The 13th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2014, will be held on December 10-12, 2014 at the Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. The conference is co-organised by the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, Chinese University of Hong Kong and IEEE Guangzhou Control Chapter. ICARCV focuses on both theory and applications mainly covering the topics of control, automation, robotics and vision. In addition to the technical sessions, there will be invited sessions, panel sessions and keynote addresses.