Plenary Talks:
Data Clustering: 50 Years Beyond K-means (KSFu Prize Lecture) by Anil K. Jain
Limitations of CBIR by Theo Pavlidis
Pursuing Explicit and Implicit Manifolds by Information Projection (JKAggarwal Prize) by Song-Chun Zhu
Classifier Ensembles: Facts, Fiction, Faults and Future by Ludmila I Kuncheva
Getting the Big Picture from the Small by (making) Sense of Direction by Josef Bigun
Recent Developments in the Study of Rapid Human Movements with the Kinematic Theory by Réjean Plamondon

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ICPR 2008 proceedings information:
IEEE Catalog Number: CFP08182
ISBN: 978-1-4244-2175-6
ISSN: 1051-4651
Papers can be accessed through session links from this page

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List of best paper awards is available here

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Pictures from ICPR 2008 can be found here.

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Old news can be found here

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ICPR 2008 is the nineteenth conference of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).

The ICPR 2008 will be an international forum for discussions on recent advances in the fields of Computer vision, Pattern recognition (theory, methods and algorithms), Image, speech and signal analysis, Multimedia and video analysis, Biometrics, Document analysis, and Bioinformatics and biomedical applications.

ICPR 2008 will be held at the Tampa Convention Center. With pristine beaches, numerous parks, arts and science museums, and vibrant night life, Tampa Bay is a popular destination for tourists

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The conference consists of 7 tracks
Computer Vision
Sensor systems Features and Image Descriptors Segmentation, Color and Texture Image Modelling and Scene Understanding	Motion, Tracking, Video Analysis Object Description and Recognition Robotics and Visual Navigation Applications
Pattern Recognition
Statistical, Syntactic and Structural Pattern Recognition Machine Learning and Data Mining Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Learning Feature Reduction, Manifold Learning	Classification and Clustering Support Vector Machines and kernels Invariances in Recognition Applications
Image, Speech and Signal Analysis
Image and Video Processing and Understanding Speech and Audio Processing and Analysis Enhancement, segmentation, filtering Coding and compression	Separation and Segmentation Learning Applications
Multimodal Interaction and Multimedia Processing
Multimodal interaction Multimedia analysis, indexing, retrieval	Multimedia infrastructure Applications
Document Analysis
Character and Text Recognition Handwriting Recognition Graphics Recognition	Document Analysis and Recognition Document Databases and Data Mining Applications
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications
Data mining for Biological Databases Algorithms for Molecular Biology Pattern Recognition for Genomics and Proteomics Microarray Data Analysis	Computational Biology Medical Image Analysis and Registration Computer-Aided Diagnosis Applications
Biometrics
Biometric Technologies Multi-modal biometrics Biometric System Design	Performance Evaluation Applications