Friends, A one-day workshop on Image Processing and Pattern Recognition has been planned at Dept of ECE, Govt Engineering College Thrissur on Tuesday, 15 Oct 2013. Professionals interested to do research in the area may please be deputed to attend the workshop. Participants are requested to bring own laptop to have a hands-on experience. Image Processing and Pattern Recognition are emerging as the active areas of research and teaching, since they form foundations of a class of intelligent systems. In this workshop, we discuss the practical and theoretial issues in effective research and teaching in these areas. Workshop will have (i) lectures on fundamental concepts (ii) demos and discussions (iii) brief discussions on some of the advanced topics. Workshop will also discuss opportunities in this area and discuss a set of action points. There is no registration fee. However, all prospective participants are requested to register names at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsG5VZmDiiNvdGd2dnFPeXJzTEt6TkRaQ1R3X05oNmc#gid=0 Sessions would commence at 09:00am and would be led by Prof CV Jawahar and Dr Anoop N, members of faculty at CVIT, IIIT Hyderabad. -- CK Raju