18th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2013
November 20th - 23th, 2013/ Havana, Cuba

HERE YOU CAN FIND ALL INFORMATION ABOUT THE IAPR-CONFERENCE CIARP 2013
(or visit www.ciarp.org)

This conference is organized by the Cuban Association for Pattern
Recognition (ACRP), the Advanced Technologies Applications Center
(CENATAV) of Cuba; and 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:

-IAPR-CIARP AWARD TO THE BEST PAPER

-A NEW PRIZE: CIARP AWARD “AURORA PONS-PORRATA”

-SPECIAL SECTION OF A REGULAR ISSUE OF PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS
INCLUDING PAPERS OF THE SCIENTISTS THAT WILL BE AWARDED AT CIARP 2013
(IAPR-CIARP BEST SCIENTIFIC PAPER AWARD AND CIARP AWARD AURORA
PONS-PORRATA)

-PROCEEDINGS PUBLISHED BY SPRINGER IN THE LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER
SCIENCE SERIES

-SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS "International Journal of Pattern
Recognition and Artificial Intelligence", and "Intelligent Data Analysis"

-4 TUTORIALS GIVEN BY PROFESSORS JIAN PEI, FABIO ROLI, GABRIELLA SANNITI
DI BAJA, AND TIENIU TAN

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
University of Cagliari, Italy

The IAPR- CIARP 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.


Award Committee
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- Josef Kittler
- Jian Pei
- Fabio Roli
- Gabriella Sanniti di Baja
- Tieniu Tan

The CIARP Award “Aurora Pons-Porrata”
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We welcome nominations for the Aurora Pons Porrata Award. This
Iberoamerican annual 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, egarcia@cenatav.co.cu
Subject: APP Award 2013
Each electronic submission will be acknowledged by an email containing
the submitted form.


Award Committee
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- Isneri Talavera-Bustamante (Cuba)
- Rita Cuchira (Italy)
- Rocio González-Díaz (Spain)

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
AI Techniques in PR
Biometrics
Bioinformatics, Chemometrics
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

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://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/ocs/en/conference/submitpaperto/CIARP2013

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 A4-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 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/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0)

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.

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

Registration BEFORE Sept 1st 2013
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IAPR Members: 350 €
Non-IAPR Members: 400 €

Registration AFTER Sept 1st 2013
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IAPR Members: 400 €
Non-IAPR Members: 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 COMMITTEE
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Isneri Talavera-Bustamante
José Hernández-Palancar
Edel García-Reyes
José Medina-Pagola
Eduardo Garea-LLano
Ricardo González-Gazapo
José R. Calvo-De Lara
Andrés Gago-Alonso
Heydi Méndez-Vázquez
Diana Porro-Muñoz
Rainer Larín-Fonseca
Niusvel Acosta-Mendoza
Danis López-Naranjo
Marieli Capote-Rodríguez


LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE
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Delia Luisa Tamayo-Reyes
Haydee Alonso-León
Nancy Iglesias-Gámez
Maité Romero-Durán
Candida Guevara-Bosch
Elsa Loreto Rodríguez-Pedroso
Zoyka Cardona-Puig
Meliset Hernández Palancar
Mercedes Jaimerena-Lozano
Rolando Rivero-Bacallao

