Objective: 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 actively integrates these advancements and upgrades them to suitable tools tailor made for challenging applications regularly. 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 28-30, 2017. An one-day tutorial will be organized on December 27, 2017.

Theme: A number of paper presentation sessions in the areas of, but not limited to, artificial intelligence, approximate reasoning, atmospheric modeling, atmospheric pattern recognition, remote sensing, bioinformatics, digital signal processing (including speech), computer vision, image and video processing, image and video retrieval, social network analysis and mining, privacy aware learning, learning and vision based robotics, transfer learning, representation learning and deep machine learning, big data analytics and related mathematical techniques, geosciences and geomorphology, text analytics and NLP, will be organized under a number of relevant conference tracks.

Location: The conference will be held at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) campus in Bangalore (officially known as Bengaluru), the capital of Karnataka state and popularly known as the "Silicon Valley of India" due to the large Information Technology cluster around the city. Bangalore International Airport is approximately 45 km from the Institute. The Institute is approximately 12 km from the Bangalore City railway Station.