About

The 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Systems (ICPRS) is an annual international event that follows ICPRS-25, ICPRS-24, ICPRS-23, ICPRS-22, ICPRS-21, ICPRS-19, ICPRS-18, ICPRS-17 and ICPRS-16, a continuation of the successful Chilean Conference on Pattern Recognition that reached its 6th edition in 2014. In 2025 it is organised by the Université de Bordeaux (France) and the Chilean Association for Pattern Recognition (ACHiRP, a member of the IAPR), expected to be endorsed by the IAPR and the IEEE Chile Section. As per previous years, papers deemed to be of the required standard AND presented at the conference are expected to be published by the IEEE and indexed in IEEE Xplore. Please note that the publishers might reject papers which are too similar to previous publications, even if the work is presented at the conference. All papers need to be submitted via Conftool to be peer-reviewed (double-blind) by an international panel of experts.

There will be prizes (first and runner up) for the best paper overall and for the best student paper (where the first author is a student).

The International Conference on Pattern Recognition Systems (ICPRS-27) aims to create an important networking forum in which participants can discuss the present and future of pattern recognition systems.

Its predecessors ICPRS-25, ICPRS-24, ICPRS-23, ICPRS-22, ICPRS-21, ICPRS-19, ICPRS-18, ICPRS-17, ICPRS-16, CWPR and CCPR, have traditionally been a meeting point of different disciplines (computer science, engineering, mathematics, machine learning, etc.) and an opportunity for a wide range of researchers and practitioners to discuss the many different aspects of the application of pattern recognition technologies.

Where

100% in-person event, hosted by the Université de Bordeaux (France)

When

Monday to Thursday
8-11 March, 2027

Call For Papers

The 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Systems (ICPRS) is an annual international event that follows ICPRS25, ICPRS-24, ICPRS-23, ICPRS-22, ICPRS-21, ICPRS-19, ICPRS-18, ICPRS-17 and ICPRS-16, a continuation of the successful Chilean Conference on Pattern Recognition that reached its 6th edition in 2014. In 2027 it is organised by the Université de Bordeaux, (France) and the Chilean Association for Pattern Recognition (ACHiRP, a member of the IAPR), and expected to be endorsed by the IAPR and the IEEE. As per previous years, papers deemed to be of the required standard AND presented at the conference, are expected to be published by the IEEE and indexed in IEEE Xplore. Please note that the publishers might reject papers which are too similar to previous publications, even if the work is presented at the conference. All paper submissions need to be submitted via Conftool to be peer-reviewed (double-blind) by an international panel of experts.

We also welcome "Datasets Papers" that introduce a new public dataset and a baseline to encourage new lines of research.

This conference will be a 100% in-person event.

There will be a special category of "Student Papers", where the first author must be a student (undergraduate or postgraduate). There will be special prizes for best and runner-up student paper.

All paper submissions will be submitted on-line to be peer-reviewed by an international panel of experts. Please note that all papers will be checked by a plagiarism detecting software so that papers that exceed a threshold of coincidence will not be passed on for reviews.

Also please note that reviews will be double-blind so please do not include author names and affiliations in your paper (also do not cite your previous work as "in our previous paper [x]", etc.).

Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers describing novel and previously unpublished results on all aspects of Pattern Recognition Systems, from academia, industry, NGOs and others, to be selected for oral presentations or posters, on topics including, but not limited to:
  • Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Pattern Recognition
  • Bioinformatics Clustering
  • Biometrics (including face recognition)
  • Computer Vision
  • Dataset: a new public dataset and baseline
  • Data Mining and Big Data
  • Deep Learning and Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition
  • Document Processing and Recognition
  • Fuzzy and Hybrid Techniques in PR
  • High Performance Computing for Pattern Recognition
  • Image Processing and Analysis
  • Kernel Machines
  • Mathematical Morphology
  • Mathematical Theory of Pattern Recognition
  • Medical Image Processing and Analysis
  • Natural Language Processing and Recognition
  • Object Detection, Tracking and Recognition
  • Pattern Recognition Principles
  • Pattern Recognition for optimization
  • Real Systems, Applications and Case Studies of Pattern Recognition (e.g. health, environment, weather prediction,natural disasters, transportation, etc.)
  • Robotics
  • Remote Sensing
  • Shape and Texture Analysis
  • Signal Processing and Analysis
  • Social Media and HCI
  • Signal Processing and Analysis
  • Statistical Pattern Recognition
  • Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition
  • Time series prediction
  • Voice and Speech Recognition
If you are interested in organising a special session, please contact a Local Chair.

