<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dear Connectionists,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">can you please spread the IbPRIA CFP - final call. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Many thanks</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Best regards,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">João Rodrigues</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px">______________</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">8th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">(Faro, Algarve, Portugal. June 20-23, 2017)<br><br>Please visit</span> IbPRIA <span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">2017</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">website:<span class="gmail-m_4204482461194041664m_7544541304461988594gmail-m_-8745482387661352316gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.ibpria.org/2017/" target="_blank">http://www.ibpria.org<wbr>/2017/</a> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px"><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">facebook: </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://goo.gl/dxhR3c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">https://goo.gl/dxhR3<wbr>c</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">CFP: </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.ibpria.org/2017/cfp/IbPRia2017.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ibpria.org/201<wbr>7/cfp/IbPRia2017.pdf</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB">IMPORTANT DATES</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Submission of papers: January 06, 2017 (final extension)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Notification of acceptance: February 17, 2017</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Camera-Ready: March 10, 2017</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Tutorials: June 20, 2017</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Conference: June 20-23, 2017</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>***************************<br></span><span lang="EN-GB">CALL </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">FOR</span><span lang="EN-GB"> PAPERS</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br>******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>***************************<br><br>The eighth edition of the Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2017, will be held in Faro, Algarve, Portugal, June 20-23, 2017.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">IbPRIA is an international conference co-organised by the Spanish AERFAI and the Portuguese APRP, chapters of the IAPR International Association for Pattern Recognition. IbPRIA is a single track conference consisting of high quality, previously unpublished papers, presented either orally or as a poster, intended to act as a forum for research groups, engineers and practitioners to present recent results, algorithmic improvements and promising future directions in pattern recognition and image analysis.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, and will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, Springer LNCS. A copy of the proceedings will be distributed to all participants at the Conference. A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published in the </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/image+processing/journal/10044" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration:none">Pattern Analysis and Applications journal</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">We invite authors to submit</span><span lang="EN-GB"> papers </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">in the following and related areas:<br>- Pattern Recognition</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Image Analysis</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Computer Vision</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Multimedia Systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Statistical and Structural Pattern Recognition</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Machine Learning and Data Mining</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Bioinformatics</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Image Coding and Processing</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Shape and Texture Analysis</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Information Systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Biometric Technologies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Speech Recognition</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Document Processing</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Character and Text Recognition</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Robotics</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Remote Sensing</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Industrial Applications of Pattern Recognition</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Special Hardware Architectures</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB">INVITED SPEAKERS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Gavin Brown, University of Manchester, UK</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Marcello Pelillo, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Ivan Laptev, INRIA Paris, France</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB">TUTORIALS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Philosophical Aspects of Machine Learning, Marcello Pelillo, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Structured Representations for Text and Images, Frank Keller,  Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB">PAPER SUBMISSION</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Papers should describe original and unpublished work on the topics of the conference. Prospective authors should prepare a full paper, written in English, not exceeding 8 pages and must submit it electronically. Further information can be found on the conference website. Each paper will be blind-reviewed by at least two reviewers and will be accepted based on its originality, significance and clarity. Submission implies that at least one of the authors has to register and to present the communication at the conference if the paper is accepted.</span></p><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">__________________________________</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">João Rodrigues</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Universidade do Algarve, Instituto Superior de Engenharia, Faro, Portugal <br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">LARSyS, Vision Laboratory, ISE, University of the Algarve, Faro,  Portugal <br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><a href="http://w3.ualg.pt/~jrodrig" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://w3.ualg.pt/~jrodrig</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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