Call for Papers ------------------------------------------- Please consider to send your contribution to: Visual Pattern Extraction and Recognition for Cultural Heritage Understanding (VIPERC 2020) Workshop, an event co-located with 16th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2020) in Bari, Italy. Homepage: https://kdde.di.uniba.it/ircdl20/index.php/viperc-2020/ This workshop is intended to be an international forum whose main goal is presenting the advancement of the state-of-the-art, innovative research, ongoing work, academic and project reports in statistics and data mining, as well as applied mathematics, knowledge representation, intelligent systems, information retrieval and software engineering, for visual pattern extraction, analysis and recognition aiming to preserve the cultural heritage. All accepted papers will be published in the Special Issue Visual Pattern Extraction and Recognition for Cultural Heritage Understanding (VIPERC 2020) of the journal Information MDPI (ISSN 2078-2489), indexed by SCOPUS (Elsevier), Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI - Web of Science) and other databases. Accepted papers will be published in open access format in Information FREE OF CHARGE for the authors. General Chairs: Alessia Amelio, University of Calabria Gunilla Borgefors, Uppsala University Anders Hast, Uppsala University & IIT-CNR Proceedings Chairs: Paola Castellucci, University La Sapienza, Rome Matilde Fontanin, University La Sapienza, Rome and University of Trieste Publicity Chairs: Katerina Kabassi, Ionian University Tullio Romita, University of Calabria Ester Zumpano, University of Calabria Local Chairs: Michelangelo Ceci, University of Bari Stefano Ferilli, University of Bari Important Dates: Workshop: Jan 29, 2020 (afternoon) Submission: Oct 20, 2019 Notification: Nov 20 , 2019 Camera-ready and registration: Dec 5, 2019 For more information: aamelio@dimes.unical.it We are waiting for your contribution!