Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications: 12th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2007,Valpariso

Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications: 12th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2007,Valpariso, 9783540767244 (354076724X), Springer, 2007

These proceedings offer a written account of the scientific contributions presented at the 12th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2007), held in Vi˜na del Mar-Valpara´ıso, Chile. The aim of the congress was to promote and disseminate ongoing research and mathematical methods for pattern recognition, image analysis, and applications in such diverse areas as computer vision, bioinformatics, robotics and remote sensing, industry, health, space exploration, data mining, document analysis, natural language processing and speech recognition, among others. The volume is a manifestation of the ongoing success of the Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP) that has featured in the landscape of international scientific conferences on pattern recognition and computer vision in the past few years. It provides evidence of the growing stature of the Iberoamerican scientific community in this subject area and of the interest its scientific contributions generate worldwide. As in the previous years, CIARP 2007 hosted participants from all over the world.

CIARP 2007 was organized by the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Santiago de Chile (USACH) and the Department of Informatics of the Technical University Federico Santa Mar´ıa (USM). The event was sponsored by the Advanced Technologies Application Center of Cuba (CENATAV), the Mexican Association for Computer Vision, Neurocomputing and Robotics (MACVNR), the Cuban Association for Pattern Recognition (ACRP), the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP), the Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI), the Special Interest Group on Pattern Recognition of the Brazilian Computer Society (SIGPR-SBC), the Chilean Society for Computer Science by means of its technical committee, the Chilean Association for Pattern Recognition (AChiRP), the International Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (3IE) and the Southeastern Pacific Research Institute for Advanced Technologies (SEPARI). CIARP 2007 was endorsed by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).

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