This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th Iberoamerican Congress on Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications, CIARP 2021, which took place during May 10-13, 2021. The conference was initially planned to take place in Porto, Portugal, but changed to a virtual event due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 45 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: medical applications; natural language processing; metaheuristics; image segmentation; databases; deep learning; explainable artificial intelligence; image processing; machine learning; and computer vision.