CALL FOR PAPERS
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Dear colleague, 

Due to numerous requests we decided to extend the paper submission deadline of
S+SSPR to February 5. 

Please get updated information at the workshop web page
(http://www.ph.tn.tudelft.nl/Organisation/ssspr2004/) 


Looking forward to receiving your contribution,

Ana Fred
(Workshop general chair)


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JOINT IAPR INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS ON 
Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition
(SSPR 2004) 
and 
Statistical Pattern Recognition
(SPR 2004) 
Lisbon, Portugal, August 18-20, 2004

A satellite event of the International Conference of Pattern Recognition, ICPR
2004 

Paper submission deadline: January 15, 2004 

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Dear colleagues,

The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and its technical
committees on Statistical PR (TC1) and Syntactical and Structural PR (TC2) are
organising a Joint workshop in Lisbon prior to the next ICPR in Cambridge, UK.
The workshop aims at promoting interaction and collaboration not only among
researchers working directly in the areas covered by TC1 and TC2 but also among
those specialized in other fields who use statistical, syntactic or structural
techniques. We welcome mathematicians, statisticans, researchers in machine
learning and practitioners alike who, at present, work outside the pattern
recognition community. 

Please find the Call for Papers and more information
about the Workshops at the following Web-page:

http://www.ph.tn.tudelft.nl/Organisation/ssspr2004/

Yours sincerely,

Ana Fred and Terry Caelli,
Co_chairs SSPR?04.

Aurélio Campilho and Bob Duin,
Co-chairs SPR?04


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IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline: January 15, 2004 
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2004 
Submission of camera-ready papers: April 15, 2004 
Early registration: May 1, 2004 

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MAIN TOPIC AREAS

SPR 2004 Topics:
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General methodology
Density estimation
Multiple classifiers
One-class classifiers
Neural networks
Support vector machines
Statistical learning
Active learning
Clustering and quantization
Spectral methods
Feature reduction
Hybrid methods
Contextual pattern recognition
Comparative studies
Applications


SSPR 2004 Topics:
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Structural matching
Syntactic pattern recognition
Image understanding
Shape analysis
Graph-based methods
Probabilistic and stochastic structural models
Struct. learning in spatial or spatio-temporal signals
Supervised and unsupervised learning
Intelligent sensing systems
Spatio-temporal pattern recognition
SSPR methods in computer vision
Multimedia signal analysis
Image document analysis
Structured text analysis and understanding
Applications

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE



SPR Program Committee:
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Mayer Aladjem (Israel)
Luigi P. Cordella (Italy)
Nello Cristianini  (UK)
Belur V. Dasarathy (USA)
Francesc J. Ferri (Spain)
Joydeep Ghosh (USA) 
Tin Kam Ho (USA)   
Anil K. Jain (USA) 
Mohamed Kamel (Canada) 
Josef Kittler (UK)
Mineichi Kudo (Japan) 
Ludmila I. Kuncheva (UK) 
Louisa Lam (Hong Kong) 
Jorge S. Marques (Portugal) 
Jana Novovicova (Czech Rep.) 
Edgard Nyssen (Belgium) 
Pavel Pudil (Czech Rep.) 
Sarunas Raudys (Lithuania) 
Peter Rockett (UK)
Fabio Roli (Italy)
Ching Y. Suen (Canada)
Andrew R.Webb (UK)


SSPR Program Committee:
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Keiichi Abe (Japan)
Gady Agam (USA)
Adnan Amin (Australia)
Walter F. Bischof (Canada)
Horst Bunke (Switzerland)
Kim Boyer (USA)
Francisco Casacuberta (Spain)
Juan Andrade Cetto (Spain)
Sven Dickinson (Canada)
Georgy Gimelfarb (New Zealand)
Edwin Hancock (UK)
Colin de la Higuera (France)
Jose Iñesta (Spain)
Xiaoyi Jiang (Germany)
Jean-Michel Jolion (France)
Walter Kropatsch (Austria)
Brian C. Lovell (Australia)
John Oommen (Canada)
Petra Perner (Germany)
Alberto Sanfeliu (Spain)
Gabriella Sanniti di Baja (Italy)
Karl Tombre (France)
Svetha Venkatesh (Australia )
Mario Vento (Italy)