Pattern Recognition is a mature but exciting and fast developing field, which underpins developments in cognate fields such as computer vision, image processing, text and document analysis and neural networks. It is closely akin to machine learning, and also finds applications in fast emerging areas such as biometrics, bioinformatics, multimedia data analysis and most recently data science. The journal Pattern Recognition was established some 50 years ago, as the field emerged in the early years of computer science. Over the intervening years it has expanded considerably.



The journal accepts papers making original contributions to the theory, methodology and application of pattern recognition in any area, provided that the context of the work is both clearly explained and grounded in the pattern recognition literature. Papers whos primary concern falls outside the pattern recognition domain and which report routine applications of it using existing or well known methods, should be directed elsewhere. The publication policy is to publish (1) new original articles that have been appropriately reviewed by competent scientific people, (2) reviews of developments in the field, and (3) pedagogical papers covering specific areas of interest in pattern recognition. Various special issues will be organized from time to time on current topics of interest to Pattern Recognition. Submitted papers should be single column, double spaced, no less than 20 and no more than 35 (40 for a review) pages long, with numbered pages.



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Editor-in-Chief
Edwin Hancock
University of York Department of Computer Science, Deramore Lane, Heslington, YO10 5DD, York, United Kingdom

Advisory Editors
Roland Chin
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Josef Kittler
University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
Seong-Whan Lee
Korea University Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seongbuk-gu, Korea, Republic of
Linda Shapiro
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Dacheng Tao
University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Associate Editors-in-Chief
Ognjen Arandjelović
University of St Andrews School of Computer Science, St. Andrews, United Kingdom
Adam Krzyzak
Concordia University Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Longin Jan Latecki
Temple University Computer and Information Sciences Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Cheng-Lin Liu
Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Richa Singh
Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India
Richard Wilson
University of York Department of Computer Science, York, United Kingdom
Associate Editors
Majid Ahmadi
University of Windsor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Zeynep Akata
University of Amsterdam Informatics Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ognjen Arandjelović
University of St Andrews School of Computer Science, St. Andrews, United Kingdom
George Azzopardi
University of Groningen, Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Groningen, Netherlands
R. Venkatesh Babu
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
Song Bai
University of Oxford Department of Engineering Science, Oxford, United Kingdom
Xiang Bai
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Biggio Battista
University of Cagliari Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Cagliari, Italy
Christian Bauckhage
Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Prabir Bhattacharya
University at Albany State University of New York College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Albany, New York, United States
Manuele Bicego
University of Verona Department of Computer Science, Verona, Italy
Horst Bischof
Graz University of Technology Institute of Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualisation, Graz, Austria
Djamel Bouchaffra
Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, United States
Nizar Bouguila
Concordia University Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Toby Breckon
Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
Luc Brun
National College of Engineers of Caen, Caen, France
Hyeran Byun
Yonsei University Department of Computer Science, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Umberto Castellani
University of Verona Department of Computer Science, Verona, Italy
Bhabatosh Chanda
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
Hong Chang
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Sotirios Chatzis
Cyprus University of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Informatics, Nicosia, Cyprus
Chi H. Chen
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States
Chu-Song Chen
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Heng-Da Cheng
Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States
Jian Cheng
Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Mohamed Cheriet
University of Quebec
Yiu-ming Cheung
Hong Kong Baptist University Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Marco Cristani
University of Verona Department of Computer Science, Verona, Italy
Dima Damen
University of Bristol Department of Computer Science, Bristol, United Kingdom
Swagatam Das
Indian Statistical Institute Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit, Kolkata, India
Alessio Del Bue
Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy
Bo Du
Wuhan University School of Computer Science, Wuhan, China
Mahmoud El-Sakka
Western University Department of Computer Science, London, Ontario, Canada
Francisco Escolano
University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain
Jianping Fan
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Giovanni Maria Farinella
University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Francesc J. Ferri
University of Valencia Informatics Department, Burjassot, Spain
Alicia Fornes
Computer Vision Center, Barcelona, Spain
Giorgio Fumera
University of Cagliari Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Cagliari, Italy
Roland Goecke
University of Canberra, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Minglun Gong
Memorial University of Newfoundland Department of Computer Science, St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Éric Granger
School of Engineering and Applied Technology, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Marcin Grzegorzek
University of Lubeck Institute of Medical Informatics, Lübeck, Germany
Bilge Gunsel
Istanbul Technical University Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
Laurent Heutte
University of Rouen Laboratory of Computer Science Information Processing and Systems, Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France
Kaiqi Huang
Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Atsushi Imiya
Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
Robert Jenssen
UiT Arctic University of Norway Department of Physics and Technology, Tromsø, Norway
Ian H. Jermyn
Durham University Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom
Pedro Real Jurado
University of Seville Technical School of Computer Engineering, Sevilla, Spain
Nahum Kiryati
Tel Aviv University School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv, Israel
Alessandro Koerich
School of Engineering and Applied Technology, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Mineichi Kudo
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Arjan Kuijper
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, Darmstadt, Germany
Louisa Lam
Concordia University Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Longin Jan Latecki
