The sixth Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT 2013) will be held in Guanajuato, México, from October 28th to November 1st, 2013. PSIVT provides a forum for presenting and exploring the newest research and development in image and video technology by discussing the possibilities and directions in this field, and a place where both academic research and industrial activities are presented and meet for mutual benefit. It invites researchers, artists, developers, educators, performers, and practitioners of image and video technology from the Pacific Rim and around the world. The PSIVT 2013 proceedings of the main conference and workshops will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science collection. Selected and extended papers, such as the award winning papers, will be invited to be published in a Journal Publication to be announced soon.