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<div style="text-align:left">2nd CALL FOR PAPERS</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style="text-align:left"><br></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<span style="text-align:left"><div style="text-align:left">The 17th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition CIARP 2012</div></span></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style="text-align:left">
<br></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><span style="text-align:left"><div style="text-align:left">September 3-6, 2012 -- Buenos Aires, Argentina</div></span></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div style="text-align:left"><br></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><span style="text-align:left"><div style="text-align:left">Paper submission: March 16, 2012</div></span></blockquote>
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</blockquote></blockquote><div>==================================================================</div><div><br></div><div>Dear Colleagues</div><div><br></div><div>The 17th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition CIARP 2012 will be</div>
<div>held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 3-6, 2012, and is organized by</div><div>the Argentine Society for Pattern Recognition (SARP) and the University</div><div>of Buenos Aires.</div><div><br></div><div>This conference is a forum for the presentation of technological advances</div>
<div>and research results in the fields of theoretical and applied pattern</div><div>recognition, for the exchange of scientific results and experiences, and</div><div>for the growth of the co-operation between research groups.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This conference is supported by the following scientific associations:</div><div>International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), Cuban</div><div>Association for Pattern Recognition (ACPR), Mexican Association for</div>
<div>Computer Vision, Neural Computing and Robotics (MACVNR), Portuguese</div><div>Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP), Spanish Association for</div><div>Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI), Special Interest Group on</div>
<div>Pattern Recognition of the Brazilian Computer Society (SIGPR-SBC), Chilean</div><div>Association for Pattern Recognition (AChiRP) and Argentine Association for</div><div>Pattern Recognition (SARP).</div><div><br></div>
<div>As in previous years, at the CIARP Conference about 200 contributions will</div><div>be presented. The program committee will evaluate papers for technical</div><div>quality, merit, novelty and clarity of presentation.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</div><div>• Applications of Pattern Recognition</div><div>• Artificial Intelligence Techniques in PR</div><div>• Bioinformatics</div><div>• Clustering</div>
<div>• Cognitive Humanoid Vision</div><div>• Computer Vision</div><div>• Data Mining</div><div>• DB, Knowledge Bases and Linguistic Tools</div><div>• Discrete Geometry</div><div>• Document Processing and Recognition</div>
<div>• Fuzzy and Hybrid Techniques in PR</div><div>• Image Coding, Processing and Analysis</div><div>• Kernel Machines</div><div>• Logical Combinatorial PR</div><div>• Mathematical Morphology</div><div>• Mathematical Theory of PR</div>
<div>• Medical Imaging</div><div>• Natural Language Processing and PR</div><div>• Neural Networks for PR</div><div>• Parallel and Distributed PR</div><div>• Pattern Recognition Principles</div><div>• Robotics & Remote Sensing Applications of PR</div>
<div>• Shape and Texture Analysis</div><div>• Signal Processing and Analysis</div><div>• Special Hardware Architectures</div><div>• Statistical Pattern Recognition</div><div>• Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition</div>
<div>• Video analysis</div><div>• Voice and Speech Recognition</div><div><br></div><div>Paper Submission:</div><div><br></div><div>Prospective authors are invited to contribute to the conference by</div><div>electronically submitting a full paper in English of no more than 8 pages</div>
<div>including illustrations, results and references.</div><div><br></div><div>They will be requested to submit their papers electronically through the</div><div>conference website before March 16th, 2012.</div><div><br></div>
<div>The accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of the CIARP'2012,</div><div>which will be published by Springer in the Lecture</div><div>Notes in Computer Science - LNCS series.</div><div><br></div><div>
The papers should be prepared following the instructions from Springer</div><div>LNCS series available at:</div><div><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>At least one of the authors must have registered for the paper to be</div><div>published.</div><div><br></div><div>**************************************************************************</div><div> Special Issue in the Journal of Real-Time Image Processing</div>
<div>***************************************************************************</div><div>Among the accepted papers, a set of the best papers within the area of</div><div>real-time image processing/computer vision will be selected. Revised and</div>
<div>extended versions of these papers will be considered for the edition of</div><div>a Special Issue in the Journal of Real-Time Image Processing</div><div><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/image+processing/journal/11554">http://www.springer.com/computer/image+processing/journal/11554</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>***************************************************************************</div><div> IPOL Publication of Algorithms!!</div><div>***************************************************************************</div>