Temple University Computer and Information Sciences Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Aleš Leonardis
University of Ljubljana Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Xuelong Li
Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China
Jessica Lin
George Mason University Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Fairfax, Virginia, United States
Haibin Ling
Temple University Computer and Information Sciences Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Wei Liu
Columbia University, China
Xiaoming Liu
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Josep Lladós
Computer Vision Center, Barcelona, Spain
Marco Loog
Delft University of Technology Faculty of Electrical Engineering Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft, Netherlands
Brian Lovell
University of Queensland School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Jiwen Lu
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Shijian Lu
Nanyang Technological University College of Engineering, Singapore, Singapore
Yue Lu
East China Normal University Department of Computer Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Bin Luo
Anhui University School of Computer Science and Technology, Hefei, China
Jiebo Luo
Eastman Kodak Co, Rochester, New York, United States
José Francisco Martínez-Trinidad
National Institute of Optical and Electronic Astrophysics Department of Computational Sciences, Puebla, Mexico
Takeshi Masuda
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Tsukuba Center Tsukuba Central, Tsukuba, Japan
Babu Mehtre
Institute for Development and Research in Banking, Hyderabad, India
Tao Mei
Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China
Ajmal Mian
The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Majid Mirmehdi
University of Bristol Department of Computer Science, Bristol, United Kingdom
Yi Lu Murphey
University of Michigan Dearborn Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dearborn, Michigan, United States
Karthik Nandakumar
IBM Research, The IBM Place, Singapore
Feiping Nie
Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning, Xián, Shaanxi, China
Lawrence O'Gorman
Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, United States
Umapada Pal
Indian Statistical Institute Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit, Kolkata, India
Vishal Patel
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Ioannis Patras
Queen Mary University of London School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, London, United Kingdom
Daniel Carlos Guimarães Pedronette
Sao Paulo State University Julio de Mesquita Filho Rio Claro Campus Institute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences, RIO CLARO, Brazil
Marcello Pelillo
Ca' Foscari University Department of Environmental Sciences Informatics and Statistics, Venezia, Italy
Tuan Pham
University of New South Wales ADFA School of Engineering and Information Technology, Canberra Bc, Australia
Guo-Jun Qi
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States
Petia Radeva
University of Barcelona Department of Applied Mathematics and Analysis, Barcelona, Spain
Huzefa Rangwala
George Mason University Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Fairfax, Virginia, United States
A. Ravishankar Rao
Fairleigh Dickinson University Gildart Haase School of Computer Sciences and Engineering, Teaneck, New Jersey, United States
Eraldo Ribeiro
Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, United States
Kaspar Riesen
University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland School of Business, Olten, Switzerland
Antonio Robles-Kelly
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Arun Ross
Michigan State University Department of Computer Science and Engineering, East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Luca Rossi
Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
Samuel Rota Bulo'
Fondazione Bruno Kessler, 3D Optical Metrology unit, Trento, Italy
Walter J. Scheirer
University of Notre Dame Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States
Raimondo Schettini
University of Milano Bicocca Department of Informatics Systems and Communication, Milano, Italy
Shishir K. Shah
University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
Chunhua Shen
The University of Adelaide School of Computer Science, Adelaide University, Australia
Dinggang Shen
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Ali Shokoufandeh
Drexel University College of Computer and Informatics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
William A. P. Smith
University of York Department of Computer Science, York, United Kingdom
Enrique Sucar
National Institute of Optical and Electronic Astrophysics Department of Computational Sciences, Puebla, Mexico
Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Shiliang Sun
East China Normal University Department of Computer Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
David Suter
The University of Adelaide School of Agriculture Food and Wine, Adelaide, Australia
Kenji Suzuki
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Andrea Torsello
Ca' Foscari University Department of Environmental Sciences Informatics and Statistics, Venezia, Italy
Pavan Turaga
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States
Carole Twining
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Seiichi Uchida
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Mayank Vatsa
Infosys centre for Artificial Intelligence, Indraprastha institute of Information Technology, New Delhi, India
Mario Vento
University of Salerno Department of Information and Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, Salerno, Italy
Nicole Vincent
University of Paris Descartes Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, Paris, France
Fei Wang
University of Connecticut Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Storrs, Connecticut, United States
Liang Wang
National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Beijing, China
Yunhong Wang
Beihang University, China
Jianxin Wu
Nanjing University Department. of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Yihong Wu
Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Gui-Song Xia
Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Bai Xiao
Beihang University, Beijing, China
Herb Yang
University of Alberta Department of Computing Science, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Jian Yang
Nanjing University of Science and Technology School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing, China
Jane Jia You
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Faculty of Engineering Department of Computing, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Jun Yu
Hangzhou Dianzi University School of Computer Science and Technology, Hangzhou, China
Pong Chi Yuen
Hong Kong Baptist University Department of Education Studies, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Kun Zhang
Carnegie Mellon University Department of Philosophy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Yanning Zhang
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Guoying Zhao
University of Oulu Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis, Oulu, Finland
Wei-Shi Zheng
Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
Jun Zhou
Griffith University School of Information and Communication Technology, Nathan, Australia
Barbara Zitova
Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia, Czech Republic
Reyer Zwiggelaar
Prifysgol Aberystwyth Cyfrifadureg, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom