First of all, we want to congratulate two new research communities from M- ico and Brazil that have recently joined the Iberoamerican community and the International Association for Pattern Recognition. We believe that the series of congresses that started as the “Taller Iberoamericano de Reconocimiento de Patrones (TIARP)”, and later became the “Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP)”, has contributed to these groupconsolidatione?orts. We hope that in the near future all the Iberoamerican countries will have their own groups and associations to promote our areas of interest; and that these congresses will serve as the forum for scienti?c research exchange, sharing of - pertise and new knowledge, and establishing contacts that improve cooperation between research groups in pattern recognition and related areas. CIARP 2004 (9th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition) was the ninthinaseriesofpioneeringcongressesonpatternrecognitionintheIberoam- ican community. As inthe previous year, CIARP 2004 also included worldwide participation. It took place in Puebla, Mexico. The aim of the congress was to promote and disseminate ongoing research and mathematical methods for pattern recognition, image analysis, and applications in such diverse areas as computer vision, robotics, industry, health, entertainment, space exploration, telecommunications, data mining, document analysis,and natural languagep- cessing and recognition, to name a few.
Editors and Affiliations
Dept. System Engineering and Automation, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
Alberto Sanfeliu
Computer Science Department, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), Sta. Maria Tonantzintla, Mexico
José Francisco Martínez Trinidad
Computer Science Department, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, (INAOE), Sta. Maria Tonantzintla, Mexico
Jesús Ariel Carrasco Ochoa
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications
Book Subtitle: 9th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2004, Puebla, Mexico, October 26-29, 2004. Proceedings
Editors: Alberto Sanfeliu, José Francisco Martínez Trinidad, Jesús Ariel Carrasco Ochoa
