Call for Papers Scope | Conference Areas | Keynote Speakers | Paper Submission Publications | Important Dates | Secretariat | Venue Conference Chair | Program Chair | Program Committee ICPRAM is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication Scope The International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods would like to become a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners on the areas of Pattern Recognition, both from theoretical and application perspectives. Contributions describing applications of Pattern Recognition techniques to real-world problems, interdisciplinary research, experimental and/or theoretical studies yielding new insights that advance Pattern Recognition methods are especially encouraged. Conference Areas Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas: 1. THEORY AND METHODS 2. APPLICATIONS AREA 1: THEORY AND METHODS Exact and Approximate Inference Density Estimation Bayesian Models Gaussian Processes Model Selection Graphical and Graph-based Models Missing Data Ensemble Methods Neural Networks Kernel Methods Large Margin Methods Classification Regression Sparsity Feature Selection and Extraction Spectral Methods Embedding and Manifold Learning Similarity and Distance Learning Matrix Factorization Clustering ICA, PCA, CCA and other Linear Models Fuzzy Logic Active Learning Cost-sensitive Learning Incremental Learning On-line Learning Structured Learning Multi-agent Learning Multi-instance Learning Reinforcement Learning Instance-based Learning Knowledge Acquisition and Representation Meta Learning Multi-strategy Learning Case-Based Reasoning Inductive Learning Computational Learning Theory Cooperative Learning Evolutionary Computation Information Retrieval and Learning Hybrid Learning Algorithms Planning and Learning Convex Optimization Stochastic Methods Combinatorial Optimization AREA 2: APPLICATIONS Natural language processing Information retrieval Ranking Web Applications Economics, Business and Forecasting Applications Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Audio and Speech Processing Signal Processing Image Understanding Sensors and Early Vision Motion and Tracking Image-based Modelling Shape Representation Object Recognition Video Analysis Medical Imaging Learning and Adaptive Control Perception Learning in Process Automation Learning of Action Patterns Virtual Environments Robotics Keynote Speakers Alberto Sanfeliu, Universitat Politècnica de Cataluyna, Spain Tomaso Poggio, CBCL, McGovern Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States Mário Figueiredo, Technical University of Lisbon - IST, Portugal Bikash Sabata, Ventana Medical Systems, United States Paper Submission Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits. The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Please read INSTICC\'s ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism. Remarks about the on-line submission procedure: 1. A \"double-blind\" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity. LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted. 2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author. Paper submission types: Regular Paper Submission A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a \"full paper\" (30 min. oral presentation) , a \"short paper\" (20 min. oral presentation) or a \"poster\". Position Paper Submission A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of \"short paper\" or \"poster\", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as \"full paper\". Camera-ready: After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. Publications All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/). A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a AISC Series book. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index). Important Dates Conference Date: 15 - 18 February, 2013 Regular Paper Submission: September 5, 2012 (extended) Authors Notification (regular papers): October 25, 2012 Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: November 15, 2012 Secretariat ICPRAM Secretariat Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq. 2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal Tel.: +351 265 100 033 Fax: +44 203 014 8556 e-mail: icpram.secretariat@insticc.org Web: http://www.icpram.org/ Venue The conference will be held at the Barceló Sants Hotel Barcelona, Spain. The new Barceló Sants hotel is now taking off. Get ready to enjoy a unique trip in our completely renovated Orbital Rooms. Located just on top of “Sants Estation” (now Sants Orbital Station), it has direct access to AVE (high speed train), metro and train network. Conference Chair Ana Fred, Technical University of Lisbon / IT, Portugal PROGRAM CHAIR Maria De Marsico, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy Program Committee Annalisa Appice, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Shigeo Abe, Kobe University, Japan Gady Agam, Department of Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology , United States Mayer Aladjem, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Pedro Albertos Pérez, Univ. Polit. Valencia, Spain Guillem Alenya, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC, Spain Genevera Allen, Rice University, United States Ethem Alpaydin, Bogaziçi University, Turkey Jesús Angulo, MINES ParisTech, France Antonio Artés-Rodríguez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Thierry Artières, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France Kevin Bailly, ISIR Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique - UPMC / CNRS, France Emili Balaguer-Ballester, Bournemouth University (BU) & University of Heidelberg (HU), United Kingdom Luis Baumela, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Eduardo Bayro-corrochano, Cinvestav, Mexico Csaba Beleznai, Technical University Vienna, Austria Charles Bergeron, Union University of New York, United States André Bergholz, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany Monica Bianchini, Università degli Studi di Siena , Italy Isabelle Bloch, ENST - CNRS UMR 5141, France Anselm Blumer, Department of Computer Science Tufts University, United States Liefeng Bo, Department of Computer Science and Engineeringm, University of Washington, United States Jorge Bondía Company, Dept. of Systems Engineering and Control Technical University of Valencia, Spain Gianluca Bontempi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Patrick Bouthemy, INRIA, France Francesca Bovolo, Remote Sensing Laboratory, University of Trento, Italy Paula Brito, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Lorenzo Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy Javier Calpe, Universitat de València, Spain Gustavo Camps-Valls, University of València, Spain Rui M. Castro, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Michele Ceccarelli , Universita\' del Sannio, Italy Jocelyn Chanussot, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France Snigdhansu Chatterjee, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota, United States Frederic Chazal, INRIA Saclay - Ile-de-France, France Chi Hau Chen, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, United States Seungjin Choi, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea, Republic of Jesús Cid-Sueiro, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Antoine Cornuejols, AgroParisTech, France Tom Croonenborghs, KH Kempen University College, Belgium Justin Dauwels, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jesús Manuel de la Cruz, Department of Computers Architecture and Automatic Control, Faculty of Physics Complutense University, Spain Jeroen Deknijf, Technical University Eindhoven, Belgium Thorsten Dickhaus, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Carlos Diuk, Princeton University, United States Petros Drineas, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States Gideon Dror, The Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel Hans du Buf, University of the Algarve, Portugal Artur Dubrawski, The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University, United States Carl Henrik Ek, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden Francesc J. Ferri, University of Valencia, Spain Mario Figueiredo, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Maurizio Filippone, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Gernot A. Fink, TU Dortmund, Germany Vojtech Franc, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Damien François, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Élisa Fromont, University of Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France Johannes Fuernkranz, TU Darmstadt, Germany Vicente Garcia, Institute of New Imaging Technologies / Universitat Jaume I, Spain Pedro Garcia Sevilla, Universidad Jaume I, Spain Giorgio Giacinto, University of Cagliari, Italy Giuliano Grossi, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Sébastien Guérif, University Paris 13, France Amaury Habrard, Laboratoire Hubert Curien, University of St-Etienne, France Barbara Hammer, Technical University of Clausthal, Germany Dongfeng Han, University of Iowa, United States Edwin Hancock, Department of Computer Science at the University of York, United Kingdom Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain Tom Heskes, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands Laurent Heutte, LITIS, France Kouichi Hirata, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Su-Yun Huang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Laura Igual, University of Barcelona, Spain Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Hacettepe University, Turkey Jose M. Iñesta, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Akihiro Inokuchi, Osaka University, Japan Alan J. Izenman, Dept. of Statistics Temple University, United States Saketha Nath Jagarlapudi, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT-Bombay, India Robert Jenssen, Department of Physics and Technology, University of Tromso, Norway Alfons Juan, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Andrew K. C. Wong, University of Waterloo, Canada Ata Kaban, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Yasushi Kanazawa, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan Kristian Kersting, Fraunhofer IAIS, University of Bonn, Germany Yunho Kim, Mathematics Department, University of California Irvine , United States Walter Kosters, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands Constantine Kotropoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Irene Kotsia, Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom Sotiris Kotsiantis, Educational Software Development Laboratory, University of Patras, Greece Konstantinos Koutroumbas, National Observatory of Athens, Greece Oleksiy Koval, University of Geneva, Switzerland Adam Krzyzak, Concordia University, Canada Gautam Kunapuli, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States Marco La Cascia, Universita degli studi di Palermo, Italy Helge Langseth, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Mustapha Lebbah, University of Paris 13, France Qi Li, Western Kentucky University, United States Aristidis Likas, University of Ioannina, Greece Xiaoming Liu, General Electric Global Research, United States Hantao Liu, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Gaelle