CAIP 2013 is the fiftheenth in the CAIP series of biennial international conferences devoted to all aspects of Computer Vision, Image Analysis and Processing, Pattern recognition and related fields. CAIP2013 will be hosted by York University and held in August 27-29, in York, UK. Previous CAIP conferences were held in Seville (2011), Munster (2009), Vienna (2007), Paris (2005) and Groningen (2003). The scientific program of the conference will consist of several keynote addresses, high quality papers selected by the international program committee and presented in a single track. Poster presentations will allow expert discussions of specialized research topics. The proceedings of the conference will be published by the Springer LNCS series.