he International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods would like to become a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners on the areas of Pattern Recognition, both from theoretical and application perspectives. Contributions describing applications of Pattern Recognition techniques to real-world problems, interdisciplinary research, experimental and/or theoretical studies yielding new insights that advance Pattern Recognition methods are especially encouraged. CONFERENCE AREAS 1 . Theory and Methods 2 . Applications CONFERENCE CHAIR Ana Fred, Instituto de Telecomunicações / IST, Portugal PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Maria De Marsico, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy Gabriella Sanniti di Baja, Italian National Research Council CNR, Italy LOCAL CHAIR Michal Haindl, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Republic