Connectionists: ANNPR2012 (Trento, Italy): last CFP + deadline extension

[Edmondo Trentin]

        ANNPR 2012
	Fifth INNS IAPR TC3 GIRPR International Workshop on
        Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition

        September 17 - 19, 2012
        Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

        *** Last Call for Papers: Update and Deadline Extension ***

We are pleased to remind you that the 5th INNS IAPR TC3 GIRPR
International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern
Recognition will be held at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy.
ANNPR 2012 follows the success of ANNPR 2003 (Florence), ANNPR 2006 (Ulm),
ANNPR 2008 (Paris), and ANNPR 2010 (Cairo). This 5th ANNPR workshop will
act as a major forum for international researchers and practitioners
working in all areas of neural network- and machine learning-based pattern
recognition to present and discuss the latest research, results, and ideas
in these areas.

This year the workshop received the endorsement from  the International
Neural Network Society (INNS), from the International Association for
Pattern Recognition (IAPR),  from the Technical Committees 3 (TC3) of IAPR
("Neural  Networks & Computational Intelligence"), and from GIRPR (Gruppo
Italiano Ricercatori in Pattern Recognition).

Confirmed IAPR Invited Speakers to date are (in alphabetical order; talk
titles are preliminary):
- Marco Gori (Siena, Italy): "Developmental Vision Agents"
- Nikola (Nik) Kasabov (Auckland, New Zealand): "Evolving spiking neural
  networks for spatio -and spectro- temporal pattern recognition"
- Guenther Palm (Ulm, Germany): title to be announced

Papers are solicited dealing with neural networks, machine learning and
pattern recognition which emphasize methodological issues possibly arising
in applications.

Topics:

Methodological Issues
- Supervised learning
- Unsupervised learning
- Combination of supervised and unsupervised learning
- Feedforward, recurrent, and competitive neural nets
- Kernel machines
- Hierarchical modular architectures and hybrid systems
- Combination of neural networks and Hidden Markov models
- Multiple classifier systems and ensemble methods
- Probabilistic graphical models
- Kernel methods
- Deep architectures

Applications in Pattern Recognition
- Image processing and segmentation
- Sensor-fusion and multi-modal processing
- Feature extraction, dimension reduction
- Clustering and vector quantization
- Speech and speaker recognition
- Data, text, and web mining
- Bioinformatics/Cheminformatics

Paper Submission:

Potential participants should submit a paper describing their work in one
of the areas described above. Proceedings will be published as a volume in
the Springer LNAI, maximum paper length is 12 pages in LNCS/LNAI format.
Instructions for authors, LaTeX templates, etc. are available at the
Springer LNCS/LNAI web-site. On-line submission via EasyChair is now
available on the web-site of the workshop (http://annpr2012.fbk.eu).

Important Dates:

May  15, 2012 - EXTENDED deadline for electronic paper submission
June 3,  2012 - Notification of paper acceptance
June 17, 2012 - Deadline for final, camera-ready submission
June 17, 2012 - Deadline for Early Registration

Contacts and Further Info:

annpr2012 at fbk.eu
http://annpr2012.fbk.eu/


General Chairs:

Nadia Mana
Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

Friedhelm Schwenker
University of Ulm, Institute of Neural
Information Processing, Germany

Edmondo Trentin
Universita' di Siena, Dip. di Ingegneria dell'
Informazione, Italy

Local Organization Chairs:

Oswald Lanz
Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

Stefano Messelodi
Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

Program Committee:

Shigeo Abe, Japan
Amir Atiya, Egypt
Erwin Bakker, The Netherlands
Yoshua Bengio, Canada
Ludovic Denoyer, France
Neamat El Gayar, Canada
Antonino Freno, France
Markus Hagenbuchner, Australia
Barbara Hammer, Germany
Tom Heskes, The Netherlands
Lakhmi Jain, Australia
Nik Kasabov, New Zealand
Hans A. Kestler, Germany
Oswald Lanz, Italy
Marco Loog, The Netherlands
Simone Marinai, Italy
Stefano Messelodi, Italy
Heiko Neumann, Germany
Erkki Oja, Finland
Guenther Palm, Germany
Lionel Prevost, France
Raul Rojas, Germany
Stefan Scherer, USA
Alessandro Sperduti, Italy
Ah-Chung Tsoi, Macau
Ian Witten, New Zealand



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