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The following topics are dealt with: Defuzzification: When discrete geometry meets fuzzy geometry; Action and Gesture Analysis; Video Analysis and Object Tracking; Image Segmentation; Medical Image Segmentation; Shape and Object Recognition; Cultural Heritage and Image Processing; Color Description and Texture Analysis; Human and Face Recognition; Medical Image Analysis; Medical Image Analysis, Security and Communication; Video Description; Image Registration and 3D Analysis; Image Reconstruction and Video Enhancement; Image Compression and Coding; Perceptually Driven Visual Information Analysis; Image Formation and Retrieval; Character and Object Recognition.