Special section: ICIAP 2013 awards

ICIAP 2013 received 354 paper submissions from all over the world, a substantial increase on previous years. To select papers from these submissions, expert researchers were invited to act as areas chairs, together with the International Program Committee and an expert team of reviewers. From the highest ranked papers during the conference review process and based on Area Chair and Program Chair recommendations, papers from each track were selected to the best paper and best student paper competitions. Finally, four winners were elected by the Award Committee, headed by Ramin Zabih, chair of PAMITC, and then invited to submit an extended version of their conference paper.