The Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI), the country affiliate of International Association for Pattern Recognition since 1982, in collaboration with India’s Institute of National Importance, The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), is proud to forward this proposal to host the International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2006 (ICPR 2006) in the capital of India, the city of historical, Delhi.

The ICPR being the most important forum for researchers in the broad areas of pattern recognition and seeking to discuss and disseminate recent advances in Computer Vision, Signal, Speech, Language and Image Processing has not yet been staged in South Asia. The last four meets were held in Brisbane, Barcelona, Quebec and Cambridge. We feel that its organisation in Asia particularly in India, an information technology superpower, is long overdue. To put it in the words of Prof. Azriel Rosenfeld: "…its organisation in an Indian location is definitely overdue".

We are the India country affiliate of IAPR. We are a 300 strong close knit PR community dedicated to developing algorithms and systems related to Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Image Processing, Soft Computing, Knowledge based Computing Systems. The PR community is active in publishing numerous articles in international journals and conferences. IUPRAI is associated with a number of conferences in areas related to PR. The International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition and Digital Techniques (ICAPRDT) is the flagship conference of IUPRAI and has been held in the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta almost every four years for the last 17 years. It was during the ICAPRDT of 1982 IUPRAI was affiliated to IAPR in the presence of Prof. King Sun Fu, former president of IAPR, Prof. Azriel Rosenfeld and Dr. Piere Devijver, the then president and secretary of IAPR and a host of other members. The Indian Conference on Vision, Graphics and Image Processing is an annual event. Soft computing conferences involving fuzzy mathematics, ANN and GA are organised every year. The active hub of IUPRAI influenced organisation of full semester graduate level courses on Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Computer Vision in all the leading Indian institutes of national importance. Overall, a strong, dedicated PR community is now seeking the support of IAPR to host ICPR 2006. We are confident that this active synergy will spread PR in the developing countries of Asia, that it will further the bond between PR communities in Asia and the rest of the world and that it will be a catalyst in collaborative research efforts between the developing and the developed nations.

Delhi, the capital of India, is one of the most historic capitals in the world and two of its monuments- the Qutb Minar and Humayun's Tomb - have been declared World Heritage Sites. It is also one of the greenest capitals. It serves as a perfect introduction to the cultural wealth, the complexities and dynamism of India. It has engulfed all the ancient city sites and overflows across the Yamuna and the Northen Ridge. Delhi is a palimpsest, bearing the complexities, the contradictions, the beauty and the dynamism of a city where the past co-exists with the present. This historically rich city is now melting pot of India. It is on the passage to Asia, with roads from across the continent meeting and leading from here to everywhere and anywhere. This city houses with leading educational Institutes, Academies, and Unversities, several centres of Indian classical music, Dance, Drama and Art, sprawling amusement park, modern software parks, electronic complexes and a complete modern city.

It is the largest of old Delhi's monuments. The thick red sandstone walls of Red Fort or Lal Quila, bulging with turrets and bastions, extend for 2 km and vary in height from 18 metres on the river side to 33 metres on the city side. Its construction was started by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan in 1638, and was completed in 1648. The main attraction of the fort is its beautiful palaces and public buildings.

Humayun's Tomb - one of the world's heritage site, the first splendid example of Mughal architecture with high arches and double dome. This tomb in a garden complex was built by Humayun's widow Haji Begum in the 16th Century. It is said to be a fore runner of the Taj Mahal.

Located in Kalkaji in the south of Delhi, the Bahai Temple or the Lotus temple is a very recent architectural marvel of the Bahai faith. The temple is open to all faiths and is an ideal place for meditation and for obtaining peace and tranquillity.

Delhi - The capital of India is home to large number of quality hotels and international guesthouses famous for their hospitality and grandeur. It is also the hub of famous Indian cuisine. The city offers a wide range of resturants offering Continental to Chinese, the Italian pizza or Curry Khana.

The ultra modern Taj palace Hotel of the famous Taj group is more or less equidistant from the Airport, Railway Station and City Centre. This delux hotel is India's finest and largest conference venue.