IMPORTANT DATES:

  • Paper submissions: 25th October '26 (23:59 UK time)
  • Notification of acceptance: 28th December '26
  • Camera-ready papers: 20th January '27
  • Early Registration: 12th February '27
Submissions
  • Paper format: IEEE Conference, up to 6 pages + 1 page for references (additional pages will incur additional costs)
  • It is strongly recommended to use Latex (e.g. Overleaf)
  • Papers must be written in English.
  • To submit a paper, please click here. If you have not yet done so, you will need to create an account (if you participated in a previous ICPRS you might already have an account). PLEASE NOTE that the special "Student Paper" category requires the first author to be a registered student at the time of submission, otherwise use the "Regular Paper" category.
  • Please note that an accepted paper will only be sent to the publishers if at least one of its authors registers at a normal full author (not student) delegate fee
We use the ConfTool System to submit the papers.

Sponsors

Keynote Speakers

These will be announced later in 2026

Travel/Getting there

Travel details will be announced later in 2026

Workshops

As per previous years, the first day will be dedicated to workshops (free to attend to those who register at the main conference)

Programme

The programme will be announced in 2027, once the review process is complete

Registration

For an accepted paper to be presented and published, it needs to be associated to an "Author Full Fee" registration (and not to a Student or an Other registration). If only a student author is attending the conference and presenting their paper, then they need to pay an "Author full fee" (and not the student fee). We have to operate like this to cover conference and publishing costs. Also, if one of the authors registers as "Author Full Fee", additional authors of the same paper who also want to attend the conference only need to pay a lower fee e.g. as Student or Other, as appropriate to their status. Following IAPR policy, each author full fee registration will cover the presentation of up to three papers by the registered person who also needs to be a co-author of those papers. Presentation of additional papers beyond those three, by the same conference delegate will require the payment of an additional full author fee. In all cases there are reductions for members of the sponsoring organisations.

The conference fees will be announced later in 2026

Accommodation

Accommodation details will be given closer to the conference date

Organisers

Local Chair

Prof. Marie Beurton-Aimar (Université de Bordeaux, France)

General Chairs

Prof. Sergio A. Velastin (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain)
Dr. Cesar Astudillo (Universidad de Talca, Chile)

IEEE Liaison Chair

Dr. Saumya Reni (University of Westminster/IEEE, UK)

Regional Chairs

Deisy Chavez (Universidad del Valle, Colombia)
Dr. Gustavo Fernández (Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria)
Prof. José García-Rodríguez (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
Prof. Wilson Rivera (Universidad de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico)
Dr. Vinay Kumar Venkataramana (IVIS Labs, India)
Prof. Qiao Wang (Southeast University, PR China)
Prof. M. Haroon Yousaf (University of Engineering and Technology Taxila, Pakistan)

