ABOUT CIARP'S

CIARP, Congreso Iberoamericano de Reconocimiento de Patrones (Iberoamerican Conference on Pattern Recognition) is the actual name of a conference that was firstly organized in Havana, Cuba, in January 23-28, 1995, with the name I Taller Iberoamericano de Reconocimiento de Patrones (TIARP’95). Since its beginning, t he aim of the congress was the presentation of on going research in mathematical methods in pattern recognition, computer vision, image analysis, and speech recognition, as well as of the applications of these techniques in areas related with robotics, industry, health, entertainment, space exploration, telecommunications, data mining, document analysis, and natural language processing and recognition. Moreover, it always was being a forum for scientific research, experience exchange, share of new knowledge and increase of the cooperation between research groups in pattern recognition and related areas.

CIARP is a series of pioneer congresses on Pattern Recognition in the community of Spanish speaking countries of America, which since 2003 the forum was extended to other countries.

CIARP2005

X CIARP was organized by Cuban Association for Pattern Recognition (ACRP) , Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics (ICIMAF) and Advanced Technologies Application Center (CENATAV) . The congress was held at Occidental Miramar Hotel in Havana , Cuba .

It was co-sponsored by the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP), the Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI), the Special Interest Group of the Brazilian Computer Society (SIGPR-SBC), and the Mexican Association for Computer Vision, Neurocomputing and Robotics (MACVNR). XCIARP was endorsed by International Association for Pattern Recognition .

We received contributions from 29 countries. More than 200 papers were submitted, out of which 107 were accepted for publication in the proceedings and for presentation at the conference. The accepted papers were published by Springer Verlag in the volume Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, and Applications, LNCS 3773, edited by Alberto Sanfeliu and Manuel Lazo-Cortés, who chaired the Congress together with Sergio Cano.

Three professors were invited to give keynote addresses on topics in Pattern Recognition: Prof. Josef Kittler, Surrey University, United Kingdom, presented a conference entitled "3D Assisted 2D Face Recognition: Methodology"; Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy, addressed the "Automatic Annotation of Sport Video Content"; and Dr. Eduardo Bayro Corrochano, Center of Research and Advanced Studies, Guadalajara, Mexico, talked about "Conformal Geometric Algebra for 3D Object Recognition and Visual Tracking Using Stereo and Omnidirectional Robot Vision". Four tutorials were offered by these invited speakers and by Prof. Marcia Ferreira from State University of Campinas, Sao Paolo , Brazil .

X CIARP in Havana, on par with its predecessors, drew together high quality contributions, inspiring invited talks, and exciting discussions through participating groups, arranged in a flawless programme. It has been a valuable experience for the participants, and maintained the reputation of the Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition series as a highly recommended event to participate to, especially for Iberoamerican researcher community.

During X CIARP was approved the proposal by the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE) from Mexico for holding the 11 th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition in Cancún, México in November 2006.

 

CIARP2004

First of all, we want to congratulate two new research communities from Mexico and Brazil that have recently joined the Iberoamerican Community and the International Association for Pattern Recognition. We believe that the series of congresses that started as the "Taller Iberoamericano de Reconocimiento de Patrones (TIARP)", and later on as the "Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP)" has contributed to these group consolidation efforts. We hope that in the near future, all the Iberoamerican countries will have their own groups and associations to promote our areas of interest; and that these congresses will serve as the forum for scientific research exchange, sharing of expertise and new knowledge, and to establish contacts that improve cooperation between research groups in pattern recognition and related areas.

CIARP'2004 (9th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition) is the ninth in a series of pioneering congresses on pattern recognition in the Iberoamerican community. As in the previous year, CIARP'2004 also includes worldwide participation. It took place in Puebla, Mexico. The aim of the congress was to promote and disseminate ongoing research and mathematical methods for pattern recognition, image analysis, and applications in such diverse areas as computer vision, robotics, industry, health, entertainment, space exploration, telecommunications, data mining, document analysis, and natural language processing and recognition, to name a few.

