International Journal of Applied Pattern Recognition
- Editor in Chief
- Prof. Xilong Qu
- ISSN online
- 2049-8888
- ISSN print
- 2049-887X
- 4 issues per year
- Impact factor (Clarivate Analytics) 2025 JIF 0.2 (5 Year Impact Factor 0.3)
JCI 0.09
IJAPR presents original research on the theoretical, experimental and applied aspects of pattern analysis, extraction, classification and clustering. The journal focuses on areas such as feature selection, feature extraction, large data problems, online learning, classifiers and perception models. IJAPR acknowledges and encourages submissions reflecting the importance of large data analysis and online learning in industrial applications.
IJAPR is an Open Access-only journal and article processing charges (APCs) apply.
Topics covered include
- Face recognition and analysis
- Speech recognition and analysis
- Natural object recognition and analysis
- Image recognition
- Speaker recognition
- Biometric recognition
- Predictive modelling applications
- Large data forecasting applications
- Insect and plant recognition
- Geographic applications
- Natural language recognition
- Pattern recognition in biosciences applications
- Pattern recognition in health informatics applications
- Pattern recognition in library applications
- Pattern recognition in computational science applications
Objectives
The objectives of IJAPR are to establish effective communications between researchers and developers to create awareness and propel the development of pattern recognition applications. It aims to benchmark, evaluate and standardise new research ideas and methods having high impact on industrial and scientific applications.
Readership
IJAPR provides a vehicle to help professionals, engineers, academics and researchers working in the field of machine intelligence hardware to disseminate information on state-of-the-art techniques and their management, evaluation, benchmarking and standardisation mainly when applied to large data pattern recognition problems. The journal serves as a forum to integrate interdisciplinary research work involving academic researchers and industrial scientists and developers in the area of real world data analytics and their implementation.
Contents
IJAPR publishes original regular papers, research reviews, and short papers on the design, development, evaluation, testing and standardisation of pattern recognition applications. Special issues devoted to important and emerging topics in pattern recognition applications as well as to related international events on these topics will also be published.
Browse issues
2026 Vol.8 No.22025 Vol.8 No.1
2024 Vol.7 No.3/4 Free Access2023 Vol.7 No.22022 Vol.7 No.12021 Vol.6 No.42021 Vol.6 No.32020 Vol.6 No.22019 Vol.6 No.12018 Vol.5 No.42018 Vol.5 No.32018 Vol.5 No.22018 Vol.5 No.12017 Vol.4 No.42017 Vol.4 No.32017 Vol.4 No.22017 Vol.4 No.12016 Vol.3 No.42016 Vol.3 No.32016 Vol.3 No.22016 Vol.3 No.12015 Vol.2 No.42015 Vol.2 No.32015 Vol.2 No.22015 Vol.2 No.12014 Vol.1 No.42014 Vol.1 No.32014 Vol.1 No.22013 Vol.1 No.1Editor in Chief
- Qu, Xilong, Changsha Normal University, China
(profxlq
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Managing Editor
- Hu, Bin, Changsha Normal University, China
Associate Editor
- Zhou, Liang, Shanghai Intelligent Medical Devices and Active Health Collaborative Innovation Center, China
Regional Editor Africa
- El-Bendary, Nashwa, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt
Regional Editor Asia
- Pareek, Piyush Kumar, Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology Bengaluru, India
Regional Editor Europe
- Damaševicius, Robertas, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Regional Editor Oceania
- Yu, Jian, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Regional Editor South America
- Abe, Jair Minoro, Paulista University, Brazil
Advisory Board
- Pedrycz, Witold, University of Alberta, Canada
Editorial Board Members
- Abir, Shake Ibna, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA
- Alinejad-Rokny, Hamid, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Appice, Annalisa, Università degli Studi di Bari , Italy
- Cococcioni, Marco, University of Pisa, Italy
- Hosny, Khalid M., Zagazig University, Egypt
- Huang, Hao, Hubei University, China
- Irshad, Muhammad, Hong Kong Industrial AI and Robotics Centre (FLAIR), Hong Kong SAR, China
- Kar, Pushpendu, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
- Karim, Shahid, University of Sialkot, Pakistan
- Ko, Ryan K. L., University of Queensland, Australia
- Maddalena, Lucia, National Research Council (CNR), Italy
- Marteau, Pierre-François, Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS), France
- Martínez-Trinidad, José Francisco, National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico
