Image understanding is a research area involving both feature
extraction and object identification within images from a scene, and a
posterior treatment of this information in order to establish
relationships between these objects with a specific goal. In biomedical
and industrial scenarios, the main purpose of this discipline is, given
a visual problem, to manage all aspects of prior knowledge, from study
start-up and initiation through data collection, quality control,
expert independent interpretation, to design and development of systems
involving image processing capable of tackle with these tasks. The aim
of this session is to provide a forum to discuss about theoretical or
application works based on bio-inspired imaging systems and techniques,
according to the following topics: