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In 1998, the first International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition was held at Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. This symposium was a great success. Scientists, engineers, and graduate students from more than 20 countries presented over 130 talks conveying research results in image processing and pattern recognition. From the more than 130 presentations at the conference, nine papers were selected for publication in the special issue on image processing and pattern recognition of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. In 2001, the second International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition was held at Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. This symposium received paper 612 from 24 countries. There ware about 300 people in this meeting. Now, the symposium has become one of SPIE series international meeting.

Multispectral image processing and pattern recognition, as an important branch of information science, computer science, and high technology, have been making rapid progress and are further developing. With the development of remote sensing techniques, industrial automatic control, navigation and guidance, environment surveillance, medical imaging and diagnosis-multispectral image processing and pattern recognition will play an increasingly important role in the 21^st century and will continue to find more and more applications. This symposium covers a wide range of topics on image acquisition, processing, display, understanding, and transmission.

We cordially invite contributions of basic or application research papers and technical reports on the image processing and pattern recognition of various kinds of optical and electronic sensors, such as microwave, radar, IR, visible light, and x ray.

Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)

Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology (China)