edited by Horst Bunke (University of Bern, Switzerland) , Juan José Villanueva (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) , Gemma Sánchez (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) , & Xavier Otazu (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)

This book is a collection of scientific papers published during the last five years, showing a broad spectrum of actual research topics and techniques used to solve challenging problems in the areas of computer vision and image analysis. The book will appeal to researchers, technicians and graduate students.

• An Appearance-Based Method for Parametric Video Registration (X Orriols et al.)
• Relevance of Multifractal Textures in Static Images (A Turiel)
• Potential Fields as an External Force and Algorithmic Improvements in Deformable Models (A Caro et al.)
• Robustness of a Blind Image Watermark Detector Designed by Orthogonal Projection (C Jin & J Peng)
• Detecting Human Heads with Their Orientations (A Sugimoto et al.)
• Prior Knowledge Based Motion Model Representation (A D Sappa et al.)
• Area and Volume Restoration in Elastically Deformable Solids (M Kelager et al.)
• A Novel Approach to Sparse Histogram Image Lossless Compression Using JPEG2000 (M Aguzzi & M G Albanesi)
• Separating Rigid Motion for Continuous Shape Evolution (N C Overgaard & J E Solem)
• Improved Motion Segmentation Based on Shadow Detection (M Kampel et al.)
• and other papers