Acknowledgements

The first CICV Workshop has been possible by the support of many people and institutions. First of all, we would like to thank Pilar Sobrevilla, as General Chair of IEEE WCCI 2010, and Eduard Montseny, Belén Prados-Suárez and Carlos Molina, members of the organization of IEEE WCCI 2010, for their great support in the organization of the Workshop. We are much indebted. Thanks also to the workshop and special session chairs of IEEE WCCI 2010, specially to Oscar Cordón and Keeley Crockett, for their valuable help.

Many thanks also to all the special session organizers. The Workshop was conceived as an unifying event under which the individual valuable work of many people in organizing special sessions could be coordinated and presented to the world as a single thematic offer. Finally, there are nine special sessions about specific topics inside CICV, in which 52 papers will be presented and discussed. To the effort of the organizers of these sessions we owe a large part of the success of this joint initiative.

We are very grateful to the plenary speakers, Jim Keller, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, and Nuria Oliver, for their availability and willingness to prepare most interesting talks. The presence of such world-renowned specialist in their corresponding fields is a high honour to this event.

Thanks also to the speakers at the Round Table on "Computational Intelligence in Computer Vision: Challenges, Opportunities, and Impact": Jim Keller, Eduard Montseny, Javier Montero, Humberto Bustince, Pedro Melo-Pinto, and Mengjie Zhang. Their discussions and comments on the topics presented on the previous plenary talks, as well as those questions posed by the participants, are a central, key point of the Workshop, and an exciting opportunity to have a look at the present and future of Computational Intelligence in Computer Vision through the eyes of real experts in this area.

Our most sincere gratitude also to all the authors who contributed papers to the special sessions, attendees, and to those who are participating via this web in preparing most interesting questions for our speakers. We hope you all are finding this initiative interesting and worth participating.

Last but not least, we owe the development of this web and other important organizational issues to José Manuel Soto-Hidalgo and Pedro Manuel Martínez-Jiménez. Thank you guys!

Finally, we acknowledge the financial support of the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation (MICINN) through the University of Granada by means of project TIN2009-08296, the IdBIS research group of the University of Granada, and also of IEEE WCCI 2010 by putting forth the necessary organizational arrangements for the Workshop. We are also very grateful to the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence of the University of Granada, with the special help of Miguel García-Silvente, for hosting this web in their server.

Granada, June 1, 2010

Jesús Chamorro-Martínez and Daniel Sánchez

on behalf of all CICV organizers.