Artificial Neural Networks and Neural Information Processing ICANN ICONIP 2003 : Joint International Conference ICANN ICONIP 2003 Istanbul Turkey June 26 29 2003 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the joint International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and International Conference on Neural Information Processing ICANN ICONIP 2003 held in Istanbul Turkey in June 2003. The 138 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 346 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on learning algorithms support vector machine and kernel methods statistical data analysis pattern recognition vision speech recognition robotics and control signal processing time series prediction intelligent systems neural network hardware cognitive science computational neuroscience context aware systems complex valued neural networks emotion recognition and applications in bioinformatics