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 Multiclassifier Fusion 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 Biometrics KEYNOTE LECTURES Hanan Samet, University of Maryland, United States Nello Cristianini, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Marcello Pelillo, University of Venice, Italy Luis Alexandre, University of Beira Interior, Portugal PAPER SUBMISSION Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity. Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC\'s ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail. PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library . 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 LNCS Series book. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus. IMPORTANT DATES Conference Date: 10 - 12 January, 2015 Regular Papers Paper Submission: September 1, 2014 (extended) Authors Notification: November 3, 2014 Camera Ready and Registration: November 17, 2014 Position Papers Paper Submission: September 30, 2014 Authors Notification: November 6, 2014 Camera Ready and Registration: November 17, 2014 Doctoral Consortium Paper Submission: November 5, 2014 Authors Notification: November 18, 2014 Camera Ready and Registration: November 28, 2014 SECRETARIAT ICPRAM Secretariat Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq. 2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal Tel.: +351 265 100 033 Fax: +44 203 014 8813 e-mail: icpram.secretariat@insticc.org Web: http://www.icpram.org/ VENUE Our conference will take place at the Lisbon Marriott Hotel, this 4 star Venue was considered Portugal’s leading conference hotel. CONFERENCE CHAIR Ana Fred, Instituto de Telecomunicações / IST, Portugal PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Maria De Marsico, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy Mário Figueiredo, Technical University of Lisbon - IST, Portugal