The International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP) is endorsed by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), by IEEE Technical Committee PAMI, and by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and is organized every two years by the Italian Group of Researchers in Pattern Recognition (GIRPR), which is the Italian IAPR Member Society, with the aim to bring together researchers in image processing and pattern recognition from around the world. The 17th edition of the conference is organized by the CVPRLab of the University of Naples Parthenope. The main target of ICIAP 2013 will be to provide a place in which the most recent approaches and achievements in pattern recognition, machine learning, and image analysis can be discussed.