11th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition

The 11th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2006) will be held in Cancun , Mexico . CIARP 2006 is organized by the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), and sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), the Mexican Association for Computer Vision, Neural Computing and Robotics (MACVNR), the Cuban Association for Pattern Recognition (ACRP), the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP), the Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI), and the Special Interest Group on Pattern Recognition of the Brazilian Computer Society ( SIGPR-SBC).

CIARP 2006, as all the ten previous conferences, will be a forum for the exchange of scientific results and experiences, as well as the sharing of new knowledge, and the increasing of the co-operation between research groups in pattern recognition and related areas.

Internationally renowned professors will give Keynote Addresses and Tutorials.

•  Dr. Gabriella Sanniti di Baja, Head of the Image Analysis Dept. of the Istituto di Cibernetica "E. Caianiello" del CNR , Italy .

•  Dr. Jim Bezdek, William Craig Nystul Professor of Computer Science, Eminent Scholar at the University of West Florida , USA .

•  Dr. Petra Perner, Institute of Computer Vision and applied Computer Sciences, Germany .