The International conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IPRIA) is an excellent and premier forum comprising several scientific tracks organized by Iranian Society of Machine Vision and Image Processing (ISMVIP). The 5th IPRIA conference will be held at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran, April 28–29, 2021. The selected papers of this conference will be published in the Soft Computing Journal (SCJ), so the authors whose papers have been selected in the conference are invited to submit their extended papers to the journal. Note that the approval of a reviewer will be sufficient to accept the selected papers of this conference.