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CIARP 2006
The ongoing success of the Iberoamerican
Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP) reflects the growing need for developing
new theory and applications of pattern recognition, which is being confronted
by many reseachers. The 11th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP
2006) was the 11th event in the premier series of research agenda-defining conferences
on pattern recognition in the Iberoamerican community. As in the previous years,
CIARP´2006 attracted worldwide participation. 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 and remote sensing, industry, health, space exploration,
data mining, document analysis, natural language processing and speech recognition,
to name a few.
CIARP´2006, held in Cancun, Mexico,
was organized by the Computer Science Department of the National Institute of
Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE). The event was sponsored by the Advanced Technologies Application Center
of Cuba (CENATAV), the Mexican Association for Computer Vision, Neurocomputing
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),
the Special Interest Group on Pattern Recognition of the Brazilian Computer
Society (SIGPR-SBC), and the Chilean Association for Pattern Recognition (AChiRP).
CIARP 2006 was endorsed by the International Association
for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).
Contributions were received from 36
countries. In total 239 papers were submitted, out of which 99 were accepted
for publication in these proceedings and for presentation at the conference.
The review process was carried out by the Scientific Committee, composed of
internationally recognized scientists, all experts in their respective fields.
We are indebted to them for their efforts and the quality of the reviews.
The exciting technical programme formed
by the selected contributed papers was complemented by three invited keynote
talks, given by:
-Gabriella Sanniti di Baja, Image Analysis Department
of the Istitute of Cibernetics “E. Caianiello”, CNR, Italy
-Petra Perner, Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences, Germany
-Jim Bezdek, University of West Florida, USA
They enriched the conference with an
interesting mix of theoretical and application topics in pattern recognition.
We would like to thank the members of
the Organizing Committee for their enormous effort that resulted in these excellent
conference proceedings. We trust that the papers in this volume provide not
only a record of the recent progress in this rapidly moving field but will also
stimulate future research on machine perception for the benefit of industry,
commerce, as well as the well-being of society.
November 2006
José Francisco Martínez-Trinidad, Jesús Ariel Carrasco-Ochoa
and Josef Kittler.
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