- Polat, Kemal, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Turkey
- S, Asharaf, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, India
- Savvides, Marios, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Shanmugasundaram, Hariharan, Vardhaman College of Engineering, India
- Siddique, Nazmul H., University of Ulster, UK
- Sohail, Noman, Linköping University, Sweden
- Tan, Xiaoyang, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
- Tang, Xilang, Airforce Engineering University, China
- Yin, Peng-Yeng, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan, ROC
- Zhan, De-Chuan, Nanjing University, China
- Zhao, Guoying, University of Oulu, Finland
A few essentials for publishing in this journal
- Submitted articles should not have been previously published or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
- Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written (more details available here) and the author has cleared any necessary permissions with the copyright owner if it has been previously copyrighted.
- Briefs and research notes are not published in this journal.
- All our articles go through a double-blind review process.
- All authors must declare they have read and agreed to the content of the submitted article. A full statement of our Ethical Guidelines for Authors (PDF) is available.
- This is an Open Access-only journal. There is an article processing charge of EUR 1700 to publish in this journal. You can find more information on Open Access here. For authors who have submitted articles prior to 1 March 2026, the previous charge of USD $1600 applies.
- All articles for this journal must be submitted using our online submissions system.
- View Author guidelines.
Submission process
Journal news
A little less conversation...
20 July, 2026
Systems that can create a summary from conversations are much in demand in customer service, news rooms, and for virtual assistants. Research in the International Journal of Applied Pattern Recognition could improve processing speed and cut computational costs by using a new compression technique that avoids the lengthy retraining normally required after algorithm optimisation. The researchers propose a framework that cuts the summarisation model's computational workload by 30 to 40 per cent. It does so without compromising accuracy and works about one and a half times as fast as current methods. The team tested their system against five benchmark datasets and sustained performance to within 1 per cent of standard evaluation measures, including BLEU, ROUGE, METEOR and PARENT. Those evaluation tools compare computer-generated summaries against human-written references [...]
More details...Editor in Chief invites submissions for the International Journal of Applied Pattern Recognition
16 July, 2026
Prof. Xilong Qu, Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Applied Pattern Recognition (IJAPR), cordially invites high-quality original submissions presenting advances in pattern recognition methods, systems and real-world applications.
IJAPR provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for researchers, academics, engineers, developers and industry professionals to disseminate research that combines methodological innovation, scientific rigour and practical relevance.
The journal welcomes
- Original research papers
- Review articles
- Short papers
- Application-oriented and interdisciplinary studies
- Proposals for special issues on important and emerging topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
- Image, face, speech, speaker and biometric recognition
- Natural object, insect and plant recognition
- Natural language recognition and analysis
- Predictive modelling and large-scale data forecasting
- Geographic and spatial applications
- Pattern recognition in biosciences and health informatics
- Applications in library and information science
- Pattern recognition in computational science
- Real-world data analytics
- Evaluation, benchmarking, testing and standardisation of pattern recognition systems
- Emerging and interdisciplinary applications of pattern recognition
IJAPR particularly encourages submissions that address significant scientific or industrial challenges, introduce innovative methods or demonstrate clear value in practical applications.
The journal is indexed by the Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), DBLP, Computer Science Bibliography, Google Scholar and in other international databases.
Researchers working in relevant fields are warmly invited to submit their latest work to IJAPR and contribute to the advancement of applied pattern recognition research.
For further information, author guidelines and online submission, please visit the IJAPR homepage.
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