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

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Ablameyko, S. V. (Belurus)
Aguilar, J. L. (Venezuela)
Alquezar Mancho, R. (Spain)
Arco, L. (Cuba)
Asano, A. (Japan)
Bayro-Corrochano, E. (Mexico)
Bello, R. (Cuba)
Beltrán Castañón, C. (Perú)
Benediktsson, J.A. (Iceland)
Berlanga-Llavori, R. (Spain)
Bigun, J. (Sweden)
Borgefors, G. (Sweden)
Bourlard, H. (Switzerland)
Boyer, K. L. (USA)
Caldas Pinto, J.R. (Portugal)
Calvo, J. (Cuba)
Cantoni, V. (Italy)
Carrasco, J. A. (Mexico)
Cesar, R. (Brasil)
Chetverikov, D. (Hungary)
Concepcion E. (Cuba)
Corchado, E. (Spain)
D'Ávila, N. (Brasil)
De Stefano, C. (Italy)
Debled-Rennesson, I. (France)
Del Bimbo, A (Italy)
Duin, R. P. W. (Netherlands)
Eklundh, J.O. (Sweden)
Ercil, A. (Turkey)
Escalante, B. (Mexico)
Estudillo-Romero, A. (Mexico)
Facon, J. (Brasil)
Ferrer, C. (Cuba)
Figueroa-Nazuno, J. (Mexico)
Fred, A. (Portugal)
Frucci, M. (Italy)
Fukuda, T. (Japan)
Gago, A. (Cuba)
García Lorenzo, M. (Cuba)
García Reyes. E. (Cuba)
Garea, E. (Cuba)
Gelbukh, A. (Mexico)
Gibert Oliveras, K. (Spain)
Ginori, J.V.L. (Cuba)
Goldfarb, L. (Canada)
Gomez Gil, M. P. (Mexico)
González, R. (Spain)
Graña Romay, M. (Spain)
Grau, A. (Spain)
Gurevich, I. (Rusia)
Haindl, M. (Czech Republic)
Hancock, E. (UK)
Hernandez, J. (Cuba)
Heutte, L. (France)
Hlavac, V. (Czech Republic)
Ismail Awad, Ali (Egypt)
Jacobo, J. (Argentina)
Jiang, X. (Germany)
Kampel, M. (Austria)
Klette, R. (New Zealand)
Kober, V. (Mexico)
Kosters, W. (Netherlands)
Kropatsch, W. G. (Austria)
Laurendeau, D. (Canada)
Lazo, M. (Cuba)
Levachkine, S. (Mexico)
Lopez, A. (Mexico)
Lovell, B. (Austria)
Luengo, C. (Sweden)
Martinez, J. F. (Mexico)
Medina, J. (Cuba)
Mejail, M. (Argentina)
Mirowski, P. (USA)
Montes-Gómez, M. (Mexico)
Moraga, C. (Spain/Germany)
Morales, E. F. (Mexico)
Muñoz, A. (Spain)
Muse, P. (Uruguay)
Niemann, H. (Germany)
Nixon, M. (UK)
O'Gorman, L. (USA)
Palagyi, K. (Hungary)
Pardo, A. (Uruguay)
Pedrycz, W. (Canada)
Pereira Bellon, O.R. (Brazil)
Perez, R. (USA)
Petrosino, A. (Italy)
Pla, F. (Spain)
Pon Soto, C. (Chile)
Radeva, P. (Spain)
Real Jurado, P. (Spain)
Reyes-García, C. A. (Mexico)
Ribeiro, B. (Portugal)
Ritter, G. (USA)
Rodríguez Morales, R. (Cuba)
Roli, F. (Italy)
Rosales-Perez, A. (Mexico)
Ross, A. (USA)
Rueda, L. (Chile)
Ruiz del Solar, J. (Chile)
Ruiz-Shulcloper, J. (Cuba)
Sahli, Hichem (Belgium)
San Martín, C. (Chile)
Sanches, J.M.R. (Portugal)
Sanfeliu, A. (Spain)
Sang-Woon, K. (Korea)
Sanniti di Baja, G. (Italy)
Sierra Araujo, B. (Spain)
Sintorn, I. (Sweden)
Sossa Azuela, J. H. (Mexico)
Soto, A. (Chile)
Strand, R. (Sweden)
Suarez-Araujo, CP (Spain),
Sun, Z. (China)
Taboada-Crispi, A. (Cuba)
Talavera, I. (Cuba)
Tan, T. (China)
Tepper, M. (Argentina)
Tistarelli, M. (Italy)
Tombre, K. (France)
Torres, I. (Spain)
Valev, V. V. (USA)
Vidal Ruiz, E. (Spain)
Yáñez, C. (Mexico)


CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
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ciarp2013@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

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