ICPR 2012 is the twenty-first conference of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). ICPR 2012 will be an international forum for discussions on recent advances in the fields of Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning; Signal, Speech, Image and Video Processing; Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction; Multimedia and Document Analysis, Processing and Retrieval; Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications.

Track1: Computer and Robot Vision
- Low-Level Vision
- Physics-Based Vision
- Computational Photography
- Features and Image Descriptors
- Segmentation, Color and Texture
- Motion, Tracking and Video Analysis
- 2D/3D Object Detection and Recognition
- Scene Understanding
- Stereo and Image-Based Modeling
- Vision for Graphics
- Vision for Robotics
- Cognitive and Embodied Vision

Track 2: Virtual Reality and Medical Applications
- Mixed and Augmented Reality
- Geometric and Photometric Registration
- Inpainting and Superimposing
- Occlusion and Shadow Detection
- Human Computer Interaction
- Display Hardware
- Medical Image Analysis and Registration
- Computer-Aided Diagnosis and Surgery
- VR/MR in Medical Education

Track 3: Pattern Recognition and Applications
- Statistical, Syntactic and Structural Pattern Recognition
- Machine Learning and Data Mining
- Neural Networks
- Feature Reduction and Manifold Learning
- Classification and Clustering
- Gesture and Behavior Analysis
- Biometrics
- Pattern Recognition for Bioinformatics
- Pattern Recognition for Surveillance and Security
- Pattern Recognition for Search, Retrieval and Visualization
- Pattern Recognition for Art, Cultural Heritage and Entertainment

Track 4: Signal, Speech and Image/Video Processing
- Speech and Audio Processing
- Speech and Audio Analysis
- Image and Video Processing
- Image and Video Understanding
- Enhancement, Restoration and Filtering
- Detection, Separation and Segmentation
- Coding and Compression
- Multimedia Analysis, Indexing and Retrieval
- Remote Sensing
- Signal Processing for Astronomy

Track 5: Document Analysis
- Character and Text Recognition
- Handwriting Recognition
- Graphics Recognition
- Layout Analysis
- Document Understanding
- Performance Evaluation
- Historical Document Analysis
- Document Analysis Systems
- Camera-Based Document Analysis

ICPR 2012 Paper Awards
Paper awards in four categories, Piero Zamperoni Best Student Paper Award, ICPR2012 Best Student Paper Awards, Best Industry Related Paper Award, Best Scientific Paper Awards, will be presented at ICPR 2012. Brief information on each of these awards is
provided on our website. Authors interested in nominating their papers for the paper awards should follow the guidelines on the paper submission page.

ICPR 2012 Policy for No-Shows
ICPR2012 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the technical meeting. In particular, a paper accepted for the ICPR 2012 technical program will not be published on IEEE Xplore if its authors or a proxy do not present the paper at the Conference.