The huge influx of data in digital form has inspired several recent advancements in the fields of pattern recognition, very often in conjunction with other related areas like statistics, convex optimization, computational intelligence, and graph theory. The pattern recognition community is active in integrating these advancements and in upgrading them to suitable tools tailor made for challenging applications. In order to bring together researchers from academia and industry to report and review the latest progresses in pattern recognition, machine learning, and computer vision and to create awareness on these domains to a wider audience of practitioners, the Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit of in conjunction with the Systems Science and Informatics Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute will be organizing the 9th International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition during December 29 – 30, 2017. An one-day tutorial will be organized on December 28, 2017.