This book highlights the recent research on soft computing and pattern recognition and their various practical applications. It presents 62 selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2020) and 35 papers from the 16th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS 2020), which was held online, from December 15 to 18, 2020. A premier conference in the field of artificial intelligence, SoCPaR-IAS 2020 brought together researchers, engineers and practitioners whose work involves intelligent systems, network security and their applications in industry. Including contributions by authors from 40 countries, the book offers a valuable reference guide for all researchers, students and practitioners in the fields of Computer Science and Engineering.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing, PRIP 2019, held in Minsk, Belarus, in May 2019. The 25 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. The papers of this volume are organized in topical sections on pattern recognition and image analysis; information processing and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, PReMI 2013, held in Kolkata, India in December 2013. The 101 revised papers presented together with 9 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on pattern recognition; machine learning; image processing; speech and video processing; medical imaging; document image processing; soft computing; bioinformatics and computational biology; and social media mining.