Loosli, Clermont Université, France Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland Elena Marchiori, Radboud University, Netherlands Gian Luca Marcialis, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy Simone Marinai, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy Joan Martí Bonmatí, Girona University, Spain Jose Antonio Martin H., Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Informática, Spain Francisco Martínez Álvarez, Pablo de Olavide University of Seville, Spain J. Francisco Martínez-Trinidad, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Puebla, Mexico David Masip Rodo, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain Peter McCullagh, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, United States Majid Mirmehdi, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Piotr Mirowski, Bell Labs (Alcatel-Lucent), United States Rafael Molina, University of Granada, Spain Ramón A. Mollineda Cárdenas, Universitat Jaume I, Spain Giovanni Montana, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Igor Mozetic, Jo¾ef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Arthur Munson, Sandia National Laboratories, United States Laurent Najman, Université Paris-Est, France Yuichi Nakamura, Kyoto University, Japan Vineeth Nallure Balasubramanian, Center For Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing, Arizona State University, United States Michele Nappi, Universita` di Salerno, Italy Claire Nédellec, MIG, INRA centre de Jouy-en-Josas, France Zoran Nenadic, The Henri Samueli School of Engineering, University of California Irvine, United States Heiko Neumann, , Germany Hannes Nickisch, Philips Research Europe, Germany Vicente Palazón-González, Universitat Jaume I, Spain Apostolos Papadopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece Emilio Parrado-Hernández, Department of Signal Processing and Communications, University Carlos III, Spain Marcello Pelillo, University of Venice, Italy Gabriel Peyre, CNRS, CEREMADE, Université Paris-Dauphine, France Frederick Kin Hing Phoa, Academia Sinica (Taiwan ROC), Taiwan Sergey Plis, The Mind Research Network, United States Doina Precup, McGill University, Canada Philippe Preux, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Lille 3, France Lionel Prevost, University of French West Indies and Guiana, France Peihua Qiu, University of Minnesota, United States Subramanian Ramamoorthy, The University of Edinburgh , United Kingdom Jan Ramon, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Soumya Ray, Case Western Reserve University, United States Nicola Rebagliati, Università Ca\'Foscari Venezia, Italy Daniel Riccio, University of Salerno, Italy François Rioult, GREYC CNRS UMR6072 - Université de Caen Basse-Normandie , France Juan J. Rodríguez, University of Burgos, Spain Lior Rokach, Ben-gurion University of the Negev , Israel Samuel Rota Bulò, University of Venice, Italy Juho Rousu, Aalto University, Finland Yvan Saeys, Ghent University, Belgium Lorenza Saitta, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Luciano Sanchez, Oviedo University, Spain J. Salvador Sánchez, Universitat Jaume I, Spain Antonio-José Sánchez-Salmerón, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Gabriella Sanniti di Baja, Institute of Cybernetics \"E.Caianiello\", CNR, Italy Michele Scarpiniti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Tanya Schmah, University of Toronto, Canada Thomas Schoenemann, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germany Friedhelm Schwenker, University of Ulm, Germany Katsunari Shibata, Oita University, Japan Tania Stathaki, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Vassilios Stathopolous, University College London, United Kingdom Stefan Steidl, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Masashi Sugiyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Shiliang Sun, East China Normal University, China Yajie Sun, Micron Tech/Aptina Imaging CA, United States Johan Suykens, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Ichiro Takeuchi, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Toru Tamaki, Department of Information Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Japan Lijun Tang, Microsoft Corp., United States D. Tegolo, Università di Palermo, Italy Ryota Tomioka, The University of Tokyo, Japan Fabien Torre, Lille university, INRIA LNE and LIFL, France Andrea Torsello, Università Ca\'Foscari Venezia, Italy Genny Tortora, Università Degli Studi Di Salerno, Italy Godfried Toussaint, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Rosa María Valdovinos Rosas, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico, Mexico Giorgio Valentini, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Joost van de Weijer, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Antanas Verikas, Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Halmstad University, Sweden Michel Verleysen, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Cinzia Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy Jordi Vitrià, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain Thomas Walsh, University of Kansas, United States Pierre Armand Weiss, Department of Mathematical Modeling, INSA Toulouse, France David Windridge, School of Electronics and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Jianxin Wu, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological Univeristy, Singapore Xin-Shun Xu, Shandong University, China Josiane Zerubia, INRIA Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée, France Albrecht Zimmermann, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Reyer Zwiggelaar, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom