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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>---------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Apologies for multiples copies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>---------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:141.6pt;text-indent:35.4pt'><span lang=EN-US>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Graphs for Pattern Recognition: Representations, Theory and Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Special Session at <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> the 3rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> June 1- 3, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <a href="https://icprai2022.sciencesconf.org/">https://icprai2022.sciencesconf.org/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Paper submission deadline: <s>December 15th, 2021</s> <b><span style='color:red'>January 15<sup>th</sup>, 2022</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Author notification: March 8th, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Camera ready deadline: March 22th, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Early bird registration deadline: April 1st, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Time of the conference: June 1st to 3rd, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Scientific Program Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Isabelle Bloch (FR)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>Luc Brun (FR)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>Vincenzo Carletti (IT)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>Donatello Conte (FR)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>H. Edelsbrunner (A)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>Benoit Gaüzere (FR)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz (Spain)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Marco Gori (IT)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Yll Haxhimusa (A)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Walter G. Kropatsch (A)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Xiaoyi Jiang (G)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>J.Y. Ramel (FR)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>Luca Rossi (UK)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>Francesc Serratosa (Spain)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>Ali Shokoufandeh (US)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>Mario Vento (IT)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>Pasquale Foggia (IT)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Motivations and topics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Graphs have gained a lot of attention in the pattern recognition community thanks to their ability to encode both topological, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>geometrical, and semantic information. Despite their invaluable descriptive power and their invariance to diverse geometric deformations, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>their arbitrarily complex structured nature poses serious challenges when they are involved in Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Some challenging Problems are: a non-unique representation of data, heterogeneous attributes (symbolic, numeric, etc.), highly complex algorithms like (sub-)graph matching.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>This Special Session intends to focus on all aspects of graph-based representations in Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, from theoretical to applications concerns.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>It spans, but is not limited to, the following topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>● Dynamic, spatial and temporal graphs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>● Graph representations and methods in computer vision<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>● Geometry and Topology in Graphs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>● Graph Neural Networks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>● Benchmarks for Graphs in Pattern Recognition<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>● Graph Learning and Classification<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>● Graph Matching<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>● Social Networks Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>● Graph Representation Learning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Track Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Walter G. Kropatsch (TU Wien) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Donatello Conte (University of Tours) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>Vincenzo Carletti (University of Salerno)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>