CONFERENCES

CENPARMI often participates in industry conferences such as:

• International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
• IAPR Joint International Workshops on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition and Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (S+SSPR)
• International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (ICPRAI)
• Conference of the International Graphonomics Society (IGS)
• IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP)
• Global Summit and Expo on Multimedia & Artificial Intelligence
• International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (PRIA)
• International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)
• International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
• International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR)
• Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition (ANNPR)

See our publications page for a complete list of our members' published work.

Below are a few of our recently hosted conferences.

CENPARMI will host the fifth ICPRAI 2026, International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence to be held at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. 

CENPARMI is a proud partner of the 22nd Conference of the International Graphonomics Society (IGS 2025) to be held at Polytechnique Montréal, Canada, from June 2 to 5, 2025. 

More information can be found on the IGS home page.

CENPARMI is a proud supporter of the IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) 2025, to be held on August 31-September 3 in Istanbul/Turkey.

More information can be found on the IEEE MLSP home page.

CENPARMI will also participate in the 27^th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2024).

More information is on the conference page.

CENPARMI Co-Director, Ching Y. Suen, is the Honorary Chair of the ICPRAI 2024, the 4^th edition of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence conference in Jeju, Korea.

In addition, CENPARMI Co-Director, Adam Krzyzak will be a Special Session Chair and CENPARMI member Mohamed Cheriet is a General Chair.

More information is on the conference page.

CENPARMI successfully hosted the ANNPR 2014 Workshop. Ten years later, CENPARMI has been asked to host ANNPR 2024 which will be held both in-person, at Concordia University, and streamed online.

More information is on our workshop page.

CENPARMI successfully hosted the S+SSPR 2022 Workshop - both in-person and online. The in-person sessions were held at Concordia University. The workshop was streamed live to participants worldwide.

In addition to the over thirty presentations, three highly regarded invited speakers in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning field shared their latest research. 

S+SSPR 2022 was also pleased to announce the Winner of The 2022 Pierre Devijver Award: Yoshua Bengio. Dr. Bengio accepted his prize in person and also gave a talk on his latest research.

Proceedings from the workshop can be found here.

More information is on our workshop page.

Following the success of the first ICPRAI in Montreal, Canada, CENPARMI is organizing a second ICPRAI in 2020 in Zhongshan, China, from May 12-15, 2020. More information can be found on our web page. Join us on the conference Facebook page.

CENPARMI hosted the first ICPRAI 2018, International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, May 14-17, 2018, in Montreal, Canada, to mark the 30th Anniversary of CENPARMI (Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence), Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. 

CENPARMI organized the 3rd Global Summit and Expo on Multimedia & Artificial Intelligence, July 20-21, 2017, in Lisbon, Portugal. 

CENPARMI member Dr. Tien D. Bui gave a keynote presentation at the 14th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR 2017) July 5-7, 2017, in Montreal, Canada. 

CENPARMI hosted the 6th annual conference on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition in October 2014, following the success of ANNPR workshops of 2003 (Florence), 2006 (Ulm), 2008 (Paris), 2010 (Cairo) and 2012 (Trento).

The series of ANNPR workshops act as a major forum for international researchers and practitioners working in all areas of neural network- and machine learning-based pattern recognition to present and discuss their latest research, results, and ideas in these areas.

CENPARMI created a new Conference in 2008 - The International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition. It was upgraded from the successful series of Workshops (IWFHR) - also created by CENPARMI. This conference has continued success over the years with hosting duties switching between countries:

• 18th ICFHR 2022: Hyderabad, India.
• 17th ICFHR 2020: Dortmund, Germany.
• 16th ICFHR 2018: Niagara Falls, NY, USA.
• 15th ICFHR 2016: Shenzhen, China.
• 14th ICFHR 2014: Crete, Greece.
• 13th ICFHR 2012: Bari, Italy.
• 12th ICFHR 2010: Kolkata, India.
• 11th ICFHR 2008: Montréal, Québec, Canada.