CIARP 2004 was organized by the Computer Science Department of the National Institute of Astrophysics Optics and Electronics (INAOE), the Center for Computing Research of the National Polytechnic Institute (CIC-IPN) and the University of Las Americas, Puebla (UDLAP), and was sponsored by the Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics of Cuba (ICIMAF), the Center of Applications of Advanced Technology of Cuba (CENATAV), the University of La Salle, Mexico (ULSA), Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP), the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), the Cuban Association for Pattern Recognition (ACRP), the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP), the Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI), the Special Interest Group of Pattern Recognition of the Brazilian Computer Society (SIGPR-SBC) and the Mexican Association for Computer Vision, Neurocomputing and Robotics (MACVNR).

We received contributions from 18 countries. In total 158 papers were submitted, out of which 87 were accepted for publication in these proceedings and for presentation at the conference. The review process was carried out by the Scientific Committee, each paper being assessed by at least two reviewers who, in conjunction with other reviewers prepared an excellent selection dealing with outgoing research. We are especially indebted to them for their efforts and the quality of the reviews.

Three professors were invited to give keynote addresses on topics in pattern recognition: Dr. Josef Kittler professor at the School of Electronics and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, United Kingdom, Dr. Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Firenze, Italy, and Dr. Eduardo Bayro Corrochano, Computer Science Department, Center of Research and Advanced Studies, Guadalajara, México.

We would like to thank the members of the organizing committee for their enormous efforts that allowed for an excellent conference and proceedings.

October 2004

Alberto Sanfeliu, José Francisco Martínez-Trinidad, Jesús Ariel Carrasco-Ochoa

CIARP2003

The congress has been organized by the Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics of Cuba (ICIMAF) and the Center for Computing Research of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico (CIC), and sponsored by the University of La Salle, Mexico, the University of Oriente, Cuba, the Polytechnic Institute “José A. Echevarría”, Cuba, the Central University of Las Villas, Cuba, the National Center of Scientific Research, Cuba, the Cuban Association for Pattern Recognition (ACRP), the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP), the Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI), the Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (SMIA), and the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).

This year the event has captured the attention of a significant group of researchers than have sent more than 140 full papers from 19 countries. 83 papers have been accepted as full papers and are included in this proceeding volume, and 28 papers have been accepted as poster papers. The review process has been carried out by the Program Committee, each being paper assessed by at least two reviewers, who in conjunction with other reviewers have prepared an excellent selection of the ongoing research. We are especially indebted with them for their effort and quality of the reviews.

Three professors have been invited to give the keynote address in topics of computer vision, robot vision and pattern classification, Dr. Rangachar Kasturi, IAPR President, and professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of The Pennsylvania State University, Dr. Gerhard Ritter, Chairman of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department of the University of Florida, and Dr. Alberto Sanfeliu, past President of AERFAI, and professor in the Institute the Robotics of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

We want to appreciate very much to all the members of the organizing committee for their intensive work that has allowed an excellent conference and proceedings. We hope that this congress will create a fruitful precedence for the future CIARP events.

November 2003

Alberto Sanfeliu Cortés and José Ruiz Schulcloper

CIARP2002

This book has a choice, with the international arbitrage, of the articles that were presented in the VII Iberoamerican Conference on Pattern Recognition, held in the facilities of the Computing Research Center of the National Polytechnic Institute of México, from 19 to 22 of November of 2002.

One of the fundamental purposes of CIARP is to offer the international community involved on Pattern Recognition, a space of high level for the discussion of those recent advances in the areas of interest. In each one of the versions of the Conference, the participants have had the invaluable opportunity of listening, seeing and carrying out specialized presentations, at the same time that they are related with prestigious colleagues of different latitudes of the orb.

The book contains 39 works distributed in the following big areas: genetic algorithms, hardware, morphologic Mathematics , prosecution and analysis of images, prosecution and analysis of signs, neuronal nets , pattern recognition and hybrid systems . The geographic spectrum of the authors includes several countries of America and Europe: Cuba, Spain, The United State, France, Greece, Italy, Uruguay and, of course, the Mexican United States. Our gratefulness to all the authors and members of the organizing committees, national international and techniques.

We hope the material presented in this book fulfils the expectations of investigators and Students of mastery and doctorate whose work involves some of the areas related to pattern recognition. We hope the readers can have at hand an exact and well documented diagnosis of the recent advances on Pattern Recognition and the perspectives of development to short and medium term in the related topics.

