Chairs:

• H. Fujisawa (Hitachi, Japan)
• G. Lorette (University of Rennes, France)

Honorary Chair:

• K. Yamamoto (Gifu University, Japan)

Program Chairs:

• F. Kimura (Mie University, Japan)
• J-H Kim (KAIST, Korea)
• A. Downton (University of Essex, UK)
• R. Sabourin (Ecole de technologie superieure, Canada)

Program Committee Members: A. Amin (University of New South Wales, Australia) E. Anquetil (INSA/IRISA, France) A. Biem (IBM, USA) A.de Souza Britto Jr (PUCPR, Brazil) H. Bunke (University of Bern, Switzerland) M. Cheriet (Ecole de technologie superieure, Canada) X. Ding (Tsinghua University, China) M. Fairhurst (University of Kent, UK) V. Govindaraju (SUNY at Buffalo, USA) L. Heutte (University of Rouen, France) S. Impedovo (University of Bari, Italy) B. Irie (Toshiba, Japan) S. Jaeger (Maryland University, USA) Y.B. Kwon (Chung-Ang University, Korea) L. Lam (The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong) G. Leedham (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) S-W. Lee (Korea University, Korea) C-L. Liu (Hitachi, Japan) S. Naoi (Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan) D. Nishiwaki (NEC, Japan) M. Okada (Waseda University, Japan) S. Omachi (Tohoku University, Japan) U. Pal (Indian Statistical Institute, India) M. Perrone (IBM, USA) G. Pirlo (University of Bari, Italy) G. Ratzlaff (IBM, USA) G. Rigoll (Munich University of Technology, Germany) N. Sherkat (Nottingham Trent University, UK) H. Shimodaira (JAIST, Japan) M. Shridhar (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA) J. Snowdon (IBM, USA) S. Srihari (State University of New York at Buffalo) C.Y. Suen (Concordia University, Canada) S. Tsuruoka (Mie University, Japan) S. Uchida (Kyushu University, Japan) C. Viard-Gaudin (University of Nantes, France) N. Vincent (University of Tours, France) L. Vuurpijl (University of Nijmegen, Holland) T. Wakabayashi (Mie University, Japan) T. Wakahara (Hosei University, Japan)

Executive Chairs:

• M. Nakagawa (Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology, Japan)
• H. Sako (Hitachi, Japan)