Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, PReMI 2021, held in December 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The 62 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 215 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: image processing; text, voice and video processing; bioinformatics; deep learning; medical image processing; theory and models; feature selection; biometrics and dermoscopy; facial image analysis; object and event detection; pattern recognition; machine learning applications.