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Third IAPR TC3 International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition
July 2 - 4 2008
Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris, France

We are pleased to announce that the Third IAPR International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition will take place in Paris.
The TC3 Neural Networks & Computational Intelligence is one of the 20 Technical Committees of the International Association on Pattern Recognition (IAPR). The scope of this workshop includes all kinds of Computational Intelligence approaches, including artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computing, with focus on pattern recognition applications. ANNPR 2008 follows the success of the first workshops: ANNPR 2003 held at the University of Florence, Italy, and ANPPR 2006 held at castle Reisensburg, University of Ulm, Germany.
This third ANNPR workshop will act as a major forum for international researchers and practitioners working in all areas of neural network based pattern recognition to present and discuss the latest researches, results, and ideas in these areas.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Methodological issues:

Supervised and unsupervised learning.
Combinations of supervised and unsupervised learning.
Feed forward networks and kernel machines, recurrent and competitive neural networks.
Hierarchical modular architectures and hybrid systems.
Multiple classifier systems and ensemble methods.


Applications in Pattern Recognition:

Image processing and segmentation
Sensor fusion and multimodal processing.
Feature extraction, dimension reduction, clustering and vector quantization
Speech and speaker recognition.
Document image analysis and recognition
Data, text and web mining
Bioinformatics.


Paper submission:
Original and unpublished contributions are solicited which include regular papers and extended abstracts. All submissions will be subject to a blind review process by two referees. Workshop proceedings will be published in the Springer LNAI series. Potential participants should submit a paper describing their work in the areas described above. Each regular paper must be accompanied by an abstract summarizing the contribution it makes to the field. Maximum paper length for regular papers is 12 pages in LNCS format. Extended abstracts can have at most 4 pages. Submission of a paper constitutes a commitment that, if accepted, one or more authors will attend and participate in the workshop.


Important dates:

February1, 2008 paper submission

March 20, 2008 notification of acceptance/rejection

April 15, 2008 camera ready paper


Workshop Website: http://www.congres.upmc.fr/ANNPR2008


Venue:
Pierre & Marie Curie University (UPMC) is one of the largest University teaching science and medicine in France, and indeed in Europe, with 4000 researchers, 180 laboratories and 8000 postgraduate students. UPMC is based in the Latin Quarter in Paris.


General Chair
Simone Marinai (Italy)

Program Chair
Lionel Prevost (France)

Program Committee
Shigeo Abe (Japan)
Monica Bianchini (Italy)
Hervé Bourlard (Switzerland)
Horst Bunke (Switzerland)
Mohamed Cheriet (Canada)
Abdel Ennaji (France)
Patrick Gallinari (France)
Marco Gori (Italy)
Barbara Hammer (Germany)
Laurent Heutte (France)
Tom Heskes (The Netherlands)
Jose Manuel Inesta (Spain)
Rudolph Kruse (Germany)
Cheng-Lin Liu (China)
Marco Maggini (Italy)
Maurice Milgram (France)
Erkki Oja (Finland)
Günther Palm (Germany)
Marcello Pelillo (Italy)
Raul Rojas (Germany)
Fabio Roli (Italy)
Robert Sabourin (Canada)
Friedhelm Schwenker (Germany)
Edmondo Trentin (Italy)
Michel Verleysen (Belgium)