Welcome to RecPad 2011, the 17th edition of the Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition.

RecPad 2011 will take place at Casa da Música, Porto, in October 28, 2011.

RecPad 2011 aims at promoting the collaboration between the Portuguese scientific community in the fields of Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Processing, and related areas.

RecPad 2011 will be a one-day Meeting, with an invited talk and poster sessions, following the successful format adopted in previous editions of RecPad.

RecPad 2011 is sponsored by APRP (Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition) and is being jointly co-organized by INEB (Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica), INESC Porto (INstituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto) and FEUP (Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto).

The works should be submitted as extended abstracts for consideration by the Technical Program Committee. The accepted papers will be compiled and distributed only in electronic format. The program of the conference will be designed in order to allow traveling to Porto in the same day of the conference, for keeping the costs low.