The Second Workshop on Recognition and Action for Scene Understanding (REACTS) is a satellite event of the 15th International Conference of Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP) which will be hold in the King's Manor at York, United Kingdom, August 2013.

Scene Understanding has become a popular topic in Computer Science which combines abilities such as perception, analysis and interpretation of both indoor and outdoor scenes. Hence, it involves joining efforst and sharing knowledge from different research areas such as Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Intelligence, Software Engineering and Cognitive Sciences.