International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2008, Conference Information

19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition
Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, Florida, USA
December 8-11, 2008
Web Page: http://www.icpr2008.org
e-mail contact: Secretary@icpr2008.org

Hosted by the University of South Florida
In cooperation with the IEEE-CS

Call for Papers - ICPR 2008
ICPR 2008 is the nineteenth conference of the
International Association for Pattern Recognition
(IAPR).
The ICPR 2008 will be an international forum for discussions
on recent advances in the fields of Computer
vision, Pattern recognition (theory,
methods and algorithms), Image, speech and
signal analysis, Multimedia and video analysis,
Biometrics, Document analysis, and Bioinformatics
and biomedical applications.

Paper Submission
Authors will be requested to submit their papers electronically
through the conference website before April 8th, 2008.  http://www.icpr2008.org Details on
paper format for manuscript submission will be available at the
conference web site.

Tutorials
ICPR 2008 invites interested researchers to send proposals for the
Tutorial Program. Instructions for submitting tutorials will be
available on the conference website.

Important dates
Deadline for paper submission: April 8, 2008
Deadline for tutorial submission: May 5, 2008
Deadline for workshop submission: January 15, 2008
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2008
Camera ready papers and
author registration: August 8, 2008
End of early bird registration period: August 8, 2008

Conference Location
ICPR 2008 will be held at the Tampa Convention Center. With pristine
beaches, numerous parks, arts and science museums, and vibrant night
life, Tampa Bay is a popular destination for tourists (http://www.visittampabay.com/).

Conference secretariat:

ICPR 2008
Computer Science and Engineering Department
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Avenue, ENB 118
Tampa, FL 33620-5399

General Chairs
M. Ejiri (Japan), R. Kasturi (USA), G. Sanniti di Baja (Italy)

Program Chairs
R. Duin (The Netherlands), D. Laurendeau (Canada), B. Lovell (Australia)

Publicity and Sponsorship Chairs
A. Campilho (Portugal), T. Matsuyama (Japan), G. Medioni (USA)

Finance Chairs
J. Bigun (Sweden), S. Tanimoto (USA)

Demos, Exhibits and Contests Chairs
L. Heutte (France), H. Ip (Hong Kong), D. Leandro Borges (Brazil)

Workshops Chairs
Y. Ohta (Japan), M. Pietik∽inen (Finland)

Tutorials Chairs
S. Ablameyko (Belarus), M. Shah (USA)

Publications Chairs
G. Borgefors (Sweden), P. Flynn (USA)

Local Arrangements Chair
S. Sarkar (USA), D. Goldgof (USA)

Advisory Committee
J.K. Aggarwal (USA), H. Bunke (CH), Z. Chen (Taiwan),
D. Duttamajumder (India), H. Freeman (USA)
I. Gurevich (Russia), K. Ikeuchi (Japan), J. Kittler (UK)
T. Pavlidis (USA), A. Sanfeliu (Spain), C. Suen (Canada)

Conference Tracks and Track Co-Chairs

Track 1 - Computer Vision
Sven Dickinson (Canada)
Jan-Olof Eklundh (Sweden)
Kenichi Kanatani (Japan)
Hsi-Jian Lee (Taiwan) (Area chair, applications)

Track 2 - Pattern Recognition
Hans Burkhardt (Germany)
Joydeep Ghosh (USA)
Tin Kam Ho (USA)

Track 3 - Image, Speech, and Signal Processing
Freddy Bruckstein (Israel)
Sergios Theodoridis (Greece)

Track 4 - Multimedia and Video Analysis
Pierre Boulanger (Canada)
Georgy Gimelfarb (New Zealand)
Thierry Pun (Switzerland)

Track 5 - Document Analysis
Luigi Cordella (Italy)
Bidyut B. Chaudhuri (India),
Venu Govindaraju (USA)

Track 6 - Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications
Raj Acharya (USA)
Bram van Ginneken (The Netherlands)

Track 7 - Biometrics
Seong-Whan Lee (Korea)
Nalini Ratha (USA)
Massimo Tistarelli (Italy)