The 16 th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition CIARP 2011 will be held in Pucón, Chile, and is organized by the Chilean Association for Pattern Recognition (AChiRP). This conference is supported by several scientific associations, including: International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), Cuban Association for Pattern Recognition (ACPR), Mexican Association for Computer Vision, Neural Computing and Robotics (MACVNR), Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP), Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI), Special Interest Group on Pattern Recognition of the Brazilian Computer Society (SIGPR-SBC),and Chilean Association for Pattern Recognition (AChiRP). This conference will be a forum for the exchange of scientific results and experiences, as well as the sharing of new knowledge, and the increasing of the co-operation between research groups in pattern recognition and related areas.

• Artificial Intelligence Techniques in PR
• Bioinformatics
• Clustering
• Computer Vision
• Data Mining
• DB, Knowledge Bases and Linguistic Tools
• Discrete Geometry
• Document Processing and Recognition
• Fuzzy and Hybrid Techniques in PR
• Image Coding, Processing and Analysis
• Kernel Machines
• Logical Combinatorial PR
• Mathematical Morphology
• Mathematical Theory of PR
• Natural Language Processing and PR
• Neural Networks for PR
• Parallel and Distributed PR
• Pattern Recognition Principles
• Robotics & Remote Sensing Applications of PR
• Cognitive Humanoid Vision
• Shape and Texture Analysis
• Signal Processing and Analysis
• Special Hardware Architectures
• Statistical Pattern Recognition
• Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition
• Voice and Speech Recognition