Advances in Pattern Recognition, Machine Vision and Image Understanding -- Visual Codebooks Survey for Video On-Line Processing -- Application of Shape Description Methodology to Hand Radiographs Interpretation -- Localisation and Tracking of an Airport's Approach Lighting System -- Algorithm for Blood-Vessel Segmentation in 3D Images Based on a Right Generalized Cylinder Model: Application to Carotid Arteries -- Cognitive Hierarchical Active Partitions Using Patch Approach -- Ontological Models as Tools for Image Content Understanding -- Unsupervised, Fast and Precise Recognition of Digital Arcs in Noisy Images -- The Role of Sparse Data Representation in Semantic Image Understanding -- Semantic Interpretation of Heart Vessel Structures Based on Graph Grammars -- Interpretation of Images and Their Sequences Using Potential Active Contour Method -- Inductive Learning Methods in the Simple Image Understanding System -- Human Motion Analysis and Synthesis -- A Generic Approach to Design and Querying of Multi-purpose Human Motion Database -- Surveillance Video Stream Analysis Using Adaptive Background Model and Object Recognition -- Nonlinear Multiscale Analysis of Motion Trajectories -- Matlab Based Interactive Simulation Program for 2D Multisegment Mechanical Systems -- Electrooculography Signal Estimation by Using Evolution-Based Technique for Computer Animation Applications -- Articulated Body Motion Tracking by Combined Particle Swarm Optimization and Particle Filtering -- GPU-Accelerated Tracking of the Motion of 3D Articulated Figure -- An Efficient Approach for Human Motion Data Mining Based on Curves Matching -- Estimation System for Forces and Torques in a Biped Motion -- Classification of Poses and Movement Phases -- Computer Vision and Graphics -- Region Covariance Matrix-BasedObject Tracking with Occlusions Handling -- Minimalist AdaBoost for Blemish Identification in Potatoes -- The Colour Sketch Recognition Interface for Training Systems -- Interactive Hydraulic Erosion Using CUDA -- Smoothing, Enhancing Filters in Terms of Backward Stochastic Differential Equations -- An Analysis of Different Clustering Algorithms for ROI Detection in High Resolutions CT Lung Images -- A System to Measure Gap Distance between Two Vehicles Using License Plate Character Height -- Efficient Neural Models for Visual Attention -- Fuzzy Hough Transform-Based Methods for Extraction and Measurements of Single Trees in Large-Volume 3D Terrestrial LIDAR Data -- Image Recognition Techniques Applied to Automated and Objective QoE Assessment of Mobile WWW Services -- Detection of Near-Regular Object Configurations by Elastic Graph Search -- Traffic Scene Segmentation and Robust Filtering for Road Signs Recognition -- Fast Distance Vector Field Extraction for Facial Feature Detection -- Vision-Based Vehicle Speed Measurement Method -- A Particle-Based Method for Large-Scale Breaking Waves Simulation -- A Hierarchical Classification Method for Mammographic Lesions Using Wavelet Transform and Spatial Features -- Easy Rigging of Face by Automatic Registration and Transfer of Skinning Parameters -- Terrain Modeling with Multifractional Brownian Motion and Self-regulating Processes -- Image Encryption through Using Chaotic Function and Graph -- Robust Stamps Detection and Classification by Means of General Shape Analysis -- Pre-processing, Extraction and Recognition of Binary Erythrocyte Shapes for Computer-Assisted Diagnosis Based on MGG Images -- Analysis of Four Polar Shape Descriptors Properties in an Exemplary Application -- Single Frame Rate-Quantization Model for MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Video Encoders -- A Robust Method for Nose Detection under Various Conditions -- Segmentation of Moving Cells in Bright Field and Epi-Fluorescent Microscopic Image Sequences -- Shape Representation and Shape Coefficients via Method of Hurwitz-Radon Matrices -- Characteristics of Architectural Distortions in Mammograms - Extraction of Texture Orientation with Gabor Filters.