The Twentieth Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa

30 November - 1 December 2009
Stellenbosch, South Africa

The 20^th annual symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA) will be held at the Devonvale Golf & Wine Estate in Stellenbosch on 30 November and 1 December 2009. General pattern recognition, image, and speech processing topics are welcomed at the symposium.

PRASA is an accredited, peer reviewed conference on Pattern Recognition in South Africa. Selected conference papers will be published in a special edition of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE) Journal.

Topics include but are not limited to:

Classifiers and Related Topics

Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning

Speech Recognition

Natural Language Processing

Signal Processing

Computer Vision

Image Processing

Bioinformatics

Remote Sensing

Applications

Students are encouraged to submit papers. In addition to the main conference program, there will be a work in progress session where work will be presented as posters.

Language

English is the official language of the symposium.

Important dates

Submission of full camera-ready papers by 27 September 2009

Notification of acceptance by 4 November 2009

Submission of final camera-ready digital manuscript due 13 November 2009

Early registration deadline: 11 November 2009

Final registration deadline: To be announced

Conference dates are from 30 November - 1 December 2009

Organising committee

Ben Herbst (Stellenbosch University)

Febe de Wet (Stellenbosch University)

Fred Nicolls (University of Cape Town)

Conference secretary

Karin van Wyk
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Cape Town
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Rondebosch 7700
South Africa
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