Two conference awards will be given: the CIARP-IAPR Best Paper Award and the Medal Aurora Pons-Porrata. 

The best paper award will be selected from the accepted full papers, and the Aurora Pons Porrata Medal will be selected from a committee that analyses nominated female researchers that contributed significantly to the pattern recognition field.

The extended version of the best paper award and the winner of the Medal Aurora Pons Porrata will be invited for submission in the Pattern Recognition Letters journal.

A special issue of the Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization journal devoted to the event will be organised with the extended version of the best accepted full papers related to bio- imaging or visualization.

João Manuel R.S. Tavares

Conference Chair

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal

João Paulo Papa

Conference chair

Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil

Manuel González-Hidalgo

Program chair

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

Leila Maria Garcia Fonseca

Aurora Pons Porrata Award Committee Chair 

National Institute for Space Research, São Paulo, Brazil

CIARP Steering Committee

• Bernardete Ribeiro APRP, Portugal
• Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano MACVNR, Mexico
• César Beltrán-Castañón APeRP, Peru
• Julian Fierrez AERFAI, Spain
• José Ruiz Shulcloper ACRP, Cuba
• Marta Mejail SARP, Argentina
• Marcelo Mendoza AChiRP, Chile
• Joao Paulo Papa SIGPR-BR, Brazil
• Álvaro Pardo APRU, Uruguay

Local Committee

• André Pilastri, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Gonçalo Almeida, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Hugo Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Jessica Demoral, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Zhen Ma, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Vahid Hajihashemi, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Main program topics:

Applications of Pattern Recognition (PR)

Artificial Intelligence Techniques in PR

Bioinformatics

Clustering

Cognitive Humanoid and Computer Vision

Computer Vision

Data and Text Mining

Data Visualization and Applications of PR

Deep and Reinforced Learning

DB, Knowledge Bases and Linguistic Tools

Discrete Geometry

Document Processing and Recognition

Fuzzy and Hybrid Techniques in PR

Geometric Algebra Application in PR

Image Coding, Processing and Analysis

Image, Video, and Knowledge Bases

Intelligent Data Analysis

Kernel Machines

Logical Combinatorial PR

Machine Learning

Mathematical Morphology

Mathematical Theory of PR

Medical Imaging

Natural Language Processing

Neural Networks for PR

Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis

Parallel and Distributed PR

Pattern Recognition Principles

Robotics & Humanoids

Remote Sensing Applications of PR

Shape and Texture Analysis

Signal Processing and Analysis

Spatio-Temporal Analysis

Special Hardware Architectures

Statistical Pattern Recognition

Syntactical and Structural PR

Video analysis

Visual Inspection

Voice and Speech Recognition