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An official publication of the International Association for Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition Letters aims at rapid publication of concise articles of a broad interest in pattern recognition . Subject areas include all the current fields of interest represented by the Technical Committees of the International Association of Pattern Recognition and other developing themes involving learning and recognition. Examples include:
• Statisticalstructuralsyntactic pattern recognition; • Neural networksmachine learningdata mining; • Discrete geometryalgebraicgraph-based techniques for pattern recognition; • Signal analysisimage coding and processingshape and texture analysis; • Computer visionroboticsremote sensing; • Document processingtext and graphics recognitiondigital libraries; • Speech recognitionmusic analysismultimedia systems; • Natural language analysisinformation retrieval; • Biometricsbiomedical pattern analysis and information systems; • Special hardware architecturessoftware packages for pattern recognition.
We invite contributions as research reports or commentaries.
Research reports should be concise summaries of methodological inventions and findingswith strong potential of wide applications. Alternativelythey can describe significant and novel applications of an established technique that are of high reference value to the same application area and other similar areas.
Commentaries can be lecture notessubject reviewsreports on a conferenceor debates on critical issues that are of wide interests.
To serve the interests of a diverse readershipthe introduction should provide a concise summary of the background of the work in an accepted terminology in pattern recognitionstate the unique contributionsand discuss broader impacts of the work outside the immediate subject area. All contributions are reviewed on the basis of scientific merits and breadth of potential interests.
An official publication of the International Association for Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition Letters aims at rapid publication of concise articles of a broad interest in pattern recognition . Subject areas include all the current fields of interest represented by the Technical Committees of …
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M. De Marsico
University of Rome La SapienzaDepartment of Computer ScienceRomeItaly
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Edge Hill UniversityOrmskirkUnited Kingdom
J. Lu
Tsinghua UniversityBeijingChina
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