkine, S. (Mexico)
Levine, M. D. (Canada)
Lopez de Ipiña, K. (Spain)
Lopez, A. (Mexico)
Lovell, B. (Austria)
Marroquín, J. L. (Mexico)
Martinez-Trinidad, J. (Mexico)
Mejail, M. (Argentina)
Montes-Y-Gómez, M. (Mexico)
Morales, E. F. (Mexico)
Mottl, V. (Rusia)
Murino, V. (Italy)
Muse, P. (Uruguay)
Ney, H. (Germany)
Niemann, H. (Germany)
Novovicova, J. (Czech Rep.)
Pal, S. K. (India)
Pardo, A. (Uruguay)
Pedrycz, W. (Canada)
Perales López, F. J. (Spain)
Perez de la Blanca, N. (Spain)
Perner, P. (Germany)
Petkov, N. (Netherlands)
Petrou, M. (UK)
Piedade, M. (Portugal)
Pinto, J. (Portugal)
Pla, F. (Spain)
Pudil, P. (Czech Republic)
Radeva, P. (Spain)
Ramos, V. (Portugal)
Real Jurado, P. (Spain)
Reyes-García, C. (Mexico)
Ritter, G. (USA)
Rodríguez Morales,R. (Cuba)
Roli, F. (Italy)
Romero, R. (Spain)
Rosales-Perez, A. (Mexico)
Ross, A. (USA)
Rueda, L. (Chile)
Ruiz del Solar, J. (Chile)
Ruiz-Shulcloper, J. (Cuba)
San Martín, C. (Chile)
Sanfeliu, A. (Spain)
Sang-Woon, K. (Korea)
Sanniti di Baja, G. (Italy)
Serrat, J. (Spain)
Shapiro, L. G. (USA)
Shirai, Y. (Japan)
Sossa Azuela, J. (Mexico)
Soto, A. (Chile)
Sucar, E. (Mexico)
Suen, C. Y. (Canada)
Taboada-Crispi, A. (Cuba)
Tan, T. (China)
Tepper, M. (Argentina)
Tistarelli, M. (Italy)
Tombre, K. (France)
Torres, I. (Spain)
Valev, V. V. (USA)
Vidal Ruiz, E. (Spain)
Villanueva, J. J. (Spain)
Zhang, D. (Hong Kong)
Zhou, Z. H. (China)

IMPORTANT DATES AND REGISTRATION FEES
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Deadline for paper Submission: June 15th 2013
Acceptance notification: July 31st 2013
Camera-ready: Sept 1st 2013 IAPR Members Non-IAPR Members
Registration before Sept 1st 2013 350 ? 400 ?
Registration after Sept 1st 2013 400 ? 450 ?
Extra Conference Dinner 50 ?
The registration fee includes: Proceedings, Lunches, Coffee Breaks, Conference Dinner, Tutorials, Cultural Program, and Diploma.

CO-CHAIRMEN
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José Ruiz-Shulcloper, CENATAV, Havana, Cuba
Gabriella Sanniti di Baja Istituto di Cibernetica, National Research Council of Italy (CNR)

LOCAL ORGANISATION
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Haydee Alonso-León
Zoyka Cardona-Puig
Andrés Gago-Alonso
Edel García-Reyes
Eduardo Garea-LLano
Ricardo González-Gazapo
Candida Guevara-Bosch
José Hernández-Palancar
Nancy Iglesias-Gámez
José Medina-Pagola
Heydi Méndez-Vázquez
Elsa Loreto Rodríguez-Pedroso
Maité Romero-Durán
Isneri Talavera-Bustamante
Delia Luisa Tamayo-Reyes

STEERING COMMITTEE:
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Marta Mejail, SARP (Argentina)
Olga R. Pereira Bellon, SIGPR-SBC (Brasil)
César Enrique San Martín Salas, UDEC (Chile)
José Ruiz-Shulcloper, ACRP (Cuba)
Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano, MACVNR (Mexico)
Cesar Beltrán-Castanon, PAPR (Perú)
Miguel Sanches, APRP (Portugal)
Alberto Sanfeliu, AERFAI (Spain)
Álvaro Pardo, APRU (Uruguay)

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
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ciarp2013-AT-cenatav.co.cu
Advanced Technologies Applications Center, CUBA, http://www.cenatav.co.cu/
Cuban Association for Pattern Recognition, http://acrp.cenatav.co.cu/
7ª A #21406 esq. 216, Rpto. Siboney, Playa. C.P. 12200. La Habana, Cuba
Office Phone number: (+)537.271.4787
Fax number: (+)537.272.4613


CONFERENCE VENUE HOTEL “PALCO”
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