We want to manifest our gratefulness to the support offered, for the development of this work, to the following Institutions: National Polytechnic Institute, La Salle University of Mexico, COFAA and Academic Secretary of IPN, CONACyT and National System of Investigators.

November, 2002.

Juan Luis Díaz de León Santiago and Cornelio Yañez Marquez

SIARP2001

WORDS FROM THE CHAIR.

 It is our pleasure to welcome you to the VI Iberoamerican Symposium on Pattern Recognition (SIARP´2000). Previously, SIARP has been held in various locations in Latin America and Europe. This is the first time that SIARP is organized in Brazil.

The proceedings contain 28 papers grouped into three classes: Pattern Classification and Feature Selections (PCFS), Image Processing and Computer Vision (IPCV), and Applications and System Architecture (ASA). Each paper is described by an index that indicates: the class label, the page number in the proceedings, the date and time of presentation.

The index PCFS.11.12.09:00, for example, indicates that it is a pattern classification and feature selection paper, the page number is, 1, the date of presentation is 12, and the time of presentation is 09:00. Paper index that does not bear presentation information indicates that an author is registered but the paper will not be presented.

We are grateful to our sponsors, the members of the program committee, and all the participants for their support and contribution to SIARP´2001. We hope that you will benefit from the information presented in these proceedings.

October 2001 Nabeel Murshed

SIARP2000

The 5 th Iberoamerican Symposium on Pattern Recognition, SIARP'00, is organized by Instituto Superior Técnico of the Technical University of Lisbon, on behalf of the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP). SIARP is organized every year. In 2000 SIARP is for the first time organized in Europe, starting a new cycle of conferences.

The conference consists of single oral and parallel sessions running during three days, from 11-13 September, 2000, including 4 invited lectures and 68 oral contributions. We would like to thank all the authors who answered our call and all the members of the Scientific and Regional Committees for the reviewing of the papers.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we wish to thank all those who have contributed in some way to make this conference possible, from the members of the Scientific Committee to all our sponsors and contributors and finally to those of our co-workers who, although not officially a part of the Organizing Committee, were invaluable help before the Conference.

The Organizing Committee would like to wish the chairs of the 6th Conference all the success with its organization.

September 11, 2000

The editors: Fernando Muge, Rogério Caldas Pinto and Moisés Piedade.

SIARP1999

With a lot of satisfaction we arrive at the fourth edition of our Iberoamerican encounter. From this year on the event modifies its name, but only the name, with the purpose of eventually facilitating, with the term "symposium" instead of "Shop", the fulfilment of the objectives that we established: to be a forum that promotes the encounter, the communication, the collaboration and therefore the development of Pattern Recognition (in its general conception) in our geographic area.

For this it is obvious that it is required more and more, a bigger participation of specialists of different countries, being of primordial interest the increase of the last ones.

It is reason of happiness the achievements that are being reached:

The increasing participation of countries , in this occasion there are 10 countries present: Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, France, Guyana, Germany, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, The United States.

The number of received reports increased. 75 works were presented ( 52 in the previous event ) of which only the 80% was accepted for its presentation in the Symposium and its publication in these Memories.

It is observed that in the subjected works there is a number of them (15, the 20%) that are works carried out in collaboration among institutions of different countries, for example: Mexico - Cuba; Spain - Cuba.

It was created the Cuban association of Pattern Recognition and we hope that shortly it is constituted the Mexican association.

The work relationships are increased among specialists of different institutions of Only one country, as in the case of Mexico and Cuba and among different countries.

In summary, It is begun to reach part of the objectives of these meetings. The unit and with it the increasing of our knowledge. However, we still have a lot to make. In Mexico we created an Iberoamerican Committee for the Development of Pattern Recognition.

This Committee was created with the fundamental idea of cooperating with the development of the investigations, the applications and the formation of specialists of high level on Pattern Recognition from the Bravo River to the Patagonia, Spain and Portugal. The objective was to create a mechanism that guarantees the realization of a group of actions to develop the specialty in the mentioned region. Little has been made in that direction. It becomes necessary to strengthen that Committee and to achieve the purposes for what it was conceived. That is a task that we should undertake among all, in particular, the participants in this IV IBEROAMERICAN SYMPOSIUM OF PATTERN RECOGNITION.

