The XVIII Symposium of Signal, Image Processing, and Artificial Vision - STSIVA 2013 will be held from 11 to 13 September 2013 at the Universidad Antonio Nari o in Bogota and will have the support of the Colombian Society of Signal Processing and IEEE Signal Processing - Section Colombia. This symposium is aimed at students, teachers and researchers in disciplines related to the topics covered at the event, such as Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, among others.