Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, EMMCVPR 2011, held in St. Petersburg, Russia in July, 2011.
The book presents 30 revised full papers selected from a total of 52 submissions. The book is divided in sections on discrete and continous optimzation, segmentation, motion and video, learning and shape analysis.