Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Applications of Pattern Recognition
• Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Pattern Recognition
• Bioinformatics
• Clustering
• Computer Vision
• Data Mining
• Databases, Knowledge Bases and Linguistic Tools for Pattern Recognition
• Discrete Geometry
• Document Processing and Recognition
• Fuzzy and Hybrid Techniques in Pattern Recognition
• Image Processing and Analysis
• Kernel Machines
• Logical Combinatorial Pattern Recognition
• Mathematical Morphology
• Mathematical Theory of Pattern Recognition
• Medical Imaging
• Natural Language Processing and Recognition
• Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition
• Parallel and Distributed Pattern Recognition
• Pattern Recognition Principles
• Shape and Texture Analysis
• Signal Processing and Analysis
• Special Hardware Architectures
• Statistical Pattern Recognition
• Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition
• Video analysis
• Voice and Speech Recognition