This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition, SSPR 2006 and the 6th International Workshop on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition, SPR 2006, held jointly in Hong Kong, China in August 2006 as a satellite event of the 18th International Conference of Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2006.

The 38 revised full papers and 61 revised poster papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 217 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image analysis, vision, character recognition, bayesian networks, graph-based methods, similarity and feature extraction, image and video, vision, kernel-based methods, recognition and classification, similarity and feature extraction, document analysis, graph-based methods, recognition and classification, image analysis, facial image analysis, representation, feature selection, clustering, multiple classifier systems, recognition and classification, unsupervised learning, dimensionality, representation, biometrics, and applications.

The two-volume set CCIS 1332 and 1333 constitutes thoroughly refereed contributions presented at the 27th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2020, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in November 2020.*For ICONIP 2020 a total of 378 papers was carefully reviewed and selected for publication out of 618 submissions. The 191 papers included in this volume set were organized in topical sections as follows: data mining; healthcare analytics-improving healthcare outcomes using big data analytics; human activity recognition; image processing and computer vision; natural language processing; recommender systems; the 13th international workshop on artificial intelligence and cybersecurity; computational intelligence; machine learning; neural network models; robotics and control; and time series analysis. * The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The two-volume set CCIS 1332 and 1333 constitutes thoroughly refereed contributions presented at the 27th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2020, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in November 2020.*For ICONIP 2020 a total of 378 papers was carefully reviewed and selected for publication out of 618 submissions. The 191 papers included in this volume set were organized in topical sections as follows: data mining; healthcare analytics-improving healthcare outcomes using big data analytics; human activity recognition; image processing and computer vision; natural language processing; recommender systems; the 13th international workshop on artificial intelligence and cybersecurity; computational intelligence; machine learning; neural network models; robotics and control; and time series analysis. * The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The three-volume set of LNCS 12532, 12533, and 12534 constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2020, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in November 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The 187 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 618 submissions. The papers address the emerging topics of theoretical research, empirical studies, and applications of neural information processing techniques across different domains. The first volume, LNCS 12532, is organized in topical sections on human-computer interaction; image processing and computer vision; natural language processing.

The three-volume set of LNCS 12532, 12533, and 12534 constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2020, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in November 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 187 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 618 submissions. The papers address the emerging topics of theoretical research, empirical studies, and applications of neural information processing techniques across different domains. The second volume, LNCS 12533, is organized in topical sections on computational intelligence; machine learning; robotics and control.

The three-volume set of LNCS 12532, 12533, and 12534 constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2020, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in November 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 187 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 618 submissions. The papers address the emerging topics of theoretical research, empirical studies, and applications of neural information processing techniques across different domains. The third volume, LNCS 12534, is organized in topical sections on biomedical information; neural data analysis; neural network models; recommender systems; time series analysis.