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The following topics are dealt with: learning-based visual applications; machine learning and scene analysis; multimedia retrieval and indexing; object detection and tracking; pose and gesture recognition; saliency analysis; superpixel segmentation; visual biometrics; visualization and image rendering; pose estimation and human activity recognition; discriminative local features; edge and shape models; face recognition; image retrieval; image segmentation; action detection; facial features-gender-age recognition; feature detection and tracking; foreground-background separation; active contours and levelset methods; image classification; texture synthesis; video analysis; optical flow and motion estimation; video surveillance; visual content analysis; video retrieval; tomographic imaging; radar imaging; seismic and remote sensing imaging; image and video coding; video communication and networking; video streaming; 3D image processing; 3D modeling and reconstruction; multiview processing; document analysis; color imaging; 3D object and scene reconstruction; hardware, parallel, and distributed system; infrared, multispectral and hyperspectral imaging; stereo image processing; multimedia forensics; content and privacy protection; data hiding; robust hashing and counter-forensics; social and affective media; multidimensional processing; bio-inspired modeling; visual aesthetics and quality assessment; omnidirectional imaging and plenoptics; image representation; Big media Data processing; compressed sensing; and image denoising.