This workshop will be collocated with ICPR 2012 in Tsukuba Science City, Japan. Tsukuba Science City is a research and education center in Japan, which is about 60 kilometers from Tokyo. In the early 1960s, it was decided to move research institutes affiliated to government offices and national educational institutes to ease overconcentration of population in the Tokyo Metropolitan area. Today, more than 200 research facilities, including the national University of Tsukuba, have been set up here, and are conducting advanced research in various scientific fields in an environment surrounded by natural blessings.