Special sessions offered at IPTA 2017 are:
- SS1 - Machine Learning Methods Applied to Medical Image Analysis
- SS2 - Deep Learning Architectures for Visual Object Recognition
- SS3 - Recognition of affect – Video based and Multimodal Approaches
- SS4 - Multimodal Vision in and Beyond the Visible Spectrum
- SS5 - Visual Saliency and Image/Video Representation Formats