Scientific Committee

Prof. Lynn Abbott (Virginia Tech, USA)
Dr. Daniel Acevedo (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Dr. Mohammed Yahya Alghamdi (Albaha University, Saudi Arabia)
Dr. Amel Tuama Alhussainy (Northern Technical University, Iraq)
Dr. Hector Allende (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile)
Dr. Paulo Ambrosio (State University of Santa Cruz, Brazil)
Abdullah All Mamun Anik (University of Huddersfield, UK)
Dr. Diego Aracena (Universidad de Tarapacá, Chile)
Dr. Javier Baladron (Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile)
Dr. Juan Bekios-Calfa (Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile)
Dr. Jose Bernal (FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg, Germany)
Juan Blandón (Universidad Tecnológica de Uruguay, Uruguay)
Prof. John William Branch (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)
Dr. Maria Elena Buemi (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Dr. Guillermo Carbajal (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
Ricardo Contreras (Universidad de Concepción, Chile)
Dr. Jose Delpiano (Universidad de los Andes, Chile)
Prof. Juan Matias Di Martino (Universidad Catolica del Uruguay, Uruguay)
Dr. Jorge Espinosa-Oviedo (Politécnico Colombiano Jaime Isaza Cadavid, Colombia)
Dr. Ernesto Fabregas (UNED-Madrid, Spain)
Dr. Gonzalo Farías (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile)
Dr. Alejandro Figueroa (Universidad Tecnologica Metropolitana, Chile)
Prof. Alejandro C. Frery (Victoria University, New Zealand)
Dr. Mayssa Frikha (University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia)
Dr. Gonzalo Garcia (VCU, College of Engineering, USA)
Dr. Thierry Garcia (INP Toulouse, France)
Rohin Garg (Cruise, USA)
Dr. Walter Gomez (Universidad de la Frontera, Chile)
Dr. Yuanlin Gu (University of Stirling, UK)
Dr. Mohammad Harris (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Dr. Oscar Alberto Henao Gallo (Technical University of Pereira, Colombia)
Dr. Ruber Hernández García (Universitad Católica del Maule, Chile)
Prof. Susana M Iglesias (Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Brazil)
Dr. Jose Luis Jara (University of Santiago de Chile, Chile)
Vikramaditya Jakkula (Dataminingtools Inc, India)
Prof. Monica Karel Huerta (IEEE/Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Ecuador)
Dr. Zheng Li (Stockton University, USA)
Dr. Roberto Leon (Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile)
Dr. Hans Lobel (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile)
Dr. Julio Lopez (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile)
Saulo Machicao (Universidad Nacional San Agustin de Arequipa, Peru)
Prof. Dimitrios Makris (Kingston University, UK)
Prof. Sebastian Maldonado (University of Chile, Chile)
Sumit Mamtani (Walmart Global Tech, USA)
Prof. Antoine Manzanera (ENSTA ParisTech, France)
Dr. Lucio Marcenaro (University of Genova, Italy)
Dr. Jose Fco Martinez Trinidad (Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Óptica y Electrónica , Mexico)
Prof. José M. Martínez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
Dr. Jesus Martínez del Rincón (Queen University Belfast, UK)
Prof. Heber Ivan Mejia Cabrera (Universidad Señor de Sipán, Peru)
Dr. Marcelo Mendoza (Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Chile)
Prof. Vladimir Milián Núñez (Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas, Cuba)
Dr. Miguel Moctezuma-Flores (Universidad Nacional de Mexico, Mexico)
Prof. Jose Manuel Molina (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Prof. Agustin Moreno (National University of Colombia, Colombia)
Dr. Sandrine Mouysset (University of Tours, France)
Ramesh Nair (Planet Labs, USA)
Prof. Jean-Claude Ngatchou (New Jersey City University, USA)
Prof. Thanh Phuong Nguyen (University of Côte d'Azur, France)
Dr Nudrat Nida (Bahria University, Pakistan)
Prof. Mark Nixon (Southampton University, UK)
Prof. Marcelo Okano (Paulista University UNIP, Brazil)
Dr. Chollette Olisah (University of West England, UK)
Prof. João Paulo Papa (São Paulo State University, Brazil)
Dr. Bhagath Parabattina (Lakireddy Bali Reddy College of Engineering Mylavaram, India
Dr. Sangho Park (Central Conneticut State University, USA)
Prof. Helio Pedrini (University of Campinas, Brazil)
Dr. Billy Peralya (Universidad Andres Bello, Chile)
M. Angélica Pinninghoff J. (Universidad de Concepcion, Chile)
Fabricio Quirós Corella (Centro Nacional de Alta Tecnologia-CENAT, Costa Rica)
Dr. Nicolas Ragot (Université de Tours/ LIFAT, France)
Dr. Heilym Ramirez (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile)
Miguel Andres Realpe Robalino (ESPOL, Ecuador)
Prof. Johnny Rengifo (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile)
Dr. Alejandro Restrepo (Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Medellin), Colombia)
Jorge Reyes (NT2 Labs, Chile)
Dr. Eraldo Ribeiro (Florida Institute of Technology, USA)
Dr. Josué Manuel Rivera Velázquez (CEREMA, France)
Dr. Bhuvendhraa Rudrusamy (Heriot-Watt University, Malaysia)
Prof. Rodrigo J. Salas Fuentes (Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile)
Dr. César San Martín (Universidad de la Frontera, Chile
Prof. Angel Sappa (Computer Vision Center/ESPOL, Spain/Ecuador)
Dr. Leticia Seijas (Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata UNMDP, Argentina)
Aaditya Singh (Amazon Web Services - Rekognition, USA)
Dr. Anurag Singh (Palo Alto Networks, USA)
Dr. Domenico Sorrenti (Universita di Milano - Bicocca, Italy)
Prof. Pierre Spiteri (INP Toulouse, France)
Dr. Patricia Suarez (ESPOL, Ecuador)
Prof. Jinshan Tang (Michigan Technological University, USA)
Dr. Juan Tapia (Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany)
Prof. Nicolas Torres (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile)
Dr. Maria Trujillo (Universidad del Valle, Colombia)
Dr. Ronny Vallejos (Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile)
Dr. Vinay Kumar Venkataramana (Ivis Labs PVT Ltd., India)
Prof. Boris Vintimilla (ESPOL, Ecuador)
Yuqing Wang (Microsoft, USA)
Dr. Juan Zamora (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso, Chile)
Dr. Pablo Zegers (Aparnix, Chile)


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