The 2017 International Conference on Security, Pattern Analysis, and Cybernetics provides an international forum that brings together those actively involved in information science and engineering, security, cybernetics, and pattern analysis, to report on up-to-the-minute innovations and developments, to summarize the state-of-the-art, and to exchange ideas and advances in all aspects of security, pattern analysis and cybernetics.

Contributions covering theoretical developments and practical applications, including but not limited to the following technical areas, are invited:

Topics:

1. Machine Learning, Pattern Analysis, Signal and Image Processing

Image De-nosing/Restoration/Segmentation/Grouping
Color and Texture
Image-Based Modeling
Shape Representation and Matching
Shape modeling and encoding
3D shape recovery
Occlusion and shadow detection
Stereo and multiple view geometry
Reconstruction and camera motion estimation
Object Detection/Recognition/Tracking/Categorization
Face and Gesture Analysis
Medical Image Analysis
Feature Selection, Dimensionality Reduction, Manifold Learning
Active and ensemble learning
Deep learning
Transfer learning
Semi-supervised learning and spectral methods
Model selection
Reinforcement learning and temporal model
Statistical/Kernel Methods and Support Vector Machines

2. Information security and Anti-Counterfeit

Digital Watermarking
Multidimensional Code
Cryptography
Network penetration
Anti-Counterfeit Material
Internet protocol

3. Big Data Processing and Application

Big data storage and management, parallel computing
Cloud computing
Ranking and recommendation
social networks analysis and web mining

4. Artificial intelligence and Cybernetics

Robotics & control systems
Fuzzy Systems and Applications
Expert and Knowledge-Based Systems
Cybernetics for Informatics

This conference is technical sponsored by IEEE SMC Society and all accepted full papers should be listed in IEEE Xplore. In addition, revised and extended versions of 25 selected papers will be recommended for publication in special issues of SCI indexed journals.