Progress In Pattern Recognition Image Analysis And Applications 9th Iberoamer

First Of All, We Want To Congratulate Two Research Communities From M- Ico And Brazil That Have Recently Joined The Iberoamerican Community And The International Association For Pattern Recognition. We Believe That The Series Of Congresses That Started As The Taller Iberoamericano De Reconocimiento De Patrones (tiarp), And Later Became The Iberoamerican Congress On Pattern Recognition (ciarp), Has Contributed To These Groupconsolidatione?orts. We Hope That In The Near Future All The Iberoamerican Countries Will Have Their Own Groups And Associations To Promote Our Areas Of Interest; And That These Congresses Will Serve As The Forum For Scienti?c Research Exchange, Sharing Of - Pertise And Knowledge, And Establishing S That Improve Cooperation Between Research Groups In Pattern Recognition And Related Areas.