The IV Iberoamerican Symposium of Pattern Recognition takes place in the Conference Center of Havana City, Cuba. The 60 approved reports were distributed in six commissions:

1. Morphologic Models and Computing Vision (12 reports)

2. Mathematical Modeling (16 reports)

3. Systems and Applications (9 reports)

4. Neuronal nets (7 reports)

5. Syntactic Structural approach (2 reports)

6. Image Analysis and Signs (14 reports)

In this IV Symposium four tutorial courses were carried out . This type of activity began to be held in the previous Shop and due to its acceptance it was decided in the Final Meeting of Mexico, to continue with this activity. They were:

Three-Dimensional Imaging: Acquisition, Processing, and Fusion. Imparted by Professor Dr. Mongi Abidi, Honorary Magnavox Professor, of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.

Mathematical Morphology. Imparted by the Professor Dr. Fernando Muge, of CVRM, Technical Superior Institute, Lisbon, PORTUGAL .

Fractal Compression. Imparted by Professor Dr. Red Gonzalo Costa, from the Group of Image Processing of the Department of Physics, University of Santiago de Chile. The Neuronal Cellular Nets and their application in the Image Processing Using

MATLAB, Imparted by Professors Engineers Alejandro Flores Méndez and M Sc. . Eduardo Gómez Ramírez, of the Laboratory of Investigation and Development of Advanced Technology, of the Coordination of Investigation, La Salle University, Mexico.

As colophon of all these activities two Masterful Conferences were offered by Doctor Ramiro Jordan, Director of the Iberoamerican Science and Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC) and Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (EECE) of the University of New Mexico.

Also, under the direction of the noted specialist on Pattern Recognition, Doctor Rafael C. González, Professor Emir of the Department of Electrical Engineering, of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USES, a Workshop titled "Technology Commercialization" was carried out that had as central objective to analyze the possibilities that we have of carrying out actions in this sense.

We want to thank in first instance the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico the one that, by means of the Project CONACyT No. 3757P Mexico, SIARP'99 City of Havana. March 21-26 of 1999 "MODEL MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING TOOLS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF DATA", financed partially the publication of these Memories and support the participation of several of those Mexican delegates to this appointment.

The National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, to its Center of Investigation in Calculation, to the Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics of Cuba, to the Engineering of the Autonomous National University of Mexico, the Center of Investigation of La Salle University, to the corp. of 35 referees of different countries that were in charged of the ingrate and not very grateful work of studying the 75 presented works and to decide those that should to be presented in the Symposium.

In particular, the staff of engineer Ignacio Flores Calvillo, Héctor Veyna Rodríguez and Delfino Rivera Belman, the Management of Publications of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, for their invaluable help in the publication of these Memories.

To all, thank you , ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF THE IV IBEROAMERICAN SYMPOSIUM OF PATTERN RECOGNITION

MARCH 21 TO 26 OF 1999, HAVANA CITY, CUBA

TIARP1998

For third occasion specialists of Pattern Recognition of America, this time also from Europe get together, with the purpose of exchanging experiences, to project new works of investigation, to look for the exchange of resources for the development of our discipline in the area. In summary, we meet with the objective of increasing our forces.

These meetings already begin to become a productive tradition. The two first encounters in Havana: 1995 and 1997, they gave the first impulse to this event that it is called to become one of the most important in the world in our environment, at least it is the interest of its initiators: the Institute of Cibernetics, Mathematics and Physics (ICIMAF), Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment of Cuba and the Center of Investigation in Computation (CIC) of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico. Of those two first meetings came out new work relationships among specialists of different institutions and countries and investigation projects began in which is mixed technical of different profiles. In summary, you begin to reach part of the objectives of these Shops: the unit and with it the increasing of our knowledge.

The III Iberoamerican Shop of Pattern Recognition takes place in the Auditory Jaime Torres Bodet, of the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico, D.F.. 52 reports were subjected by specialists from Colombia , Cuba, Spain, France, Guyana, Italy, Mexico, Portugal , Russia, Uruguay and Venezuela; of these 43 are presented in these Memories, after passing an exam by a Technical International Committee . These works were structured in five commissions: .

1. Morphologic Models and Vision by Computer (9 reports)

2 .Logic Combining models (8 reports)

3 .Systems and Applications (12 reports)

4. Neuronal nets and Genetic Algorithms (7 reports)

5. Image analysis (7 reports)

In this Shop seven tutorial courses were carried out . It is the first time that this type of activity is carried out in one of our Shops. These were:

1. Learning and identification of objects based on structural techniques, Alberto Sanfeliu, President of the Spanish Association of Recognition of shapes and Analysis of Images (AERFAI) Institute of Robotics and Computing. Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain.

2. Morphologic neuronal nets, Gerhard X. Ritter Department of Engineering and Science of Computation and Information University of Florida , USES.

3. Introduction to the generic algorithms, Angel Kuri Morales Center of Investigation in Computation, IPN, Mexico.

4.Techniques of voice recognition, Jesus Savage Carmona Engineering Faculty, UNAM, Mexico.

5. MATLAB for Pattern Recognition, Mario Farfas Elinos Center of Investigation, La Salle, Mexico .

6. Image Analysis in Medicine: Requirements and Application Examples, Armando J Padilha, President of the Association of Pattern Recognition of Portugal, Institute of Biomedical Ingineering, Porto, Portugal.

7. Logic Combining Approach to Pattern Recognition, José Ruiz Shulcloper, Center of Investigation in Calculation, IPN, Mexico, Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics, Cuba.

As colophon of all these activities two Masterful Conferences were imparted by Doctors Alberto Sanfeliu, and Gerhard X. Ritter. Also, under the direction of the noted specialist on pattern Recognition , Rafael C. González from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USES, It was carried out a round table about those Applications of Pattern Recognition in which participated, together with Doctor González Doctors Angel Kuri Morales, Alberto Sanfeliu, Ernesto Bribiesca, from the Institute of Investigations of Applied Mathematics and Systems of the Autonomous National University of Mexico and José Ruiz Shulcloper.

We want to thank the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, its Center of Investigation in Calculation, the Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics of Cuba, the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico, Engineering Faculty of the National University Autonomous of Mexico, the Center of Investigation of the University La Salle of Mexico, the body of 18 referees that were responsible for the ingrate and not very grateful work of studying 52 presented works and to decide those that should be presented in the Shop, the Department of Engineering in Computing Systems of the Technological University of Mexico, for the efforts carried out to take to have a happy ending in this meeting and in particular in the staff of Engineer Ignacio Flores Calvillo and Héctor Veyna Rodrfguez, the management of Publications of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, for the help in the publication of these Memories.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF THE IBERAMERICAN SHOP OF PATTERN RECOGNITION.

MARCH 23 TO 27 1998 MEXICO, FEDERAL DISTRICT

TIARP1997

The II Iberoamerican Shop of Pattern Recognition gives continuity to the idea of creating a forum of scientific exchange of experiences and knowledge in our geographic region and with it propitiate a quick process of development of all the areas related to Pattern Recognition. Although we have not come to an agreement about the fulfillment of this topic, we have included in the thematic of the Shops: Vision for Computer, Prosecution and Analysis of Images and Signs, Remote Perception, Morphology Mathematics Neuronal Nets and Genetic algorithms for Pattern Recognition, Mathematical Theory of Pattern Recognition - at the same time it implies works in the different focuses to Patern Recognition , that is statistical, syntactic structural, logic combining besides fussy modeling, Problems of Learning and Hybrid Systems of Pattern Recognition, Algorithms, Computer Systems and Applications.

We began these meetings in 1995, in Havana, Cuba,. In 1998, in the Center of Investigation in Computation of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, we will carry out the III Shop Iberoamerican of Patter Recognition, to stop later and to return to Havana (in odd years). The headquarter of the Shop (of the even years) we will decide it in each Final Reunion of the corresponding Shop.

To this edition of the Shop in Havana, there were subjected 55 reports of which the Committee of Programs decided to accept 41,38 of those which appear in this volume. Also it will be carried out a Round Table on Vision by Computer , organized by Dr. Juan Humberto Sossa Azuela from the Center of Investigation in Computation, IPN, Mexico. Opening the event, Dr.Adolfo Guzman Arenas, Director of the Center of Investigation in Computation, IPN, and National Reward of Investigation, Mexico, he will dictate a Masterful Conference about Data Mining of : a search of regularities in a lot of data.

