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CIARP 2004
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
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