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.