Joint IAPR International Workshops on
Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR 2010)
and Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR 2010)
Cesme, Izmir, Turkey, August 18-20, 2010

A satellite event of the
20th International Conference of Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2010

The next joint Statistical Pattern Recognition and Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition Workshops (organised by TC1 and TC2 of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, (IAPR) will be held at Cesme Altin Yunus Hotel, Cesme, Turkey prior to ICPR 2010 (which itself will be held in Istanbul). The joint workshops aim at promoting interaction and collaboration among researchers working in areas covered by TC1 and TC2. We are also keen to attract participants working in fields that make use of statistical, structural or syntactic pattern recognition techniques (e.g. image processing, computer vision, bioinformatics, chemo-informatics, machine learning, document analysis, etc.). Those working in areas which can make methodological contributions to the field, e.g. methematicians, statisticians, physicists etc, are also very welcome.

The workshop will be held in Cesme, which is a seaside resort on the Aegean coast of Turkey. There area has many interesting attractions including excellent beaches, interesting fishing villages, and nearby archaeological remains and historical sites. These include Cesme castle and the remains of the ancient Greek city of Erythrae. Cesme can be reached by bus from the airport at Izmir, which has good flight connections to Istanbul.

We hope to have a varied programme including invited talks, regular paper and poster sessions, panel sessions and technical committee meetings.

Organisation

General Chair
Edwin Hancock
University of York
E-Mail: erh@cs.york.ac.uk

General co-chair
Ilkay Ulusoy
Middle East Technical University, Ankara
E-Mail: ilkay@metu.edu.tr

SPR Programme Chair
Terry Windeatt
University of Surrey
E-Mail: t.windeatt@surrey.ac.uk

SSPR Programme Chair
Richard Wilson
University of York
E-Mail: Richard.Wilson@cs.york.ac.uk

Publicity Chair
Francisco Escolano
University of Alicante
E-Mail: sco@dccia.ua.es

Programme Committee
Andrea Torsello (Italy) SSPR
Bai Xiao (UK) SSPR
Antonio Robles-Kelly (AUS) SSPR
Marcello Pelillo (Italy) SSPR
Anand Rangarajan (US) SPR
Gavin Brown (UK) SPR
Oleg Okun (Sweden) SPR
Giorgio Valentini (Italy) SPR
Marco Loog (NL) SPR
Michael Haindl (Czech) SPR
Larry Hall (USA) SPR
Nikunj Oza (USA) SPR
Konstantinos Sirlantzis (UK) SPR
Gady Agam (USA) SSPR
Mayer Aladjem (Israel) SPR
Juan Andrade Cetto (Spain) SSPR
Fransesc J. Ferri (Spain) SPR
Georgy Gimelfarb (New Zeland) SSPR
Colin de La Higuera (France) SSPR
Tin Kam Ho (USA) SPR
Jose Manuel Inesta (Spain) SSPR
Francois Jacquenet (France) SSPR
Xiaoyi Jiang (Germany) SSPR
Jean-Michel Jolion (France) SSPR
Mineichi Kudo (Japan) SPR
Walter G. Kropatsch (Austria) SSPR
Chih_Jen Lin (Taiwan) SPR
Jana Novovicova (Czech Republic) SPR
John Oommen (Canada) SSPR
Sarunas Raudys (Lithuania) SPR
Carlo Sansone (Italy) SPR
Francesco Tortorella (Italy) SPR
Changshui Zhang (China) SSPR
Belur V. Dasarathy (USA) SPR
Ana Fred (Portugal) SSPR
Venu Govindaraju (USA) SPR
Adam Krzyzak (Canada) SPR
Longin J. Latecki (USA) SSPR
Robi Polikar (USA) SPR
Punam Kumar Saha (USA) SPR
Zhi Hua Zhou (China) SPR
Hirobumi Nishida (Japan) SSPR
Alberto Sanfeliu (Spain) SSPR
Luc Brun (France) SPR
Horst Bunke (Sw) SSPR
Sudeep Sarkar (USA) SPR
Jairo Rocha (Spain) SPR
Francesc Serratosa (Spain) SSPR
Sargur Srihari (USA) SPR
Mario Vento (Italy) SSPR
Sergios Theodoridis (Greece) SPR
Terry Caelli (Aus) SSPR

Scope

Papers may address any topic in statistical, structural or syntactic pattern recognition. Possible topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

SSPR Topics

Structural Matching
Syntactic Pattern Recognition
Image Understanding
Shape Analysis
Graphical Models
Graph-Based Models
Spectral Methods for Graph Based Representations
Probabilistic and Stochasitc Structural Models for Pattern Recognition
Structural Learning in Spatial or Spatio-Temporal Signals
Kernel Methods for Structured Data
Image and Video Analysis
Intelligent Sensing Systems
Spatio-Temporal Pattern Recognition
SSPR Methods in Computer Vision
Multimedia Signal Analysis
Image Document Analysis
Structured Text Analysis and Understanding
Novel Applications

SPR Topics

Density Estimation
Large Margin Classifiers
Kernel Methods
Ensemble Methods and Multiple Classifiers
Bayesian Methods
Gaussian Processes
Dimensionality Reduction
Independent Component Analysis
Cluster Analysis
Unsupervised Learning
Data Visualization
Semi-Supervised Learning
Model Selection
Hybrid methods
Comparative Studies
Speech and Image Analysis
Novel Applications

Provisional Dates

Submission of papers: 1st February 2010
Decisions: 1st April 2010
Camera ready copy: 1st May 2010
Workshops: 18-20 August 2010