SIARP 1999

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.

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