This luxury Taj Mahal Hotel of the famous The Taj group of Hotels is centrally located and a few minutes away from the Janpath shopping area and city centre and boasts of spacious guest rooms with panoramic views. Gracious atmosphere and hospitality, with all modern convenience.

The Park of the famous Park group of hotels is located in the heart of the city and very near to New Delhi railway station.

This luxury hotel has a somewhat unconventional style and design; a mixture of Victorian and old colonial with a playful dosage of art-deco.The hotel is set in 8 acres of beautiful landscaped gardens, in the heart of premium business, government and shopping district of New Delhi.

Taj Mahal - the one of the eight wonders of the world, situated on the side of river Jamuna. This white marbel made architectural beauty is the unique creation of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in the memory of his dear wife and queen Mumtaz Mahal.This beautiful monument was constructed over a peroid of twenty two years, completed on 1648.

Built by the great Emperor Akbar in 1565 A.D. the fort Is a masterpiece of design and construction. Within the fort are a number of exquisite buildings, including the Moti Masjid, Diwane-E-Am, Diwani-E-Khaas and Musanman Burj, where the Emperor Shah Jahan died in imprisonment beside Jahangirs place, Khaas Mahal and the Sheesh Mahal.

Honorary Chair: Azriel Rosenfeld

General Chair: Kalyan B. Sinha

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

Members: R. Kasturi J. K. Aggarwal

M. Vidysagar M. Ejiri

R. M. Haralick O. Faugeras

L. M. Patnaik C. R. Rao

R. Chellappa Yamamoto

S. C. DuttaRoy B. L. Deekshatulu

M. M. Trivedi B. Yegnanarayana

S. N. Srihari K. W. Bowyer

R. Jain G. Sanniti de Baja

AI-based Approach

Case based Reasoning

Cognitive Modeling

Dimensionality Reduction

Feature Selection/Extraction

Fractal Geometry

Evolutionary Computation

Genetic Algorithm

Fuzzy Set Theoretic Approach

Artificial Neural Network

Neuro-Fuzzy Techniques

Rough Set Theoretic Approach

Invariance in Recognition

Knowledge Representation

Learning

Rule Generation

Search Techniques

Multi-resolution Classification

Statistical approach

Structural and Syntactic Approach

Data Mining

Active Vision

Early Vision

2D and 3D Segmentation

Motion and Image Sequnece Analysis

Optical Flow

Shape Feature Extraction

Object Representation

Recognition (2D and 3D)

Texture and Color

Range data Analysis

Scene Understanding

Shape Analysis

Shape from X

Stereo Vision

Visual Navigation

Path planning

Automation and Mobile Robots

Coding and Compression

Color Image Processing

Enhancement and Restoration

Filtering

Image and Data Representation

Image Fusion

Image Registration

Image Segmentation

Reconstruction from Projection

Video Processing

Speech Processing

Speech Segmentation

Speech Synthesis

Speech Recognition and Understanding

Multi-scale and Multi-resolution Analysis

Time-Frequency Analysis

Fractal and Multi-fractal Analysis

Mathematical Morphology

Wavelet Analysis

Digital Watermarking

Visual Cryptology

Content-based image retrieval

Biomedical signal (ECG,EEG etc.) Recognition

Biomedical Imaging and Application

Remote Sensing Applications

Document Analysis and Understanding

OCR

NLP and Machine Translation

Visual Inspection and Monitoring

Real Time Systems

Smart Sensors

Surveillance

Intelligent Agent Technology

VLSI Implementation

Multiprocessor Systems

Parallel Algorithms and Languages

Multimedia Interface

Visualization

Virtual Reality

Image and Multimedia Data Base

Expenses due to lunch, refreshment for the entire conferences are included in the registration fees.

A number of travel and/or local hospitality fellowships for students and senior scientists including IAPR governing board members.

Free local sight seeing and cultural programme for participants and spouses.

(*) Also includes special registration fees for developing countries researchers. Limited need based participation only registration fee waiver could be accommodated.

Dr. Punam Kumar Saha

Department of Radiology

University of Pennsylvania

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