<div>The submitted papers can be complemented by a submission to the online</div><div>journal IPOL (Image Processing on Line, ISSN: 2105-1232). The evaluations</div><div>of the submissions to CIARP 2012 and to IPOL will be independent, but</div>
<div>coordinated. Only the algoritms corresponding to accepted papers at Ciarp2012</div><div>will be considered for publication in Ipol</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>To submit to Image Processing on Line, authors are requested to furnish a</div>
<div>very explicit and complete algorithm description in a .pdf document, and</div><div>to prepare an autonomous C or C++ code implementing this algorithm.</div><div>Authors must also conceive how their algorithm will be demonstrated on</div>
<div>line, which may imply some restrictions on the input data and on the</div><div>execution time. The referees for IPOL are invited to check the full</div><div>adequacy of the code with its description, to achieve standards of</div>
<div>reproducible research.</div><div><br></div><div>For more details please go to<a href=" http://www.ipol.im/"> http://www.ipol.im/</a> to see some of the</div><div>published papers.</div><div><br></div><div>See also the IPOL C software guidelines</div>
<div><a href="http://tools.ipol.im/wiki/ref/software_guidelines/">http://tools.ipol.im/wiki/ref/software_guidelines/</a></div><div>*****************************************************************************</div><div><br>
</div><div>Important Dates:</div><div><br></div><div>• Deadline for paper submission March 16, 2012</div><div>• Notification of paper acceptance May 18th 2012</div><div>• Camera ready papers and author registration June 15th 2012</div>
<div><br></div><div>Conference Location:</div><div><br></div><div>CIARP2012 will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.</div><div><br></div><div>CIARP 2012 will offer keynotes and tutorial courses. They will be held at</div>
<div>the conference site, will be addressed to all CIARP participants, and</div><div>will include principles and applications on relevant topics on Pattern</div><div>Recognition</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
Tutorials:</div><div>==================================================================</div><div>"Human Activity Recognition with 2D and 3D Cameras"</div><div>Zicheng Liu, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research</div>
<div><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/zliu/">http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/zliu/</a></div><div><br></div><div>"Multi-class Support Vector Machines Revisited"</div><div>Christian Igel, Professor, University of Copenhagen</div>
<div> <a href="http://image.diku.dk/igel/">http://image.diku.dk/igel/</a></div><div>==================================================================</div><div>Keynotes:</div><div>"Pattern Recognition in Transportation"</div>
<div>Marco Bressan, Chief Innovation Officer, Transportation – Laboratory</div><div>Manager, Xerox Innovation Group</div><div><a href="http://www.xrce.xerox.com/About-XRCE/Welcome/XRCE-management-team/Marco-Bressan">http://www.xrce.xerox.com/About-XRCE/Welcome/XRCE-management-team/Marco-Bressan</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>"Optimal Anti-Bayesian Statistical Pattern Recognition"</div><div>John Oommen, Chancellor’s Professor, School of Computer Science, Carleton</div><div>University, Ottawa (Canada)</div><div><a href="http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~oommen">http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~oommen</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>"Robot, pass me the scissors! How robots can assist us in the Operating Room"</div><div>Juan Pablo Wachs, Assistant Professor, Purdue University.</div><div>Director of the Intelligent Systems and Assistive Technologies Lab (ISAT)</div>
<div><a href="http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~jpwachs/">http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~jpwachs/</a></div><div>==================================================================</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>URL: <a href="http://www.ciarp.org">www.ciarp.org</a></div>
<div>Contact: <a href="mailto:ciarp2012@dc.uba.ar">ciarp2012@dc.uba.ar</a></div><div><br></div><div>General Co-Chairs</div><div><br></div><div>Luis Alvarez León and Luis Gómez Déniz, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran</div>
<div>Canaria, Spain</div><div>Marta E. Mejail and Julio Jacobo, Universidad de Buenos Aires</div><div><br></div><div>Organizing Committee</div><div><br></div><div>Julio Jacobo, María Elena Buemi, Norberto Goussies, Daniel Acevedo,</div>
<div>Marcelo Mottalli, Francisco Gómez Fernandez, Sebastián Ubalde, Marta</div><div>Mejail</div><div>University of Buenos Aires, Argentina</div><div>Mariano Tepper, University of Minnesota, USA</div><div><br></div><div>Steering Committee:</div>
<div><br></div><div>• Alberto Sanfeliu, AERFAI España</div><div>• Alvaro Pardo, APRU Uruguay</div><div>• Cesar Beltran-Castanon, PAPR Peru</div><div>• César Enrique San Martín Salas, UDEC Chile</div><div>• Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano, MACVNR Mexico</div>
<div>• Jose Ruiz-Shulcloper, ACRP Cuba</div><div>• Marta Mejail, SARP Argentina</div><div>• Miguel Sanches, APRP Portugal</div><div>• Olga Regina Pereira Bellon, SIGPR-SBC Brasil</div>