The Special Issues for the Journals Pattern Recognition and Pattern Recognition Letters

CIARP has had a good performance, especially in the last 5 conferences. Its Proceedings appeared in LNCS, the number of submissions has been about 250 and the rejection rate has been higher than 50%. To enhance the visibility of the best submissions and to stimulate further good scientific papers we are planning to invite the best papers to prepare an extended version for a respective special issue of the prestigious journals Pattern Recognition and Pattern Recognition Letters.

Based on the reviews of our highly qualified program committee about 125 paper will be accepted for the conference. From this, and based on the presentation and discussion of the paper we will organize two special issues. This second selection will be based on the following procedure:

• cluster all accepted papers around a common "theme"; the idea is that a particular topic enhances the attractiveness of the special issue more than just a digest of the best contributions;
• rank the papers within each cluster according to their scientific quality and potential for substantial extension for the journal;
• select the clusters for the special issues depending on this ranking;
• invite authors to submit a substantially extended version for the special issue that should be significantly different.

Each of the themes will be coordinated by one member of the PC and that the final decision will be taken in agreement with the journal. The Invited editors of the Special Issues will be Walter Kropatsch and Jose Ruiz-Shulcloper.