Robot and Machine Vision publishes ambitious scientific and technological proposals in this ever-growing field of artificial vision systems. This section welcomes challenging papers covering all aspects of robot and machine vision systems from the low-level processes of early vision to the high-level processes of recognition and interpretation to be applied to robotics and industry.

Foundational and novel as well as visionary theoretical research aspects of robot and machine vision systems are at the core of this section, including a strong mathematical, physical and/or computational focus.

The topics covered at the core of this section should address all relevant aspects of robot and machine vision including early vision, perception and cognition, computational geometry, shape analysis, range analysis, motion analysis, image processing, signal processing, image matching, pattern recognition, real-time systems, 2D/3D visual systems, and multisensory fusion, among others.

The specialty section especially welcomes the submission of manuscripts describing robot vision techniques and algorithms as well as machine vision applications in the area of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, particularly where the application domain is cutting-edge and meant to be smart. This would be the case of Robot Vision for Ambient Intelligence, Smart Environments, Affective Computing, Human-Machine Interaction, Social Robotics, Brain Modeling, and so on. Machine Vision should face novel approaches to industrial applications as part of Industry 4.0, Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems. Lastly, new findings relating the bio-inspiration of the natural (human and animal) vision into the artificial (robot and machine) vision will render this section unique.