Topics include, but are not limited to: Applications of Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Techniques in PR Bioinformatics, Chemometrics Biometrics Clustering Cognitive Humanoid Vision Computer Vision Data Mining DB, Knowledge Bases and Linguistic Tools Discrete Geometry Document Processing and Recognition Fuzzy and Hybrid Techniques in PR Image Coding, Processing and Analysis Image, Video, and Knowledge Bases Kernel Machines Linguistic Tools for Pattern Recognition Logical Combinatorial PR Mathematical Morphology Mathematical Theory of PR Medical Imaging Natural Language Processing and PR Neural Networks for PR Parallel and Distributed PR Pattern Recognition Principles Robotics & Remote Sensing Applications of PR Shape and Texture Analysis Signal Processing and Analysis Special Hardware Architectures Statistical Pattern Recognition Syntactical and Structural PR Video analysis Voice and Speech Recognition