S P R  2006

 
 

Co-Chairs
Fabio Roli Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Cagliari Cagliari, Italy	Dit-Yan Yeung Dept. of Computer Science Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong, China

Invited Speakers
Robert P.W. Duin Information & Communication Theory Group Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Winner of the 2006 Pierre Devijver Award	Tin K. Ho Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Research Center Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Program Committee
Mayer Aladjem (Israel) Aurelio Campilho (Portugal) Belur V. Dasarathy (USA) Robert P.W. Duin (Netherlands) Francesc J. Ferri (Spain) Tin Kam Ho (USA) Horace Ip (Hong Kong, China) Rong Jin (USA) Josef Kittler (UK) Mineichi Kudo (Japan) Ludmila I. Kuncheva (UK) Louisa Lam (Hong Kong, China)	Chih-Jen Lin (Taiwan) Jorge S. Marques (Portugal) Jana Novovicova (Czech Rep.) Edgard Nyssen (Belgium) Massimiliano Pontil (UK) Sarunas Raudys (Lithuania) Dick de Ridder (Netherlands) Carlo Sansone (Italy) Ching Y. Suen (Canada) Francesco Tortorella (Italy) Changshui Zhang (China) Zhi-Hua Zhou (China)
Topics
Density estimation Large margin classifiers Kernel methods Ensemble methods and multiple classifiers Bayesian methods Gaussian processes Dimensionality reduction Independent component analysis	Cluster analysis and unsupervised learning Data visualization Semi-supervised learning Model selection Hybrid methods Comparative studies Speech and image analysis Novel applications