Instituto Tecnológico de Metropolitano (ITM) and Universidad de Antioquia are organizing a conference in Medellin, Colombia: the XVII version of the digital signal processing, image processing and computer vision conference that will be held in September 12, 13 and 14, 2012. This event is sponsored by the IEEE Colombia’s chapter of Digital Signal Processing. The objective of the conference is to present technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied digital, and image processing.