The primary goal of the conference is to present state-of-the-art scientific results, encourage academic and industrial interaction, and to promote collaborative research activities in Pattern Recognition, Machine Intelligence and related fields, involving scientists, engineers, professionals, researchers and students across the globe. The conference was originated from the Machine Intelligence Unit (MIU), Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India in 2005. This is being organized every alternate year. The successive editions were held in ISI, Kolkata, India (2007); IIT, Delhi, India (2009); Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow, Russia (2011); ISI, Kolkata, India (2013); Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland (2015) and ISI, Kolkata, India (2017). PReMI'19 will take place at the Tezpur Universityfrom December 17-20, 2019 in Tezpur, India.