New trends in Artificial Vision and Artificial Intelligence

This special issue constitutes a collection of extended versions of selected papers presented at the Second International Symposium on "Brain, Vision and Artificial Intelligence" (BVAI 2007), held in Xaples, Italy, on 10-12 October, 2007. The collected papers deal with novel techniques in Artificial Vision (AV) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and with models inspù·ed by natural visìon and brain for AV and AI problems. The following are the two main thematic areas.