The works have been about the following mathematics:

GEOMETRIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL MODELS LOGICAL COMBINING MODELS SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS NEURONAL NETS AND GENETIC ALGORITHMS.

In these sections of the Shop the 41 reports will be debated (8, 10,16Y7 respectively).

In 1995 on occasion of the I Shop, reports of specialists from Mexico , Venezuela and Cuba were presented, in this edition to that list of three countries the French Guyana and Chile are added.

We want to thank the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, to its Center of Computing and to the Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics of Cuba for the efforts that they have carried out to take to finish happily this reunion and in particular the staff of engineer Ignacio Flores Calvillo and Héctor Veyna Rodríguez, the management of Publications of the IPN, Mexico, for their help in the publication of these Memories.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF THE 11 IBERO-AMERICAN SHOP OF PATTERN RECOGNITION.

MARCH 24 TO THE 28, 1997. HAVANA, CUBA

TIARP1995

The I Ibero-American Shop on Pattern Recognition TIARP' 95 was organized with the objective of creating a platform for the exchange of information , experiences and ideas for the development of the discipline, extended in all lines of work in our region. This purpose doesn't obey neither egocentric nor protagonic feelings . For our towns it is made more and more necessary that their scientists reverts in their countries the fruit of their knowledge, we need to increase the number of our specialists and to promote not only the scientific development of them but also the introduction of the models and tools of Pattern Recognition in the production and the national services.

It is common to identify the Pattern Recognition with the area of Shape Recognition and we have the tendency to refer to Vision for Computer, Remote Perception, Prosecution of Images, for example, as different areas and in fact each one works in their matters without the enough interaction that would arise fruits of bigger span. Practically in all our countries the isolation situation and individual work is common and also the way of focusing our thought exclusively toward the developed countries. If we observe the situation in Europe, United States, the Asian Countries, we can appreciate the existence of Scientific Societies of Patter Recognition , periodical events and systematic publications. It is obvious that they are three of the factors that impel the development of any discipline. For this it is required a mass criteria of specialists and a will of union. I am fully discouraged of the existence of a scientific potential appropriate so that in our area the mentioned factors can exist. It is still exist the aspect of the will of union that we all know doesn't depend on a single man, neither on a small group, it is required the will of all.

This event that we have organized in Havana seeks mainly to promote the union among our colleagues: therefore we have promoted the term Pattern Recognition in the unifying sense of our peculiar areas of work. We want that the specialists of Prosecution and Analysis of Images and Signs of Vision for Computer, of Remote Perception, of the ones that develop mathematical models for the solution of problems of classification , making decisions, that guide toward the Pattern Recognition, techniques of other areas , as the Artificial Intelligence, in the way they feel identified with Pattern Recognition ; therefore we exhort the creation of Societies of Pattern Recognition in each of our countries and to the formation of the Ibero-American Society of Pattern Recognition (SIARP); therefore we invite all the specialists from the area to the systematic celebration of Ibero-American Shops of Pattern Recognition and in fact we summon that in 1997 we celebrate the 11 Ibero-American Shop of Pattern Recognition in Havana; therefore we threaten the creation of an Ibero-American Center of Pattern Recognition (CIARP) that has as an essential function, the formation of specialists of high level on Pattern Recognition and the development of investigations theoretic ones and applied ones. This idea at the present time is projected to be developed in the Technological Institute of Toluca, Metepec, Mexico for which it is asking for the collaboration of all.

It was an agreement of the participants of the Shop to develop this event, starting from 1997, in odd years in Havana and in the even in another country of the area, that’s why we wait for the good welcome of this proposal in our scientific community and we can be in Havana to initiate together the way to the materialization of these dreams.

In this volume, courtesy of the Department of Calculation of the Technological Institute of Toluca, Metepec, some of the reports have been selected to be presented to the I Shop that according to the referees opinions, they have a bigger interest.

We thank the participants of the I Shop, the sponsors of the event, the referees and in Peculiar to Doctor Julio Mendoza, former- academic secretary of the CINVESTAVIPN, the MSc Alain González, boss of the Division of the Postgraduate Technological Institute of Toluca, Metepec and to its director Doctor Tomas Palomino, for the whole support given and exhort them to continue supporting the development of pattern Recognition in our region.

DR. José Ruiz Shulcloper

July26 Of. 1995, Metepec, Mexico.